Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 1 Corinthians | English → Bavarian
Purpose and Method
This glossary consolidates every load-bearing theological term identified in analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md, spanning the core passage (1 Corinthians 15:1-11) and all sixteen chapters of the book. Per the hard rule governing this curriculum, any term already recorded in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json is reused here exactly, including its recorded spelling convention; no alternative renderings are proposed for those terms. New terms specific to 1 Corinthians are proposed following the baseline’s established conventions (borrowed standard-German form with regular Bavarian phonological adaptation for abstract/register-gap doctrinal vocabulary; native dialect coinage for warm, concrete, relational vocabulary) and are marked accordingly.
Risk tiers follow the baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json definitions:
- Critical — Mistranslation alters or destroys essential doctrine. Human theologian review required for every occurrence.
- High — Mistranslation creates significant theological confusion or defaults to a strong competing folk-Catholic devotional reading. Human theologian review required.
- Medium — Mistranslation reduces clarity but preserves essential meaning. Native speaker review recommended.
- Low — Mistranslation causes minor misunderstanding or imprecision. Automated review sufficient.
Per baseline convention, every entry additionally requires native-speaker dialect review for spelling/register plausibility, regardless of doctrinal risk tier, given Bavarian’s lack of standardized orthography.
Section 1 — Terms Reused Verbatim from the Baseline Romans Translation Memory
These terms recur in 1 Corinthians and MUST be rendered exactly as recorded in the baseline translation_memory.json. No new analysis is needed for the rendering itself; chapter locations are noted for translator reference.
| English Term | Bavarian Rendering | Risk (baseline) | 1 Corinthians Occurrences |
|---|---|---|---|
| gospel | Evangelium | Low (per baseline registry entry as documented; High per original term registry — see baseline notes) | 1:17; 4:15; 9:12-18; 15:1 |
| grace | Gnad | High | 1:4; 3:10; 15:10; 16:23 |
| faith | Glaam | Medium | 2:5; 12:9; 13:2,13; 15:2,11,14,17 |
| apostle | Apostl | Low | 1:1; 4:9; 9:1-5; 12:28-29; 15:7,9 |
| called / calling | beruafa / Beruafung | Medium/High | 1:1-2,24,26; 7:15-24 |
| holy | heilig | Medium | 1:2; 3:17; 7:14,34 |
| saints | Heiling | High | 1:2; 6:1-2; 16:1,15 |
| sanctification | Heiligung | Medium | 1:2 (implied); 1:30; 6:11 |
| resurrection | Aufersteh’ng | Medium (Critical in this curriculum’s core doctrine) | 15:1-58 (throughout) |
| lord | Herr | High | 1:2-3,8-9,31; 6:14,17; 8:6; 10:21-22; 11:20,23-27; 12:3; 15:47,57-58; 16:22-23 |
| son of God | Sohn vo Gott | Critical | 1:9; 15:28 (implied “the Son”) |
| peace | Friad | Low | 1:3; 7:15; 14:33; 16:11 |
| spiritual gifts | Gnodngob’n | Medium | 1:7; 7:7; 12:1-31; 14:1-40 |
| fellowship | Gmoaschaft | Medium | 1:9; 10:16-18,20; 12:13 |
| church | Kirch | High | 1:2; 3:16-17 (context-sensitive with Tempel, see Section 2); 6:19; 11:18,22; 12:28; 14:4-35; 15:9; 16:1,19 |
| law | Gsetz | High | 7:19,39; 9:8-9,20-21; 14:21,34; 15:56 (implied) |
| sin | Sünd | High | 6:18; 7:28,36; 15:3,17,34,56 |
| glory | Herrlichkeit | Medium | 2:7-8; 10:31; 11:7,15; 15:40-43 |
| power of God | Kraft vo Gott | Medium | 1:18,24; 2:4-5; 4:20; 6:14 |
| messiah / christ | Messias / Christus | Medium/Critical | throughout (as “Christus,” per established transliteration standard, not “Messias,” which is reserved for explicit OT-fulfillment discussion) |
| covenant | Bund | Medium | 11:25 |
| david | David | Low | 15:3 (implied, via Scriptures) |
| jesus | Jesus | Low | throughout |
| god | Gott | Medium | throughout |
| holy spirit | Heiliger Geist | Medium | 2:10-14; 3:16; 6:11,19; 12:3-13 |
| father | Voda | Medium | 1:3; 4:15 (context-sensitive, spiritual not divine fatherhood); 8:6; 15:24 |
| exhort | ermahna | Low | 1:10; 4:14,16 |
| imputed righteousness | zuagrechnete Gerechtigkeit | Critical | (conceptually present in 1:30, 6:11’s “made righteous” language; no direct citation formula as in Romans 4, but the doctrine must remain consistent) |
Note: righteousness, justification, election, intercession, providence, mission, israel, abba, seed_of_david, kingdom_of_god appear only marginally or not at all as load-bearing terms in 1 Corinthians proper; where they do appear (e.g., kingdom_of_god at 4:20, 6:9-10, 15:24,50), reuse baseline s'Reich vo Gott exactly.
Section 2 — New Terms Introduced by 1 Corinthians
Organized by curriculum doctrine. Each entry: English Term | Original (Greek) | Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering (primary / phonetic variant) | Risk | Doctrine | Notes (collision risk / rationale).
Doctrine: Christian Unity versus Factionalism
| English Term | Original | Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| division / schism | σχίσμα | schisma | Spaltung / Spoitung | High | Bavaria’s own Reformation-era Catholic/Protestant confessional split gives this term unusually loaded historical resonance; must read as intra-congregational rivalry, not an echo of that schism. |
| strife/quarrels | ἔρις | eris | Streit / Streid | Low-Medium | Minor register note only. |
| body of Christ / members | σῶμα Χριστοῦ / μέλη | sōma Christou / melē | Leib vom Christus / Gliada | High | ”Leib vom Christus” already anticipated in the baseline AI instruction set’s Romans-12 cross-reference; reuse verbatim for cross-curriculum consistency. “Gliada” (Glieder) must be read as living, interdependent body-parts, not “members of a club.” |
Doctrine: The Cross as Wisdom and Power
| English Term | Original | Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cross | σταυρός | stauros | Kreuz / Kreiz | High | Baseline documents the Herrgottswinkel/Wegkreuz saturation of Bavarian Catholic folk-visual culture; risk that “the word of the cross” is heard as reference to a familiar devotional object rather than the specific doctrinal content of substitutionary atonement. |
| wisdom | σοφία | sophia | Weisheit | Medium | Must preserve the sharp contrast with worldly cleverness; avoid collapse into generic folk-wisdom sayings. |
| foolishness | μωρία | mōria | Torheit | Low-Medium | Paired directly with wisdom. |
| mystery | μυστήριον | mystērion | Geheimnis (formal alt: Mysterium) | Medium-High | Could default toward vague folk-secrecy or toward the specifically sacramental/liturgical “Mystery” register; anchor explicitly to “now revealed.” |
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Holiness
| English Term | Original | Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sexual immorality | πορνεία | porneia | Unzucht | High | Must not be softened or narrowed. |
| deliver to Satan | παραδοῦναι τῷ Σατανᾷ | paradounai tō Satana | an’n Satan ausliefern | High | Catholic tradition’s own excommunication vocabulary (“Bann”) may helpfully or unhelpfully color this; flag for theologian review. |
| Christ our Passover | τὸ πάσχα ἡμῶν | to pascha hēmōn | Passah-Lamm | Critical | Requires OT Passover-lamb typology background; risk of collapsing into a generic Easter (Ostern) reference without the sacrificial-lamb connection. |
| leaven | ζύμη | zymē | Sauerteig / Sauadoag | Low-Medium | Positive cultural resonance via rural Bavarian bread-baking tradition; low risk once “spreading/corrupting” sense is explicit. |
| temple of God / temple of the Holy Spirit | ναός (τοῦ θεοῦ / τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος) | naos | Tempel | Critical | Must be sharply distinguished from the parish-church building given baseline’s own church = Kirch building-default risk; the metaphor is corporate (ch.3) and individual (ch.6) indwelling presence. |
| bought with a price | ἠγοράσθητε τιμῆς | ēgorasthēte timēs | erkaaft (um an teuern Preis) | High | Bare commercial “bought” can flatten the costly, self-sacrificial redemption sense; conceptually pair with baseline salvation = Erlösung. |
| fleshly/carnal | σαρκικός | sarkikos | fleischlich | Medium | Bavarian colloquial usage may skew toward sexual appetite specifically; disambiguate as worldly immaturity generally. |
Doctrine: Marriage and Singleness
| English Term | Original | Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| marriage | γάμος / γαμέω | gamos / gameō | Ehe / heiraten | Medium | Catholic sacramental marriage theology may add unintended weight to pastoral counsel; low overall risk. |
| virgin | παρθένος | parthenos | Jungfrau | High | Strong default association with the Virgin Mary given intense Bavarian Marian devotion (cf. Altötting); Paul’s generic unmarried-person category risks a Marian devotional reading. |
| freedom/bondage | ἐλευθερία / δουλεία | eleutheria / douleia | Freiheit / Sklaverei | Medium | Introduces the liberty theme fully developed in ch.8-10. |
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
| English Term | Original | Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| food sacrificed to idols | εἰδωλόθυτα | eidōlothyta | Götzenopferfleisch | Critical | Pure register-gap term (no live pagan-temple-meat marketplace in Bavarian experience); the transferable content is the liberty-limited-by-love principle, not the ancient practice itself. |
| idol | εἴδωλον | eidōlon | Götzenbuidl (Götzenbild) | Critical | Highest-stakes cultural-collision term in the book: must not be read, even by implication, as commentary on Catholic veneration of saints’ images/statues (a live Reformation-era iconoclasm controversy point). Mandatory theologian review every occurrence. |
| idolatry | εἰδωλολατρία | eidōlolatria | Götzendienst | Critical | Same collision risk as idol. |
| knowledge | γνῶσις | gnōsis | Wissen / Wissn | Medium | Preserve the ch.8/ch.13 contrast with love. |
| conscience | συνείδησις | syneidēsis | Gwissn (Gewissen) | Medium | Standard vocabulary, low collision risk. |
| stumbling block | πρόσκομμα / σκάνδαλον | proskomma / skandalon | Anstoß / Stolperstein | Medium | Fairly transparent metaphor. |
| right/authority | ἐξουσία | exousia | Recht / Freiheit | Medium | Transparent once tied to Paul’s voluntary self-limitation argument in ch.9. |
| type/example | τύπος | typos | Vorbild (cautionary sense) / Beispiel | Medium | ”Vorbild” usually carries a positive connotation in everyday Bavarian; context must clarify this is a warning-pattern, not a model to imitate. |
| demon | δαιμόνιον | daimonion | Dämon | High | Bavarian rural folk-demon folklore (Perchten, Krampus) risks coloring this with a folkloric register rather than biblical spiritual-warfare reality. |
| table of the Lord / table of demons | τράπεζα κυρίου / δαιμονίων | trapeza kyriou / daimoniōn | Herrn Tisch / Tisch vo de Dämon | High | Ties directly into ch.11’s Lord’s Supper terminology; flag together. |
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
| English Term | Original | Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord’s Supper | κυριακὸν δεῖπνον | kyriakon deipnon | s’Herrnmahl | Critical — single highest-stakes term in this curriculum | Collides directly with the fully developed Catholic Mass/Eucharist tradition (transubstantiation, Real Presence), unlike pure register-gap terms with no competing tradition. Mandatory theologian review every occurrence; consider a dedicated translator’s note distinguishing shared ground from points of active doctrinal difference without adjudicating the debate within the translation. |
| remembrance | ἀνάμνησις | anamnesis | Gedächtnis | High | Avoid both bare mental-recall reductionism and over-loaded re-presentation-of-sacrifice language proper to the Mass. |
| body / blood (of the Supper) | σῶμα / αἷμα | sōma / haima | Leib / Bluat | Critical | Same Eucharistic-collision risk as Lord's Supper; flag every occurrence together. |
| unworthily | ἀναξίως | anaxiōs | unwiadig (unwürdig) | High | Existing Catholic pre-Communion self-examination/confession practice may helpfully reinforce or unhelpfully over-intensify Paul’s specific concern about factional, disorderly conduct. |
| examine oneself | δοκιμάζω ἑαυτόν | dokimazō heauton | si selber prüf’n | Medium | Fairly transparent. |
| head | κεφαλή | kephalē | Haupt | High | Gender-order headship doctrine; render accurately without editorializing; flag for theologian review given ongoing contemporary interpretive debate. |
| head covering | κατακαλύπτω | katakalyptō | Kopfbedeckung / des Kopf verhülln | Medium-High | Pre-Vatican-II Bavarian Catholic women’s headscarf/veil custom gives a living cultural anchor, reducing pure register-gap risk but raising the command-vs-culturally-bound application question (Phase 3 pastoral matter). |
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
| English Term | Original | Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tongues | γλῶσσαι | glōssai | in Zungen redn | Critical | No lived Bavarian Catholic liturgical tradition of glossolalia; bare “Zunge” defaults to ordinary body-part/language sense, so the compound phrase must always be used, never the bare noun. |
| interpretation of tongues | ἑρμηνεία γλωσσῶν | hermēneia glōssōn | Auslegung vo de Zungenred | High | Same register-gap risk as tongues; must be paired consistently. |
| natural/unspiritual person | ψυχικὸς ἄνθρωπος | psychikos anthrōpos | da natürliche Mensch | Medium | Register-gap term; avoid an intelligence/education-based misreading. |
| spiritual person / spiritual body | πνευματικός / σῶμα πνευματικόν | pneumatikos | geistlich | High | Major collision: “der Geistliche” is the standard German/Bavarian word for a priest/clergyman. Risks being heard as a clerical-office category rather than every Spirit-indwelt believer. Recommend disambiguating gloss (“vom Heiling Geist erfüllt”) at first occurrence; for the ch.15 “spiritual body” sense, prefer “vom Geist durchdrungener Leib” over bare “geistlicher Leib.” |
| baptized in one Spirit | ἐβαπτίσθημεν ἐν ἑνὶ πνεύματι | ebaptisthēmen en heni pneumati | in oam Geist tauft | Medium | No baseline entry; low risk given transparency once paired with Heiliger Geist. |
| varieties / manifestation of the Spirit | διαιρέσεις / φανέρωσις τοῦ πνεύματος | diaireseis / phanerōsis | verschiedene Oart’n / wia sich der Geist zoagt | Medium | Fairly transparent. |
Doctrine: Love as the Greater Way
| English Term | Original | Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| love | ἀγάπη | agapē | Liab | Critical | The single most important new term in this curriculum. Everyday Bavarian “Liab” covers romantic, familial, and general affection without distinction — exactly the conflation Paul’s ἀγάπη resists. Ch.13’s own extensive behavioral definition must anchor the term; treat with the same rigor as baseline grace. Cross-reference the AI instruction set’s existing “brüadaliche Liab” usage for Romans 12 to keep cross-curriculum consistency. |
| faith, hope, love (triad) | πίστις, ἐλπίς, ἀγάπη | pistis, elpis, agapē | Glaam, Hoffnung, Liab | Medium | Glaam reused from baseline; Hoffnung new, low risk, transparent borrowed term. |
Doctrine: Order in Worship
| English Term | Original | Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| order | τάξις | taxis | Ordnung | Medium | Standard vocabulary, low collision risk. |
| edification / building up | οἰκοδομή | oikodomē | Erbauung (d’gegenseitige Erbauung) | Low-Medium | Reuse baseline doctrine mutual_edification phrasing pattern. |
| interpret | ἑρμηνεύω | hermēneuō | auslegn | Medium | Same word family as interpretation of tongues. |
| women keep silence | γυναῖκες ἐν ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις σιγάτωσαν | gynaikes… sigatōsan | de Frauen soll’n schweign | High | Contested, exegetically debated passage; render literally, let accompanying teaching material (not the translation itself) carry the necessary interpretive nuance. Mandatory theologian review. |
Doctrine: The Resurrection of Christ and Believers (Additional Terms Beyond Baseline resurrection)
| English Term | Original | Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| received / delivered (tradition formula) | παραλαμβάνω / παραδίδωμι | paralambanō / paradidōmi | aufgnomma / weidergeb’n (Überliaferung) | Medium-High | Technical creedal transmission-formula pair (15:1,3). Catholic Bavaria’s own strong doctrine of sacred Tradition gives this unusual resonance — helpful for anchoring “fixed, received content,” risky if it implies open-ended ecclesiastical Tradition rather than Paul’s specific apostolic eyewitness content. |
| appeared (resurrection appearance) | ὤφθη | ōphthē | hat si zoagt / is erschiena (verb, not noun) | High | Avoid the noun “Erscheinung,” which in Bavarian folk-Catholic usage strongly evokes Marian apparitions or ghost sightings; prefer verb phrasing to keep the bodily, historical-encounter sense intact. |
| fallen asleep (died) | κοιμάομαι | koimaomai | eingschlafn (san gstorbn) | Medium | Euphemism must be glossed clearly as death in teaching contexts; recurs at 11:30, 15:6,18,20,51. |
| untimely born | ἔκτρωμα | ektrōma | wia oaner, der ned amoi richtig auf d’Welt kemma is | Medium-High | A literal “Fehlgeburt” rendering risks triggering the modern miscarriage/abortion register rather than Paul’s ancient self-abasement image; soften while preserving the force. |
| vain/empty | κενός | kenos | vergebns / ned umsonst | Medium | Fairly transparent. |
| labored | κοπιάω | kopiaō | gschafft / gmüht | Low-Medium | Minor register note. |
| firstfruits | ἀπαρχή | aparchē | Erstlingsfrucht / Erstlingsfruacht | Medium | Positive resonance via rural Bavarian harvest-thanksgiving (Erntedank) tradition; ensure the “guarantee of more to come” sense is explicit. |
| last Adam | ἔσχατος Ἀδάμ | eschatos Adam | da letzte Adam | Medium | Proper name itself low risk; typology needs OT (Genesis/Adam) background supplied by surrounding teaching material. |
| perishable/imperishable | φθαρτός / ἄφθαρτος | phthartos / aphthartos | verweslich / unverweslich | Medium | Stable decay/incorruption imagery. |
| death / victory / sting | θάνατος / νίκη / κέντρον | thanatos / nikē / kentron | Tod / Sieg / Stachel | Low-Medium | Standard, stable vocabulary; weight carried by the whole clause. |
| resurrection of the dead | ἀνάστασις νεκρῶν | anastasis nekrōn | Aufersteh’ng vo de Toten | Critical | Direct extension of baseline resurrection = Aufersteh'ng; central curriculum doctrine. |
Chapter 16 — Closing Terms (Not Doctrine-Specific)
| English Term | Original | Transliteration | Bavarian Rendering | Risk | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| the collection | ἡ λογεία | hē logeia | Kollekte | Low | Familiar, positively-anchored via the Catholic Mass’s regular collection practice. |
| Maranatha | Μαρανα θα | Marana tha | Marana tha | Medium | Retain transliterated per baseline’s established Aramaic-retention pattern (abba = Abba); gloss briefly at first occurrence. |
| accursed/anathema | ἀνάθεμα | anathema | verflucht / im Bann | High | German/Bavarian ecclesiastical “Bann” vocabulary may over-formalize Paul’s brief closing warning. |
| holy kiss | φίλημα ἅγιον | philēma hagion | hoaliga Kuss | Low-Medium | Cultural-custom explanation needed; low doctrinal risk. |
Glossary Summary Statistics
| Risk Tier | Count of New Terms (Section 2) | Requires |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 11 | Human theologian review, every occurrence |
| High | 18 | Human theologian review |
| Medium-High | 4 | Human theologian review (treat as High) |
| Medium | 20 | Native speaker review |
| Low-Medium | 7 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 3 | Automated review (native-speaker spot-check for orthography per baseline convention) |
Total new terms cataloged for 1 Corinthians: 63, in addition to the 27 baseline Romans terms reused verbatim (Section 1).
Highest-stakes new collision points for Phase 2/3 attention (in descending order of competing-tradition strength):
- Lord’s Supper / body / blood (11:23-29) — active competing sacramental tradition (the Mass), not merely a register gap.
- Idol / idolatry / food sacrificed to idols (ch. 8, 10) — risk of appearing to comment on Catholic saints’-image veneration.
- Love (ἀγάπη → Liab) (ch. 13) — the register itself (everyday romantic/affectionate “Liab”) actively works against the doctrinal content required.
- Tongues / interpretation of tongues (ch. 12, 14) — pure register gap with no lived Bavarian liturgical analogue.
- Spiritual/geistlich (ch. 2, 15) — direct lexical collision with the clergy/priesthood sense of the cognate standard-German term.
This glossary extends, and does not contradict, the baseline Romans translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json. All new term entries above are proposed for formal addition to translation memory at the start of Phase 2 processing for 1 Corinthians, following the version-increment procedure documented in the baseline 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.
Critical Risk Terms
Resurrection
Approved rendering: Aufersteh’ng
Transliteration: Auferstehung
Doctrine: The Resurrection of Christ and Believers
Original: ἀνάστασις
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package. Risk tier is Critical for this curriculum (already Critical at the term-registry level in the baseline) since Christ’s and believers’ resurrection (1 Corinthians 15) is the core doctrinal anchor of the entire book, not a secondary theme as in Romans.
Lord
Approved rendering: Herr
Transliteration: Herr
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Corinthians 8:6 (‘one Lord, Jesus Christ’) and 12:3 make exclusive Lordship a direct polemic against Corinth’s plurality of pagan ‘lords’ — softening risks reintroducing exactly the plurality Paul rejects. Mandatory theologian review with explicit cult-collision note at 8:6 and 11:3 (New World Translation subordinationist reading; see 12_ai_translation_requirements.md).
Son Of God
Approved rendering: Sohn vo Gott
Transliteration: Sohn vom Gott
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Original: υἱὸς θεοῦ
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Corinthians 15:28 (‘then the Son himself will be subjected’) requires special theologian attention so functional submission in the eschaton is not read as denying co-equal deity; flag for the same cult-collision reason as ‘lord’ above.
Messiah
Approved rendering: Messias
Transliteration: Messias
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: מָשִׁיחַ
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, reserved for explicit Old-Testament-fulfillment discussion (e.g., background teaching on 15:3-4’s ‘according to the Scriptures’). 1 Corinthians overwhelmingly uses the proper name ‘Christus’ instead (see new entry ‘christ’).
God
Approved rendering: Gott
Transliteration: Herrgott
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Retain plain ‘Gott’ throughout; reserve ‘Herrgott’ only for culturally warm, folk-devotional contexts per the baseline’s profanity-register caution.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Heiliger Geist
Transliteration: Heiliga Geist
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Corinthians 12:3-13 grounds both the confession of Christ’s Lordship and the unity-in-diversity of spiritual gifts in this same personal Spirit — must not be rendered as an impersonal empowering force.
Imputed Righteousness
Approved rendering: zuagrechnete Gerechtigkeit
Transliteration: zuagrechnate Gerechtigkeit
Doctrine: Justification by Faith
Rejected alternatives: verdiante Gerechtigkeit
Original: ἐδικαιώθητε
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Corinthians 1:30 and 6:11 (‘you were justified’) use the same doctrine outside a direct citation formula; the credited-status meaning must remain identical to Romans usage, not collapse into ‘made morally better.‘
Righteousness
Approved rendering: Gerechtigkeit
Transliteration: Gerechtigkeit
Doctrine: Justification by Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Appears at 1 Corinthians 1:30 (‘Christ Jesus, who became for us… righteousness’); retained as the standard-German-with-Bavarian-pronunciation register-gap term, no folk coinage.
Justification
Approved rendering: Rechtfertigung
Transliteration: Rechtfertigung
Doctrine: Justification by Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Underlies the ‘justified’ language of 6:11 alongside ‘sanctified’; borrowed wholesale from standard German per baseline’s register-gap finding.
Christ
Approved rendering: Christus
Transliteration: Christus
Doctrine: Christology
Rejected alternatives: Messias (reserved strictly for explicit OT-fulfillment discussion)
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
New entry required because 1 Corinthians uses Christos constantly (60+ occurrences) almost always as a proper name rather than an explicit messianic title, unlike Romans’ more deliberately titular usage. Retain the established Bavarian Catholic devotional form ‘Christus’ throughout.
Spiritual Person
Approved rendering: geistlich
Transliteration: geistlich
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Original: πνευματικός
Category: Sanctification
CRITICAL: ‘der Geistliche’ is the everyday German/Bavarian word for a priest or clergyman. Bare ‘geistlich’ for pneumatikos (2:15; 3:1; 14:37; 15:44-46 ‘spiritual body’) risks an ordained-office misreading. Mandatory disambiguating gloss (‘vom Heiling Geist erfüllt’) at first occurrence in every teaching unit; for the ch.15 resurrection-body sense prefer ‘vom Geist durchdrungener Leib’ over bare ‘geistlicher Leib.‘
Temple Of God
Approved rendering: Tempel
Transliteration: Templ
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Holiness
Rejected alternatives: Kirch (rejected: defaults to the parish building)
Original: ναός
Category: Sanctification
The metaphor must be sharply distinguished from the physical parish-church building, given ‘Kirch’s’ documented building/Kirchweih default. Confirm the indwelling-presence meaning (corporate at 3:16-17, individual at 6:19-20), not a mere architectural comparison.
Christ Our Passover
Approved rendering: Passah-Lamm
Transliteration: Passahlamm
Doctrine: Christ Our Passover
Rejected alternatives: generic Ostern reference (rejected: loses the sacrificial-lamb typology)
Original: τὸ πάσχα ἡμῶν
Category: Christology
Requires explicit OT Exodus-Passover-lamb background for an audience whose liturgical calendar centers on Ostern without a lived Passover reference point (5:7).
Food Sacrificed To Idols
Approved rendering: Götzenopferfleisch
Transliteration: Götznopferfleisch
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Original: εἰδωλόθυτα
Category: Liberty
Pure register-gap term — no live pagan-temple-meat marketplace in Bavarian experience; the transferable content is the liberty-limited-by-love principle (8:1-13), not the specific ancient practice.
Idol
Approved rendering: Götzenbuidl
Transliteration: Götzenbild
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat (Idolatry)
Rejected alternatives: Idol (bare loanword, rejected: collides with the modern German/Bavarian pop-culture celebrity-idol sense)
Original: εἴδωλον
Category: Liberty
Single highest-stakes cultural-collision term in this book: must never be read, even by implication, as commentary on Catholic veneration of saints’ images/statues (Marterl, Herrgottswinkel) — a live Reformation-era iconoclasm controversy point. Mandatory theologian review, every occurrence.
Idolatry
Approved rendering: Götzendienst
Transliteration: Götzndienst
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat (Idolatry)
Original: εἰδωλολατρία
Category: Liberty
Same collision risk as ‘idol’ above (8:1-13; 10:14-22); mandatory theologian review, every occurrence.
Lords Supper
Approved rendering: s’Herrnmahl
Transliteration: s’Herrenmahl
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Rejected alternatives: Eucharistie, Messe (both rejected: would fully collapse the text into the Catholic Mass’s specific liturgical vocabulary)
Original: κυριακὸν δεῖπνον
Category: Worship
CRITICAL — the single highest-stakes term in the entire curriculum: collides directly with the fully developed Catholic Mass (transubstantiation, Real Presence) tradition, not merely a register gap. Mandatory theologian review, every occurrence; dedicated translator’s note recommended distinguishing shared ground from active denominational difference without adjudicating it.
Body Blood Supper
Approved rendering: Leib / Bluat
Transliteration: Leib / Bluet
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Original: σῶμα / αἷμα
Category: Worship
Same Eucharistic-collision risk as ‘lords_supper’ (11:24-27); flag every occurrence together with that entry and with ‘covenant.‘
Tongues
Approved rendering: in Zungen redn
Transliteration: in Zung’n redn
Doctrine: The Gifts of Tongues and Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: bare ‘Zunge’ (rejected: defaults to ordinary body-part/language sense)
Original: γλῶσσαι
Category: Church
Double risk: (1) no lived Bavarian Catholic liturgical analogue to glossolalia; (2) bare ‘Zunge’ collides with ordinary usage. Compound phrase mandatory, never the bare noun (12:10,28,30; 14:1-40).
Love
Approved rendering: Liab
Transliteration: Liab
Doctrine: Love as the Greater Way
Rejected alternatives: borrowed Greek/Latin substitute (rejected: would read as a clinical academic import with zero folk resonance, worse than the conflation risk)
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Love
CRITICAL — the single most important new term in this curriculum: everyday Bavarian ‘Liab’ covers romantic, familial, and general affection without distinction — exactly the conflation Paul’s agape resists (ch.13). Lean maximally on the chapter’s own extensive behavioral definition (13:4-7); treat with the same rigor as ‘grace.’ Cross-reference the baseline’s ‘brüadaliche Liab’ usage for Romans 12.
Resurrection Of The Dead
Approved rendering: Aufersteh’ng vo de Toten
Transliteration: Auferstehung von de Toten
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Original: ἀνάστασις νεκρῶν
Category: Eschatology
Direct extension of ‘resurrection = Aufersteh’ng’; 15:12-19 argues that denying this doctrine collapses the entire gospel — central doctrine of this curriculum.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: Evangelium
Transliteration: Evangelium
Doctrine: Gospel
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. In 1 Corinthians 15:1 this is specifically the fixed, already-preached content Paul restates using the technical paralambanō/paradidōmi (receive/deliver) tradition pair (see received_delivered_tradition below) — must not read as one teaching among several.
Grace
Approved rendering: Gnad
Transliteration: Gnod
Doctrine: Grace
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. At 1 Corinthians 15:10 Paul attributes his entire apostolic identity and labor to grace, not merit — the baseline’s documented devotional-transaction risk (pilgrimage vows, votive offerings) applies with full force; the grace/works contrast must be unmistakable.
Faith
Approved rendering: Glaam
Transliteration: Gloam
Doctrine: Faith
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs throughout 1 Corinthians 15 as the condition for the gospel’s efficacy (15:2,14,17); 15:2’s continuous-aspect ‘you are being saved… if you hold fast’ must not collapse ongoing saving faith into a single past transaction.
Called
Approved rendering: beruafa
Transliteration: beruaft
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλητός
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Corinthians 7:15-24 collides again with the everyday career-vocation sense; context must clarify life-circumstance vs. salvation-calling.
Calling
Approved rendering: Beruafung
Transliteration: Berufung
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Corinthians 7:20 (‘remain in the calling in which he was called’) requires disambiguation from the everyday career/vocation sense.
Holy
Approved rendering: heilig
Transliteration: hoalig
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Corinthians 7:14,34 applies the term to marriage and the unmarried woman’s devotion; retain moral/relational set-apartness over ritual-purity reading.
Saints
Approved rendering: Heiling
Transliteration: de Heiling
Doctrine: Sainthood
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Corinthians 6:1-2 (‘the saints will judge the world’) and 16:1,15 both use the corporate sense; gloss as ‘alle Gläubign’ at every corporate occurrence given rural patron-saint/Namenstag culture.
Fellowship
Approved rendering: Gmoaschaft
Transliteration: Gemoaschoft
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Original: κοινωνία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package; risk elevated from baseline’s Medium to High for this curriculum. 1 Corinthians 10:16-20 uses this exact term for participation in Christ’s body and blood through the Supper, contrasted with pagan participation with demons — an Eucharistic-weighted occurrence not anticipated by the baseline’s Romans usage; flag alongside ‘lords_supper’.
Church
Approved rendering: Kirch
Transliteration: Kircha
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: Gmoa (secular-administrative default, rejected, per baseline)
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Defaults overwhelmingly to the physical parish building/Kirchweih sense; must be distinguished from the ‘temple_of_god’ (Tempel) metaphor of chapters 3 and 6, which makes a related but distinct indwelling-presence point.
Law
Approved rendering: Gsetz
Transliteration: Gsötz
Doctrine: Covenant
Original: νόμος
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Corinthians 9:20-21 and 14:34 apply the term to Paul’s missionary flexibility and worship-order argumentation; Catholic natural-law resonance persists.
Sin
Approved rendering: Sünd
Transliteration: Sind
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Corinthians 15:3,17,56 makes Christ’s death ‘for our sins’ central to the gospel-creed of the core passage; the baseline’s colloquial ‘what a shame’ drift risk applies with the same force.
Covenant
Approved rendering: Bund
Transliteration: Bund
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Original: διαθήκη
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package; risk elevated from baseline’s Medium to High for this curriculum because 1 Corinthians 11:25 (‘this cup is the new covenant in my blood’) occurs directly inside the Lord’s Supper institution words, entangling this term with the book’s single highest-stakes Eucharistic-collision passage.
Father
Approved rendering: Voda
Transliteration: Voter
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Corinthians 4:15 uses the same word for Paul’s own pastoral, non-divine spiritual fatherhood of the church — must be kept clearly distinct from God’s unique divine Fatherhood (8:6; 15:24).
Salvation
Approved rendering: Erlösung
Transliteration: Erlesung
Doctrine: Redemption: Bought with a Price
Rejected alternatives: Heil (Nazi-era contamination risk, per baseline)
Inherited from Romans package. Not a separate lexical item in 1 Corinthians but the conceptual anchor for ‘bought_with_a_price’ (6:19-20; 7:23); the costly, self-sacrificial redemption sense must be conceptually tied to this doctrine even where ‘erkaaft’ vocabulary is used instead.
Division Schism
Approved rendering: Spaltung
Transliteration: Spoitung
Doctrine: Christian Unity versus Factionalism
Original: σχίσμα
Category: Church
Bavaria’s own Reformation-era Catholic/Protestant confessional split gives ‘Spaltung’ unusually loaded historical resonance; must read as personality-driven intra-congregational rivalry (1:10-17), not an echo of that schism. Fence by always pairing with the named factional leaders (Paulus, Apollos, Kephas).
Body Of Christ
Approved rendering: Leib vom Christus
Transliteration: Leib vo Christus
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Original: σῶμα Χριστοῦ
Category: Church
Reuse the phrasing already anticipated by the baseline AI instruction set’s Romans-12 cross-reference (‘da Leib vom Christus’) for full cross-curriculum consistency; 1 Corinthians 12 gives this metaphor its fullest NT treatment and is the direct doctrinal answer to the factionalism of chapters 1-4.
Cross
Approved rendering: Kreuz
Transliteration: Kreiz
Doctrine: The Cross as Wisdom and Power
Original: σταυρός
Category: Salvation
Bavarian folk-Catholic visual culture (Herrgottswinkel, Wegkreuz, Oberammergau Passion Play) saturates this word with devotional-object familiarity; ‘the word of the cross’ (1:18) risks being heard as reference to a familiar object rather than the doctrine of substitutionary atonement. Always pair with explicit death/substitution language in the same clause; never let the bare noun stand alone as the doctrinal referent.
Mystery
Approved rendering: Geheimnis
Transliteration: Gheimnis
Doctrine: Spirit-Revealed Wisdom and Mystery
Rejected alternatives: Mysterium (rejected: pulls toward the Catholic sacramental/liturgical register, ‘Mysterium des Glaubens’)
Original: μυστήριον
Category: Wisdom
Must be anchored explicitly to ‘now revealed’ (2:6-10), not an ongoing hidden rite for initiates.
Sexual Immorality
Approved rendering: Unzucht
Transliteration: Unzucht
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Holiness
Original: πορνεία
Category: Sin
Must not be softened or narrowed; 5:1 addresses a specific incest case, 6:9-20 broadens the category — full doctrinal weight required in both.
Deliver To Satan
Approved rendering: an’n Satan ausliefern
Transliteration: an’n Sotn ausliefern
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Holiness
Rejected alternatives: in Bann tuan (rejected as primary rendering: over-formalizes into canonical procedure)
Original: παραδοῦναι τῷ Σατανᾷ
Category: Church
Catholic tradition’s own formal excommunication vocabulary (‘Bann’) could unhelpfully import institutional-canonical overtones detached from Paul’s restorative purpose (5:5, the offender’s ultimate salvation).
Bought With A Price
Approved rendering: erkaaft
Transliteration: erkafft
Doctrine: Redemption: Bought with a Price
Original: ἠγοράσθητε τιμῆς
Category: Salvation
Bare commercial ‘erkaaft’ can flatten the costly, self-sacrificial redemption sense (6:19-20; 7:23); must be conceptually paired with ‘salvation = Erlösung’ even though the vocabulary itself is distinct.
Virgin
Approved rendering: Jungfrau
Transliteration: Jungfrau
Doctrine: Marriage and Singleness
Original: παρθένος
Category: Marriage
Strong default association with the Virgin Mary given Bavaria’s intense Marian devotion (Altötting); Paul’s generic unmarried-person category (7:25-38) risks a Marian devotional reading unless clarifying context accompanies every occurrence.
Demon
Approved rendering: Dämon
Transliteration: Dämon
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat (Idolatry)
Original: δαιμόνιον
Category: God
Bavarian rural folk-demon folklore (Perchten, Krampus) risks coloring ‘Dämon’ with a folkloric rather than biblical spiritual-warfare register (10:20-21).
Table Of The Lord
Approved rendering: Herrn Tisch
Transliteration: Herrntisch
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Original: τράπεζα κυρίου
Category: Worship
Reuses ‘lord = Herr’ (10:21); ties directly into chapter 11’s Lord’s Supper terminology and must be reviewed together with it.
Remembrance
Approved rendering: Gedächtnis
Transliteration: Gedächtnis
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Original: ἀνάμνησις
Category: Worship
Must avoid both bare mental-recall reductionism and over-loaded re-presentation-of-sacrifice language proper to the Mass (11:24-25).
Unworthily
Approved rendering: unwiadig
Transliteration: unwürdig
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Original: ἀναξίως
Category: Worship
Existing Catholic pre-Communion self-examination/confession practice may reinforce or unhelpfully over-intensify Paul’s specific concern about factional, disorderly conduct (11:27-29).
Head
Approved rendering: Haupt
Transliteration: Haupt
Doctrine: Order in Worship: Headship and Head Coverings
Original: κεφαλή
Category: Worship
Theologically and culturally sensitive gender-order doctrine (11:3); render literally without editorializing. Mandatory theologian review with explicit cult-collision note (New World Translation’s subordinationist use of this verse).
Interpretation Of Tongues
Approved rendering: Auslegung vo de Zungenred
Transliteration: Auslegung von de Zungaread
Doctrine: The Gifts of Tongues and Prophecy
Original: ἑρμηνεία γλωσσῶν
Category: Church
Same register-gap risk as ‘tongues’; must be paired consistently throughout chapters 12 and 14.
Women Keep Silence
Approved rendering: de Frauen soll’n schweign
Transliteration: de Fraua solln schweign
Doctrine: Order in Worship (General Assembly Conduct)
Rejected alternatives: any gender-language-softened or resolved rendering (rejected, per Bibel in gerechter Sprache exclusion)
Original: γυναῖκες ἐν ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις σιγάτωσαν
Category: Worship
Contested, exegetically debated passage (14:34-35); render literally, let accompanying teaching material carry interpretive nuance rather than the translation itself. Mandatory theologian review.
Death Victory Sting
Approved rendering: Tod / Sieg / Stachel
Transliteration: Tod / Sieg / Stachl
Doctrine: Victory Over Death
Original: θάνατος / νίκη / κέντρον
Category: Eschatology
Climactic doxological payoff of the core doctrine (15:54-57); vocabulary itself stable, but the whole passage requires theologian-level review to preserve triumphant, historically-grounded tone.
Received Delivered Tradition
Approved rendering: aufgnomma / weidergeb’n
Transliteration: aufgenommen / weitergeben
Doctrine: Apostolic Gospel Tradition (Received and Delivered)
Original: παραλαμβάνω / παραδίδωμι
Category: Faith
Technical creedal transmission-formula pair (15:1,3). Catholic Bavaria’s own strong doctrine of sacred Tradition gives unusual resonance — helpful for ‘fixed, received content,’ risky if generalized beyond Paul’s closed apostolic eyewitness testimony.
Appeared
Approved rendering: hat si zoagt
Transliteration: hod se gzeigt
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Erscheinung (noun form, rejected: defaults to Marian-apparition or ghost-sighting register)
Original: ὤφθη
Category: Christology
Technical resurrection-appearance verb (15:5-8); always render as a verb of bodily encounter, never as the noun ‘Erscheinung.‘
Anathema
Approved rendering: verflucht
Transliteration: verflucht
Doctrine: Anathema: The Closing Warning
Rejected alternatives: Anathema (bare loan, rejected), Bann (rejected: over-formalizes into canonical procedure)
Original: ἀνάθεμα
Category: Church
German/Bavarian ecclesiastical ‘Bann’ vocabulary risks over-formalizing Paul’s brief closing warning (16:22) into a technical canonical procedure rather than his urgent, personal appeal.
Medium Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: Apostl
Transliteration: Apoastl
Doctrine: Apostleship
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Corinthians 9 and 15:7-9 both defend and qualify Paul’s apostleship; stable, low collision risk.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: Heiligung
Transliteration: Heiligung
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἁγιασμός / ἡγιασμένοι
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package; risk re-assessed from baseline’s High to Medium for this curriculum. 1 Corinthians 1:2,30 and 6:11 ground the Corinthians’ identity in this completed-yet-ongoing Spirit-work despite behavioral immaturity.
Spiritual Gifts
Approved rendering: Gnodngob’n
Transliteration: Gnadengaben
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Original: χαρίσματα
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Corinthians 7:7 extends the concept to marital/single state; chapters 12 and 14 give it the book’s fullest treatment — gifts must remain grace-given, not natural talent.
Glory
Approved rendering: Herrlichkeit
Transliteration: Herrlichkeit
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package; risk re-assessed from baseline’s High to Medium for this curriculum. 1 Corinthians 15:40-43 extends the term to describe the differing ‘glory’ of resurrection bodies — must not collapse into mere visual brightness.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: Kraft vo Gott
Transliteration: Kroft vom Gott
Doctrine: The Cross as Wisdom and Power
Original: δύναμις θεοῦ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Corinthians 1:18,24 identifies the cross itself as ‘the power of God’; 6:14 ties the same power to the future bodily resurrection of believers.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: s’Reich vo Gott
Transliteration: des Reich vom Gott
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Corinthians 15:24,50 ties the kingdom explicitly to the resurrection and the final handing-over of all things to the Father; reinforce the eschatological, non-political sense.
Members
Approved rendering: Gliada
Transliteration: Gliader
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Mitglieder (secular club-membership sense, rejected)
Original: μέλη
Category: Church
Render as living, interdependent body-parts (12:12-27), never the secular-associational ‘Mitglieder.‘
Wisdom
Approved rendering: Weisheit
Transliteration: Weisheid
Doctrine: The Cross as Wisdom and Power
Original: σοφία
Category: Wisdom
Must preserve the sharp contrast with worldly cleverness (1:18-25; 2:1-5); not generic folk-wisdom sayings.
Natural Person
Approved rendering: da natürliche Mensch
Transliteration: da natürliche Mensch
Doctrine: Spirit-Revealed Wisdom and Mystery
Original: ψυχικὸς ἄνθρωπος
Category: Sanctification
Must avoid an intelligence/education-based misreading; this is about spiritual receptivity (2:14), not intellect.
Fleshly Carnal
Approved rendering: fleischlich
Transliteration: fleischlich
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Holiness
Original: σαρκικός
Category: Sin
Bavarian colloquial usage may skew toward sexual appetite specifically; 3:1-3 uses the term for factional immaturity generally — disambiguate in context.
Steward
Approved rendering: Verwalter
Transliteration: Verwoita
Doctrine: Apostolic Ministry and Stewardship
Original: οἰκονόμος
Category: Church
Applied to apostles as stewards of God’s mysteries (4:1-2), accountable to God rather than human opinion; fairly transparent, low collision risk.
Marriage
Approved rendering: Ehe
Transliteration: Ehe
Doctrine: Marriage and Singleness
Original: γάμος / γαμέω
Category: Marriage
Catholic sacramental marriage theology may add unintended weight to what is, in 1 Corinthians 7, pastoral counsel rather than sacramental instruction.
Freedom Bondage
Approved rendering: Freiheit / Sklaverei
Transliteration: Froaheit / Sklaverei
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Original: ἐλευθερία / δουλεία
Category: Liberty
Introduces the liberty theme (7:21-23) fully developed in chapters 8-10; fairly transparent.
Knowledge
Approved rendering: Wissn
Transliteration: Wissen
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Conscience
Original: γνῶσις
Category: Liberty
‘Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up’ (8:1); preserve the contrast fully developed in chapter 13.
Conscience
Approved rendering: Gwissn
Transliteration: Gewissen
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Conscience
Original: συνείδησις
Category: Liberty
Standard vocabulary, low collision risk; the weaker believer’s conscience central to the liberty-limited-by-love argument.
Stumbling Block
Approved rendering: Anstoß
Transliteration: Onstoß
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Conscience
Original: πρόσκομμα / σκάνδαλον
Category: Liberty
Liberty must never become a cause of another’s spiritual downfall (8:9-13); fairly transparent metaphor.
Right Authority
Approved rendering: Recht
Transliteration: Recht
Doctrine: Apostolic Self-Denial as a Model of Liberty
Original: ἐξουσία
Category: Liberty
Paul voluntarily surrenders legitimate rights (ch.9), modeling ch.8’s liberty-limited-by-love principle.
Type Example
Approved rendering: Vorbild
Transliteration: Vuabuidl
Doctrine: Old Testament Warning as Typology
Original: τύπος
Category: Covenant
‘Vorbild’ usually carries a positive connotation in everyday Bavarian; context must clarify Israel’s wilderness failures (10:1-13) function as a cautionary warning-pattern, not a model to imitate.
Examine Oneself
Approved rendering: si selber prüf’n
Transliteration: si selba prüfa
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Original: δοκιμάζω ἑαυτόν
Category: Worship
Fairly transparent (11:28).
Head Covering
Approved rendering: Kopfbedeckung
Transliteration: Kopfbedeckung
Doctrine: Order in Worship: Headship and Head Coverings
Original: κατακαλύπτω / ἀκατακάλυπτος
Category: Worship
Pre-Vatican-II Bavarian Catholic women’s headscarf/veil custom gives 11:4-6 a strong living cultural anchor, reducing register-gap risk but raising the command-vs-cultural-application question (Phase 3 matter, not translation).
Baptized In One Spirit
Approved rendering: in oam Geist tauft
Transliteration: in oan Geist getauft
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Original: ἐβαπτίσθημεν ἐν ἑνὶ πνεύματι
Category: Church
No baseline entry; low-medium risk given transparency once paired with ‘Heiliger Geist’ (12:13).
Order
Approved rendering: Ordnung
Transliteration: Ordnung
Doctrine: Order in Worship (General Assembly Conduct)
Original: τάξις
Category: Worship
‘God is not a God of disorder but of peace’ (14:33); standard vocabulary, low collision risk.
Interpret
Approved rendering: auslegn
Transliteration: auslegn
Doctrine: The Gifts of Tongues and Prophecy
Original: ἑρμηνεύω
Category: Church
Same word family as ‘interpretation_of_tongues’; the condition for permitting tongues in public worship (14:27-28).
Firstfruits
Approved rendering: Erstlingsfruacht
Transliteration: Erstlingsfrucht
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Original: ἀπαρχή
Category: Eschatology
Positive resonance via rural Bavarian harvest-thanksgiving (Erntedank) tradition; ensure the guarantee-of-more-to-come sense (15:20-23), not a one-time isolated event.
Last Adam
Approved rendering: da letzte Adam
Transliteration: da letzte Adam
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Original: ἔσχατος Ἀδάμ
Category: Eschatology
Proper name itself low risk; the first-Adam/last-Adam typology (15:45-49) requires Genesis background supplied by teaching material.
Perishable Imperishable
Approved rendering: verweslich / unverweslich
Transliteration: verweslich / unverweslich
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Original: φθαρτός / ἄφθαρτος
Category: Eschatology
Stable decay/incorruption imagery (15:42,50-54).
Fallen Asleep
Approved rendering: eingschlafn
Transliteration: eingschlaffa
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Original: κοιμάομαι
Category: Eschatology
Common NT death-euphemism; must be glossed clearly as death in teaching contexts (11:30; 15:6,18,20,51).
Untimely Born
Approved rendering: wia oaner, der ned amoi richtig auf d’Welt kemma is
Transliteration: wia oana, der ned amoi richtig auf de Welt kemma is
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Fehlgeburt (rejected: triggers the contemporary miscarriage/abortion register)
Original: ἔκτρωμα
Category: Church
Paul’s self-abasement image (15:8); softened paraphrase preserves the ancient force without the anachronistic modern-medical collision.
Maranatha
Approved rendering: Marana tha
Transliteration: Marana tha
Doctrine: Maranatha and the Second Coming
Original: Μαρανα θα
Category: Eschatology
Retain transliterated as-is (16:22), following the baseline’s established Aramaic-retention pattern (‘abba = Abba’); gloss briefly with its meaning at first occurrence.
Body
Approved rendering: Leib
Transliteration: Leib
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Holiness
The believer’s own physical body (ch.6), significant because it belongs to the Lord and will be raised; grounds sexual ethics against a spirit/body dualism. Reuse pattern for chapters 11-15’s later body-of-Christ language; distinct from ‘body_blood_supper’ (Eucharistic) and ‘body_of_christ’ (ecclesial-metaphor) senses — context-sensitive across three distinct uses.
Spiritual Gifts Varieties
Approved rendering: wia sich der Geist zoagt
Transliteration: verschiedene Oart’n vom Geist
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
The diverse but unified expressions/manifestations of the one Spirit’s work (12:4-11); diversity does not threaten unity — it is unity’s expression. Fairly transparent.
Low Risk Terms
Peace
Approved rendering: Friad
Transliteration: Friade
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Corinthians 14:33’s ‘God is not a God of disorder but of peace’ extends the concept to corporate worship order.
David
Approved rendering: David
Transliteration: David
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: דָּוִד
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Present only by implication in 1 Corinthians 15:3-4’s ‘according to the Scriptures’ formula; supply Davidic-covenant background via teaching material.
Jesus
Approved rendering: Jesus
Transliteration: Jesus
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Stable throughout 1 Corinthians.
Exhort
Approved rendering: ermahna
Transliteration: ermohna
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Corinthians 1:10; 4:14,16 carry the entreaty/encouragement dual sense already documented.
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: Dank
Transliteration: Donk
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Corinthians 1:4,14 and 14:16-18; standard term, no significant risk.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: Weissogung
Transliteration: Weissagung
Doctrine: The Gifts of Tongues and Prophecy
Inherited from Romans package. 1 Corinthians 14:1-40 values prophecy above uninterpreted tongues for its intelligibility and edifying power.
Prophet
Approved rendering: Prophet
Transliteration: Prophet
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Inherited from Romans package. Low-frequency in 1 Corinthians but retained for consistency wherever prophetic office is referenced.
Strife
Approved rendering: Streit
Transliteration: Streid
Doctrine: Christian Unity versus Factionalism
Original: ἔρις
Category: Church
The behavioral fruit of the division named at 1:10-17; minor register note only.
Foolishness
Approved rendering: Torheit
Transliteration: Torheid
Doctrine: The Cross as Wisdom and Power
Original: μωρία
Category: Wisdom
Paired directly with ‘wisdom’ above; low collision risk.
Leaven
Approved rendering: Sauadoag
Transliteration: Sauerteig
Doctrine: Christ Our Passover
Original: ζύμη
Category: Sanctification
Positive cultural resonance via rural Bavarian bread-baking tradition; low risk once the spreading/corrupting sense is explicit (5:6-8).
Hope
Approved rendering: Hoffnung
Transliteration: Hoffnung
Doctrine: Love as the Greater Way
Original: ἐλπίς
Category: Faith
Part of the faith-hope-love triad (13:13); no baseline entry, transparent borrowed term.
Edification
Approved rendering: Erbauung
Transliteration: Erbauung
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: οἰκοδομή
Category: Church
Reuses the pattern of the baseline doctrine ‘mutual_edification’ (‘d’gegenseitige Erbauung’); governing criterion for evaluating every worship practice in chapter 14.
Collection
Approved rendering: Kollekte
Transliteration: Kollekte
Doctrine: Christian Giving
Original: ἡ λογεία
Category: Church
Familiar, positively-anchored term (16:1-4) via the Catholic Mass’s own regular collection practice.
Holy Kiss
Approved rendering: hoaliga Kuss
Transliteration: hoiliga Kuss
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Original: φίλημα ἅγιον
Category: Church
First-century greeting custom (16:20); cultural-custom explanation needed, low doctrinal risk.
Reward
Approved rendering: Lohn
Transliteration: Lohn
Doctrine: Apostolic Ministry and Stewardship
Ministers are held accountable for how they build on the one foundation, Christ (3:8,14); paired with ‘oikodomē/Erbauung.’ Standard vocabulary, low collision risk.
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