A right module A over a ring R is called finitely injective if every diagram of right R-modules of the form where X is finitely generated and the row is exact, can be imbedded in a commutative diagram The finitely injective modules turn out to have the nice property of being ‘strongly pure’ in all the containing modules and, in particular, are absolutely pure in the sense of Maddox [8]. For this reason we call them strongly absolutely pure (for short, SAP) modules. Several other characterizations of the SAP modules are obtained. It is shown that every module admits a ‘SAP hull’. The concepts of finitely M-injective and finitely quasi-injective modules are then investigated. A subclass of finitely quasi-injective modules, called the strongly regular modules, is studied in some detail and it is shown that, if R/J is right Noetherian, then the strongly regular right R-modules coincide with the semi-simple R-modules.