Passage

Romans 16

• Doctrine

  Christian Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ; translators should avoid phrasing that echoes the collectivist 'Volksgemeinschaft' register given Germany's specific 20th-century history, though the word itself is biblically sound and pre-dates that misuse.

  ROM.16.3-16

• Glossary Term

  Church

  HIGH RISK: Catholic and state-church (Landeskirche) usage defaults 'Kirche' to the institution; Free church (Freikirche) and Pietist tradition prefer 'Gemeinde' for the gathered local body, closer to NT ekklesia.

  ROM.16.1-16

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  New covenant community, not the institutional Kirche or Landeskirche tax-registered membership alone; Free church tradition's 'Gemeinde' vocabulary better captures the NT sense.

  ROM.16.1-16

• Glossary Term

  Fellowship

  The ordinary Luther Bible word for koinonia.

  ROM.16.3-16

• Doctrine

  Obedience of Faith

  Must be guarded against reintroducing Werkgerechtigkeit (works-righteousness); obedience is fruit of faith, not its precondition.

  ROM.16.26

• Glossary Term

  Obedience Of Faith

  Romans 1:5, 16:26.

  ROM.16.26

• Doctrine

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term.

  ROM.16.4

• Glossary Term

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term.

  ROM.16.4