Code word(s) for the Gospel about the coming Kingdom, Acts 14:22, 19:8, 20:24-25; 28:23; 28:31; 2 Tim. 4:1:
Gospel (1Cor 9.18)
Gospel of peace (Rom 10.15; Eph 2.17)
The inheritance; reward (Col 3.24)
The promise (Rom 4.16)
The blessing (Gal 3.14)
Immortality; eternal life (Rom 2.7)
Glory (Rom 8.17-18; 15.7)
the word (1Thess 1.6); word of truth (2Tim 2.15); word of the Lord (1Thess 1:8); word of Christ (Col 3:16); word of life’ (Phil. 2:16); words of faith and good doctrine’ (1 Tim. 4:6); word/message of the Cross (1Cor 1:18)
The revealed truths of the faith (1Tim 3.9, 16); aka mystery/secret (Eph 6:19; Rom 16:25)
The standard of teaching’ (Rom. 6:17)
The pattern of sound words’ (2 Tim. 1:13); Sound teaching’ (2 Tim. 4:3; Titus 1:9); teaching (1Tim 6.1);
The faith (Phil. 1:27; Eph. 4:5; Col. 2:6-7; 1 Tim. 6:20-21)
The truth (Col. 1:5; 2 Thess. 2:13; 2 Tim. 2:18, 25; 4:4)
The apostolic traditions (1 Cor. 11:2; 15:1ff; Gal. 1:9; Col. 2:6; 1 Thess. 4:1; 2 Thess. 2:15)
Salvation (2Cor 1.6)
The hope (Col 1.5; Eph 1.18)
Life of the age to come (Eph 1.21; 1Tim 4.8); coming ages (Eph 2.7);
"The body of doctrine…is to be utilized in the public proclamation of the Christian message (e.g. 2 Tim. 2:15 ‘the word of truth’).” Ralph P. Martin, Worship in the Early Church, 1975, p. 54-57.
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