The Pattern of Sound Words

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Paul spent much time and words in exhorting his young ministers, Timothy and Titus to hold to the pattern of sound words in which they they had been instructed. These core beliefs of the faith are to be taught to passed on coming generations. They are the measuring line, the rule by which other teachings and teachers are to be evaluated. Their contents can be determined by the summaries Paul gives in his letters to the churches. In early Christian history they are referred to and summarized in the Rule of Faith. Some Bible passages in which they are in part found are: Titus 2:11-14, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; Philippians 2: 5b-11.
Pattern of Sound Words/The Gospel

This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance:

“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—

For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind,

the man Christ Jesus who gave himself as a ransom for all people.

Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David.

This is my gospel.

Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness:

[God] He was manifested in the flesh,
vindicated by the Spirit,
seen by angels,
proclaimed among the nations,
believed on in the world,
taken up in glory.

He has saved us and called us
with a holy calling,
not according to our works,
but according to His own purpose and grace,
which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.

This has now been made evident
through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus,
who has abolished death
and has brought life and immortality to light
through the gospel.

But when the kindness and love for mankind of God our Savior appeared,

he saved us, not by deeds of righteousness that we have done,

but because of his mercy,

through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit,

whom he poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

so that, having been justified by his grace,

we may become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Amen

1 Timothy 1:15;2:5-6; 2 Timothy 2:9; 1 Timothy 3:16; 2 Timothy 1:8b-10; Titus 3:4-7
In the early church, Irenaeus was writing in the second century about the "rule of faith" or "rule of truth."
this faith: in one God, the Father Almighty, who made the heaven and the earth and the seas and all the things that are in them; and in one Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who was made flesh for our salvation; and in the Holy Spirit, who made known through the prophets the plan of salvation, and the coming, and the birth from a virgin, and the passion, and the resurrection from the dead, and the bodily ascension into heaven of the beloved Christ Jesus, our Lord, and his future appearing from heaven in the glory of the Father to sum up all things and to raise anew all flesh of the whole human race…

— Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.10

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