Core Glossary

Core Glossary — 2 Peter (English–Greek–Dogri)

Notes on Use

Status “Reused (baseline)” = term already fixed in the Romans translation_memory.json; the Dogri rendering below MUST be used exactly as recorded there. No deviation is permitted regardless of this document.
Status “New (2 Peter)” = term not present in the Romans baseline; proposed here for the first time and should be added to translation_memory.json at Phase 2 load-time, per the Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.
Risk tiers (Critical / High / Medium / Low) follow the same definitions as the baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json.
Terms are grouped by curriculum doctrine. Some terms serve more than one doctrine and are cross-listed.

1. The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture

Term (Eng)	Greek	Transliteration	Dogri	Dogri Translit.	Risk	Status	Notes / Rejected Alternatives
Scripture	γραφή	graphē	पवित्तर शास्तर	pavittar shastar	Critical	New	Must never be bare शास्त्र (any authoritative Hindu treatise, incl. texts under Dogra royal literary patronage); the qualifier पवित्तर marks unique divine inspiration.
prophetic word	προφητικὸς λόγος	prophētikos logos	नबियां आह् बचन	nabiyan aah bachan	High	New (built on baseline नबी)	Reuses baseline नबी root; keep distinct from ज्योतषी (astrologer, already rejected in baseline).
prophecy	προφητεία	prophēteia	भविष्यवाणी	bhavishyavani	Low	Reused (baseline)	—
prophet	προφήτης	prophētēs	नबी	nabi	Low	Reused (baseline)	Never ज्योतषी.
cleverly devised myths	σεσοφισμένοι μῦθοι	sesophismenoi muthoi	मन घड़त कहाणियां	man ghadat kahaniyan	High	New	NEVER पुराण or any named Hindu scriptural-mythic genre term; use a neutral “fabricated story” phrase.
own/private interpretation	ἰδία ἐπίλυσις	idia epilysis	अपनी मरजी दी बियाख्या	apni marzi di viakhya	Medium	New	Denies human origination of Scripture’s content, not legitimate later interpretation.
carried along [by the Spirit]	φερόμενοι (ὑπὸ Πνεύματος Ἁγίου)	pheromenoi	पवित्तर आत्मा दे चलाए दे	pavittar aatma de chalae de	Critical	New	Must be explicitly distinguished from oracular spirit-possession/trance-mediumship practiced in local devi-worship folk religion (bhagat/medium possession); this is Spirit-superintended human authorship producing a fixed text, not ecstatic channeled utterance.
the [other] Scriptures	αἱ γραφαί	hai graphai	पवित्तर शास्तर	pavittar shastar	Critical	New (same term as above)	2 Pet 3:16 places Paul’s letters alongside “the other Scriptures” — an early canon-consciousness datum; render identically to the γραφή entry above.
hard to understand / twisted	δυσνόητα / στρεβλοῦσιν	dysnoēta / strebloustin	समझणा मुश्किल / तोड़-मोड़ना	samajhna mushkil / tod-modna	Medium	New	Warns against misuse of Scripture by the unstable.

2. Growing in Christian Virtue

Term (Eng)	Greek	Transliteration	Dogri	Dogri Translit.	Risk	Status	Notes / Rejected Alternatives
virtue / excellence	ἀρετή	aretē	सद्गुण	sadgun	Medium	New	सद्गुण is a recognizable Hindu ethical term (cf. triguna theory); must be taught as Christ-derived moral excellence, not one of Sāṅkhya’s three cosmic guṇas.
knowledge (full/relational)	ἐπίγνωσις	epignōsis	पूरी पछान	puri pachan	Critical	New	MUST NOT be rendered as bare ज्ञान; guards against conflation with Hindu jñāna-mārga (metaphysical self-realization toward mokṣa). This is relational, personal knowing of Christ.
knowledge (general)	γνῶσις	gnōsis	ज्ञान	gyan	High	New	Permitted only for the general virtue-list sense (1:5) and 3:18’s summary use (flagged for disambiguation); every occurrence must be checked against ἐπίγνωσις to confirm correct term choice.
divine nature	θεία φύσις	theia physis	परमेश्वर दा दैविक सुभा	Parmeshwar da daivik subha	Critical	New	HIGHEST CAUTION: must be taught as moral/relational participation in God’s holy character via union with Christ — NEVER ontological identity/fusion with God’s essence (guards against Advaita ātman=Brahman conflation and against any avatar/mokṣa-as-merger reading). Mandatory theologian review on every occurrence.
corruption	φθορά	phthora	बिगाड़	bigad	High	New	Distinguish from any cyclical karmic-decay or cosmic-dissolution reading; moral/physical ruin in a linear, non-cyclical framework.
godliness	εὐσέβεια	eusebeia	परमेश्वर दा आदर करदा जीवन	Parmeshwar da aadar karda jeevan	High	New	Rejects भक्ति (Hindu devotional bhakti-mārga to a chosen personal deity) and bare श्रद्धा (already rejected for “faith” in baseline) as defaults.
diligence	σπουδή	spoudē	जतन / मेहनत	jatan / mehnat	Low	New	—
self-control	ἐγκράτεια	egkrateia	अपने आप उप्पर काबू	apne aap uppar kaabu	Medium	New	Avoid ascetic-renunciant framing (cf. baseline caution re: साधु).
perseverance / endurance	ὑπομονή	hypomonē	सहनशीलता / धीरज	sahanshilta / dheeraj	Medium	New	Distinct from God’s own μακροθυμία (patience) — see Doctrine 6 below.
brotherly affection	φιλαδελφία	philadelphia	भाईचारा	bhaicharaa	Low	New	—
love	ἀγάπη	agapē	प्यार	pyaar	Medium	New	Prefer प्यार over प्रेम, which carries strong Rādhā-Krishna prem-bhakti devotional resonance.
desire / lust	ἐπιθυμία	epithymia	बुरी लालसा	buri laalsa	High	New	NEVER वासना (Hindu term for karmic mental-residue carried across rebirths) — this is a present moral category, not a reincarnation-linked one.
promises	ἐπαγγέλματα	epaggelmata	वादे	vaade	Medium	New	Keep distinct from the mannat vow-for-boon transactional logic flagged for “grace” in the baseline; these are promises God freely gives.
grace and knowledge (grow in)	χάρις καὶ γνῶσις	charis kai gnōsis	बिना कमाई दित्ती दया ते पूरी पछान	bina kamai ditti daya te puri pachan	Critical	Reused + New	2 Pet 3:18, the letter’s closing/thesis-adjacent verse; must render identically wherever quoted across this curriculum (parallel to the Romans package’s 1:16-17/8:28/10:9-10 consistency rules).

3. False Teachers and Their Judgment

Term (Eng)	Greek	Transliteration	Dogri	Dogri Translit.	Risk	Status	Notes / Rejected Alternatives
false teachers	ψευδοδιδάσκαλοι	pseudodidaskaloi	झूठे सिखाणेवाले	jhuthe sikhavanevale	High	New	NEVER गुरू — guru’s authority/veneration associations in North Indian and Duggar religious culture make it unsuitable even negatively; also avoid dignifying false teachers or collapsing legitimate Christian teaching-office into guru-veneration patterns.
false prophets	ψευδοπροφῆται	pseudoprophētai	झूठे नबी	jhuthe nabi	Medium	Reused root (baseline नबी)	—
Master (absolute owner)	δεσπότης	despotēs	मालिक	malik	Medium	New	Distinct from baseline प्रभु; preserves the “owner who purchased” nuance of 2:1.
destructive heresies	αἱρέσεις ἀπωλείας	haireseis apōleias	नास करने आह् गलत सिद्धांत	naas karne aah galat siddhant	Medium	New	—
destruction / perdition	ἀπώλεια	apōleia	नाश / बरबादी	naash / barbadi	High	New	Keep distinct from temporary cosmic dissolution (pralaya-adjacent readings); final, personal, moral ruin under judgment.
hell / Tartarus	Τάρταρος (cast in)	Tartaros	नरक	narak	High	New	Distinguish explicitly from the popular Hindu concept of narak as a temporary purgatorial stage prior to continued rebirth; here it denotes confinement awaiting final judgment.
judgment	κρίσις / κρίμα	krisis / krima	फैसला	faisla	Medium-High	New	Prefer फैसला (personal verdict) over a bare न्याय-only framing, to avoid an impersonal cosmic-law/karma reading.
the way of truth / way of righteousness	ὁδὸς τῆς ἀληθείας / δικαιοσύνης	hodos tēs alētheias / dikaiosynēs	सच्च दा राह् / धरमीपन दा राह्	sach da raah / dharmipan da raah	High	Reused root (baseline धरमीपन)	—
holy commandment	ἁγία ἐντολή	hagia entolē	पवित्तर हुकम	pavittar hukam	High	Reused root (baseline पवित्तर)	—
ungodly / ungodliness	ἀσέβεια / ἀσεβής	asebeia / asebēs	अधरमी	adharmi	Medium	New	Natural opposite of established धरमी/धरमीपन; must not import Dogra Rajput lineage-duty connotations already flagged for bare धरम.
irrational animals	ἄλογα ζῷα	aloga zōa	बे-अकली जानवर	be-akli janwar	Low	New	—
proverb	παροιμία	paroimia	कहावत	kahawat	Low	New	—

4. The Certainty of Christ’s Return

Term (Eng)	Greek	Transliteration	Dogri	Dogri Translit.	Risk	Status	Notes / Rejected Alternatives
coming / Parousia	παρουσία	parousia	मसीह दा फिर औना	Masih da phir auna	Critical	New	HIGHEST-PRIORITY SYNCRETISM RISK IN THIS BOOK: must not be assimilated to the Vaishnava expectation of a future Kalki avatar (Vishnu’s prophesied tenth/final avatar at the end of Kali Yuga), a live, popular eschatological belief connected to the Dogra-patronized Raghunath Mandir’s Rama-Vishnu devotion. Christ’s return is the personal, bodily return of the one already-incarnate, unique Son — not a new or repeated avatar-descent, and not a cyclical yuga-transition.
eyewitnesses	ἐπόπται	epoptai	अखी’आं दिक्खणे आह् गवाह	akhiyaan dikkhane aah gavah	Medium	New	Plain historical eyewitness, not mystical/yogic “inner vision.”
majesty / Majestic Glory	μεγαλειότης / μεγαλοπρεπὴς δόξα	megaleiotēs / megaloprepēs doxa	महान महिमा	mahaan mahima	Medium	New (built on baseline महिमा)	Keep distinct from temple ceremonial splendor (aarti, darshan lighting).
scoffers	ἐμπαῖκται	empaiktai	मजाक करनेवाले	majaak karnevale	Low	New	—
last days	ἔσχαται ἡμέραι	eschatai hēmerai	आखरी दिन	aakhri din	Low	New	—
waiting for and hastening	προσδοκῶντες καὶ σπεύδοντες	prosdokōntes kai speudontes	आस लगा राखणा ते कोशिश करना	aas laga rakhna te koshish karna	Medium	New	Not merit-accumulation causing the day; active holy living and gospel proclamation.

5. The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment

Term (Eng)	Greek	Transliteration	Dogri	Dogri Translit.	Risk	Status	Notes / Rejected Alternatives
Day of the Lord	ἡμέρα κυρίου	hēmera kyriou	प्रभु दा दिन	prabhu da din	Critical	New (built on baseline प्रभु)	MUST be taught as a linear, historical, one-time, unrepeatable judgment-and-renewal event, explicitly distinguished from Hindu pralaya (periodic cosmic dissolution within endlessly repeating kalpa/yuga cycles). Top theologian-review priority.
elements	στοιχεῖα	stoicheia	मूल तत्त	mool tatt	Medium	New	Natural but largely benign overlap with the classical पंच तत्त (five-element) cosmology; do not extend into a cyclical-dissolution framework.
kept for fire / day of judgment	πυρὶ τηρούμενοι / ἡμέρα κρίσεως	pyri tēroumenoi / hēmera krisis	अग्गी आस्तै रक्खे गे / फैसले दा दिन	aggi aastai rakkhe gae / faisle da din	High	New	—
new heavens and new earth	καινοὶ οὐρανοὶ καὶ γῆ καινή	kainoi ouranoi kai gē kainē	नमां अकाश ते नमीं धरती	naman akash te nami dharti	Critical	New	Permanent, final re-creation — NOT the start of a fresh kalpa in a repeating cosmic cycle. Pair with Day-of-the-Lord caution above.
righteousness dwells	δικαιοσύνη κατοικεῖ	dikaiosynē katoikei	धरमीपन बसदा	dharmipan basda	Critical	Reused root (baseline धरमीपन)	—
spotless and blameless	ἄσπιλοι καὶ ἀμώμητοι	aspiloi kai amōmētoi	बिना दाग़ ते बिना दोष	bina daagh te bina dosh	Medium	New	—
one day as a thousand years	μία ἡμέρα ὡς χίλια ἔτη	mia hēmera hōs chilia etē	प्रभु आस्तै इक दिन हज़ार साल बरगा है	prabhu aastai ik din hazaar saal barga hai	High	New	Teach as evidence of purposeful patience, not support for a cyclical yuga time-scheme.
the flood	κατακλυσμός	kataklysmos	जलघाल़	jalghaal	Medium	New	Historical precedent for God’s past and future judgment.

6. Patience of God’s Timing

Term (Eng)	Greek	Transliteration	Dogri	Dogri Translit.	Risk	Status	Notes / Rejected Alternatives
the Lord is patient / longsuffering	μακροθυμεῖ / μακροθυμία	makrothymei / makrothymia	परमेश्वर दा सहनशीलता	Parmeshwar da sahanshilta	High	New	Purposeful, personal, merciful forbearance — not fatalistic delay, not analogous to impersonal cosmic time-cycles.
not wishing any to perish	μὴ βουλόμενος τινας ἀπολέσθαι	mē boulomenos tinas apolesthai	कोई नाश न होए इस करी	koi naash na hoe is kari	Critical	New	Universal scope of God’s patient mercy; retain unqualified breadth, consistent with the baseline’s “Universal Scope of the Gospel” principle.
repentance	μετάνοια	metanoia	मन फिराना	man firana	Medium-High	New	Prefer this turning-oriented compound over bare पछतावा (mere regret/remorse), to preserve the sense of reorientation toward God.
patience leads to salvation	μακροθυμία…σωτηρία	makrothymia…sōtēria	सहनशीलता…उद्धार	sahanshilta…uddhar	Critical	Reused (baseline उद्धार) + New	—

7. Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption

Term (Eng)	Greek	Transliteration	Dogri	Dogri Translit.	Risk	Status	Notes / Rejected Alternatives
divine nature (partakers of)	θεία φύσις (κοινωνοὶ)	theia physis (koinōnoi)	परमेश्वर दा दैविक सुभा (…च हिस्सेदार बनना)	Parmeshwar da daivik subha (…ch hissedar banna)	Critical	New	See full note under Doctrine 2 above — cross-listed here as this book’s most theologically dangerous phrase. Mandatory theologian review every occurrence.
corruption	φθορά	phthora	बिगाड़	bigad	High	New	Cross-listed; see Doctrine 2/3 notes.
divine power	θεία δύναμις	theia dynamis	परमेश्वर दी दैविक सामर्थ	Parmeshwar di daivik samarth	High	Reused root (baseline सामर्थ)	Never शक्ति (goddess-power register, per baseline).
slaves of corruption	δοῦλοι φθορᾶς	douloi phthoras	बिगाड़ दे गुलाम	bigad de gulaam	High	New	—
escaping the world’s corruption	ἀποφυγόντες…φθοράς	apophygontes…phthoras	बिगाड़ थमां बचणा	bigad thamma bachna	High	New	—

Cross-Cutting: Christology and Godhead Terms (Reused from Romans Baseline — Enforce Exactly)

Term (Eng)	Greek	Dogri (baseline-fixed)	Risk	2 Peter Occurrences
God	θεός	परमेश्वर	Critical	1:1, 1:2, 1:17, 1:21, 2:4, 3:5, 3:12, etc.
Lord	κύριος	प्रभु	Critical	1:2, 1:8, 1:11, 1:14, 1:16, 2:1, 2:9, 2:11, 2:20, 3:2, 3:8, 3:9, 3:10, 3:15, 3:18
Jesus	Ἰησοῦς	यीशु	Critical	1:1, 1:2, 1:8, 1:14, 1:16, 2:20, 3:18
Christ	Χριστός	मसीह	Critical	throughout
Father	πατήρ	पिता	Critical	1:17
Son (of God)	υἱός (θεοῦ)	परमेश्वर दा पुत्तर / मेरा पुत्तर	Critical	1:17
Holy Spirit	πνεῦμα ἅγιον	पवित्तर आत्मा	Critical	1:21
holy	ἅγιος	पवित्तर	High	1:18, 2:21, 3:2, 3:11
apostle	ἀπόστολος	भेजेआ होया	Medium	1:1, 3:2
faith	πίστις	भरोसा	High	1:1, 1:5
righteousness	δικαιοσύνη	धरमीपन	Critical	1:1, 2:5, 2:21, 3:13
grace	χάρις	बिना कमाई दित्ती दया	Critical	1:2, 3:18
peace	εἰρήνη	शान्ति	Medium	1:2
salvation	σωτηρία	उद्धार	Critical	3:15
calling	κλῆσις	सद्द	High	1:10
election	ἐκλογή	परमेश्वर दी चोन	High	1:10
kingdom (of God/Christ)	βασιλεία	परमेश्वर दा राज्य	Medium	1:11
sin	ἁμαρτία	पाप	High	1:9, 2:4, 2:14
power (of God)	δύναμις (θεοῦ)	सामर्थ	High	1:3, 1:16
glory	δόξα	महिमा	High	1:3, 1:17
prophecy	προφητεία	भविष्यवाणी	Low	1:20, 1:21
prophet	προφήτης	नबी	Low	1:19 (root), 2:16, 3:2

These are governed by the Romans translation_memory.json; no new entries are required, but every 2 Peter Phase 2 segment containing them must load and enforce that file exactly, per 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.

New Terms Requiring Translation Memory Addition (Priority Order for Phase 2)

θεία φύσις / divine nature — Critical (highest priority; mandatory theologian sign-off before first use)
παρουσία / Christ’s return — Critical
ἡμέρα κυρίου / Day of the Lord — Critical
καινοὺς οὐρανοὺς καὶ γῆν καινήν / new heavens and new earth — Critical
ἐπίγνωσις / full personal knowledge — Critical
γραφή / Scripture — Critical
φερόμενοι ὑπὸ Πνεύματος Ἁγίου / carried along by the Holy Spirit — Critical
σωτήρ / Savior — Critical
εὐσέβεια / godliness — High
ψευδοδιδάσκαλος / false teacher — High
μακροθυμία / God’s patience — High
φθορά / corruption — High
ἀπώλεια / destruction — High
Τάρταρος / hell — High
μῦθος / myths (forbidden-substitution term) — High
ἐπιθυμία / sinful desire — Medium-High
μετάνοια / repentance — Medium-High
γνῶσις / general knowledge — High (disambiguation risk against ἐπίγνωσις)
ἀρετή / virtue — Medium
remaining Medium/Low terms per tables above.

All items above must be added to translation_memory.json (version incremented) and to an extended bible_term_registry.json before Phase 2 segment translation of 2 Peter begins, per the Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.

Critical Risk Terms

God

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर
Transliteration: Parmeshwar
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: भगवान (broad Hindu deity usage, avoid for doctrinal precision)

परमेश्वर is preferred for doctrinal precision over भगवान, which carries broad Hindu deity usage and could evoke any of the region’s actively worshipped deities rather than the one God of Scripture. INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Occurs throughout 2 Peter (1:1, 1:2, 1:17, 1:21, 2:4, 3:5, 3:12, etc.).

Lord

Approved rendering: प्रभु
Transliteration: prabhu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: महाराजा (a title strongly associated with the historic Dogra royal dynasty, avoid as the primary term for Christ’s Lordship)

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. High-frequency term in 2 Peter (1:2, 1:8, 1:11, 1:14, 1:16, 2:1, 2:9, 2:11, 2:20, 3:2, 3:8, 3:9, 3:10, 3:15, 3:18). Never महाराजा.

Jesus

Approved rendering: यीशु
Transliteration: Yishu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ईसा (used in Muslim/Urdu-influenced contexts; reserve for interfaith-dialogue framing only)

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Occurs at 1:1, 1:2, 1:8, 1:14, 1:16, 2:20, 3:18.

Messiah

Approved rendering: मसीह
Transliteration: masih
Doctrine: Messianic Promise

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Used throughout 2 Peter for ‘Christ’ (Χριστός); the Anointed One fulfilling Old Testament promise, not one of several divine or avatar figures venerated locally.

Father

Approved rendering: पिता
Transliteration: pita
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Occurs at 2 Peter 1:17, the Transfiguration voice: ‘honor and glory from God the Father.‘

Son Of God

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दा पुत्तर
Transliteration: Parmeshwar da puttar
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: अवतार (an incarnate deity-descent, e.g. Rama as Vishnu’s avatar at Raghunath Mandir, an explicit downgrade and rejected)

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Governs the doctrine framework for 2 Peter 1:17’s ‘my beloved Son’ declaration; see new entry son_of_god_beloved_son below for the verse-specific phrase.

Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: पवित्तर आत्मा
Transliteration: pavittar aatma
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: शक्ति (goddess-power, e.g. as embodied at Vaishno Devi and Bahu Fort, never use), परमात्मा alone (Hindu universal Self, never use)

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Occurs at 2 Peter 1:21, the agent of Scripture’s inspiration. Never शक्ति, never bare परमात्मा.

Righteousness

Approved rendering: धरमीपन
Transliteration: dharmipan
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: धरम (avoid the bare sense of caste/social duty tied to Dogra Rajput lineage-honor expectations)

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Occurs at 1:1, 2:5, 2:21 (way of righteousness), 3:13 (righteousness dwells in the new creation).

Grace

Approved rendering: बिना कमाई दित्ती दया
Transliteration: bina kamai ditti daya
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: मन्नत दा फल (a boon granted in response to a vow, as sought at Vaishno Devi shrine; never use), पुण्य (merit earned through right action, never use)

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Occurs at 1:2 (‘grace and peace’) and 3:18 (the letter’s closing thesis-adjacent verse: ‘grow in the grace and knowledge’).

Salvation

Approved rendering: उद्धार
Transliteration: uddhar
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ति (liberation from the rebirth cycle, never use), मनोकामना पूरी होना (a wish/boon granted, as through a vow at Vaishno Devi, never use)

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Occurs at 3:15, in Paul’s writings referenced as agreeing that God’s patience serves salvation.

Scripture

Approved rendering: पवित्तर शास्तर
Transliteration: pavittar shastar
Doctrine: The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: शास्त्र bare (broad Hindu-treatise category, including Dharmashastra/Vedic texts historically produced under Dogra royal literary patronage; never use unqualified)

New term. Must always be qualified with पवित्तर so Scripture is not heard as one respected śāstra-genre text among many. Occurs at 1:20, and identically at 3:16 for ‘the other Scriptures’ (canon-consciousness).

Carried Along By The Spirit

Approved rendering: पवित्तर आत्मा दे चलाए दे
Transliteration: pavittar aatma de chalae de
Doctrine: The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: oracular trance-possession / bhagat-medium vocabulary (associated with local devi-worship folk religion near Jammu), NEVER use

New term, HIGHEST-CAUTION alongside divine_nature and parousia_coming. Occurs at 1:21. Must be explicitly distinguished from ecstatic channeled utterance; this is Spirit-superintended human authorship producing a fixed, permanent written text.

The Other Scriptures

Approved rendering: पवित्तर शास्तर
Transliteration: pavittar shastar
Doctrine: Canon-Consciousness: Scripture Alongside Scripture

New term (same rendering as scripture, deliberately identical). Occurs at 3:16: Paul’s letters placed alongside ‘the other Scriptures’ — an early canon-consciousness datum. Must render identically to the scripture entry above.

Savior

Approved rendering: उद्धारकर्ता
Transliteration: uddharkarta
Doctrine: Deity and Sonship of Christ

New term, built on baseline उद्धार root. Occurs at 1:1 (‘our God and Savior Jesus Christ’); the Dogri rendering and any teaching note must preserve the grammatical identification of Jesus as God, never softened into ‘God, and [a separate] Savior.‘

Son Of God Beloved Son

Approved rendering: मेरा प्यारा पुत्तर
Transliteration: mera pyaara puttar
Doctrine: Deity and Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: अवतार-adjacent ‘one of several divine sons’ framing, NEVER use

New term, reuses baseline परमेश्वर दा पुत्तर doctrine framework for the verse-specific phrase. Occurs at 1:17, the Father’s Transfiguration declaration; must not read as one avatar-descent among Vishnu’s recognized avatars.

Knowledge Full Relational

Approved rendering: पूरी पछान
Transliteration: puri pachan
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Rejected alternatives: ज्ञान bare (evokes Hindu jñāna-mārga, the ‘path of knowledge’ toward mokṣa; NEVER use for ἐπίγνωσις)

New term, coined gap-fill compound. Occurs at 1:2, 1:3, 1:8, 2:20, 3:18. Denotes relational, personal knowing of Christ, never philosophical/metaphysical self-realization.

Grow In Grace And Knowledge

Approved rendering: बिना कमाई दित्ती दया ते पूरी पछान
Transliteration: bina kamai ditti daya te puri pachan
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue

New term, combining reused baseline grace and new knowledge_full_relational. Occurs at 3:18, the letter’s closing thesis-adjacent verse, parallel in weight to Romans 1:16-17/8:28/10:9-10. Must render identically wherever quoted across this curriculum.

Divine Nature

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दा दैविक सुभा
Transliteration: Parmeshwar da daivik subha
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Rejected alternatives: ब्रह्म / आत्मा identity vocabulary (Advaita Vedānta’s ātman=Brahman ontological-identity teaching; NEVER use)

New term. THE SINGLE HIGHEST DOCTRINAL RISK IN THIS BOOK. Occurs at 1:4 (‘partakers of the divine nature’). Must be taught explicitly and repeatedly as moral/relational participation in God’s holy character through union with Christ by the Spirit — never ontological identity or fusion with God’s essence, never a step toward becoming an avatar, never mokṣa-as-merger. Mandatory theologian sign-off before every first use in any Phase 2 document.

Parousia Coming

Approved rendering: मसीह दा फिर औना
Transliteration: Masih da phir auna
Doctrine: The Certainty of Christ’s Return
Rejected alternatives: अवतार / avatar-descent vocabulary (NEVER use — structurally the closest local analogy is the Vaishnava expectation of a future Kalki avatar at the end of Kali Yuga, connected to the Dogra-patronized Raghunath Mandir’s Rama-Vishnu devotion)

New term. HIGHEST-PRIORITY SYNCRETISM RISK IN THIS BOOK alongside divine_nature. Occurs at 1:16, 3:4. Christ’s return is the personal, bodily return of the one already-incarnate, unique Son — a linear historical event, never a new/repeated avatar-descent, never a cyclical yuga-transition.

Day Of The Lord

Approved rendering: प्रभु दा दिन
Transliteration: prabhu da din
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Rejected alternatives: प्रलय / pralaya-cyclical-dissolution framing (NEVER use — periodic cosmic dissolution within endlessly repeating kalpa/yuga cycles, a live Hindu cosmological pattern known locally via Puranic teaching traditions)

New term, built on baseline प्रभु. TOP THEOLOGIAN-REVIEW PRIORITY. Occurs at 3:10. Must be taught as a linear, historical, one-time, unrepeatable event — final judgment followed by permanent re-creation.

New Heavens And New Earth

Approved rendering: नमां अकाश ते नमीं धरती
Transliteration: naman akash te nami dharti
Doctrine: The Permanent New Heavens and New Earth

New term. Occurs at 3:13. Paired directly with day_of_the_lord: permanent and final, not the start of a fresh kalpa beginning a new cycle of ages that will itself eventually dissolve again.

Righteousness Dwells

Approved rendering: धरमीपन बसदा
Transliteration: dharmipan basda
Doctrine: The Permanent New Heavens and New Earth

New term, built on baseline धरमीपन. Occurs at 3:13: the defining moral character of the permanent, final state.

Not Wishing Any To Perish

Approved rendering: कोई नाश न होए इस करी
Transliteration: koi naash na hoe is kari
Doctrine: The Universal Scope of God’s Patient Mercy

New term. Occurs at 3:9. Must retain unqualified, universal breadth, consistent with the Romans baseline’s Universal Scope of the Gospel principle; never narrowed by caste, lineage, or Dogra Rajput honor-rank (izzat) framing.

Patience Leads To Salvation

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दा सहनशीलता…उद्धार
Transliteration: Parmeshwar da sahanshilta…uddhar
Doctrine: Patience of God’s Timing

New term, combining gods_patience with reused baseline salvation (उद्धार). Occurs at 3:15; must be rendered consistently wherever quoted.

High Risk Terms

Holy

Approved rendering: पवित्तर
Transliteration: pavittar
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: शुद्ध (ritual purity, e.g. before temple worship, avoid as a substitute)

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Occurs at 1:18 (holy mountain), 2:21 (holy commandment), 3:2 (holy prophets), 3:11 (holy conduct).

Faith

Approved rendering: भरोसा
Transliteration: bharosa
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: श्रद्धा (generalized devotional reverence, too broad)

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Occurs at 1:1 (‘a faith of equal standing’), 1:5.

Calling

Approved rendering: सद्द
Transliteration: sadd
Doctrine: Divine Calling

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Occurs at 1:10: ‘be diligent to confirm your calling and election.‘

Election

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दी चोन
Transliteration: Parmeshwar di chon
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: किस्मत (fate, never use), मन्नत दा नतीजा (a boon-outcome, never use)

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Occurs at 1:10, paired with calling.

Sin

Approved rendering: पाप
Transliteration: paap
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: भिट्ट (ritual impurity/pollution, avoid as a substitute)

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Occurs at 1:9 (‘cleansed from former sins’), 2:4 (sinning angels), 2:14.

Power Of God

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दी सामर्थ
Transliteration: Parmeshwar di samarth
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Rejected alternatives: शक्ति (associated with goddess-power devotion, as at Bahu Fort’s Kali shrine and Vaishno Devi, avoid as the primary term)

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Occurs at 1:3, 1:16.

Glory

Approved rendering: महिमा
Transliteration: mahima
Doctrine: Deity of Christ

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Occurs at 1:3, 1:17 (conferred on the Son at the Transfiguration). Keep distinct from temple aarti/darshan ceremonial splendor.

Prophetic Word

Approved rendering: नबियां आह् बचन
Transliteration: nabiyan aah bachan
Doctrine: The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: ज्योतषी-adjacent astrological-foresight framing, never use

New term, built on baseline नबी root. Occurs at 1:19: the Old Testament prophetic witness confirmed by apostolic eyewitness.

Cleverly Devised Myths

Approved rendering: मन घड़त कहाणियां
Transliteration: man ghadat kahaniyan
Doctrine: The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: पुराण (a named Hindu scriptural-mythic genre; NEVER use, would cast this contrast as a slight against a specific sacred-text tradition)

New term. Occurs at 1:16: Peter denies apostolic testimony is an invented tale; neutral ‘fabricated story’ phrase required, naming no specific tradition.

Holy Mountain

Approved rendering: पवित्तर पहाड़
Transliteration: pavittar pahaad
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony

New term, reuses baseline पवित्तर. Occurs at 1:18: the Transfiguration site. Must convey moral/relational set-apartness of this specific event, not generic pilgrimage-mountain sanctity (e.g. Trikuta hills/Vaishno Devi).

Way Of Righteousness

Approved rendering: धरमीपन दा राह्
Transliteration: dharmipan da raah
Doctrine: The Peril of Apostasy After Knowing the Truth

New term, built on baseline धरमीपन. Occurs at 2:21: turning back after knowing this way is worse than never having known it — must never be softened.

Knowledge General

Approved rendering: ज्ञान
Transliteration: gyan
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue

New term, permitted only for the general cognitive sense. Occurs at 1:5 (virtue-list link) and 3:18 (summary use, disambiguated). Every occurrence must be checked against knowledge_full_relational to confirm correct term is used.

Godliness

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दा आदर करदा जीवन
Transliteration: Parmeshwar da aadar karda jeevan
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Rejected alternatives: भक्ति (Hindu devotional bhakti-mārga to a chosen personal deity, an independent path to liberation; NEVER use as default), श्रद्धा bare (already rejected for ‘faith’ in baseline, for the same reason)

New term. Occurs at 1:3, 1:6, 1:7, 3:11. A reverent, obedient life oriented wholly to God; a distinctly Christian ethical-relational category, not bhakti-mārga.

Sinful Desire

Approved rendering: बुरी लालसा
Transliteration: buri laalsa
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Rejected alternatives: वासना (Hindu term for subtle karmic mental-impressions carried across rebirths; NEVER use)

New term. Occurs at 1:4, 2:10, 2:18, 3:3. A present, moral category of craving, not a reincarnation-linked one.

Corruption

Approved rendering: बिगाड़
Transliteration: bigad
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption

New term. Occurs at 1:4, 2:19. Keep distinct from any cyclical karmic-decay or cosmic-dissolution reading; moral/physical ruin in a linear, non-cyclical framework.

Slaves Of Corruption

Approved rendering: बिगाड़ दे गुलाम
Transliteration: bigad de gulaam
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment

New term, built on corruption entry. Occurs at 2:19: false teachers’ actual bondage, ironically contrasted with the ‘freedom’ they promise.

Escaping The Worlds Corruption

Approved rendering: बिगाड़ थमां बचणा
Transliteration: bigad thamma bachna
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ति / मोक्ष vocabulary (liberation from the rebirth cycle, NEVER use)

New term. Occurs at 1:4. Escape is grace-enabled, not self-achieved ascetic withdrawal or samsara-exit.

Divine Power

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दी दैविक सामर्थ
Transliteration: Parmeshwar di daivik samarth
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Rejected alternatives: शक्ति (goddess-power register, per baseline)

New term, built on baseline सामर्थ. Occurs at 1:3: the source of all things necessary for life and godliness.

False Teachers

Approved rendering: झूठे सिखाणेवाले
Transliteration: jhuthe sikhavanevale
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Rejected alternatives: गुरू (NEVER use — guru’s authority in North Indian and Duggar religious culture approaches veneration within a guru-śiṣya lineage; would dignify the false teacher or collapse legitimate Christian teaching-office into guru-veneration patterns)

New term. Occurs throughout chapter 2 (2:1 onward).

Destruction Perdition

Approved rendering: नाश
Transliteration: naash
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment

New term. Occurs at 2:1, 2:3, 3:7, 3:16. Must be kept distinct from any notion of temporary cosmic dissolution before renewed cyclical existence (pralaya-adjacent readings); final, personal, moral ruin under God’s judgment.

Hell Tartarus

Approved rendering: नरक
Transliteration: narak
Doctrine: Historical Precedents of Certain Divine Judgment

New term. Occurs at 2:4. नरक is the standard regional term but must be explicitly distinguished from the popular Hindu concept of narak as a temporary purgatorial stage prior to continued rebirth (e.g. per Garuda Purana-style graded hells); here it denotes confinement awaiting final judgment. Mandatory finality-teaching note required.

Angels Who Sinned

Approved rendering: पाप करने आह् दूत
Transliteration: paap karne aah doot
Doctrine: Historical Precedents of Certain Divine Judgment

New term. Occurs at 2:4; establishes that even angelic beings face God’s just judgment, grounding the certainty of judgment on human false teachers a fortiori.

Freedom Falsely Promised

Approved rendering: अजादी
Transliteration: azadi
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ति (reserved exclusively for the rejected liberation-from-rebirth concept per baseline; NEVER use here even ironically, to avoid accidentally validating a forbidden term)

New term. Occurs at 2:19: the false liberty false teachers promise while themselves enslaved to corruption.

Holy Commandment

Approved rendering: पवित्तर हुकम
Transliteration: pavittar hukam
Doctrine: The Peril of Apostasy After Knowing the Truth

New term, built on baseline पवित्तर. Occurs at 2:21; part of the severe 2:20-21 warning that must not be softened.

Kept For Fire Day Of Judgment

Approved rendering: अग्गी आस्तै रक्खे गे / फैसले दा दिन
Transliteration: aggi aastai rakkhe gae / faisle da din
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Rejected alternatives: न्याय-only bare framing (risks an abstract impersonal cosmic-law/karma reading; avoid as the primary term)

New term. Occurs at 3:7. फैसले दा दिन (‘day of decision/verdict’) preferred to keep the personal, God-rendered-verdict sense clear.

One Day As A Thousand Years

Approved rendering: प्रभु आस्तै इक दिन हज़ार साल बरगा है
Transliteration: prabhu aastai ik din hazaar saal barga hai
Doctrine: Patience of God’s Timing
Rejected alternatives: कल्प / युग (kalpa/yuga) vocabulary, NEVER use

New term. Occurs at 3:8. Must be taught as evidence of God’s patient purposefulness, not support for a cyclical/eonic yuga time-scheme.

Gods Patience

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दा सहनशीलता
Transliteration: Parmeshwar da sahanshilta
Doctrine: Patience of God’s Timing
Rejected alternatives: किस्मत (fate, NEVER use, per baseline)

New term. Occurs at 3:9, 3:15. Must be taught as purposeful, personal, merciful forbearance — not fatalistic delay, not analogous to impersonal cosmic time-cycles.

Repentance

Approved rendering: मन फिराना
Transliteration: man firana
Doctrine: Repentance as Reorientation to God
Rejected alternatives: पछतावा (bare regret/remorse, avoid as default — reduces repentance to emotional sorrow without reorientation)

New term. Occurs at 3:9.

Medium Risk Terms

Apostle

Approved rendering: भेजेआ होया
Transliteration: bhejea hoya
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: दूत (generic messenger, too weak)

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Occurs at 1:1, 3:2.

Peace

Approved rendering: शान्ति
Transliteration: shanti
Doctrine: Peace with God

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Occurs at 1:2, part of the apostolic greeting.

Kingdom Of God

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दा राज्य
Transliteration: Parmeshwar da rajya
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Occurs at 1:11 as ‘the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ’; adapt referent to Christ’s kingdom in this context while keeping the fixed Dogri phrase.

Private Interpretation

Approved rendering: अपनी मरजी दी बियाख्या
Transliteration: apni marzi di viakhya
Doctrine: The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture

New term. Occurs at 1:20; denies human-originated content, not legitimate later interpretive study.

Hard To Understand And Twisted

Approved rendering: समझणा मुश्किल / तोड़-मोड़ना
Transliteration: samajhna mushkil / tod-modna
Doctrine: Canon-Consciousness: Scripture Alongside Scripture

New term. Occurs at 3:16; warns against misuse of Scripture by the unstable, not against Scripture’s basic clarity.

Majesty Majestic Glory

Approved rendering: महान महिमा
Transliteration: mahaan mahima
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony

New term, built on baseline महिमा. Occurs at 1:16 (Christ’s majesty) and 1:17 (the Majestic Glory, a reverent circumlocution for the Father’s voice). Preserve as a title, not flattened to ‘God said’; keep distinct from temple ceremonial splendor.

Well Pleased

Approved rendering: जिस उप्पर मेरी खुशी है
Transliteration: jis uppar meri khushi hai
Doctrine: Deity and Sonship of Christ

New term. Occurs at 1:17; the Father’s settled, eternal delight, not merit-based approval — must not collide with the baseline’s grace/merit distinctions.

Eyewitnesses

Approved rendering: अखी’आं दिक्खणे आह् गवाह
Transliteration: akhiyaan dikkhane aah gavah
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony
Rejected alternatives: a single word implying mystical/yogic ‘inner vision’, avoid

New term. Occurs at 1:16: plain, historical, sensory eyewitness testimony to the Transfiguration.

Heaven

Approved rendering: अकाश
Transliteration: akash
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony
Rejected alternatives: स्वर्ग bare (a temporary heavenly abode within the rebirth cycle in popular Hindu usage; avoid unqualified)

New term. Occurs at 1:18: the divine origin of the Transfiguration voice. Prefer अकाश (sky) in this narrative context; reserve स्वर्ग with doctrinal qualification elsewhere.

Day Dawns And Morning Star Rises

Approved rendering: दिन चड़दा ते फ़जर दा तारा उगदा
Transliteration: din chadda te fajar da tara ugda
Doctrine: The Certainty of Christ’s Return

New term. Occurs at 1:19: eschatological dawning anticipating Christ’s return. Keep as a light/dawn metaphor; must not be confused with astrological star-reading practices.

Virtue Excellence

Approved rendering: सद्गुण
Transliteration: sadgun
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue

New term. Occurs at 1:3, 1:5. सद्गुण echoes the Sāṅkhya triguna (sattva/rajas/tamas) theory; must be taught explicitly as Christ-derived moral excellence, not one of the three cosmic guṇas.

Self Control

Approved rendering: अपने आप उप्पर काबू
Transliteration: apne aap uppar kaabu
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue

New term. Occurs at 1:6. Avoid ascetic-renunciant framing (cf. baseline caution re: साधु for ‘saints’); this is ordinary Christian moral discipline.

Perseverance Endurance

Approved rendering: सहनशीलता
Transliteration: sahanshilta
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue

New term. Occurs at 1:6. Keep rendered distinctly from gods_patience (परमेश्वर दा सहनशीलता, though sharing the root word, disambiguate by referent: human endurance vs. God’s own forbearance).

Love

Approved rendering: प्यार
Transliteration: pyaar
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Rejected alternatives: प्रेम (carries strong Rādhā-Krishna prem-bhakti devotional resonance, avoid)

New term. Occurs at 1:7, the culminating virtue crowning the list.

Promises

Approved rendering: वादे
Transliteration: vaade
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption

New term. Occurs at 1:4. Keep lexically and contextually separate from मन्नत (a vow a devotee makes to a deity in hope of a boon); these are promises God freely gives.

False Prophets

Approved rendering: झूठे नबी
Transliteration: jhuthe nabi
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment

New term, built on baseline नबी root, negated. Occurs at 2:1, an Old Testament precedent for the chapter’s false teachers.

Master Absolute Owner

Approved rendering: मालिक
Transliteration: malik
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment

New term, kept distinct from baseline प्रभु. Occurs at 2:1: preserves the ‘owner who purchased’ nuance underlying the false teachers’ denial of Christ’s ownership-right.

Destructive Heresies

Approved rendering: नास करने आह् गलत सिद्धांत
Transliteration: naas karne aah galat siddhant
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment

New term. Occurs at 2:1.

The Flood

Approved rendering: जलघाल़
Transliteration: jalghaal
Doctrine: Historical Precedents of Certain Divine Judgment

New term. Occurs at 2:5, reused at 3:6. Historical, one-time precedent for both past and future judgment, not a recurring cosmic-cycle event.

Ungodly

Approved rendering: अधरमी
Transliteration: adharmi
Doctrine: Historical Precedents of Certain Divine Judgment

New term, natural opposite of established धरमी/धरमीपन. Occurs at 2:5, 2:9, 3:7. Must not import Dogra Rajput lineage-duty connotations already flagged for bare धरम in the baseline.

Despising Lordship

Approved rendering: हुकम नूं तुच्छ समझना
Transliteration: hukam nu tuchh samajhna
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment

New term. Occurs at 2:10-11.

Waiting For And Hastening

Approved rendering: आस लगा राखणा ते कोशिश करना
Transliteration: aas laga rakhna te koshish karna
Doctrine: The Certainty of Christ’s Return

New term. Occurs at 3:12. Must not read as humans causing the day through ritual merit-accumulation; a call to holy living and gospel proclamation.

Elements

Approved rendering: मूल तत्त
Transliteration: mool tatt
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment

New term. Occurs at 3:10, 3:12. Natural overlap with पंच तत्त (five-element) cosmology is largely benign but must not be extended into a cyclical-dissolution framework.

Spotless And Blameless

Approved rendering: बिना दाग़ ते बिना दोष
Transliteration: bina daagh te bina dosh
Doctrine: The Permanent New Heavens and New Earth

New term. Occurs at 3:14, echoing sacrificial-purity language applied to Christian character.

Error And Steadfastness

Approved rendering: भुलेखा / मजबूती
Transliteration: bhulekha / mazbooti
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue

New term. Occurs at 3:17: the closing exhortation to remain doctrinally and morally firm.

Low Risk Terms

Prophecy

Approved rendering: भविष्यवाणी
Transliteration: bhavishyavani
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Occurs at 1:20, 1:21.

Prophet

Approved rendering: नबी
Transliteration: nabi
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: ज्योतषी (astrologer/fortune-teller, never use)

INHERITED FROM ROMANS PACKAGE, unchanged. Root of प्रचार-adjacent compounds in ch.1-3 (e.g. नबियां आह् बचन, झूठे नबी); also occurs at 1:19 (root), 2:16, 3:2.

Honor

Approved rendering: आदर
Transliteration: aadar
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony

New term. Occurs at 1:17: honor bestowed on the Son by the Father.

Lamp Shining In A Dark Place

Approved rendering: अंधारे थां च चमकदा दीवा
Transliteration: andhaare thaan ch chamakda deeva
Doctrine: The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture

New term. Occurs at 1:19: Scripture’s guiding function. Keep as a guidance metaphor, distinct from devotional lamp-veneration imagery (e.g. aarti).

Servant

Approved rendering: सेवक
Transliteration: sevak
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: गुलाम (slave; too negative in connotation, avoid)

New term. Occurs at 1:1: Peter’s self-identification as Christ’s owned servant, alongside apostolic office.

Diligence

Approved rendering: जतन
Transliteration: jatan
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue

New term. Occurs at 1:5, 1:10.

Brotherly Affection

Approved rendering: भाईचारा
Transliteration: bhaicharaa
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue

New term. Occurs at 1:7.

Irrational Animals

Approved rendering: बे-अकली जानवर
Transliteration: be-akli janwar
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment

New term. Occurs at 2:12.

Waterless Springs

Approved rendering: सुक्खी खूह
Transliteration: sukkhi khooh
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment

New term. Occurs at 2:17.

Proverb

Approved rendering: कहावत
Transliteration: kahawat
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment

New term. Occurs at 2:22 (dog/vomit, sow/mire imagery); standard term, imagery needs no cultural substitution.

Scoffers

Approved rendering: मजाक करनेवाले
Transliteration: majaak karnevale
Doctrine: Scoffers’ Denial of Christ’s Return

New term. Occurs at 3:3.

Last Days

Approved rendering: आखरी दिन
Transliteration: aakhri din
Doctrine: Scoffers’ Denial of Christ’s Return

New term. Occurs at 3:3.

Creation By The Word Of God

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर दे बोल कन्नै रचना
Transliteration: Parmeshwar de bol kannai rachna
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment

New term. Occurs at 3:5.

Body Tent

Approved rendering: शरीर (डेरा)
Transliteration: shareer (dera)
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony

New term. Occurs at 1:13-14: Peter’s own mortal body as a temporary dwelling.

Departure

Approved rendering: कूच / मौत
Transliteration: kooch / maut
Doctrine: Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony

New term. Occurs at 1:15: Peter’s own approaching death.

Balaam

Approved rendering: बलआम
Transliteration: Balaam
Doctrine: Historical Precedents of Certain Divine Judgment

New proper name, transliterated. Occurs at 2:15-16. Requires background note given low OT narrative literacy in the target audience.

Sodom And Gomorrah

Approved rendering: सदोम ते गमोरा
Transliteration: Sodom te Gamora
Doctrine: Historical Precedents of Certain Divine Judgment

New proper name, transliterated. Occurs at 2:6.

Righteous Lot

Approved rendering: धरमी लूत
Transliteration: dharmi Lut
Doctrine: Historical Precedents of Certain Divine Judgment

New term, built on baseline धरमी root. Occurs at 2:7-8: God’s rescue of the righteous amid decisive judgment on the wicked.

Wages Of Unrighteousness Spots And Blemishes

Approved rendering: अधरम दी मजूरी / दाग़ ते खोट
Transliteration: adharam di majoori / daagh te khot
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment

New term. Occurs at 2:13: the false teachers’ corrupt gain and corrupting presence within the community.

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