Linguistic Gap Analysis
06 Linguistic Gap Analysis — 1 Corinthians — English → Bengali
This analysis extends the Romans-anchored translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json to the full 16 chapters of 1 Corinthians. It builds directly on 07_semantic_analysis.md and 08_core_glossary.md, and identifies (1) where Bengali vocabulary is doctrinally adequate but weak, (2) where vocabulary is simply missing and requires coinage, (3) where existing vocabulary is dangerously “crowded” by Hindu and Muslim semantic neighbors and must be fenced, (4) transliteration-vs-paraphrase decisions, and (5) a ranked list of the letter’s highest-risk ambiguities. Full-book coverage is confirmed in Section 5.
Section 1 — Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix
For each of the ten curriculum doctrines: the available Bengali term(s), their specific weaknesses in the Bengali religious landscape, and the recommended strategy already encoded (or to be encoded) in translation memory.
1. The Resurrection of Christ and Believers
| Available Bengali Terms | Weaknesses | Recommended Strategy |
|---|---|---|
| পুনরুত্থান (resurrection, reused Critical) | None as a word in isolation, but the entire semantic field around it (sleep, imperishable, immortal, appeared) is crowded by competing frameworks (see §2). | Retain পুনরুত্থান exactly; require the five occurrences of ὤφθη (“appeared,” 15:5-8) to use দেখা দিলেন consistently, never দর্শন/স্বপ্ন. Anchor ch.15 vocabulary set (প্রথমফল, নিদ্রাগত হওয়া, অক্ষয়, অমরত্ব, নিষ্ফল) as a fixed cluster — do not let synonyms drift within the chapter. |
| নিদ্রাগত হওয়া (“fallen asleep”) | Risks a folk-Hindu “sleep between rebirths” misreading if decoupled from resurrection hope. | Always pair with a clause reasserting bodily resurrection in the same sentence or a translator note on first occurrence (15:6). |
| অমরত্ব (immortality), অক্ষয় (imperishable) | Both intersect moksha/Akshaya-Tritiya frameworks where imperishability/immortality is an uncovered property of an eternal soul, not a future gift. | Frame as a gift bestowed at a future, bodily, historical event, not an inherent property realized through spiritual attainment. |
2. Christian Unity versus Factionalism
| Available Bengali Terms | Weaknesses | Recommended Strategy |
|---|---|---|
| বিভেদ (schism), কলহ (strife), গর্ব করা (boast) | Low collision risk; Bengali has adequate native vocabulary for factional conflict. | Reuse consistently. Ensure বিভেদ is reserved for actual body-fracturing division (1:10; 11:18; 12:25), not generic disagreement, which should use কলহ or মতভেদ elsewhere. |
| মামলা করা (lawsuit) | Adequate but needs specification: secular litigation between believers, not any dispute. | Pair with “বিশ্বাসীদের মধ্যে” (among believers) / “জগতের বিচারালয়ে” (before worldly courts) in context to keep Paul’s specific concern (6:1-8) sharp. |
3. The Cross as Wisdom and Power
| Available Bengali Terms | Weaknesses | Recommended Strategy |
|---|---|---|
| ক্রুশ (cross) | Established, low lexical risk; doctrinal risk is in softening, not vocabulary. | Never substitute a generic suffering/sacrifice term for “message of the cross” (1:17-18); preserve the deliberate scandal. |
| প্রজ্ঞা (wisdom) vs জ্ঞান (knowledge) | Both risk being heard through a jnana-marga (path-of-knowledge-to-liberation) frame; using one Bengali word for both Greek terms (σοφία/γνῶσις) would erase Paul’s own two-term distinction. | Maintain the fence: প্রজ্ঞা exclusively for σοφία (1:17-2:13; 3:19); জ্ঞান exclusively for γνῶσις (ch.8; 12:8; 13:2,8; 14:6). Never interchange. |
| ঈশ্বরের সামর্থ্য (power of God), মূর্খতা (foolishness) | Adequate; সামর্থ্য already fenced against শক্তি per Romans baseline. | Reuse exactly; extend the শক্তি prohibition to every 1 Corinthians occurrence (1:18,24; 2:5; 4:19-20; 6:14). |
4. Church Discipline and Holiness
| Available Bengali Terms | Weaknesses | Recommended Strategy |
|---|---|---|
| যৌন অনৈতিকতা (sexual immorality), খামির (leaven), নিস্তারপর্ব (Passover) | Adequate but need scope control: যৌন অনৈতিকতা must stay broad enough to cover incest (5:1) through general immorality (6-7), not narrow to adultery alone. | Reserve ব্যভিচার only for the narrower adultery sense when contextually specific. |
| মূল্য দিয়ে ক্রয় করা হয়েছ (“bought with a price”) | No single Bengali word conveys ownership-through-purchase without either a commercial-transaction flatness or, given Bengal’s history of bonded/indentured labor, an unwanted exploitation connotation. | Retain the full compound phrase; supplement with a teaching note reframing the purchase as liberating belonging to Christ, not bondage. |
| মন্দির (temple, for ναός) | Direct collision: this is the same word forbidden for ἐκκλησία in the Romans baseline, yet required here because Paul’s own metaphor is temple-imagery. | Mandatory translator note at first occurrence (3:16) distinguishing this dual use: মন্দির is banned for “church” but required, with clarification, for “you [believers] are God’s dwelling.” |
5. Marriage and Singleness
| Available Bengali Terms | Weaknesses | Recommended Strategy |
|---|---|---|
| বিবাহ (marriage), কুমারী (virgin), অবিবাহিত (unmarried), বিধবা (widow) | Low lexical risk; the risk is sociological, not linguistic — Paul’s situational pastoral counsel (esp. widow remarriage, 7:8,39-40) collides with enduring Bengali (especially Hindu) social taboo against widow remarriage. | Translate literally and precisely; carry the sociological tension into teaching notes rather than softening the text itself. Flag 7:1-40 broadly as needing framing that this is situational pastoral counsel, not a universal social prescription. |
6. Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
| Available Bengali Terms | Weaknesses | Recommended Strategy |
|---|---|---|
| প্রতিমা (idol), প্রতিমাপূজা (idolatry), প্রতিমার উদ্দেশ্যে উৎসর্গীকৃত খাদ্য (food offered to idols) | These name the literal, living devotional objects and practices (Durga প্রতিমা, পূজা festivals) of the majority Hindu culture surrounding Bengali readers — doctrinally correct but pastorally the highest-friction vocabulary cluster in the letter. | Do not euphemize. Retain precise terms; require pastoral framing notes (not lexical softening) at every occurrence in chs.8 and 10. |
| মন্দ আত্মা (demons) | Adequate once fenced against ভূত (folk ghost/ancestor-spirit). | Never ভূত. Keep মন্দ আত্মা exclusively for the biblical daimonion category (10:20-21). |
| বিবেক (conscience), বিঘ্ন (stumbling block) | বিবেক alone implies an innate, self-sufficient moral sense; Paul’s “weak conscience” is Spirit-informed and formation-dependent. | Add brief contextual gloss distinguishing a Spirit-formed conscience from a purely innate moral faculty. |
7. The Lord’s Supper
| Available Bengali Terms | Weaknesses | Recommended Strategy |
|---|---|---|
| প্রভুর ভোজ (Lord’s Supper), শরীর (body), রক্ত (blood), নতুন নিয়ম (new covenant), পানপাত্র (cup), স্মরণ (remembrance) | শরীর is doctrinally overloaded: same word serves both the Eucharistic body (11:24) and the ecclesial “body of Christ” (12:12-27) — two distinct referents in the same letter. | Fence by context, not by lexical substitution (no true synonym exists that preserves both senses’ force); require translator notes distinguishing referents at first occurrence of each sense. |
| অযোগ্যভাবে (unworthy manner), পরীক্ষা করা / শরীর নির্ণয় করা (examine/discern the body) | 11:29’s “discern the body” is genuinely exegetically disputed (Christ’s body vs. the gathered church). | Render descriptively without resolving the ambiguity; flag for theologian review rather than choosing an interpretive gloss. |
8. Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
| Available Bengali Terms | Weaknesses | Recommended Strategy |
|---|---|---|
| আত্মিক বর (spiritual gifts, reused), খ্রীষ্টের শরীর (body of Christ), অঙ্গপ্রত্যঙ্গ (members) | Adequate; elevated doctrine-level risk (High, per registry) is pastoral/concentration risk, not lexical. | Reuse exactly; preserve organic-body metaphor with অঙ্গপ্রত্যঙ্গ rather than generic সদস্য. |
| আত্মা পরীক্ষা করার ক্ষমতা (discerning of spirits), ভাষায় কথা বলা (tongues) | Both intersect a live phenomenology in Bengali folk religion: deity-possession trance (Hindu) and jinn-possession/dhikr ecstatic states (folk Islam/Sufi). | Frame both explicitly as Spirit-given, self-controlled gifts exercised by a conscious agent — the opposite of possession-trance loss of control — in accompanying teaching material, since no single lexical choice fully forecloses the collision. |
9. Love as the Greater Way
| Available Bengali Terms | Weaknesses | Recommended Strategy |
|---|---|---|
| প্রেম (love) | The single highest-collision term in the entire curriculum: প্রেম is the central vocabulary of Bengali Vaishnava bhakti devotional poetry and Tagore’s romantic-devotional verse (রাধা-কৃষ্ণ প্রেম), carrying strong romantic/erotic-devotional resonance absent from Paul’s agapē. | Retain প্রেম (no viable Bengali alternative exists at the required register), but mandate a translator/teaching note at 13:1 explicitly distinguishing self-giving, others-oriented, covenantal love from romantic-devotional love. Never substitute ভালোবাসা (too broad and colloquially romantic) or কাম (lust). |
| ধৈর্য (patience), দয়া (kindness), ঈর্ষা (envy) | দয়া risks confusion with the rejected non-Critical alternative for “grace” (কৃপা/দয়া) in Romans TM. | Confirm দয়া here functions strictly as an ethical virtue term (13:4), never as a soteriological substitute for অনুগ্রহ. |
10. Order in Worship
| Available Bengali Terms | Weaknesses | Recommended Strategy |
|---|---|---|
| মাথা (head/headship), মাথা ঢাকা (head covering), ক্ষমতার চিহ্ন (authority symbol) | মাথা ঢাকা intersects two live, religiously-coded dress practices — Hindu আঁচল/ওড়না head-covering customs and Muslim hijab/burqa practice — making this the single most culturally loaded phrase in the letter. | Render precisely as Paul’s first-century Corinthian argument about honor and headship; explicitly avoid any wording that reads as endorsement or rejection of a specific contemporary Bengali religious dress practice. |
| শৃঙ্খলা (order), নীরব থাকা (silence), গড়ে তোলা (edification) | নীরব থাকা at 14:34-35 is a live contemporary flashpoint in Bengali church life across complementarian/egalitarian lines. | Render literally and accurately without an interpretive smoothing gloss; require joint theologian + native-speaker review. |
Section 2 — Missing Vocabulary vs. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods
2A. Genuinely Missing Vocabulary (no adequate single Bengali word exists; compound/paraphrase required)
| Concept | Gap | Resolution |
|---|---|---|
| ψυχικός “natural/soulish man” | No single Bengali word distinguishes “possessing only natural human life” from either “material/physical” (প্রাকৃতিক, which collides — see 2B) or “carnal/sinful.” | Coined compound: প্রাণিক মানুষ (from প্রাণ, life-breath), avoiding the প্রকৃতি cognate entirely. |
| εἰδωλόθυτον “food offered to idols” | No Bengali noun for this specific ritual-commercial category. | Compound phrase: প্রতিমার উদ্দেশ্যে উৎসর্গীকৃত খাদ্য. |
| δικαίωσις-family triad member “justified” inside 6:11’s compact triad | Compact three-word Greek triad (washed/sanctified/justified) has no equally compact Bengali equivalent without losing forensic force. | Retain full established phrase ধার্মিক বলে গণ্য হওয়া even at the cost of triad compactness; never truncate. |
| ἀγοράζω “bought with a price” | No single Bengali verb captures purchase-as-belonging without either flat commercial or bonded-labor connotation. | Compound: মূল্য দিয়ে ক্রয় করা হয়েছ, with mandatory reframing note. |
| δοκιμάζω/διακρίνω “examine self / discern the body” (11:28-29) | No Bengali term resolves (nor should resolve) the underlying exegetical ambiguity. | Two-part descriptive rendering, ambiguity preserved by design, flagged for theologian review. |
| μυστήριον “mystery” | Bare রহস্য alone is inadequate — it defaults to occult/tantric secret-knowledge in general usage. | Coined/adopted compound: নিগূঢ়তত্ত্ব (a disclosed, no-longer-hidden truth). |
| ἀνάθεμα “anathema/accursed” as the deliberate antithesis of “Lord” | No existing Bengali Christian technical term; general vocabulary (অভিশপ্ত) must be elevated to carry the weight of a formal confessional antithesis. | Fix অভিশপ্ত as the required, invariant rendering across 12:3 and 16:22. |
2B. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods (adequate Bengali vocabulary exists but is contested territory requiring fencing)
| Bengali Term | Competing Neighbor / Tradition | Fencing Strategy |
|---|---|---|
| প্রেম (love, ἀγάπη) | Vaishnava bhakti / Tagore romantic-devotional প্রেম | Mandatory translator note at 13:1 clarifying self-giving covenantal love. |
| প্রজ্ঞা / জ্ঞান (wisdom / knowledge) | Jnana-marga (path of knowledge to moksha) | Strict one-Greek-term-per-Bengali-word fence; never interchange the two. |
| প্রতিমা / প্রতিমাপূজা (idol / idolatry) | Living Hindu Durga/Kali/other প্রতিমা veneration and পূজা festival practice | Retain precisely (doctrinally required); manage collision through pastoral tone in teaching notes, not lexical avoidance. |
| মন্দির (temple, ναός) | Hindu temple (also the forbidden term for ἐκκλησία) | Mandatory dual-use translator note distinguishing the two Pauline referents sharing one Bengali word. |
| প্রাণিক vs প্রাকৃতিক (natural man) | Samkhya/Hindu prakriti-purusha dualism | Absolute avoidance of প্রাকৃতিক for ψυχικός; use only প্রাণিক. |
| মুকুট (crown, imperishable) | Deity iconography (Durga’s মুকুট) | Context (athletic imperishable prize, 9:24-25) keeps risk moderate; no lexical substitute needed, monitor tone. |
| অক্ষয় / অমরত্ব (imperishable / immortality) | Akshaya Tritiya merit-imagery; Hindu moksha (soul’s inherent immortality realized, not granted) | Frame explicitly as a future divine gift bestowed at a historical event, never an inherent property uncovered by spiritual attainment. |
| মন্দ আত্মা vs ভূত (demons) | Folk-Hindu/folk-Muslim ghost, ancestor-spirit, poltergeist vocabulary | Absolute avoidance of ভূত; মন্দ আত্মা exclusively. |
| ভাষায় কথা বলা (tongues) / আত্মা পরীক্ষা করার ক্ষমতা (discerning spirits) | Deity-possession trance (folk Hindu) / jinn-possession, dhikr ecstatic states (folk Islam, Sufism) | Frame both as Spirit-given, self-controlled utterance/discernment exercised by a conscious agent, in contrast to possession-trance loss of control. |
| মাথা ঢাকা (head covering) | Hindu আঁচল/ওড়না veiling; Muslim hijab/burqa | Render as first-century Corinthian argument only; explicit non-endorsement/non-rejection framing of contemporary practice. |
| কুমারী (virgin) | Hindu Kumari Puja living-goddess veneration (regional, mainly Nepal, present in parts of Bengal) | Low practical collision given ch.7’s clear marital-status context; awareness note only, no lexical change needed. |
| গুরু-পরম্পরা resonance in “received/delivered” tradition language (παραλαμβάνω/παραδίδωμι) | Guru-disciple teaching lineage, an evolving oral tradition | Positive bridge potential, but mandatory note that Paul’s deposit is fixed and closed, unlike an adapting guru-parampara lineage. |
| তূরী (trumpet, 15:52) | Islamic Last Trumpet (Sur, blown by Israfil) eschatology | Positive bridge point rather than collision; no fencing required, note opportunity in teaching material. |
Section 3 — Transliteration vs. Paraphrase Decisions
3A. Transliterate / Preserve Original Form
| Term | Rationale |
|---|---|
| বাপ্তিস্ম (baptism) | Established Bengali Christian loanword-transliteration; no adequate native paraphrase and no direct Hindu/Muslim ritual-collision risk. |
| মারান আথা (Maranatha) | Aramaic exclamation; preserved untransliterated per the established pattern set by আব্বা (Romans baseline), with meaning supplied via gloss (প্রভু, আসুন), not substituted into the main text. |
| আদম (Adam) | Proper name with an already-stable Bengali form across both missionary-era Christian and Muslim tradition; retain the name, clarify the distinct federal-headship typology in teaching notes rather than the text itself. |
| আমেন, হাল্লিলূয়া (carried forward from Romans package) | Established transliterated forms; apply consistently wherever they recur in 1 Corinthians’ closing doxological material. |
3B. Paraphrase / Compound Phrase Required
| Term | Rationale |
|---|---|
| ধার্মিক বলে গণ্য হওয়া (justification) | No single Bengali word carries the forensic “declared righteous” sense; reused from Romans TM even inside 6:11’s compact triad. |
| প্রতিমার উদ্দেশ্যে উৎসর্গীকৃত খাদ্য (food offered to idols) | No single-word Bengali noun for this ritual-commercial category exists. |
| মূল্য দিয়ে ক্রয় করা হয়েছ (bought with a price) | No single verb conveys ownership-through-purchase with the correct belonging (not bondage) sense. |
| আত্মা পরীক্ষা করার ক্ষমতা (discerning of spirits) | No single Bengali noun for this specific spiritual-gift category; compound needed to avoid confusion with generic “testing.” |
| শরীর নির্ণয় করা (discern the body) | Deliberately descriptive to preserve rather than resolve exegetical ambiguity. |
3C. Established Single-Word Bengali Rendering (Adopt Directly, No Coinage Needed)
| Term | Rationale |
|---|---|
| ক্রুশ (cross), প্রজ্ঞা (wisdom), বিভেদ (schism), কলহ (strife), শৃঙ্খলা (order), ধৈর্য (patience), ঈর্ষা (envy), সাক্ষী (witness), দংশন (sting), জয় (victory) | Standard, low-collision Bengali vocabulary already stable in general and Christian usage; no gap exists. |
3D. Deliberate Reuse of Hindu-Origin Vocabulary With Clarifying Fence (a distinct third category)
| Term | Rationale |
|---|---|
| প্রতিমাপূজা (idolatry) | Deliberately reuses পূজা, the central Hindu ritual-worship term, precisely because Paul’s own critique targets exactly this category of devotion when misdirected at an image. Reinforces the existing Bengali Christian উপাসনা/পূজা distinction rather than avoiding the collision. |
| মন্দির (temple, ναός only) | Deliberately reuses the Hindu temple word against the grain of the Romans-baseline prohibition, because Paul’s metaphor requires it; managed through mandatory translator notes rather than avoidance. |
Section 4 — Ranked List of Highest-Risk Ambiguities in 1 Corinthians
Ranked by combined doctrinal weight and probability of misreading given the Bengali Hindu-majority/Muslim-majority dual context.
- ὤφθη “appeared” (15:5-8) — Critical. The evidentiary backbone of the core passage; risk of being read as one more subjective mystical experience (guru/deity দর্শন, Sufi vision) rather than a unique, historically anchored, multiply-attested bodily appearance.
- “Jesus is Lord” / “Jesus is accursed” antithesis (12:3) — Critical. Must render প্রভু and অভিশপ্ত as exact opposites with zero softening in either direction; this is the Spirit’s own discernment test.
- Head covering and headship (11:2-16) — Critical/High. Intersects two live, religiously-coded, currently-practiced dress customs (Hindu veiling, Muslim hijab); highest risk of readers projecting a contemporary religious-identity marker onto a first-century argument.
- Silence of women in the assembly (14:34-35) — High. Contemporary complementarian/egalitarian flashpoint within Bengali churches themselves; requires literal, non-smoothed rendering plus joint review.
- Idol / idolatry / food offered to idols (chs. 8, 10) — High. Names the literal devotional objects and practices of the majority surrounding culture; doctrinally non-negotiable but the single highest social-friction vocabulary cluster in the letter.
- Natural man (ψυχικός, 2:14; 15:44) — Critical. A single wrong morphological choice (প্রাকৃতিক vs প্রাণিক) recasts Paul’s soul/Spirit contrast as Samkhya prakriti-purusha dualism.
- Love as agapē (13:1-13) — Critical. The Bengali term of choice, প্রেম, is simultaneously the central vocabulary of a major rival devotional-romantic tradition (Vaishnava bhakti, Tagore).
- Wisdom/knowledge fence (σοφία vs γνῶσις, chs. 1-3, 8, 12-14) — High. Risk of collapsing two distinct Pauline terms into one Bengali word, or of both being absorbed into a jnana-marga liberation framework.
- “Discern the body” (11:29) — High. Genuinely exegetically disputed (Christ’s body vs. the gathered church); risk of the translation prematurely resolving a live interpretive question.
- Baptism “for the dead” (15:29) — High. Exegetically disputed practice-reference; risk of the Bengali rendering implying doctrinal endorsement of a specific, contested reconstruction.
- Temple (ναός) vs Church (ἐκκλησία), both candidates for মন্দির — High. The same Bengali word is simultaneously forbidden (for ἐκκλησία, per Romans baseline) and required (for ναός, per Paul’s own metaphor) within the same letter.
- Immortality/imperishable (15:42-54) — High. Risk of being read as an inherent property of the soul realized through spiritual attainment (moksha motif) rather than a future bodily gift bestowed by God.
- Tongues and discerning of spirits (chs. 12, 14) — High. Risk of conflation with possession-trance phenomenology present in both folk-Hindu and folk-Islamic/Sufi practice.
- Redeemed / bought with a price (6:20; 7:23) — High. Risk of an unintended bonded-labor/exploitation connotation given regional history, inverting the intended sense of liberating belonging.
- Widow remarriage counsel (7:8, 39-40) — Medium-High pastoral risk. Text must not be softened, but collides with a real, still-present social taboo, requiring careful teaching-note framing rather than lexical alteration.
- Received/delivered tradition language (15:1,3) — High. Positive resonance with গুরু-পরম্পরা risks implying an evolving oral tradition rather than a fixed, closed apostolic deposit.
- Crown (9:24-25) — Medium. Shares vocabulary with deity iconography (Durga’s মুকুট), though the athletic/prize context contains the risk.
- Marriage counsel generally (ch. 7) — Medium. Risk of Paul’s situational pastoral counsel being read as prescriptive universal social doctrine in a culture where marriage carries heavy communal weight.
- Holy kiss (16:20) — Medium. Literal replication is culturally foreign; risk is practical/behavioral rather than doctrinal, requiring contextualizing teaching notes.
- Trumpet (15:52) / Maranatha (16:22) — Low, noted as positive-bridge opportunities rather than collision risks (Islamic Last-Trumpet/Sur eschatology; Aramaic invocation paralleling আব্বা’s warm familiarity).
Section 5 — Full-Book Coverage Confirmation
Every chapter of 1 Corinthians has been reviewed for load-bearing vocabulary. No chapter is silently omitted.
| Chapter | Load-Bearing Terms / Doctrines Addressed |
|---|---|
| 1 | Gospel, cross, wisdom/foolishness, schism, calling, boast — Cross as Wisdom, Christian Unity |
| 2 | Wisdom, mystery, natural man, spiritual man, Holy Spirit’s revelatory agency — Cross as Wisdom |
| 3 | Temple (naos), spiritual/carnal contrast, wisdom of the world — Church Discipline, Cross as Wisdom |
| 4 | Steward, apostle, kingdom of God — Christ-Centered Ministry (extension) |
| 5 | Sexual immorality, leaven/unleavened, Passover — Church Discipline and Holiness |
| 6 | Lawsuit, one flesh, redeemed/bought with a price, temple (individual), justification/sanctification triad — Church Discipline, Christian Unity |
| 7 | Marriage, virgin, unmarried, widow, calling/called — Marriage and Singleness |
| 8 | Idol, food offered to idols, knowledge, conscience, stumbling block, love — Christian Liberty and Idol Meat, Love |
| 9 | Crown, mission/preach, apostle — Christ-Centered Ministry (extension) |
| 10 | Idolatry, demons, table of the Lord/demons, fellowship, food offered to idols — Christian Liberty and Idol Meat |
| 11 | Head/headship, head covering, authority symbol, Lord’s Supper, body (Eucharistic), blood/new covenant, cup, remembrance, unworthy manner, examine/discern the body, covenant — The Lord’s Supper, Order in Worship |
| 12 | Body of Christ, members, manifestation of the Spirit, healing, discerning of spirits, tongues, anathema, spiritual gifts — Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ |
| 13 | Love (agapē), patience, kindness, envy, knowledge/prophecy contrast — Love as the Greater Way |
| 14 | Prophecy, tongues, interpretation, edification, order, silence — Order in Worship, Spiritual Gifts |
| 15 | Resurrection, firstfruits, Adam, imperishable, mortal/immortality, victory, sting of death, witness, image (heavenly), trumpet, received/delivered tradition, stand firm, in vain, fallen asleep, appeared, buried, died for our sins, persecuted, preach — The Resurrection of Christ and Believers (core passage 15:1-11) |
| 16 | Collection, maranatha, holy kiss, thanksgiving, fellowship (closing greetings) — Church as God’s People (extension), Eschatological Hope |
No chapter contributes zero new terms; every chapter is explicitly accounted for above. This confirms the linguistic gap analysis spans the entire letter, with the core passage (15:1-11) receiving the deepest concentration of Critical-risk terms as the theological anchor of the curriculum.
This document extends analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md and feeds directly into analysis/08_core_glossary.md. All Critical- and High-risk terms identified here must be routed to human theologian review before entering translation_memory.json, per the escalation rules in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.