Passage

Romans 7

• Glossary Term

  Holy

  聖潔 = set apart for God, morally pure.

  ROM.7.12

• Glossary Term

  Holy Spirit

  CRITICAL: always use the compound 聖靈; NEVER use 靈 alone, which in Hong Kong folk usage covers ancestral spirits, temple spirits, and the spirits summoned in 問米 mediumship.

  ROM.7.12

• Doctrine

  Sanctification

  Spirit-wrought process, distinguished from self-directed cultivation regimens (修煉) or simple habit-reform (戒除惡習).

  ROM.7.12

• Glossary Term

  Sanctification

  Shares the Confucian self-cultivation-into-sagehood resonance found across the Chinese-character sphere, but Hong Kong's more religiously plural, less classically-Confucian-schooled general population makes the collision somewhat less acute than in Mandarin contexts; still requires a clarifying note distinguishing Spirit-wrought sanctification from self-directed moral discipline (修煉, associated with qigong/martial-arts training regimens) or simple habit-reform (戒除惡習).

  ROM.7.12

• Doctrine

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term; minor risk of generic secular gratitude without reference to God specifically.

  ROM.7.25

• Glossary Term

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term.

  ROM.7.25