Core Glossary
08 Core Glossary — 2 Timothy (English/Greek → German)
This glossary consolidates every load-bearing term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, organized by the curriculum’s seven Bible Doctrines, followed by a section of terms reused verbatim from the baseline Romans translation_memory.json. Risk tiers and review routing follow the same conventions as the baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json. All terms marked [BASELINE] must be reused with their exact recorded German rendering; all terms marked [NEW] are proposed additions to translation memory pending Phase 1 finalization.
Legend: Risk — Critical (mandatory theologian review, every occurrence) / High (mandatory theologian review) / Medium (native speaker review recommended) / Low (automated review sufficient).
1. Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture (ISS)
| English Term | Original (Translit.) | German Rendering | Risk | Status | Primary Passages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| God-breathed | theopneustos (θεόπνευστος) | von Gott eingegeben | Critical | NEW | 3:16 | THE doctrinal anchor term; Luther’s established rendering retained over the more literal “eingehaucht.” Never softened to “religiously significant.” |
| all Scripture | pasa graphē (πᾶσα γραφή) | die ganze Schrift / alle Schrift | High | NEW | 3:16 | Unqualified universal quantifier must be preserved. |
| sacred writings | hiera grammata (ἱερὰ γράμματα) | die heiligen Schriften | Medium | NEW | 3:15 | Distinguish from γραφή (v.16) in exposition; same body of writings, two angles. |
| profitable | ōphelimos (ὠφέλιμος) | nützlich | Low | NEW | 3:16 | — |
| complete/proficient | artios (ἄρτιος) | vollkommen / völlig tauglich | Medium | NEW | 3:17 | Must convey sufficiency (nothing lacking), not generic moral perfection. |
| equipped | exartizō (ἐξηρτισμένος) | ausgerüstet | Medium | NEW | 3:17 | Preserve passive, received, perfect-tense abiding sense. |
| able to make wise unto salvation | dynamena sophisai eis sōtērian (δυνάμενά…σοφίσαι εἰς σωτηρίαν) | die weise machen können zur Rettung | Medium | NEW | 3:15 | Reuses Rettung [BASELINE]. |
| were assured/convinced | pistoō (ἐπιστώθης) | wurdest überzeugt / darin gewiss gemacht | Medium | NEW | 3:14 | Passive voice must be preserved — conviction given, not self-generated. |
| pattern of sound words | hypotypōsis hygiainontōn logōn (ὑποτύπωσις ὑγιαινόντων λόγων) | das Vorbild der gesunden Worte | High | NEW | 1:13 | Shares “gesund” root with GSD’s central term; keep consistent. |
| books, especially the parchments | biblia, malista tas membranas (βιβλία, μάλιστα τὰς μεμβράνας) | Bücher, besonders die Pergamente | Low | NEW | 4:13 | Material-culture detail; low doctrinal weight but part of Scripture-transmission background. |
2. Perseverance under Suffering (PUS)
| English Term | Original (Translit.) | German Rendering | Risk | Status | Primary Passages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| all who desire to live godly…will be persecuted | pantes hoi thelontes eusebōs zēn…diōchthēsontai | alle, die fromm leben wollen…werden verfolgt werden | Critical | NEW | 3:12 | Unqualified universal (“alle”) must not be softened. |
| endure suffering | kakopatheō (κακοπάθησον) | erdulde Leiden / leide Not | High | NEW | 4:5; 1:8; 2:3 | Directive to actively bear hardship, not passive resignation. |
| poured out as a drink offering | spendomai (σπένδομαι) | ich werde ausgegossen [wie ein Trankopfer] | High | NEW | 4:6 | Keep concrete OT sacrificial-libation image. |
| spirit of fear / power, love, sound mind | pneuma deilias…dynameōs kai agapēs kai sōphronismou | Geist der Furcht…der Kraft, der Liebe und der Besonnenheit | Medium | NEW | 1:7 | Kraft reuses BASELINE “power_of_god” family. |
| the word of God is not bound | ho logos tou theou ou dedetai | das Wort Gottes ist nicht gebunden | High | NEW | 2:9 | Contrast Paul’s chains with the word’s freedom; not the Galatians “Freiheit” doctrine, though thematically resonant. |
| soldier / athlete / farmer | stratiōtēs / athlōn / geōrgos | Soldat, Wettkämpfer, Bauer | Medium | NEW | 2:3-6 | Ordinary vocational metaphors for disciplined perseverance. |
| chained as a criminal | dedemai hōs kakourgos (δέδεμαι ὡς κακοῦργος) | gefesselt wie ein Verbrecher | Medium | NEW | 2:9 | Paul’s actual imprisonment; historical, not metaphorical. |
| the time of my departure | ho kairos tēs analyseōs mou | die Zeit meines Abschieds/Aufbruchs | Medium | NEW | 4:6 | Positive departure/journey image for death. |
| delivered from the lion’s mouth | errysthēn ek stomatos leontos | aus dem Rachen des Löwen gerettet | Medium | NEW | 4:17 | Reuses Rettung [BASELINE] via the verb ῥύομαι. |
3. Guarding Sound Doctrine (GSD)
| English Term | Original (Translit.) | German Rendering | Risk | Status | Primary Passages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sound doctrine | hygiainousa didaskalia (ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία) | gesunde Lehre | High | NEW | 1:13; 4:3 | Medical metaphor renders naturally into German; central diagnostic GSD category. Mandatory cross-occurrence consistency. |
| rightly handling the word of truth | orthotomounta ton logon tēs alētheias | das Wort der Wahrheit recht auslegen | High | NEW | 2:15 | Luther’s traditional phrasing should inform final wording. |
| teaching | didaskalia (διδασκαλία) | Lehre | Medium | NEW | 3:16; 4:3 | — |
| reproof | elegchos / elegchō (ἔλεγχος / ἔλεγξον) | Zurechtweisung / weise zurecht | Medium | NEW | 3:16; 4:2 | Keep noun/verb forms consistent across occurrences. |
| correction | epanorthōsis (ἐπανόρθωσις) | Zurechtbringung / Besserung | Medium | NEW | 3:16 | Restorative, not merely punitive, sense. |
| training/discipline | paideia (παιδεία) | Erziehung | Medium | NEW | 3:16 | Do NOT conflate with paidagōgos/“Zuchtmeister” (Galatians package) despite shared semantic field. |
| like gangrene | hōs gangraina (ὡς γάγγραινα) | wie ein Krebsgeschwür / wie Wundbrand | Medium | NEW | 2:17 | Vivid, concrete medical image; false teaching’s destructive spread. |
| God’s seal | sphragis (σφραγίς) | das Siegel | Medium-High | NEW | 2:19 | Connects to BASELINE Ephesians “sealed_with_the_spirit / versiegelt.” |
| vessels for honor/dishonor | skeuē eis timēn…eis atimian | Gefäße zur Ehre…zur Unehre | Medium | NEW | 2:20-21 | Keep concrete household-object image. |
| repentance to the knowledge of the truth | metanoian eis epignōsin alētheias | Buße zur Erkenntnis der Wahrheit | High | NEW | 2:25 | Reuses Buße [BASELINE, Matthew package]. |
| snare of the devil | tēs tou diabolou pagidos | die Schlinge des Teufels | Medium | NEW | 2:26 | — |
| the good deposit / pattern of sound words | see FTG table below (parathēkē) | — | — | — | 1:13-14 | Cross-listed; see Faithful Transmission of the Gospel. |
4. Faithful Transmission of the Gospel (FTG)
| English Term | Original (Translit.) | German Rendering | Risk | Status | Primary Passages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| the good deposit entrusted | parathēkē / parakatathēkē (παραθήκη / παρακαταθήκη) | das anvertraute Gut | Critical | NEW | 1:12, 14 | THE central FTG image; concrete legal-financial metaphor, parallel to BASELINE Colossians “Schuldschein” in concreteness. Must remain concrete, never abstracted. |
| faithful men | pistoi anthrōpoi (πιστοὶ ἄνθρωποι) | treue Menschen | High | NEW | 2:2 | THE programmatic FTG verse: Paul → Timothy → faithful people → others. |
| remain / continue in what you learned | menō…emathes (μένε…ἔμαθες) | bleiben…gelernt | Low | NEW | 3:14 | — |
| were assured/convinced | pistoō (ἐπιστώθης) | see ISS table | Medium | NEW | 3:14 | Cross-listed. |
| unfeigned faith | anypokritos pistis (ἀνυπόκριτος πίστις) | ungeheuchelter Glaube | Medium | NEW | 1:5 | Shares root with BASELINE “Heuchelei” (Galatians package). |
| from infancy | apo brephous (ἀπὸ βρέφους) | von Kindheit an | Low | NEW | 3:15 | Lifelong, domestic transmission emphasis. |
| the pattern of sound words | hypotypōsis hygiainontōn logōn | see ISS/GSD tables | High | NEW | 1:13 | Cross-listed. |
5. The Charge to Preach the Word (CPW)
| English Term | Original (Translit.) | German Rendering | Risk | Status | Primary Passages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| preach the word | kēryxon ton logon (κήρυξον τὸν λόγον) | Predige das Wort | Critical | NEW | 4:2 | THE core imperative; heraldic, authoritative proclamation, not soft “share.” |
| I solemnly charge | diamartyromai (Διαμαρτύρομαι) | ich beschwöre dich / ich ermahne dich eindringlich | High | NEW | 4:1 | German collision risk: “beschwören” can carry occult/incantation overtones; secure solemn-legal sense via context. |
| in season and out of season | eukairōs akairōs (εὐκαίρως ἀκαίρως) | zu gelegener und ungelegener Zeit | Low-Medium | NEW | 4:2 | Luther’s phrase, now a naturalized German idiom. |
| be ready/urgent | ephistēmi (ἐπίστηθι) | sei bereit / stehe fest dazu | Medium | NEW | 4:2 | — |
| rebuke | epitimaō (ἐπιτίμησον) | tadle / schilt | Medium | NEW | 4:2 | — |
| exhort | parakaleō (παρακάλεσον) | ermahne / ermutige | Medium | BASELINE + context flag | 4:2 | Baseline “exhort”=“ermahnen”; triad context may favor “ermutige” as warmer counterbalance — flagged for deliberate reviewer decision. |
| patience | makrothymia (μακροθυμίᾳ) | Langmut / Geduld | Medium | NEW | 4:2 | — |
| herald, apostle, teacher | kēryx kai apostolos kai didaskalos | Herold, Apostel, Lehrer | High | NEW | 1:11 | Apostel = BASELINE. |
| do the work of an evangelist | ergon poiēson euangelistou | tue das Werk eines Evangelisten | Medium-High | NEW | 4:5 | German collision: “Evangelist” often defaults to Gospel-author association (Matthäus, Markus, Lukas, Johannes); clarify ministry-office sense. |
| fulfill your ministry | tēn diakonian sou plērophorēson | erfülle deinen Dienst ganz | Medium | NEW | 4:5 | — |
6. Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days (AFT)
| English Term | Original (Translit.) | German Rendering | Risk | Status | Primary Passages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| last days | eschatai hēmerai (ἔσχαται ἡμέραι) | letzte Tage | High | NEW | 3:1 | Avoid “Endzeit” — German pop-culture apocalyptic-thriller collision risk. |
| sound doctrine will not be endured | hygiainousēs didaskalias ouk anexontai | gesunde Lehre werden sie nicht mehr ertragen | High | NEW | 4:3 | Cross-listed with GSD. |
| itching ears | knēthomenoi tēn akoēn | denen die Ohren jucken | Low-Medium | NEW | 4:3 | Rare case of exact German idiomatic correspondence. |
| myths | mythos (μῦθος) | Mythen / Fabeln | Medium | NEW | 4:4 | German cultural caution: “Mythos” carries positive literary prestige (Nibelungensage, Wagner); keep pejorative force explicit. |
| will turn away from the truth | apo tēs alētheias tēn akoēn apostrepsousin | werden sich von der Wahrheit abwenden | Medium-High | NEW | 4:4 | — |
| a form of godliness, denying its power | morphōsin eusebeias…tēn dynamin autēs ērnēmenoi | äußere Form der Frömmigkeit…die Kraft davon verleugnend | High | NEW | 3:5 | Deliberately different German root from BASELINE “Gestalt Gottes” (μορφή, Philippians 2:6) to preserve the genuine-substance vs. hollow-appearance contrast. |
| weak/silly women | gynaikaria (γυναικάρια) | leicht zu täuschende Frauen | High | NEW | 3:6 | Mandatory theologian AND native-speaker review; narrow historical target, never generalized to women as a category. |
| deceiving and being deceived | planōntes kai planōmenoi | verführend und selbst verführt | Medium-High | NEW | 3:13 | Reciprocal, cyclical sense. |
| Hymenaeus and Philetus | Hymenaios kai Philētos | Hymenäus und Philetus | Medium | NEW | 2:17-18 | False teaching that the resurrection has already occurred; connects to BASELINE resurrection doctrine by direct contradiction. |
| Jannes and Jambres | Iannēs kai Iambrēs | Jannes und Jambres | Medium | NEW | 3:8 | Extra-biblical Jewish tradition; note transparently in teaching material. |
| Demas…loved this present world | Dēmas…agapēsas ton nyn aiōna | Demas…hat diese Weltzeit lieb gewonnen | Medium-High | NEW | 4:10 | Deliberate antithetical echo of 4:8 (“loved his appearing”); preserve same verb root in both places. |
| vice catalogue (18 items) | philautoi, philargyroi, alazones, etc. | selbstsüchtig, geldgierig, prahlerisch, etc. | Low-Medium (individually); High (blasphēmoi) | NEW | 3:2-5 | βλάσφημοι flagged separately below for German legal-cultural “Blasphemie” collision. |
| blasphemers/slanderers | blasphēmoi (βλάσφημοι) | gotteslästerlich / verleumderisch | Medium-High | NEW | 3:2 | German legal-cultural collision with §166 StGB “Gotteslästerung/Blasphemie”; prefer broader “abusive speech” sense. |
7. Assurance of Reward (AOR)
| English Term | Original (Translit.) | German Rendering | Risk | Status | Primary Passages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I have fought the good fight, finished the race, kept the faith | ton kalon agōna ēgōnismai, ton dromon teteleka, tēn pistin tetērēka | Ich habe einen guten Kampf gekämpft, ich habe den Lauf vollendet, ich habe den Glauben gehalten | Critical | NEW | 4:7 | Fixed Luther-tradition phrasing; extremely high German cultural/liturgical recognition. Never varied once fixed. Reuses Glaube [BASELINE]. |
| the crown of righteousness | ho tēs dikaiosynēs stephanos | die Krone der Gerechtigkeit | Critical | NEW | 4:8 | Reuses BASELINE Gerechtigkeit. στέφανος is technically a victor’s wreath, not a royal diadem; “Krone” retained for established devotional continuity. |
| all who have loved his appearing | pasi tois ēgapēkosi tēn epiphaneian autou | allen, die seine Erscheinung geliebt haben | Critical | NEW | 4:8 | Third occurrence of epiphaneia; unambiguously future/second-coming sense here. |
| the righteous Judge | ho dikaios kritēs | der gerechte Richter | High | NEW | 4:8 | Reuses BASELINE Gerechtigkeit family; ties to 4:1’s judgment theme. |
| about to judge the living and the dead | tou mellontos krinein zōntas kai nekrous | der die Lebenden und die Toten richten wird | High | NEW | 4:1 | Use established German creedal wording (Apostolicum) for consistency. |
| if we are faithless, he remains faithful | ei apistoumen, ekeinos pistos menei | wenn wir untreu sind, bleibt er treu | Critical | NEW | 2:13 | Mandatory theologian review; never taught apart from “he cannot deny himself” — guard against cheap-grace misreading. |
| if we deny him, he will deny us | ei arnēsometha, kakeinos arnēsetai hēmas | wenn wir ihn verleugnen, wird auch er uns verleugnen | High | NEW | 2:12 | Must be held in tension with the following clause; echoes Matthew 10:33. |
| died with him / will live with him | synapethanomen…syzēsomen | mit ihm gestorben…mit ihm leben | High | NEW | 2:11 | Doctrinally continuous with BASELINE “crucified_with_christ” (Galatians 2:19-20), though a different Greek compound verb. |
| the saying is trustworthy | pistos ho logos (πιστὸς ὁ λόγος) | Glaubwürdig ist das Wort / Das Wort ist gewiss | High | NEW | 2:11 | Same formula family as 1 Timothy 1:15 etc. (“Das ist gewisslich wahr”); align phrasing for cross-Pastoral-epistle recognition. |
| will save into his heavenly kingdom | sōsei eis tēn basileian autou tēn epouranion | wird…retten in sein himmlisches Reich | High | NEW | 4:18 | Reuses BASELINE Rettung and Reich Gottes families; future/consummated-kingdom sense. |
| the Lord will repay him | apodōsei autō ho kyrios | der Herr wird ihm vergelten | Medium-High | NEW | 4:14 | Entrusting justice to God, not personal vengeance; echoes Romans 12:19. |
| to whom be glory forever and ever, amen | hō hē doxa eis tous aiōnas tōn aiōnōn, amēn | ihm sei die Herrlichkeit von Ewigkeit zu Ewigkeit, Amen | Low-Medium | NEW | 4:18 | Reuses BASELINE Herrlichkeit; standard doxology. |
8. Additional Load-Bearing Terms (Not Doctrine-Specific Headers, but Recurring across Chapters)
| English Term | Original (Translit.) | German Rendering | Risk | Status | Primary Passages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| appearing | epiphaneia (ἐπιφάνεια) | Erscheinung | Critical | NEW | 1:10; 4:1; 4:8 | Must disambiguate incarnation (1:10, past) from second coming (4:1, 8, future) on every occurrence. Never transliterated as “Epiphanie/Epiphanias” (German liturgical-calendar collision with the Jan. 6 feast). |
| the word | ho logos (ὁ λόγος) | das Wort | High | NEW | 2:9; 4:2 | Definite, given content (gospel/Scripture message); distinguish from the baseline’s Johannine “Wort” (the person of Christ, John 1:1, 14) in exposition. |
| purpose and grace / before the ages | prothesis; pro chronōn aiōniōn | Vorsatz/Ratschluss; vor ewigen Zeiten | High | NEW | 1:9 | Election/providence-adjacent; requires the same mixed Lutheran/Reformed-audience sensitivity as BASELINE “Erwählung.” |
| laying on of hands | epithesis tōn cheirōn | Handauflegung | High | NEW | 1:6 | Catholic sacramental ordination theology vs. Protestant/Free church non-sacramental practice; genuine denominational fault line. |
| testimony | martyrion (μαρτύριον) | Zeugnis | High | NEW | 1:8 | German false-friend caution: keep distinct from “Martyrium” (martyrdom). |
| the man of God | ho tou theou anthrōpos | der Mensch Gottes | Medium | NEW | 3:17 | Gender-accurate rendering following Luther 2017 revision practice; ἄνθρωπος is generic-human, not male-specific, in the Greek. |
| pure conscience | kathara syneidēsis | reines Gewissen | Medium-High | NEW | 1:3 | Significant weight in German Reformation-historical memory (Gewissensfreiheit). |
| grace, mercy, and peace | charis, eleos, eirēnē | Gnade, Erbarmen und Friede | High | Gnade + Friede = BASELINE; Erbarmen = NEW | 1:2 | Do not collapse mercy (Erbarmen) into grace (Gnade) — distinct terms in Paul’s own greeting. |
| abolished death; life and immortality | katargēsantos ton thanaton; zōēn kai aphtharsian | der dem Tod die Macht genommen hat; Leben und Unsterblichkeit | High | NEW | 1:10 | ”Abolished” = death’s condemning power broken, not empirical cessation of death. |
9. Terms Reused Verbatim from Baseline Romans Translation Memory
The following terms occur in 2 Timothy and MUST use the exact German rendering already fixed in the baseline translation_memory.json. No new entry is created; this table is a cross-reference only.
| English Term | German Rendering (from baseline) | Risk (baseline) | 2 Timothy Occurrences |
|---|---|---|---|
| gospel | Evangelium | Low | 1:8, 10; 2:8 |
| grace | Gnade | High | 1:2, 9; 2:1; 4:22 |
| faith | Glaube | Medium | 1:5, 13; 2:18, 22; 3:8, 10, 15; 4:7 |
| righteousness | Gerechtigkeit | Critical | 2:22; 3:16; 4:8 |
| salvation | Rettung | High | 2:10; 3:15; 4:18 |
| apostle | Apostel | Medium | 1:1, 11 |
| called | berufen | High | 1:9 |
| calling | Berufung | High | 1:9 |
| holy | heilig | High | 1:9; 3:15 |
| sanctification | Heiligung | High | — (implied, not lexically present) |
| adoption / sonship-family idiom | Kindschaft-family concepts | — | not directly lexicalized in 2 Timothy |
| resurrection | Auferstehung | Critical | 2:8, 18 |
| lord | Herr | Critical | 1:2, 8, 16, 18; 2:7, 19, 22, 24; 4:8, 14, 17, 18, 22 |
| son of God | Sohn Gottes | Critical | (implicit via Christology; not the exact phrase in 2 Timothy) |
| incarnation | Menschwerdung | Medium | (background to 1:10’s epiphaneia) |
| peace | Friede | Low | 1:2 |
| thanksgiving | Danksagung | Low | 1:3 |
| church | Gemeinde | High | (implicit; not the exact term in 2 Timothy) |
| kingdom of God / Reich Gottes family | Reich Gottes | Medium | 4:1, 18 |
| law | Gesetz | High | 2:5 (athletic “rules,” related sense, not Mosaic Law directly — flag for context) |
| sin | Sünde | Medium | 3:6 |
| glory | Herrlichkeit | Medium | 2:10; 4:18 |
| power of God | Kraft Gottes | Medium | 1:7, 8; 3:5 |
| prophecy | Weissagung | Low | (background to 3:16’s inspiration doctrine) |
| election | Erwählung | High | 2:10 |
| david / seed of David | David / Nachkomme Davids | Low / Medium | 2:8 |
| jesus | Jesus | Low | throughout |
| god | Gott | Critical | throughout |
| holy spirit | Heiliger Geist | Critical | 1:14 |
| father | Vater | Medium | 1:2 |
| exhort | ermahnen | Low | 4:2 (context-flagged; see CPW table) |
| flesh | Fleisch | Critical | (not directly lexicalized) |
| crucified with christ | mit Christus gekreuzigt | Critical | (doctrinal parallel at 2:11, distinct verb — see AOR table) |
| good works | gute Werke | Critical | 2:21; 3:17 |
| sealed with the spirit | versiegelt | High | (doctrinal parallel at 2:19’s “seal” — see GSD table) |
| repentance | Buße | High | 2:25 |
Cross-Reference Note
This glossary must be read alongside 07_semantic_analysis.md for full context, doctrinal notes, and the reasoning behind each risk assignment. All [NEW] entries above are proposed for formal addition to translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json in the subsequent Phase 1 step that produces those consolidated registry files for the 2 Timothy curriculum.
Critical Risk Terms
Crown Of Righteousness
Approved rendering: die Krone der Gerechtigkeit
Transliteration: die Krone der Gerechtigkeit
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: ὁ τῆς δικαιοσύνης στέφανος
Category: Reward
2 Timothy 4:8, ὁ τῆς δικαιοσύνης στέφανος. Reuses baseline Critical ‘Gerechtigkeit’ in its eschatological-reward sense, distinct from Romans’ forensic-justification sense — mandatory disambiguation. στέφανος is technically a victor’s wreath, not a royal diadem; ‘Krone’ retained for established devotional continuity, following the same precedent as ‘Nachkomme Davids.‘
Crucified With Christ
Approved rendering: mit Christus gekreuzigt
Transliteration: mit Christus gekreuzigt
Doctrine: Crucified with Christ
Inherited from Galatians package, unchanged. Doctrinally continuous with 2 Timothy 2:8, 11’s union-with-Christ language (a different Greek compound verb, συναπεθάνομεν/συζήσομεν) — see new term ‘died_with_him_live_with_him’; theologian review must confirm consistent doctrinal framing between the two passages.
Fought Good Fight
Approved rendering: Ich habe einen guten Kampf gekämpft, ich habe den Lauf vollendet, ich habe den Glauben gehalten
Transliteration: Ich habe einen guten Kampf gekämpft, ich habe den Lauf vollendet, ich habe den Glauben gehalten
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: τὸν καλὸν ἀγῶνα ἠγώνισμαι, τὸν δρόμον τετέλεκα, τὴν πίστιν τετήρηκα
Category: Reward
2 Timothy 4:7. THE central anchor verse of AOR; fixed Luther-tradition phrasing with extremely high recognition in German devotional/funeral usage (comparable to Philippians 1:21). Must NEVER be varied once fixed for this curriculum. Reuses baseline ‘Glaube.’ Mandatory theologian review.
God Breathed
Approved rendering: von Gott eingegeben
Transliteration: von Gott eingegeben
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: von Gott eingehaucht (more literal breath-metaphor, Elberfelder tradition)
Original: θεόπνευστος
Category: Scripture
THE doctrinal anchor term of this letter and this curriculum’s core passage. Luther’s established rendering retained for continuity with existing German liturgical/devotional memory. Must never be softened to imply merely human religious insight; directly confronts the German historisch-kritische Methode’s tendency to treat Scripture as a purely human-historical document. 2 Timothy 3:16, the only NT occurrence of θεόπνευστος. Mandatory theologian review, every occurrence.
God
Approved rendering: Gott
Transliteration: Gott
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Invoked throughout 2 Timothy, including as witness to the solemn charge of 4:1.
Good Deposit
Approved rendering: das anvertraute Gut
Transliteration: das anvertraute Gut
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Rejected alternatives: das, was wichtig ist (forbidden — erases the concrete legal-commercial force)
Original: παραθήκη / παρακαταθήκη
Category: Transmission
THE central image of Faithful Transmission of the Gospel. παραθήκη/παρακαταθήκη, occurring at 1:12 (God guards Paul’s deposit) and 1:14 (Timothy must guard the deposit). A concrete legal-financial trust-deposit metaphor with no pre-existing German idiom; constructed technical phrase held fixed at every occurrence, structurally parallel in concreteness to the baseline Colossians ‘Schuldschein.’ Mandatory theologian review.
Good Works
Approved rendering: gute Werke
Transliteration: gute Werke
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace Through Faith
Original: ἔργον ἀγαθόν / ἔργα ἀγαθά
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans/Ephesians package, unchanged. Occurs 2:21 and 3:17 (Scripture equips the man/person of God ‘for every good work’); 3:17 is structurally identical in logic to Ephesians 2:10 — apply the identical ‘fruit not ground’ guardrail against Werkgerechtigkeit.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Heiliger Geist
Transliteration: Heiliger Geist
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1:14 (‘through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us’) as the guardian of the entrusted deposit.
If Faithless He Remains Faithful
Approved rendering: wenn wir untreu sind, bleibt er treu
Transliteration: wenn wir untreu sind, bleibt er treu
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: εἰ ἀπιστοῦμεν, ἐκεῖνος πιστὸς μένει
Category: Reward
2 Timothy 2:13, εἰ ἀπιστοῦμεν, ἐκεῖνος πιστὸς μένει. Mandatory theologian review: must NEVER be taught apart from the immediately following ‘er kann sich selbst nicht verleugnen,’ paralleling the baseline’s mandatory pairing of Philippians 2:12 with 2:13 — isolated, this risks a cheap-grace misreading; paired properly, it grounds Heilsgewissheit (a historically significant Lutheran pastoral category).
Lord
Approved rendering: Herr
Transliteration: Herr
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Meister, Chef
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Very high frequency throughout 2 Timothy (1:2, 8, 16, 18; 2:7, 19, 22, 24; 4:8, 14, 17, 18, 22); the baseline’s caution about ‘Herr’ doubling as the everyday German title ‘Mr.’ remains fully live at each occurrence.
Loved His Appearing
Approved rendering: allen, die seine Erscheinung [Wiederkunft] geliebt haben
Transliteration: allen, die seine Erscheinung [Wiederkunft] geliebt haben
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: πᾶσι τοῖς ἠγαπηκόσι τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν αὐτοῦ
Category: Reward
2 Timothy 4:8, πᾶσι τοῖς ἠγαπηκόσι τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν αὐτοῦ. Third of three ἐπιφάνεια occurrences; unambiguously the future/second-coming sense here. Must be glossed as ‘Erscheinung [Wiederkunft]’ to distinguish from the incarnation sense at 1:10.
Persecution Promise
Approved rendering: alle, die in Christus Jesus fromm leben wollen, werden verfolgt werden
Transliteration: alle, die in Christus Jesus fromm leben wollen, werden verfolgt werden
Doctrine: Universal Persecution of the Godly
Rejected alternatives: manche werden verfolgt / einige werden verfolgt (forbidden — softens the unqualified universal quantifier)
Original: πάντες οἱ θέλοντες εὐσεβῶς ζῆν ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ διωχθήσονται
Category: Suffering
2 Timothy 3:12, πάντες οἱ θέλοντες εὐσεβῶς ζῆν ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ διωχθήσονται. THE central anchor verse for Perseverance under Suffering. The unqualified ‘alle’ must not be softened, per the baseline’s discipline on Romans 3:23 and 10:12-13.
Preach The Word
Approved rendering: Predige das Wort
Transliteration: Predige das Wort
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Rejected alternatives: erzähle das Wort / teile das Wort mit (forbidden — erases the heraldic authority)
Original: κήρυξον τὸν λόγον
Category: Ministry
THE core imperative of CPW. 2 Timothy 4:2, κήρυξον τὸν λόγον. Must retain the heraldic, authoritative-announcement sense established for the baseline’s caution on ‘Evangelium’; must not soften into conversational register. Mandatory theologian review, every occurrence.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: Auferstehung
Transliteration: Auferstehung
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Original: ἀνάστασις
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 2:8 (Christ’s resurrection, affirmed) and 2:18 (Hymenaeus and Philetus’s false claim it has already occurred, denied) — a direct, named case study of this doctrine’s corruption.
Righteousness
Approved rendering: Gerechtigkeit
Transliteration: Gerechtigkeit
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: Tugend
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. In 2 Timothy this single German word must serve THREE distinct senses across 2:22 (ethical), 3:16 (ethical/formational), and 4:8 (eschatological reward, ‘Krone der Gerechtigkeit’), all distinct from the forensic-justification sense anchored in Romans 1:17/4:3-5. Mandatory per-occurrence disambiguation in exposition; never let one sense silently bleed into another.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: Sohn Gottes
Transliteration: Sohn Gottes
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. The exact phrase does not occur in 2 Timothy, but the doctrine is the implicit Christological background to the letter’s Christ-hymn material (2:8, 11-13) and must remain consistent if referenced in exposition.
The Appearing Of Christ
Approved rendering: Erscheinung
Transliteration: Erscheinung
Doctrine: The Appearing of Christ: Incarnation and Return
Rejected alternatives: Epiphanie / Epiphanias (forbidden — collides with the fixed German liturgical-calendar feast of January 6, Dreikönigsfest, misdirecting readers toward a calendar association absent from Paul’s usage)
Original: ἐπιφάνεια
Category: Christology
ἐπιφάνεια occurs 1:10 (past incarnation), 4:1 and 4:8 (future second coming) — one Greek word, two entirely different referents within the same letter, with no built-in German disambiguator. MANDATORY bracketed gloss at every single occurrence without exception: ‘Erscheinung [erste Erscheinung]’ (1:10) vs. ‘Erscheinung [Wiederkunft]’ (4:1, 8). Ranked as this letter’s single highest-risk structural ambiguity. Mandatory theologian review.
High Risk Terms
Abolished Death Life Immortality
Approved rendering: der dem Tod die Macht genommen hat; Leben und Unsterblichkeit
Transliteration: der dem Tod die Macht genommen hat; Leben und Unsterblichkeit
Doctrine: Christ’s Abolition of Death and Gift of Immortality
Rejected alternatives: vernichtet (forbidden alone — risks implying death no longer empirically occurs)
Original: καταργήσαντος τὸν θάνατον…ζωὴν καὶ ἀφθαρσίαν
Category: Christology
2 Timothy 1:10, καταργήσαντος τὸν θάνατον…ζωὴν καὶ ἀφθαρσίαν. ‘Abolished’ = death’s condemning power broken, not empirical cessation — pastorally sensitive for German funeral/grief contexts. ἀφθαρσία more precisely denotes incorruptibility than mere unending existence; ‘Unverweslichkeit’ flagged as a more technically precise alternative for theologian consideration.
All Scripture
Approved rendering: die ganze Schrift
Transliteration: die ganze Schrift
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: alle Schrift (viable secondary option)
Original: πᾶσα γραφή
Category: Scripture
2 Timothy 3:16. Unqualified universal quantifier must be preserved — render as an unrestricted assertion about the whole of Scripture, never phrasing that could be parsed as limiting scope to only the parts already recognized as God-breathed (a live philological ambiguity the Einheitsübersetzung’s ‘Jede von Gott eingegebene Schrift’ leans toward more than Luther’s phrasing).
Blasphemers Slanderers
Approved rendering: gotteslästerlich
Transliteration: gotteslästerlich
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Rejected alternatives: Blasphemie / blasphemisch (forbidden — triggers the narrow German criminal-law category ‘Gotteslästerung/Blasphemie,’ §166 StGB, narrower than Paul’s broader NT sense)
Original: βλάσφημοι
Category: Apostasy
2 Timothy 3:2, βλάσφημοι. Prefer the broader ‘abusive/slanderous speech’ sense; avoid the direct legal-cognate rendering.
Called
Approved rendering: berufen
Transliteration: berufen
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλητός / καλέω
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged (risk raised to High in this book’s registry given proximity to election language). Occurs 1:9 (‘saved and called with a holy calling’), combined explicitly with ‘not according to our works’ — reinforces the Werkgerechtigkeit guardrail.
Calling
Approved rendering: Berufung
Transliteration: Berufung
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1:9 as ‘a holy calling.’ The baseline’s existing caution about ‘Berufung’s’ collision with the everyday career-vocation and legal-appeal senses remains fully live.
Church
Approved rendering: Gemeinde
Transliteration: Gemeinde
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: Kirche (institution-default)
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Not lexicalized as an exact term in 2 Timothy but implicit throughout the ministry-transmission material (2:2, 2:20-21’s household imagery).
Demas Loved Present World
Approved rendering: Demas…hat diese Weltzeit lieb gewonnen
Transliteration: Demas…hat diese Weltzeit lieb gewonnen
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Original: Δημᾶς…ἀγαπήσας τὸν νῦν αἰῶνα
Category: Apostasy
2 Timothy 4:10. Deliberate antithetical echo of 4:8’s ‘loved his appearing’ — must use the same German verb root (lieben/lieb gewinnen) in both places so readers perceive Paul’s intentional contrast between the two objects of love.
Died With Him Live With Him
Approved rendering: mit ihm gestorben…mit ihm leben
Transliteration: mit ihm gestorben…mit ihm leben
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: συναπεθάνομεν…συζήσομεν
Category: Reward
2 Timothy 2:8, 11, συναπεθάνομεν…συζήσομεν. Doctrinally continuous with the baseline’s ‘mit Christus gekreuzigt’ (Galatians 2:19-20), though a different Greek compound verb; theologian review must confirm consistent doctrinal framing between the two passages.
Drink Offering
Approved rendering: ich werde ausgegossen wie ein Trankopfer
Transliteration: ich werde ausgegossen wie ein Trankopfer
Doctrine: Paul’s Approaching Death as a Drink Offering
Rejected alternatives: mein Leben geht zu Ende (forbidden — flattens the deliberate sacrificial-worship framing)
Original: σπένδομαι
Category: Suffering
2 Timothy 4:6, σπένδομαι. Keep the concrete OT sacrificial-libation image explicit; ‘Trankopfer’ is a genuine missing-cultural-vocabulary gap (no living German libation practice) — supply OT background (Numbers 28) in teaching material, not the translated text itself.
Election
Approved rendering: Erwählung
Transliteration: Erwählung
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Original: ἐκλεκτοί
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 2:10 (‘for the sake of the elect’); requires the same mixed Lutheran/Reformed audience sensitivity already documented in the baseline.
Endure Suffering Kakopatheo
Approved rendering: erdulde Leiden
Transliteration: erdulde Leiden
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Rejected alternatives: haben es schwer (forbidden — too generic, loses the active-directive force)
Original: κακοπάθησον
Category: Suffering
2 Timothy 4:5 (cf. 1:8; 2:3), κακοπάθησον. Directive to actively bear hardship for the gospel’s sake, not a description of unavoidable circumstance. Require the phrase always appear with its object (‘für das Evangelium,’ ‘um Christi willen’) so gospel-suffering is distinguished from generic ‘Leiden.‘
Faithful Men Transmission Chain
Approved rendering: treue Menschen
Transliteration: treue Menschen
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Original: πιστοὶ ἄνθρωποι
Category: Transmission
2 Timothy 2:2, πιστοὶ ἄνθρωποι. THE programmatic verse for FTG: Paul → Timothy → treue Menschen → others. German teaching material must make the four-generation chain-structure explicit, since the phrase alone does not automatically convey the chain-transmission logic. ἄνθρωποι is gender-generic; do not imply a male-only chain.
Form Of Godliness Denying Power
Approved rendering: äußere Form der Frömmigkeit…die Kraft davon verleugnend
Transliteration: äußere Form der Frömmigkeit…die Kraft davon verleugnend
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Rejected alternatives: Gestalt der Frömmigkeit (forbidden — collides with the baseline’s ‘Gestalt Gottes,’ Philippians 2:6, genuine divine substance)
Original: μόρφωσιν εὐσεβείας…τὴν δύναμιν αὐτῆς ἠρνημένοι
Category: Apostasy
2 Timothy 3:5, μόρφωσιν εὐσεβείας…τὴν δύναμιν αὐτῆς ἠρνημένοι. Deliberately different German root (‘Form/Schein’) than the baseline’s ‘Gestalt Gottes’ to preserve the crucial contrast between real divine substance and hollow external religiosity. Both Luther 2017 and Einheitsübersetzung independently favor ‘Schein’ — follow this convergence.
Grace Mercy Peace
Approved rendering: Gnade, Erbarmen und Friede
Transliteration: Gnade, Erbarmen und Friede
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: collapsing Erbarmen into Gnade (forbidden — erases Paul’s deliberate three-part greeting)
Original: χάρις, ἔλεος, εἰρήνη
Category: God
2 Timothy 1:2, χάρις, ἔλεος, εἰρήνη. Paul’s expanded, Pastoral-epistle-specific salutation triad. ἔλεος (mercy) is a genuinely distinct term from χάρις (grace) and must be rendered ‘Erbarmen,’ never collapsed into ‘Gnade.’ Reuses baseline ‘Gnade’ and ‘Friede’ exactly.
Grace
Approved rendering: Gnade
Transliteration: Gnade
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: Barmherzigkeit, Wohlwollen
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 2 Timothy 1:2, 9; 2:1; 4:22. At 1:9 paired explicitly with God’s ‘purpose… before the ages’ — reinforce that grace is never a reward for merit, especially given the election-adjacent language in the same verse.
Herald Apostle Teacher
Approved rendering: Herold, Apostel, Lehrer
Transliteration: Herold, Apostel, Lehrer
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: κῆρυξ καὶ ἀπόστολος καὶ διδάσκαλος
Category: Ministry
2 Timothy 1:11, κῆρυξ καὶ ἀπόστολος καὶ διδάσκαλος. Reuses the κῆρυξ root central to CPW (κήρυξον, 4:2); render ‘Herold’ consistently with that later imperative so German readers perceive Paul modeling in 1:11 the very charge he gives Timothy in 4:2. ‘Apostel’ reuses the baseline exactly.
Holy
Approved rendering: heilig
Transliteration: heilig
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: rein
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1:9 (‘holy calling’) and 3:15 (‘sacred/holy writings’).
If We Deny Him
Approved rendering: wenn wir ihn verleugnen, wird auch er uns verleugnen
Transliteration: wenn wir ihn verleugnen, wird auch er uns verleugnen
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: εἰ ἀρνησόμεθα, κἀκεῖνος ἀρνήσεται ἡμᾶς
Category: Reward
2 Timothy 2:12, echoing Matthew 10:33. A sober warning within the creedal hymn; must be held in tension with the following clause so as to avoid either presumption or despair.
Judge Living And Dead
Approved rendering: der die Lebenden und die Toten richten wird
Transliteration: der die Lebenden und die Toten richten wird
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: τοῦ μέλλοντος κρίνειν ζῶντας καὶ νεκρούς
Category: Reward
2 Timothy 4:1, τοῦ μέλλοντος κρίνειν ζῶντας καὶ νεκρούς. This phrase also occurs in the historic ecumenical creeds (Apostolicum: ‘zu richten die Lebenden und die Toten’); use the established German creedal wording for cross-liturgical consistency rather than an ad hoc translation.
Last Days
Approved rendering: letzte Tage
Transliteration: letzte Tage
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Rejected alternatives: Endzeit (forbidden — pop-apocalyptic-thriller/doomsday-prepper baggage in contemporary German media; also the load-bearing Jehovah’s Witness/Zeugen Jehovas technical term tied to their 1914 chronology)
Original: ἔσχαται ἡμέραι
Category: Apostasy
2 Timothy 3:1, ἐσχάταις ἡμέραις. All major German Bible versions converge on ‘letzte Tage,’ never ‘Endzeit.’ Signals a predicted, ongoing pattern of decline across the church age, not a single fixed future event only.
Law
Approved rendering: Gesetz
Transliteration: Gesetz
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Original: νόμος
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. CONTEXT FLAG: 2 Timothy 2:5 uses the cognate athletic sense (‘rules of competition’), not the Mosaic Law directly — must not import the Romans/Galatians law/grace argument into this unrelated athletic metaphor.
Laying On Of Hands
Approved rendering: Handauflegung
Transliteration: Handauflegung
Doctrine: Laying On of Hands and the Ministry Gift
Original: ἐπίθεσις τῶν χειρῶν
Category: Church
2 Timothy 1:6, ἐπίθεσις τῶν χειρῶν. Catholic sacramental theology (Holy Orders, conferring sacramental grace) vs. Protestant/Free church non-sacramental ordination practice is a genuine German denominational fault line, structurally parallel to the baseline’s caution on ‘die Heiligen.’ Mandatory theologian review; avoid language implying a fixed, adjudicated sacramental theology in either direction.
Lord Will Repay
Approved rendering: der Herr wird ihm vergelten
Transliteration: der Herr wird ihm vergelten
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: ἀποδώσει αὐτῷ ὁ κύριος
Category: Reward
2 Timothy 4:14, ἀποδώσει αὐτῷ ὁ κύριος. Regarding Alexander the coppersmith; exposition should clarify this models entrusting judgment to God, not personal vengeance, echoing Romans 12:19.
Pattern Of Sound Words
Approved rendering: das Vorbild der gesunden Worte
Transliteration: das Vorbild der gesunden Worte
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: ὑποτύπωσις ὑγιαινόντων λόγων
Category: Scripture
2 Timothy 1:13. Shares the ‘gesund’ root with the letter’s central GSD term (‘gesunde Lehre,’ 1:13/4:3); mandatory consistency across all occurrences. Luther’s traditional phrasing should inform final wording.
Pure Conscience
Approved rendering: reines Gewissen
Transliteration: reines Gewissen
Doctrine: Faithful Heritage of Faith
Original: καθαρὰ συνείδησις
Category: Church
2 Timothy 1:3, καθαρὰ συνείδησις. ‘Gewissen’ carries significant weight in German Reformation-historical memory (Gewissensfreiheit, rooted in Luther’s own appeals before the Diet of Worms); must not be flattened to a merely psychological ‘gutes Gefühl.‘
Purpose And Grace Before The Ages
Approved rendering: Vorsatz und Gnade; vor ewigen Zeiten
Transliteration: Vorsatz und Gnade; vor ewigen Zeiten
Doctrine: Divine Purpose and Grace Before the Ages
Original: πρόθεσιν καὶ χάριν…πρὸ χρόνων αἰωνίων
Category: God
2 Timothy 1:9, πρόθεσιν καὶ χάριν…πρὸ χρόνων αἰωνίων. Echoes Romans 8-9’s election/providence vocabulary; requires the same mixed Lutheran/Reformed audience sensitivity as the baseline’s ‘Erwählung’ entry. Reuses baseline ‘Gnade’ exactly for χάρις.
Repentance
Approved rendering: Buße
Transliteration: Buße
Doctrine: Repentance
Original: μετάνοια
Category: Christian Life
Inherited from Matthew package, unchanged. Occurs 2:25 regarding opponents who may yet be won through patient correction; the Reformation confessional-history caution (sacramental vs. purely internal sense) applies unchanged.
Righteous Judge
Approved rendering: der gerechte Richter
Transliteration: der gerechte Richter
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: ὁ δίκαιος κριτής
Category: Reward
2 Timothy 4:8, ὁ δίκαιος κριτής. Reuses the δικαιοσύνη/δίκαιος word-family; must not be softened into a merely evaluative sense that loses the forensic, courtroom force of κριτής. Ties to 4:1’s judgment theme.
Rightly Handling The Word
Approved rendering: das Wort der Wahrheit recht auslegen
Transliteration: das Wort der Wahrheit recht auslegen
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: ὀρθοτομοῦντα τὸν λόγον τῆς ἀληθείας
Category: Doctrine
2 Timothy 2:15, ὀρθοτομοῦντα τὸν λόγον τῆς ἀληθείας. The minister’s task is accurate transmission, not creative reinterpretation — directly relevant to Germany’s own historisch-kritische exegetical tradition. The qualifier ‘recht’ must never be dropped; bare ‘auslegen’ alone carries no accuracy-versus-distortion contrast.
Salvation
Approved rendering: Rettung
Transliteration: Rettung
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: Heil (Nazi-era contamination risk), Erlösung (more existential/liberation-flavored)
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 2:10; 3:15; 4:18. 3:15 ties this term directly to Scripture’s own stated purpose (‘able to make wise for salvation’); the existing ‘Heil’-avoidance caution applies without change.
Save Into Heavenly Kingdom
Approved rendering: wird…retten in sein himmlisches Reich
Transliteration: wird…retten in sein himmlisches Reich
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: σώσει εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν αὐτοῦ τὴν ἐπουράνιον
Category: Reward
2 Timothy 4:18, σώσει εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν αὐτοῦ τὴν ἐπουράνιον. Reuses baseline ‘Rettung’ and ‘Reich Gottes’; clarify this is the future, consummated-kingdom sense, distinct from but not contradicting Romans’ present-kingdom-advance emphasis.
Sealed With The Spirit
Approved rendering: versiegelt
Transliteration: versiegelt
Doctrine: Sealing of the Holy Spirit
Inherited from Ephesians package, unchanged. Doctrinal parallel (not identical referent) to 2 Timothy 2:19’s ‘das Siegel’ (God’s foundational ownership securing believers amid apostasy); connect explicitly in teaching material while keeping the two applications distinguishable — see new term ‘gods_seal’.
Solemnly Charge
Approved rendering: ich ermahne dich eindringlich
Transliteration: ich ermahne dich eindringlich
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Rejected alternatives: ich beschwöre dich (forbidden — collides with the occult/incantation sense of ‘beschwören’ in ordinary modern German, e.g. ‘einen Geist beschwören’)
Original: διαμαρτύρομαι
Category: Ministry
2 Timothy 4:1, διαμαρτύρομαι. Secure the legal-solemn sense via the explicit context of God and Christ Jesus named as witnesses in the same verse. Mandatory theologian review.
Sound Doctrine
Approved rendering: gesunde Lehre
Transliteration: gesunde Lehre
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία
Category: Doctrine
2 Timothy 1:13; 4:3. THE letter’s central diagnostic category. The German ‘gesund’ preserves the medical metaphor with no linguistic collision risk. Mandatory identical rendering at every occurrence (1:13, 4:3), plus its disease-image counterpart at 2:17 (‘wie Wundbrand’), so German readers perceive the recurring body-health logic.
Testimony
Approved rendering: Zeugnis
Transliteration: Zeugnis
Doctrine: Testimony and Suffering for the Gospel
Rejected alternatives: Martyrium (forbidden — false-friend collision with ‘martyrdom/dying for the faith,’ a stronger claim than the text specifies at 1:8)
Original: μαρτύριον
Category: Church
2 Timothy 1:8, μαρτύριον. Keep strictly distinct from ‘Martyrium,’ though thematically adjacent given the letter’s suffering theme.
The Word Proclaimed
Approved rendering: das Wort
Transliteration: das Wort
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: ὁ λόγος
Category: Church
2 Timothy 2:9; 4:2, ὁ λόγος. The definite article matters: THE word (of God/the gospel), not ‘a word’ of general encouragement. Distinguish in exposition from the baseline’s Johannine ‘Wort’ (the person of Christ, John 1:1, 14) — a related but distinct referent.
Trustworthy Saying
Approved rendering: Glaubwürdig ist das Wort
Transliteration: Glaubwürdig ist das Wort
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: πιστὸς ὁ λόγος
Category: Reward
2 Timothy 2:11, πιστὸς ὁ λόγος. A fixed formula recurring across the Pastoral Epistles (cf. 1 Timothy 1:15’s ‘Das ist gewisslich wahr’); render recognizably in the same family so German readers of the wider Pastoral-epistle corpus perceive the recurring pattern.
Weak Women
Approved rendering: leicht zu täuschende Frauen
Transliteration: leicht zu täuschende Frauen
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Rejected alternatives: Weiblein (forbidden — diminutive calque imports gratuitous additional pejorative force)
Original: γυναικάρια
Category: Apostasy
2 Timothy 3:6, γυναικάρια. Narrow, specific historical target (a group deceived by specific false teachers), never generalized to women as a category. Mandatory theologian AND native-speaker review, comparable to the baseline’s Ephesians household-code caution.
Word Of God Not Bound
Approved rendering: das Wort Gottes ist nicht gebunden
Transliteration: das Wort Gottes ist nicht gebunden
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ οὐ δέδεται
Category: Suffering
2 Timothy 2:9, ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ οὐ δέδεται. Contrast between Paul’s literal imprisonment and the gospel’s unstoppable spread. Touches the baseline’s Galatians ‘Freiheit’ family only by analogy — the freedom here belongs to the word, not to the believer’s legal standing; must not be conflated with the Galatians Freedom in Christ doctrine.
Work Of An Evangelist
Approved rendering: tue das Werk eines Evangelisten
Transliteration: tue das Werk eines Evangelisten
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: ἔργον ποίησον εὐαγγελιστοῦ
Category: Ministry
2 Timothy 4:5, ἔργον ποίησον εὐαγγελιστοῦ. GERMAN COLLISION: contemporary usage of ‘Evangelist’ defaults strongly to the four Gospel authors (‘die vier Evangelisten’), reinforced by church art and RE curricula. This is the only available cognate; mandatory explanatory gloss on every occurrence distinguishing the ministry office (also named Ephesians 4:11) from the Gospel-writer sense.
Medium Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: Apostel
Transliteration: Apostel
Doctrine: Apostleship
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1:1, 11, grounding the entire letter’s charge to Timothy.
Be Ready Urgent
Approved rendering: sei bereit
Transliteration: sei bereit
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: ἐπίστηθι
Category: Ministry
2 Timothy 4:2, ἐπίστηθι. Continual, unwavering readiness to proclaim regardless of circumstance.
Complete Proficient
Approved rendering: völlig tauglich
Transliteration: völlig tauglich
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: vollkommen (alone; risks importing a sinlessness/moral-perfection claim)
Original: ἄρτιος
Category: Scripture
2 Timothy 3:17, ἄρτιος, only NT occurrence. Must convey doctrinal sufficiency (nothing further required) rather than generic moral perfection.
Correction
Approved rendering: Zurechtbringung
Transliteration: Zurechtbringung
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Rejected alternatives: Besserung (Luther’s traditional word; also viable)
Original: ἐπανόρθωσις
Category: Doctrine
2 Timothy 3:16, ἐπανόρθωσις, only NT occurrence. Ensure the restorative, not merely punitive, sense is clear in exposition.
Deceiving And Being Deceived
Approved rendering: verführend und selbst verführt
Transliteration: verführend und selbst verführt
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Original: πλανῶντες καὶ πλανώμενοι
Category: Apostasy
2 Timothy 3:13, πλανῶντες καὶ πλανώμενοι. Preserve the reciprocal, cyclical sense — deceivers are themselves caught in the same delusion they spread.
Delivered From Lions Mouth
Approved rendering: aus dem Rachen des Löwen gerettet
Transliteration: aus dem Rachen des Löwen gerettet
Doctrine: The Lord’s Present and Final Deliverance
Rejected alternatives: aus großer Gefahr gerettet (forbidden as a replacement — loses the deliberate OT echo)
Original: ἐρρύσθην ἐκ στόματος λέοντος
Category: Suffering
2 Timothy 4:17, ἐρρύσθην ἐκ στόματος λέοντος. Vivid, OT-echoing rescue idiom (cf. Daniel 6; Psalm 22:21); reuses baseline ‘Rettung’ family via the underlying verb ῥύομαι.
Equipped
Approved rendering: ausgerüstet
Transliteration: ausgerüstet
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Original: ἐξηρτισμένος
Category: Scripture
2 Timothy 3:17, ἐξηρτισμένος, perfect passive participle. Preserve the passive, received sense (echoing 3:14’s ἐπιστώθης) and the perfect tense’s abiding-result force — given, not self-achieved.
Faith
Approved rendering: Glaube
Transliteration: Glaube
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: Weltanschauung
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1:5, 13; 2:18, 22; 3:8, 10, 15; 4:7. Uniquely emphasized in 2 Timothy as a multi-generational inheritance (1:5) and as something to be ‘kept’ to the end (4:7).
Father
Approved rendering: Vater
Transliteration: Vater
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1:2 in the letter’s salutation.
Fulfill Ministry
Approved rendering: erfülle deinen Dienst ganz
Transliteration: erfülle deinen Dienst ganz
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: τὴν διακονίαν σου πληροφόρησον
Category: Ministry
2 Timothy 4:5, τὴν διακονίαν σου πληροφόρησον. Distinguish ‘Dienst’ (general Christian service, the sense here) from the later formal office title ‘Diakon’ (deacon), though etymologically related.
Gangrene False Teaching
Approved rendering: wie Wundbrand
Transliteration: wie Wundbrand
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Rejected alternatives: wie Gangrän (more clinical, less accessible)
Original: ὡς γάγγραινα
Category: Doctrine
2 Timothy 2:17, ὡς γάγγραινα. Keep the vivid medical image concrete, consistent with the letter’s other health/disease vocabulary (1:13, 4:3’s ‘gesunde Lehre’).
Glory
Approved rendering: Herrlichkeit
Transliteration: Herrlichkeit
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 2:10 and in the closing doxology of 4:18.
Gods Seal
Approved rendering: das Siegel
Transliteration: das Siegel
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: σφραγίς
Category: Doctrine
2 Timothy 2:19, σφραγίς. Connects directly to the baseline Ephesians ‘versiegelt’ (sealed_with_the_spirit) ownership/authentication metaphor; name this connection explicitly in teaching material while distinguishing the two applications (foundational ownership-security here vs. Spirit-sealing at conversion there).
Hymenaeus And Philetus
Approved rendering: Hymenäus und Philetus
Transliteration: Hymenäus und Philetus
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Original: Ὑμέναιος καὶ Φίλητος
Category: Apostasy
2 Timothy 2:17-18. Named false teachers claiming the resurrection had already occurred; directly contradicts the baseline resurrection doctrine — a concrete historical instance of doctrinal corruption.
In Season Out Of Season
Approved rendering: zu gelegener und ungelegener Zeit
Transliteration: zu gelegener und ungelegener Zeit
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: εὐκαίρως ἀκαίρως
Category: Ministry
2 Timothy 4:2, εὐκαίρως ἀκαίρως. Luther’s own phrase, now a naturalized German idiom used even outside religious contexts — a genuine translation asset, provided the homiletic referent remains clear from context.
Incarnation
Approved rendering: Menschwerdung
Transliteration: Menschwerdung
Doctrine: Incarnation
Original: ἐπιφάνεια (1:10, incarnation sense)
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. This is the doctrinal category standing behind 1:10’s ‘Erscheinung’ (epiphaneia) in its past/incarnation sense; see the new term ‘the_appearing_of_christ’ for the specific lexical rendering.
Itching Ears
Approved rendering: denen die Ohren jucken
Transliteration: denen die Ohren jucken
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Original: κνηθόμενοι τὴν ἀκοήν
Category: Apostasy
2 Timothy 4:3, κνηθόμενοι τὴν ἀκοήν. Rare case of exact idiomatic correspondence; German ‘juckende Ohren’ carries the identical vivid image with no adaptation required.
Jannes And Jambres
Approved rendering: Jannes und Jambres
Transliteration: Jannes und Jambres
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Original: Ἰάννης καὶ Ἰαμβρῆς
Category: Apostasy
2 Timothy 3:8. Figures from extra-biblical Jewish tradition (Pharaoh’s magicians), not found in the Exodus narrative itself; teaching material must note this transparently, parallel to the baseline’s Mark 16/John 8 textual-transparency discipline.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: Reich Gottes
Transliteration: Reich Gottes
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 4:1 (Christ’s future kingdom) and 4:18 (the heavenly kingdom); both carry the future, consummated sense rather than Romans’ present-kingdom-advance emphasis — clarify this eschatological nuance in exposition.
Man Of God
Approved rendering: der Mensch Gottes
Transliteration: der Mensch Gottes
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: Mann Gottes (older rendering; ἄνθρωπος is generic-human, not male-specific ἀνήρ)
Original: ὁ τοῦ θεοῦ ἄνθρωπος
Category: Church
2 Timothy 3:17, ὁ τοῦ θεοῦ ἄνθρωπος. Follows the Luther 2017 revision’s gender-accurate rendering practice, consistent with contemporary German inclusive-language sensitivities and with the underlying Greek’s generic-human term.
Myths
Approved rendering: Mythen
Transliteration: Mythen
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Rejected alternatives: Fabeln (lower-risk alternative — carries the needed pejorative charge natively; consider if register permits)
Original: μῦθοι
Category: Apostasy
2 Timothy 4:4, μῦθοι. GERMAN COLLISION: ‘Mythos/Mythen’ carries strong positive cultural-literary prestige (Nibelungensage, Wagner, comparative-religion scholarship, Bultmann’s own ‘Entmythologisierung’). If ‘Mythen’ is used, the pejorative, fabricated-falsehood sense must be made explicit at every occurrence, not merely on first use.
Patience Makrothymia
Approved rendering: Langmut
Transliteration: Langmut
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Rejected alternatives: Geduld (viable but loses the specifically relational, longsuffering nuance)
Original: μακροθυμία
Category: Ministry
2 Timothy 4:2, μακροθυμία. Without this qualifier, the preceding corrective triad curdles into harshness.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: Kraft Gottes
Transliteration: Kraft Gottes
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Original: δύναμις
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1:7-8 (positive, Spirit’s power) and 3:5 (ironic negative use, ‘denying its power’) — a deliberate contrast case within the letter.
Rebuke
Approved rendering: tadle
Transliteration: tadle
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: ἐπιτίμησον
Category: Ministry
2 Timothy 4:2, ἐπιτίμησον. Keep distinguishable in register from the milder ‘weise zurecht’ (reprove) so the triad’s escalating force is preserved.
Reproof
Approved rendering: Zurechtweisung
Transliteration: Zurechtweisung
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: ἔλεγχος / ἐλέγξον
Category: Doctrine
2 Timothy 3:16 (noun ἔλεγχος), 4:2 (verb ἐλέγξον, ‘weise zurecht’). Keep noun and verb forms terminologically consistent across occurrences within the same teaching unit.
Sacred Writings
Approved rendering: die heiligen Schriften
Transliteration: die heiligen Schriften
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Original: ἱερὰ γράμματα
Category: Scripture
2 Timothy 3:15, the only NT occurrence of ἱερὰ γράμματα. Reuses the baseline ‘heilig’ root. Must be distinguished in exposition from ‘die ganze Schrift’ (3:16) so readers understand these as the same body of writings viewed from two angles (received-and-known vs. God-breathed-and-profitable), not two unrelated categories.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: Heiligung
Transliteration: Heiligung
Doctrine: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Not directly lexicalized as a noun in 2 Timothy but doctrinally implied throughout the letter’s formation/training vocabulary (3:16-17).
Seed Of David
Approved rendering: Nachkomme Davids
Transliteration: Nachkomme Davids
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Rejected alternatives: Same Davids (archaic/crude register)
Original: ἐκ σπέρματος Δαυίδ
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. 2 Timothy 2:8 directly echoes Romans 1:3-4’s opening Christological formula (‘von den Toten auferweckt, ein Nachkomme Davids’) — render identically for cross-curriculum consistency.
Sin
Approved rendering: Sünde
Transliteration: Sünde
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 3:6 (false teachers exploiting people ‘burdened with sins’); the baseline’s colloquial-trivialization caution applies unchanged.
Snare Of The Devil
Approved rendering: die Schlinge des Teufels
Transliteration: die Schlinge des Teufels
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: ἡ τοῦ διαβόλου παγίς
Category: Doctrine
2 Timothy 2:26. Frames false teaching as spiritual captivity, not merely intellectual error, adding a spiritual-warfare dimension to Apostasy material.
Soldier Athlete Farmer
Approved rendering: Soldat, Wettkämpfer, Bauer
Transliteration: Soldat, Wettkämpfer, Bauer
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: στρατιώτης / ἀθλῶν / γεωργός
Category: Suffering
2 Timothy 2:3-6, στρατιώτης / ἀθλῶν / γεωργός. Ordinary vocational metaphors requiring only the lower-intensity sensitivity to military imagery already noted for the baseline’s Ephesians ‘Waffenrüstung Gottes.‘
Spirit Of Power Love Sound Mind
Approved rendering: Geist der Furcht…der Kraft, der Liebe und der Besonnenheit
Transliteration: Geist der Furcht…der Kraft, der Liebe und der Besonnenheit
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Rejected alternatives: Selbstbeherrschung (for σωφρονισμός; loses the cognitive-clarity nuance)
Original: πνεῦμα δειλίας…δυνάμεως καὶ ἀγάπης καὶ σωφρονισμοῦ
Category: Suffering
2 Timothy 1:7, πνεῦμα δειλίας…δυνάμεως καὶ ἀγάπης καὶ σωφρονισμοῦ. σωφρονισμός is a rare hapax; ‘Besonnenheit’ preserves the sound-judgment-under-pressure sense better than ‘Selbstbeherrschung.’ Reuses baseline ‘Kraft Gottes’ family for δύναμις.
Spiritual Gifts
Approved rendering: Gnadengaben
Transliteration: Gnadengaben
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts
Rejected alternatives: geistliche Gaben (looser)
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. In 2 Timothy 1:6, χάρισμα occurs in the singular, individual-ministry-gift sense (‘die Gnadengabe…neu entfachen’) rather than the corporate plural sense of Romans 12/1 Corinthians 12 — clarify this distinction explicitly in exposition.
Time Of Departure
Approved rendering: die Zeit meines Aufbruchs
Transliteration: die Zeit meines Aufbruchs
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: ὁ καιρὸς τῆς ἀναλύσεώς μου
Category: Suffering
2 Timothy 4:6, ὁ καιρὸς τῆς ἀναλύσεώς μου. ‘Aufbruch’ (departure/setting out) captures the positive, purposeful nautical/camp-departure nuance — a rare case where German idiom lands close to the Greek image with no adaptation needed.
Training Discipline
Approved rendering: Erziehung
Transliteration: Erziehung
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Rejected alternatives: Zuchtmeister (forbidden — reserved exclusively for the baseline Galatians paidagōgos term)
Original: παιδεία
Category: Doctrine
2 Timothy 3:16, παιδεία. Do NOT conflate with the baseline Galatians ‘Zuchtmeister’ (παιδαγωγός, the law’s now-ended custodial office) despite the shared child-training semantic field — Scripture’s training here is ongoing and formative, not temporary and superseded. Mandatory reviewer note.
Unfeigned Faith
Approved rendering: ungeheuchelter Glaube
Transliteration: ungeheuchelter Glaube
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Rejected alternatives: aufrichtiger Glaube (more natural spoken German but loses the Heuchelei root-echo)
Original: ἀνυπόκριτος πίστις
Category: Transmission
2 Timothy 1:5, ἀνυπόκριτος πίστις. Shares its root with the baseline’s ‘Heuchelei’ (Galatians package); reuse that root deliberately for cross-pipeline lexical consistency, accepting a slightly more formal register as the cost.
Vessels Honor Dishonor
Approved rendering: Gefäße zur Ehre und zur Unehre
Transliteration: Gefäße zur Ehre und zur Unehre
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: σκεύη εἰς τιμήν…εἰς ἀτιμίαν
Category: Doctrine
2 Timothy 2:20-21. Keep the concrete household-object image rather than abstracting into ‘gute und schlechte Menschen.‘
Vice Catalogue Last Days
Approved rendering: selbstsüchtig, geldgierig, prahlerisch…mehr das Vergnügen liebend als Gott
Transliteration: selbstsüchtig, geldgierig, prahlerisch…mehr das Vergnügen liebend als Gott
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Original: φίλαυτοι, φιλάργυροι, ἀλαζόνες…φιλήδονοι μᾶλλον ἢ φιλόθεοι
Category: Apostasy
2 Timothy 3:2-4, an eighteen-item vice catalogue climaxing in ‘lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God’ — diagnoses the root cause as misdirected love, not isolated bad behaviors. Individual items require only ordinary lexical care except βλάσφημοι (see separate entry).
Were Assured
Approved rendering: wurdest darin gewiss gemacht
Transliteration: wurdest darin gewiss gemacht
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Rejected alternatives: du hast dich überzeugt (forbidden — reverses the passive, received sense)
Original: ἐπιστώθης
Category: Transmission
2 Timothy 3:14, ἐπιστώθης. The passive voice must be preserved — conviction was given to Timothy, not self-generated — echoing the passive, received nature of saving faith already established in the baseline.
Low Risk Terms
Books And Parchments
Approved rendering: Bücher, besonders die Pergamente
Transliteration: Bücher, besonders die Pergamente
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Original: βιβλία, μάλιστα τὰς μεμβράνας
Category: Scripture
2 Timothy 4:13. Material-culture detail reflecting the physical transmission of Scripture and teaching; low doctrinal weight but consistent with the FTG ‘good deposit’ imagery.
Closing Doxology
Approved rendering: ihm sei die Herrlichkeit von Ewigkeit zu Ewigkeit, Amen
Transliteration: ihm sei die Herrlichkeit von Ewigkeit zu Ewigkeit, Amen
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: ᾧ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων, ἀμήν
Category: Reward
2 Timothy 4:18. Standard Pauline doxology, reusing the baseline ‘Herrlichkeit’; minimal German-specific collision risk.
David
Approved rendering: David
Transliteration: David
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: Δαυίδ
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Appears via the seed-of-David Christological formula echoed at 2:8.
Exhort
Approved rendering: ermahnen
Transliteration: ermahnen
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω / παρακάλεσον
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged, BUT flagged for deliberate reviewer decision at 4:2: this is the third element of the reprove-rebuke-exhort triad and may function as a warmer counterbalance, in which case ‘ermutige’ (encourage) may better serve this specific context than the default ‘ermahne.’ Reviewer must decide per-context, not silently default.
Gospel
Approved rendering: Evangelium
Transliteration: Evangelium
Doctrine: Gospel
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 2 Timothy 1:8, 10; 2:8. Closely tied in this letter to the charge to preach (κήρυξον τὸν λόγον, 4:2) and to Paul’s own suffering ‘for the gospel’ (1:8).
Jesus
Approved rendering: Jesus
Transliteration: Jesus
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Used throughout 2 Timothy.
Peace
Approved rendering: Friede
Transliteration: Friede
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1:2 in the letter’s salutation.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: Weissagung
Transliteration: Weissagung
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Original: προφητεία (background to 3:16’s inspiration doctrine)
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Not a direct lexical occurrence in 2 Timothy but relevant background vocabulary for 3:16’s inspiration doctrine.
Scripture Profitable
Approved rendering: nützlich
Transliteration: nützlich
Doctrine: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture
Original: ὠφέλιμος
Category: Scripture
2 Timothy 3:16. Scripture’s practical usefulness flowing from its divine origin; no significant German collision risk.
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: Danksagung
Transliteration: Danksagung
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία / χάριν ἔχω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, unchanged. Occurs 1:3 (‘I thank God’).
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