To “have an outline of sound words” (2 Timothy 1:13) means to hold firmly to the clear pattern of true teaching that comes from God. Paul encourages believers to remember and follow the faithful message they have learned, keeping it with faith and love in Christ Jesus. It is a call to protect and preserve the truth of the gospel, guarding it through the help of the Holy Spirit and living it out with loyalty and courage, just as faithful servants like Onesiphorus did.
Bible Scriptures: Darby Translation
2 Timothy 1:13-18 “13 Have an outline of sound words, which [words] thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which [are] in Christ Jesus.
14 Keep, by the Holy Spirit which dwells in us, the good deposit entrusted.15 Thou knowest this, that all who [are] in Asia, of whom is Phygellus and Hermogenes, have turned away from me.
16 The Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he has often refreshed me, and has not been ashamed of my chain;17 but being in Rome sought me out very diligently, and found [me]—
18 the Lord grant to him to find mercy from [the] Lord in that day—and how much service he rendered in Ephesus *thou* knowest best.”