Passage

Romans 1

• Glossary Term

  Apostle

  Established Bengali Christian term: an authorized, sent-out messenger with delegated apostolic authority, not a generic messenger.

  ROM.1.1

• Doctrine

  Apostleship

  Risk of reducing apostleship to a generic spiritual-guide role resembling a Sufi pir or Hindu guru rather than an authorized, sent apostolic office.

  ROM.1.1

• Glossary Term

  Called

  Context-sensitive: Romans 1:1 = called to apostleship; 1:7 = called to be saints; 8:28-30 = effectual calling to salvation.

  ROM.1.1, ROM.1.6-7

• Glossary Term

  Calling

  Noun form for the act or state of being called by God.

  ROM.1.1, ROM.1.6-7

• Doctrine

  Christian Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ, not merely the social neighborhood-association bonds (para culture) common in Bengali community life.

  ROM.1.12

• Glossary Term

  Covenant

  Relational covenant bond, more than a legal contract (চুক্তি).

  ROM.1.3

• Glossary Term

  David

  Established Bengali Bible proper-name form.

  ROM.1.3

• Doctrine

  Davidic Covenant

  Requires Old Testament background explanation.

  ROM.1.3

• Doctrine

  Deity of Christ

  CRITICAL: co-equal divine nature.

  ROM.1.4

• Doctrine

  Divine Calling

  God's sovereign call must be distinguished from Sufi-inflected notions of a mystical spiritual calling and from a Hindu soul's dharma-path unfolding.

  ROM.1.1, ROM.1.6-7

• Glossary Term

  Exhort

  Context-sensitive: বিনতি (entreaty) for beseeching; উৎসাহিত করা (encourage) for building up.

  ROM.1.12

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ, not creedal affirmation of tawhid (ঈমান) or generalized devotional reverence (শ্রদ্ধা).

  ROM.1.17

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ specifically.

  ROM.1.17

• Glossary Term

  Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ and his body; বন্ধুত্ব (friendship) is too casual/social for the doctrinal sense.

  ROM.1.12

• Doctrine

  Fulfillment of Prophecy

  Linear historical fulfillment (Old Testament to New Testament), not the cyclical cosmic ages of Hindu cosmology.

  ROM.1.2-4

• Glossary Term

  Glory

  God's radiant honor and presence.

  ROM.1.4

• Glossary Term

  God

  ঈশ্বর is the settled Bengali Christian standard.

  ROM.1.4

• Doctrine

  Gospel

  Must be distinguished from ইঞ্জিল (the Qur'anic term for a presumed lost scripture) and from generic positive announcements.

  ROM.1.1, ROM.1.16

• Glossary Term

  Gospel

  Established Bengali Christian term ("good news").

  ROM.1.1, ROM.1.16

• Doctrine

  Humanity of Christ

  Real, physical human nature, not an illusion (as in some Hindu readings) and not the purely prophetic, non-crucified appearance Islamic Christology holds.

  ROM.1.3

• Doctrine

  Incarnation

  CRITICAL: the eternal Son permanently assuming human nature.

  ROM.1.3

• Glossary Term

  Incarnation

  CRITICAL: NEVER use অবতার (a Hindu deity's temporary, repeatable descent).

  ROM.1.3

• Doctrine

  Inspiration of Scripture

  Distinguish God-breathed Scripture, written in each human author's own voice, from the Islamic doctrine of the Qur'an's verbal dictation and from the Hindu concept of shruti heard by sages.

  ROM.1.2

• Glossary Term

  Jesus

  CRITICAL: Use the established Bengali Christian form যীশু.

  ROM.1.4

• Glossary Term

  Justification

  Compound phrase required; no single Bengali word carries the forensic "declared righteous" sense.

  ROM.1.16

• Glossary Term

  Law

  The Mosaic law.

  ROM.1.2-4

• Glossary Term

  Lord

  Established Bengali Christian term.

  ROM.1.4

• Doctrine

  Lordship of Christ

  CRITICAL: Romans 10:9's confession is the salvation confession.

  ROM.1.4

• Glossary Term

  Messiah

  CRITICAL: Use খ্রীষ্ট, the established NT rendering.

  ROM.1.3-4

• Doctrine

  Messianic Promise

  CRITICAL: a specific Jewish Old Testament promise fulfilled exclusively in Jesus.

  ROM.1.3-4

• Glossary Term

  Mission

  "Proclamation of the gospel" is the natural Bengali description; use contextually alongside মিশন where a loanword is appropriate.

  ROM.1.5, ROM.1.13-14

• Doctrine

  Mission to the Nations

  Open evangelistic mission language carries real social risk in Bangladesh's Muslim-majority context and social friction in Hindu-majority West Bengal; tone requires native-speaker judgment.

  ROM.1.5, ROM.1.13-14

• Doctrine

  Mutual Edification

  Building one another up in faith; no significant doctrinal risk.

  ROM.1.12

• Doctrine

  Obedience of Faith

  Obedience that flows from faith, not works-based religious duty that earns standing before God.

  ROM.1.5

• Glossary Term

  Obedience Of Faith

  Romans 1:5 and 16:26.

  ROM.1.5

• Glossary Term

  Power Of God

  NEVER শক্তি.

  ROM.1.16

• Doctrine

  Power of God for Salvation

  সামর্থ্য required, never শক্তি.

  ROM.1.16

• Glossary Term

  Prophecy

  God-inspired declaration, distinct from astrological prediction (গণনা).

  ROM.1.2-4

• Glossary Term

  Prophet

  God's spokesperson; established Bengali Christian term.

  ROM.1.2

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

  CRITICAL: NEVER use পুনর্জন্ম (reincarnation into a new body within the samsara cycle).

  ROM.1.4

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

  CRITICAL: bodily, historical, once-for-all resurrection.

  ROM.1.4

• Glossary Term

  Righteousness

  CRITICAL: NEVER use ধর্ম.

  ROM.1.16

• Doctrine

  Sainthood (Called to be Holy)

  All believers are পবিত্র লোক, not an ascetic elite.

  ROM.1.7

• Doctrine

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: never মুক্তি, মোক্ষ, or নাজাত.

  ROM.1.16

• Glossary Term

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: NEVER use মুক্তি or মোক্ষ — these carry the Hindu sense of liberation from the cycle of rebirth.

  ROM.1.16

• Glossary Term

  Seed Of David

  Romans 1:3; conveys physical lineage and fulfillment of the Old Testament covenant promise to David.

  ROM.1.3

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be confused with Hindu sannyasa (world-renunciation) or Sufi ascetic withdrawal.

  ROM.1.1

• Glossary Term

  Sin

  Moral transgression before a personal God, distinct from ritual impurity (অশুচিতা) or accumulated bad karma.

  ROM.1.18

• Glossary Term

  Son Of God

  CRITICAL: Full phrase required.

  ROM.1.4

• Doctrine

  Sonship of Christ

  CRITICAL: eternal, unique Sonship, not biological descent.

  ROM.1.4

• Doctrine

  Spiritual Gifts

  Spirit-given enablements, not merit-earned powers or Hindu siddhi (supernatural yogic attainments).

  ROM.1.11

• Glossary Term

  Spiritual Gifts

  বর alone means "boon," familiar from Bengali folk-Hindu stories of a deity granting a boon to a devotee.

  ROM.1.11

• Doctrine

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term.

  ROM.1.8, ROM.1.21

• Glossary Term

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term.

  ROM.1.8, ROM.1.21

• Doctrine

  Universal Human Accountability

  All humanity equally guilty before God undermines both caste-based spiritual hierarchy and the assumption that religious-community membership alone confers safety.

  ROM.1.18

• Doctrine

  Universal Scope of the Gospel

  No caste, class, or religious-community barrier to the gospel; especially pointed where Hindu caste residue and Hindu/Muslim communal identity lines both still shape social status.

  ROM.1.16