Core Glossary

Core Glossary: 1 Timothy

Legend: Status = REUSE (already in baseline translation_memory.json; rendering copied exactly, no deviation permitted) or NEW (introduced by this curriculum). Risk tiers and definitions follow the baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json exactly (Critical/High/Medium/Low). Doctrine codes: SD = Sound Doctrine vs. False Teaching; QL = Qualifications for Leadership; CM = Christ as the One Mediator; PW = Public Worship and Prayer; PT = Church as Pillar of Truth; GC = Godliness and Contentment; CW = Care for Widows/Household of Faith; GD = Guarding the Deposit of Faith.

Table 1 — Terms Reused Exactly from the Baseline (No Deviation Permitted)

English gloss	Greek (translit.)	Hindi (translit.)	Risk	Doctrine	1 Timothy occurrences	Baseline source note
God	θεός (theos)	परमेश्वर (Parameśvara)	Critical	all	throughout	Romans baseline
Jesus	Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous)	यीशु (Yīśu)	Critical	CM	throughout	Romans baseline
Christ	Χριστός (Christos)	मसीह (Masīha)	Critical	CM	throughout	Romans baseline
Lord	κύριος (kyrios)	प्रभु (Prabhu)	Critical	CM	1:2,12,14; 6:3,14,15	Romans baseline
grace	χάρις (charis)	अनुग्रह (anugraha)	High	GC	1:2,14; 6:21	Romans baseline
mercy	ἔλεος (eleos)	दया (dayā)	Medium	GC	1:2,13,16	Romans baseline
peace	εἰρήνη (eirēnē)	शांति (śānti)	Medium	PW	1:2; 2:2	Romans baseline
faith	πίστις (pistis)	विश्वास (viśvāsa)	High	SD, CM	throughout	Romans baseline
righteousness	δικαιοσύνη (dikaiosynē)	धार्मिकता (dhārmikatā)	Critical	GC	6:11	Romans baseline
salvation	σωτηρία / σῴζω (sōtēria / sōzō)	उद्धार (uddhāra)	Critical	CM, GC	1:15; 2:4,15; 4:16	Romans baseline
apostle	ἀπόστολος (apostolos)	प्रेरित (prerita)	Medium	QL	1:1; 2:7	Romans baseline
called/calling	καλέω / κλῆσις	बुलाए हुए / बुलाहट	High	GC	6:12	Romans baseline
holy	ἅγιος (hagios)	पवित्र (pavitra)	High	QL	2:8 (ὁσίους, cognate)	Romans baseline
sanctification	ἁγιασμός (hagiasmos)	पवित्रीकरण (pavitrīkaraṇa)	High	GC	2:15	Romans baseline
church	ἐκκλησία (ekklēsia)	कलीसिया (kalīsiyā)	Medium	PT, QL	3:5,15	Romans baseline
law	νόμος (nomos)	व्यवस्था (vyavasthā)	High	SD	1:7-9	Romans baseline
sin	ἁμαρτία / ἁμαρτωλός	पाप / पापी	High	SD	1:9,15; 5:20,22,24	Romans baseline
gentiles/nations	ἔθνη (ethnē)	अन्यजाति / राष्ट्र	Medium	PW	2:7; 3:16	Romans baseline
glory	δόξα (doxa)	महिमा (mahimā)	High	PT	1:11,17; 3:16	Romans baseline
prophecy	προφητεία (prophēteia)	भविष्यवाणी (bhaviṣyavāṇī)	Low	QL	1:18; 4:14	Romans baseline
thanksgiving	εὐχαριστία (eucharistia)	धन्यवाद (dhanyavāda)	Low	PW	2:1; 4:3-4	Romans baseline
intercession	ἔντευξις (enteuxis)	मध्यस्थता (madhyasthatā)	Medium	PW	2:1; 4:5	Romans baseline
spiritual gifts	χάρισμα (charisma)	आत्मिक वरदान (ātmika varadāna)	Medium	QL	4:14	Romans baseline
mystery	μυστήριον (mystērion)	भेद (bheda)	Medium→High/Critical in context	PT, GD	3:9,16	Romans baseline (elevated here, see 08 notes)
conscience	συνείδησις (syneidēsis)	विवेक (viveka)	High	SD, QL	1:5,19; 3:9; 4:2	Romans baseline
hospitality	φιλόξενος (philoxenos)	अतिथि-सत्कार (atithi-satkāra)	Low	QL, CW	3:2; 5:10	Romans baseline
household of faith	οἰκεῖος τῆς πίστεως (concept)	विश्वास के घराने के लोग	Low	CW	(conceptual parallel, 5:8; 3:15)	Galatians baseline
confession of faith	ὁμολογία (homologia)	अंगीकार करना (aṅgīkāra karanā)	High	CM	6:12-13	Romans baseline
governing authorities	ὑπεροχή/ἐξουσία (concept)	शासन के अधिकारी	Medium	PW	2:2	Romans baseline
redemption	λύτρον-family (lytron)	छुटकारा (chuṭakārā)	High	CM	2:6 (ἀντίλυτρον)	Romans/Galatians baseline
doxology	— (genre label)	महिमा-गान (mahimā-gāna)	Low	PT	1:17; 6:15-16	Romans baseline
eternal life	ζωὴ αἰώνιος (zōē aiōnios)	अनन्त जीवन (ananta jīvana)	High	GC	1:16; 4:8; 6:12,19	Galatians baseline
promise	ἐπαγγελία (epangelia)	प्रतिज्ञा (pratijñā)	High	GC	4:8	Galatians baseline
election	ἐκλογή/ἐκλεκτός	परमेश्वर का चुनाव / चुने हुए	High	QL	5:21 (ἐκλεκτῶν ἀγγέλων)	Romans baseline
boasting	καυχάομαι-family / τυφόω (echo)	घमण्ड (ghamaṇḍa)	Low	GC	3:6; 6:4,17	Romans/Galatians baseline
sovereignty	— (concept)	परमेश्वर की संप्रभुता	High	PT	6:15 (δυνάστης)	Romans baseline
hypocrisy	ὑπόκρισις (hypokrisis)	कपट (kapaṭa)	Medium	SD	1:5 (ἀνυπόκριτος); 4:2	Galatians baseline
impartiality of God	— (concept)	परमेश्वर किसी का पक्षपात नहीं करता (root: पक्षपात)	High	QL	5:21 (πρόκρισις)	Galatians baseline
slavery	δοῦλος/δουλεία	दास / दासत्व	Medium	GC	6:1-2	Galatians baseline
amen	ἀμήν (amēn)	आमीन (āmīna)	Low	PW	(textually attested at 1:17 / 6:21 in some MSS)	Galatians baseline

Table 2 — New Terms Introduced by 1 Timothy (Critical Risk)

English gloss	Greek (translit.)	Location(s)	Hindi rendering (translit.)	Doctrine	Alternatives rejected	Notes
overseer/bishop	ἐπίσκοπος (episkopos)	3:1-2	अध्यक्ष (adhyakṣa)	QL	बिशप (anachronistic hierarchy); गुरु/महंत/आचार्य (lineage/ascetic-authority guru models)	Office is plural, qualification-based, publicly accountable — never a singular guru figure. Theologian review every occurrence.
husband of one wife / one-woman man	μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρα (mias gynaikos andra)	3:2; 3:12; 5:9 (fem. parallel)	एक ही पत्नी का पति / एक ही पति की पत्नी	QL	(none — render literally, do not resolve interpretive debate)	Render literally; record monogamy/fidelity/no-remarriage readings as alternatives_considered; do not resolve in text.
godliness	εὐσέβεια (eusebeia)	2:2; 3:16; 4:7,8; 6:3,5,6,11	भक्ति (bhakti)	GC, PT	धर्मपरायणता (contains forbidden धर्म root); पवित्रता (would collide with `holy`)	Highest bhakti-mārga collision term in curriculum. Object must always be the one true God, explicit or contextually unambiguous; never a self-directed merit-generating devotional practice. Cross-reference 6:5’s explicit rejection of “godliness as a means of gain.” Mandatory qualifying compound ईश्वर-भक्ति recommended at first/load-bearing occurrences.
mystery of godliness	μυστήριον τῆς εὐσεβείας	3:16	भक्ति का भेद	PT, GD	—	Compounds baseline भेद with this curriculum’s भक्ति; content is Christ himself (the hymn of 3:16b), foreclosing any self-attained-devotion reading.
pillar and buttress/foundation of truth	στῦλος καὶ ἑδραίωμα τῆς ἀληθείας	3:15	सत्य का स्तम्भ और आधार	PT	खम्भा (too colloquial for register)	Church upholds/displays revealed truth; does not originate or generate it. Truth’s source is God’s revealed Word, not the church itself.
the deposit (guard the deposit)	παραθήκη (parathēkē)	6:20	धरोहर (dharohar)	GD	जमा राशि (too commercial); relic-adjacent literalism	Body of apostolic doctrine entrusted for safekeeping/transmission — a message, not a venerated physical object. Cross-reference with pillar-of-truth entry.
one mediator	εἷς μεσίτης (heis mesitēs)	2:5	एक ही मध्यस्थ	CM	—	Elevates baseline `mediator` (Medium, Galatians 3:19 Moses) to Critical here: numeral एक ही (“only one”) is the verse’s rhetorical backbone and must never be dropped, given India’s multiplicity of devotional intermediaries (gurus, avatars, saints).
falsely-called knowledge	ψευδώνυμος γνῶσις (pseudōnymos gnōsis)	6:20	झूठा ज्ञान (जो झूठे रूप से “ज्ञान” कहलाता है)	SD, GD	विद्या (even more heavily sacralized)	Sharpest jñāna-mārga collision term in curriculum. “So-called” (ψευδώνυμος) is the entire point — not a blanket rejection of knowledge (cf. 2:4’s positive ἐπίγνωσις ἀληθείας in the same letter).
saved through childbearing	σωθήσεται διὰ τῆς τεκνογονίας	2:15	बच्चे जनने के द्वारा बचाई जाएगी (qualifying clause inseparable)	QL	any rendering detaching the “if she continues in faith…” clause	Cannot mean merit-earned salvation via motherhood (would contradict justification by faith and risk reinforcing patriarchal pressures). Record all interpretive options; do not resolve in text.
elder	πρεσβύτερος (presbyteros)	5:1 (generic), 5:17,19 (office); cf. ἐπίσκοπος 3:1-2	प्राचीन (prācīna)	QL	बुज़ुर्ग (no office sense); गुरु/पंडित/स्वामी-जी (Hindu religious-authority titles)	Established Hindi Christian office-title. Distinguish office sense (5:17,19) from generic age-reference (5:1-2).
godliness with contentment	εὐσέβεια μετὰ αὐτάρκειας	6:6	भक्ति सहित संतोष	GC	—	Combines two Critical/Medium-High terms; reverses false teachers’ gain-oriented equation (6:5) into the true one.
King of kings and Lord of lords	βασιλεὺς τῶν βασιλευόντων καὶ κύριος τῶν κυριευόντων	6:15	राजाओं का राजा और प्रभुओं का प्रभु	PT, CM	—	Reuses baseline प्रभु. Refers to God the Father in 1 Timothy’s context (contrast Revelation 19:16’s Christological use) — note both referents for teaching clarity.
immortality (God’s exclusive attribute)	ἀθανασία (athanasia)	6:16	अमरता (amaratā) — WITH MANDATORY DISTINGUISHING NOTE	PT	—	Distinct Greek word/doctrine from ζωὴ αἰώνιος/अनन्त जीवन (baseline explicitly rejects अमरता for THAT term). Here अमरता is appropriate as God’s exclusive, uncreated, unattainable-by-humans attribute; must never be conflated with the gift of eternal life or read as achievable moksha-style immortality.
women (deacon qualifications, contested referent)	γυναῖκας (gynaikas)	3:11	स्त्रियाँ (literal, non-resolving)	QL	उनकी पत्नियाँ (resolves ambiguity toward “wives,” foreclosing the deaconess reading)	Genuinely ambiguous in source: wives of deacons / women deacons / a distinct office. Render literally; record all readings; do not resolve in text.

Table 3 — New Terms Introduced by 1 Timothy (High Risk)

English gloss	Greek (translit.)	Location(s)	Hindi rendering (translit.)	Doctrine	Notes
deacon (extended office treatment)	διάκονος (diakonos)	3:8-13	सेवक (m.) / सेविका (f.) [REUSE root, extended application]	QL	Baseline established सेविका for Phoebe (Romans 16:1, f.); this curriculum’s core passage is the fullest NT qualifications text and predominantly uses masculine grammatical forms — सेवक is the default office-term here.
sound doctrine/teaching	ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία (hygiainousa didaskalia)	1:10; 6:3 (and implied throughout)	खरी शिक्षा (kharī śikṣā)	SD	Deliberately paired against 6:4’s νοσῶν (“sick/diseased”) — preserve the health/sickness doctrinal metaphor wherever both occur.
doctrine/teaching (general)	διδασκαλία (didaskalia)	1:10; 4:1,6,13,16; 5:17; 6:1,3	शिक्षा (śikṣā)	SD	This curriculum’s standard rendering for the διδασκαλία word-family; keep consistent throughout.
Savior (title)	σωτήρ (sōtēr)	1:1; 2:3; 4:10	उद्धारकर्ता (uddhārakartā)	CM, GC	Built regularly on baseline उद्धार root. Apply consistently to both Father and Son occurrences across the letter.
ransom	ἀντίλυτρον (antilytron)	2:6	छुटकारे की कीमत (chuṭakāre kī qīmat)	CM	Built on baseline छुटकारा; guard against बलि/यज्ञ ritual-offering framing (direction of gift is God→sinner).
teach a different doctrine	ἑτεροδιδασκαλέω (heterodidaskaleō)	1:3; 6:3	दूसरी ही शिक्षा देना	SD	Mirrors the baseline’s ἕτερος-distinction pattern from Galatians’ `false_gospel`.
doctrines of demons	διδασκαλίαι δαιμονίων	4:1	दुष्टात्माओं की शिक्षाएँ	SD	δαιμόνιον ≠ देवता (Hindu deity); never render with देवता.
love of money	φιλαργυρία (philargyria)	6:10 (cf. 3:3 ἀφιλάργυρος)	धन का लोभ (dhan kā lobh)	QL, GC	Same root must be used at both 3:3 and 6:10 to preserve the letter’s internal cross-reference.
submission	ὑποταγή (hypotagē)	2:11; 3:4	अधीनता (adhīnatā)	QL	Domestic sense (3:4) lower-stakes than the doctrinally contested assembly-context sense (2:11) — treat as one interpretive cluster with ἡσυχία/αὐθεντεῖν at 2:11-12.
quietness/silence	ἡσυχία (hēsychia)	2:11-12	मौन / शान्ति से	QL	Part of the 2:11-15 contested-interpretation unit; render literally, record both major interpretive traditions, do not resolve.
exercise authority/dominate	αὐθεντεῖν (authentein)	2:12	अधिकार रखना/चलाना	QL	Lexically contested (neutral “have authority” vs. negative “domineer”); mandatory non-resolving theologian review.
modesty	αἰδώς (aidōs)	2:9	लज्जा (lajjā)	PW	Honor/shame routing flag (extends baseline Romans 13-14 precedent); must convey dignified self-possession, not shame-based control.
widow	χήρα (chēra)	5:3-16 (throughout)	विधवा (vidhavā)	CW	Acute cultural-sensitivity flag (India’s widow-marginalization history) in addition to doctrinal risk; theologian + native-speaker review.
widow indeed	ὄντως χήρα	5:5,9,16	सचमुच की विधवा	CW	Distinguishes family-supported widows from those wholly dependent on God/church.
denied the faith	τὴν πίστιν ἠρνήσατο / ἠθέτησαν	5:8,12	विश्वास का इन्कार करना	CW, SD	Strong statement (worse than an unbeliever, 5:8) — must not be softened.
forbidding marriage / foods	κωλυόντων γαμεῖν / ἀπέχεσθαι βρωμάτων	4:3	विवाह करने से रोकना / भोजन से परहेज़ करना	SD	Ascetic false teaching; must not be conflated with a general condemnation of celibacy or fasting as personal disciplines.
immortal, invisible, only God	ἀφθάρτῳ ἀοράτῳ μόνῳ θεῷ	1:17	अविनाशी और अदृश्य, एकमात्र परमेश्वर	PT	अविनाशी risks Vedantic Brahman/Ātman resonance; note distinguishes personal singular God from impersonal Absolute.
deceiving spirits	πνεύματα πλάνα	4:1	भरमानेवाली आत्माएँ	SD	Distinguish sharply from पवित्र आत्मा (baseline Holy Spirit term) — no shared terminology confusion permitted.
good confession	ὁμολογία καλή	6:12-13	अच्छा अंगीकार	CM	Extends baseline confession_of_faith to Christ’s own testimony before Pilate — historical, not merely devotional, ground.
household of God	οἶκος θεοῦ	3:15	परमेश्वर का घराना	PT, CW	Apposed with ἐκκλησία in the same verse; grounds the letter’s stated purpose (3:14-15).
godliness (see also Table 2) — mystery-of-godliness Christ-hymn	ἐδικαιώθη ἐν πνεύματι (within 3:16)	3:16	आत्मा में सच्चा ठहराया गया	PT	Distinct from believer’s justification formula (धर्मी ठहराया जाना); do not conflate the two doctrines under one phrase.

Table 4 — New Terms Introduced by 1 Timothy (Medium Risk)

English gloss	Greek (translit.)	Location(s)	Hindi rendering (translit.)	Doctrine
council of elders	πρεσβυτέριον (presbyterion)	4:14	प्राचीनों की सभा	QL
above reproach	ἀνεπίλημπτος (anepilēmptos)	3:2	निष्कलंक	QL
blameless (deacons)	ἀνέγκλητος (anenklētos)	3:10	निर्दोष	QL
manage/lead well	προΐστημι (proistēmi)	3:4,5,12; 5:17	अच्छी रीति से प्रबन्ध करना / अगुवाई करना	QL
dignity/reverence	σεμνότης / σεμνός (semnotēs/semnos)	2:2; 3:4,8,11	गम्भीरता / गम्भीर	QL, PW
self-control/sensible	σωφροσύνη / σώφρων (sōphrosynē/sōphrōn)	2:9,15; 3:2	संयम / संयमी	QL, PW
test/examine	δοκιμάζω (dokimazō)	3:10	जाँच करना / परखना	QL
boldness/confidence	παρρησία (parrēsia)	3:13	निडरता	QL
training for godliness	γύμναζε πρὸς εὐσέβειαν	4:7	भक्ति के लिये अभ्यास करना	GC
appearing (eschatological)	ἐπιφάνεια (epiphaneia)	6:14	प्रकट होना / प्रकटन	CM
slaves/masters (social)	δοῦλος / δεσπότης	6:1-2	दास / स्वामी	QL
fight the good fight	ἀγωνίζου τὸν καλὸν ἀγῶνα	6:12	विश्वास की अच्छी लड़ाई लड़ो	GC
knowledge of the truth	ἐπίγνωσις ἀληθείας	2:4	सत्य का ज्ञान	SD
myths / genealogies	μῦθος / γενεαλογία	1:4; 4:7	कल्पित कहानियाँ / वंशावलियाँ	SD
handed over to Satan	παραδίδωμι τῷ Σατανᾷ	1:20	शैतान के हाथ में सौंप देना	SD
shipwrecked faith	ναυαγέω (nauageō)	1:19	विश्वास के जहाज़ का डूब जाना	SD
conceited/puffed up	τυφόω (typhoō)	3:6; 6:4	घमण्ड से फूल जाना	QL, SD
creature of God	κτίσμα θεοῦ	4:4	परमेश्वर की सृष्टि	SD
laying on of hands	ἐπίθεσις τῶν χειρῶν	4:14; 5:22	हाथ रखना	QL
good standing	βαθμὸς καλός	3:13	अच्छा पद	QL
root of all evils (love of money — see also High table)	ῥίζα πάντων τῶν κακῶν	6:10	सब बुराइयों की जड़	GC
eternal dominion	κράτος αἰώνιον	6:16	सदा का प्रभुत्व	PT
unapproachable light	φῶς ἀπρόσιτον	6:16	अगम्य ज्योति	PT
the unique sovereign one	δυνάστης (dynastēs)	6:15	अद्वितीय संप्रभु	PT
accusation / two or three witnesses	κατηγορία / δύο ἢ τριῶν μαρτύρων	5:19	दो या तीन गवाहों पर आरोप	QL
double honor	διπλῆ τιμή	5:17	दोहरा सम्मान	QL, CW
laborer worthy of wages (shared citation w/ Luke 10:7)	ἄξιος ὁ ἐργάτης τοῦ μισθοῦ	5:18	मज़दूर अपनी मज़दूरी का हक़दार है	QL
elect angels	ἐκλεκτῶν ἀγγέλων	5:21	चुने हुए स्वर्गदूत	QL
partiality/prejudice	πρόκρισις (prokrisis)	5:21	पक्षपात	QL
turned aside after Satan	ἐξετράπησαν ὀπίσω τοῦ Σατανᾶ	5:15	शैतान के पीछे भटक जाना	CW, SD
self-indulgent / dead while alive	σπαταλῶσα / τέθνηκεν ζῶσα	5:6	भोग-विलास में डूबी / जीते हुए भी मरी हुई	CW

Table 5 — New Terms Introduced by 1 Timothy (Low Risk)

English gloss	Greek (translit.)	Location(s)	Hindi rendering	Doctrine
sober/temperate	νηφάλιος	3:2,11	सचेत	QL
able to teach	διδακτικός	3:2	शिक्षा देने में निपुण	QL
orderly/respectable	κόσμιος	3:2	व्यवस्थित / शिष्ट	QL
gentle	ἐπιεικής	3:3	कोमल / नम्र	QL
peaceable	ἄμαχος	3:3	शान्तिप्रिय	QL
drunkard	πάροινος	3:3	पियक्कड़	QL
violent/pugnacious	πλήκτης	3:3	मारपीट करनेवाला	QL
double-tongued	δίλογος	3:8	दुज़बानी करनेवाला	QL
greedy for dishonest gain	αἰσχροκερδής	3:8	अनुचित लाभ का लोभी	QL
trustworthy saying (formula)	πιστὸς ὁ λόγος	1:15; 3:1; 4:9	यह बात विश्वास के योग्य है	SD
new convert	νεόφυτος	3:6	नया विश्वासी	QL
care for/look after	ἐπιμελέομαι	3:5	देखरेख करना	QL
reproach / snare	ὀνειδισμός / παγίς	3:7; 6:9	निन्दा / जाल-फंदा	QL, GC
good testimony from outsiders	μαρτυρία καλὴ ἀπὸ τῶν ἔξωθεν	3:7	बाहरवालों में अच्छी साख	QL
pattern/example	ὑποτύπωσις / τύπος	1:16; 4:12	आदर्श / नमूना	SD
patience	μακροθυμία	1:16	सहनशीलता	SD
blessed (of God)	μακάριος	1:11; 6:15	धन्य	PT
honor (general)	τιμή	1:17; 5:3,17	सम्मान / आदर	PT, CW
God’s plan/administration	οἰκονομία θεοῦ	1:4	परमेश्वर की योजना	SD
unhypocritical/sincere	ἀνυπόκριτος	1:5	निष्कपट	SD
teacher of the law	νομοδιδάσκαλος	1:7	व्यवस्था के शिक्षक	SD
progress/advancement	προκοπή	4:15	उन्नति / प्रगति	QL
purity	ἁγνεία	4:12; 5:2	पवित्रता / शुद्धता	QL
public reading (of Scripture)	ἀναγνώσις	4:13	सार्वजनिक पाठ	PW
herald / teacher	κήρυξ / διδάσκαλος	2:7	प्रचारक / शिक्षक	PW
food and covering	διατροφαὶ καὶ σκεπάσματα	6:8	भोजन और वस्त्र	GC
uncertain riches	πλούτου ἀδηλότης	6:17	अनिश्चित धन	GC
good foundation	θεμέλιον καλόν	6:19	अच्छी नींव	GC
generous/ready to share	κοινωνικός	6:18	बांटने में उदार	GC
gives life to all things	ζωοποιοῦντος τὰ πάντα	6:13	जो सबको जीवन देता है	CM
swerved/wandered off	ἀστοχέω	1:6; 6:21	भटक जाना	SD
formed / deceived (Genesis allusion)	ἐπλάσθη / ἠπατήθη	2:13-14	बनाया गया / धोखा खा गई	QL
bodily exercise	σωματικὴ γυμνασία	4:8	शारीरिक कसरत	GC
father/mother/brother/sister (metaphor)	πατήρ/μήτηρ/ἀδελφός/ἀδελφή	5:1-2	पिता/माता/भाई/बहन के समान	CW
brought up children / showed hospitality / washed feet / relieved afflicted	ἐτεκνοτρόφησεν κτλ.	5:10	बच्चों का पालन-पोषण किया, आदि	CW
provide for one’s own	προνοεῖ τῶν ἰδίων	5:8	अपनों के लिये प्रबन्ध करना	CW
gave occasion to the adversary	ἀφορμὴν τῷ ἀντικειμένῳ	5:14	विरोधी को अवसर देना	CW
a little wine (for the stomach)	οἰνοπότει / στόμαχος / ἀσθένεια	5:23	थोड़ा दाखमधु / पेट / कमज़ोरी	CW
root vice list (murderer, fornicator, etc.)	1:9-10 vice list	1:9-10	अधर्मी, हत्यारा, व्यभिचारी, आदि	SD
gymnasium metaphor (train yourself)	γυμνάζω	4:7	अभ्यास करना	GC

Cross-Reference Notes for Phase 2 Enforcement

भक्ति (bhakti / godliness) is this curriculum’s single highest-frequency Critical term (occurs 7×: 2:2; 3:16 [×2, including compound]; 4:7,8; 6:3,5,6,11) and must be tracked as a unit across every document — see 6:5’s explicit internal correction against a transactional reading, which should accompany every teaching use of the term.
धरोहर (deposit) and सत्य का स्तम्भ और आधार (pillar and foundation of truth) are complementary images for the church’s single custodial (not originating) relationship to revealed truth — cross-reference both wherever either occurs.
अध्यक्ष (overseer) and प्राचीन (elder) must be taught as two titles for one office (cf. Titus 1:5-7, outside this letter, for the clearest NT parallel) — do not let Hindi readers infer two distinct offices.
अमरता (immortality, 6:16) must never be confused with अनन्त जीवन (eternal life) — different Greek words, different doctrines (God’s exclusive nature vs. believers’ gift); the baseline’s rejection of अमरता applies only to the latter term, not to ἀθανασία.
धन का लोभ (love of money) must use identical wording at 3:3 (ἀφιλάργυρος, negated) and 6:10 (φιλαργυρία) to preserve the letter’s internal cross-reference between leadership disqualification and the general root-of-evils warning.
The 2:11-15 cluster (ἡσυχία, ὑποταγή, αὐθεντεῖν, τεκνογονία) and the 3:11 γυναῖκας referent question must each be routed as a single interpretive unit to human theologian review, with all major interpretive traditions recorded as alternatives_considered and none resolved within the translated text itself, following the baseline’s established precedent for israel_of_god.
Terms newly introduced here that intersect with existing baseline entries (σωτήρ/उद्धारकर्ता building on उद्धार; ἀντίλυτρον/छुटकारे की कीमत building on छुटकारा; πρεσβυτέριον/प्राचीनों की सभा building on प्राचीन) must be added to translation_memory.json as new entries in Phase 2, not treated as free variants of the base term.

Critical Risk Terms

God

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर
Transliteration: Parameśvara
Doctrine: God
Rejected alternatives: ईश्वर, भगवान
Original: θεός
Category: God

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. In 1 Timothy this term anchors the entire भक्ति (godliness) vocabulary — भक्ति’s object must always resolve unambiguously to परमेश्वर.

Jesus

Approved rendering: यीशु
Transliteration: Yīśu
Doctrine: Christology
Rejected alternatives: ईसा, ईशू
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation.

Christ

Approved rendering: मसीह
Transliteration: Masīha
Doctrine: Christology
Rejected alternatives: अभिषिक्त व्यक्ति, देव-दूत
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Frequently paired ‘मसीह यीशु’ throughout 1 Timothy (1:1,2,12,14-16; 2:5; 3:13).

Lord

Approved rendering: प्रभु
Transliteration: Prabhu
Doctrine: Christology
Rejected alternatives: स्वामी, ईश्वर
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Must be kept sharply distinct from δεσπότης/स्वामी (6:1-2, a household master) — never interchange or confuse; प्रभु is reserved exclusively for Christ’s exclusive divine Lordship (1:2,12,14; 6:3,14,15).

Righteousness

Approved rendering: धार्मिकता
Transliteration: dhārmikatā
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Rejected alternatives: धर्म, पुण्य, न्याय
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Listed among the virtues to be pursued (6:11). Never धर्म.

Salvation

Approved rendering: उद्धार
Transliteration: uddhāra
Doctrine: Christ as the One Mediator
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ति, मोक्ष, छुटकारा
Original: σωτηρία / σῴζω
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. 1:15; 2:4,15; 4:16. At 2:15 (‘saved through childbearing’) requires special handling — see saved_through_childbearing entry; cannot mean meritorious salvation earned by an act.

Incarnation

Approved rendering: देहधारण
Transliteration: dehadhāraṇa
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Rejected alternatives: अवतार, देह प्रकटीकरण

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. The theological name for 3:16’s ἐφανερώθη ἐν σαρκί line of the Christ-hymn. NEVER अवतार.

Justification

Approved rendering: धर्मी ठहराया जाना
Transliteration: dharmī ṭaharāyā jānā
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Rejected alternatives: माफी पाना, पुण्य प्राप्त करना

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. RESERVED EXCLUSIVELY for the believer’s forensic justification. Must NEVER be used to render 3:16’s ἐδικαιώθη ἐν πνεύματι (Christ’s own vindication) — see vindicated_in_spirit entry, a distinct doctrine sharing only the Greek root.

Trinity

Approved rendering: त्रिएकता
Transliteration: trieakatā
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Rejected alternatives: त्रिमूर्ति

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Not directly named in 1 Timothy’s text but doctrinally load-bearing for teaching notes accompanying the letter’s doxologies (1:17; 6:15-16) and the Father/Son distinction implicit in 2:5’s ‘one God, one mediator.’ NEVER त्रिमूर्ति.

Overseer

Approved rendering: अध्यक्ष
Transliteration: adhyakṣa
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Rejected alternatives: बिशप, गुरु, महंत, आचार्य, धर्माध्यक्ष
Original: ἐπίσκοπος
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. 3:1-2. The office of congregational oversight, used interchangeably with elder/प्राचीन for one office under two titles. Never बिशप (anachronistic hierarchy) or गुरु/महंत/आचार्य/धर्माध्यक्ष (lineage/ascetic-authority guru models, and धर्माध्यक्ष additionally reimports the forbidden धर्म root). The office is plural, qualification-based, and publicly testable (3:2-7,10) — never a single unaccountable guru-figure. Mandatory translator note and theologian review every occurrence.

Elder

Approved rendering: प्राचीन
Transliteration: prācīna
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Rejected alternatives: बुज़ुर्ग, गुरु, पंडित, स्वामी-जी
Original: πρεσβύτερος
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. Office sense: 5:17,19; same office as ἐπίσκοπος (3:1-2) under its dignity-title. Generic age-sense (5:1-2, an older man/woman) rendered separately as बड़ी उमर का पुरुष/स्त्री and carries no office implication. बुज़ुर्ग rejected (no office sense); गुरु/पंडित/स्वामी-जी rejected (lineage/ritual-authority connotations). Theologian review required for every office-sense occurrence.

Husband Of One Wife

Approved rendering: एक ही पत्नी का पति
Transliteration: eka hī patnī kā pati
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Original: μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρα / ἑνὸς ἀνδρὸς γυνή
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. 3:2; 3:12; feminine parallel एक ही पति की पत्नी at 5:9. Render literally; do NOT resolve the monogamy/marital-fidelity/no-remarriage interpretive debate in the translated text. Record all three readings as alternatives_considered. Mandatory theologian review every occurrence.

Godliness

Approved rendering: भक्ति
Transliteration: bhakti
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Rejected alternatives: धर्मपरायणता (contains forbidden धर्म root), पवित्रता (collides with holy)
Original: εὐσέβεια
Category: Godliness and Contentment

NEW. This curriculum’s single highest bhakti-mārga collision term (2:2; 3:16 ×2; 4:7,8; 6:3,5,6,11 — 7 occurrences). Three mandatory guardrails at every occurrence: (1) object always explicit/unambiguous परमेश्वर, never a generic devotional posture — recommend ईश्वर-भक्ति compound at load-bearing occurrences; (2) presented as FRUIT of the gospel already received (3:16), never a self-directed merit-generating practice; (3) 6:5’s explicit warning against treating godliness as ‘a means of gain’ must accompany every teaching use as a corrective, never read as Paul’s own definition. Mandatory theologian review every occurrence.

Mystery Of Godliness

Approved rendering: भक्ति का भेद
Transliteration: bhakti kā bheda
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Original: μυστήριον τῆς εὐσεβείας
Category: Church as Pillar of Truth

NEW. 3:16. Compounds baseline भेद with this book’s Critical भक्ति. Content is Christ himself (the six-line hymn, 3:16b) — a Person and historical events, disclosed by God, foreclosing any devotee’s-own-attainment reading of भक्ति. Mandatory theologian review for the whole 3:16 unit.

Pillar And Foundation Of Truth

Approved rendering: सत्य का स्तम्भ और आधार
Transliteration: satya kā stambh aur ādhār
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Rejected alternatives: खम्भा (too colloquial for register)
Original: στῦλος καὶ ἑδραίωμα τῆς ἀληθείας
Category: Church as Pillar of Truth

NEW. 3:15. Mandatory theologian note every occurrence: the church UPHOLDS and DISPLAYS revealed truth; it does not ORIGINATE or GENERATE it — truth’s source is God’s own revealed Word. Cross-reference with देपोसित/धरोहर (6:20) as a complementary custodial image.

Deposit

Approved rendering: धरोहर
Transliteration: dharohar
Doctrine: Guarding the Deposit of Faith
Rejected alternatives: जमा राशि (too commercial), relic-adjacent literalism
Original: παραθήκη
Category: Guarding the Deposit

NEW. 6:20. The body of apostolic gospel teaching entrusted to Timothy for faithful preservation and transmission. Mandatory theologian review: धरोहर must be explained as a MESSAGE — never a physical religious relic or venerated sacred object, a devotional pattern with real resonance in Indian religious practice around preserved sacred objects/mūrti veneration. Cross-reference with pillar_and_foundation_of_truth.

One Mediator

Approved rendering: एक ही मध्यस्थ
Transliteration: eka hī madhyastha
Doctrine: Christ as the One Mediator
Original: εἷς μεσίτης
Category: Christ as Mediator

NEW. 2:5. Elevates the baseline Galatians मध्यस्थ (Medium, of Moses at Galatians 3:19) to Critical here because of the accompanying numeral exclusivity claim (εἷς θεός, εἷς μεσίτης). एक ही must NEVER be dropped, given India’s multiplicity of devotional intermediaries (gurus, avatars, deities, ancestors, saints). Mandatory theologian review every occurrence.

Falsely Called Knowledge

Approved rendering: झूठा ज्ञान
Transliteration: jhūṭhā jñāna
Doctrine: Guarding the Deposit of Faith
Rejected alternatives: विद्या (even more heavily sacralized)
Original: ψευδώνυμος γνῶσις
Category: Sound Doctrine

NEW. 6:20 (ψευδώνυμος γνῶσις). The sharpest jñāna-mārga collision term in the curriculum. Mandatory translator note every occurrence: NOT a blanket rejection of knowledge as such — 2:4’s ἐπίγνωσις ἀληθείας/सत्य का ज्ञान is thoroughly positive in the same letter; the qualifier ‘falsely-named’ is the entire point. Mandatory theologian review.

Saved Through Childbearing

Approved rendering: बच्चे जनने के द्वारा बचाई जाएगी
Transliteration: bacce janane ke dvārā bacāī jāegī
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Rejected alternatives: any rendering detaching the qualifying ‘if she continues…’ clause
Original: σωθήσεται διὰ τῆς τεκνογονίας
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. 2:15. Qualifying clause (‘if she continues in faith and love and holiness, with self-control’) must remain grammatically inseparable. Cannot mean meritorious salvation earned by an act — would contradict justification by faith and risk reinforcing patriarchal merit-through-motherhood pressures. Record interpretive options as alternatives_considered without resolving in the text. Mandatory theologian review.

Godliness With Contentment

Approved rendering: भक्ति सहित संतोष
Transliteration: bhakti sahita santoṣa
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Original: εὐσέβεια μετὰ αὐτάρκειας
Category: Godliness and Contentment

NEW. 6:6. Reverses the false teachers’ gain-oriented equation (6:5) into the true one. Compounds Critical भक्ति with संतोष (also a named Yoga-Sūtra niyama) — note that this contentment is grounded in trust in God’s provision (6:7-8,17-19), not self-cultivated ascetic detachment. Mandatory theologian review.

King Of Kings Lord Of Lords

Approved rendering: राजाओं का राजा और प्रभुओं का प्रभु
Transliteration: rājāoṃ kā rājā aur prabhuoṃ kā prabhu
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Original: ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν βασιλευόντων καὶ κύριος τῶν κυριευόντων
Category: Church as Pillar of Truth

NEW. 6:15. Reuses baseline प्रभु. Refers to God the Father in 1 Timothy’s context (contrast Revelation 19:16’s Christological use — note both referents for teaching clarity). Must retain unqualified supremacy against any local raja/deity-king comparative framing.

Immortality

Approved rendering: अमरता
Transliteration: amaratā
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Original: ἀθανασία
Category: Church as Pillar of Truth

NEW. 6:16 (ἀθανασία — a DIFFERENT Greek word/doctrine from ζωὴ αἰώνιος/अनन्त जीवन). Permitted here ONLY with a mandatory distinguishing note: God’s exclusive, uncreated, inherent attribute (‘who ALONE has immortality’), never the believer’s gift, never a moksha-adjacent state attainable by human spiritual practice. The baseline’s rejection of अमरता applies ONLY to eternal_life, not to this term. Theologian review required.

Women Deacon Referent

Approved rendering: स्त्रियाँ
Transliteration: striyāṃ
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Rejected alternatives: उनकी पत्नियाँ (resolves ambiguity toward ‘wives,’ foreclosing deaconess reading)
Original: γυναῖκας
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. 3:11 (γυναῖκας). Genuinely ambiguous in the Greek source itself: wives of deacons / women deacons / a distinct female office. Render literally and non-resolvingly, paralleling the baseline’s israel_of_god precedent. Record all three readings as alternatives_considered. Cross-reference सेविका if the deaconess reading is in view. Mandatory theologian review.

High Risk Terms

Grace

Approved rendering: अनुग्रह
Transliteration: anugraha
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Rejected alternatives: कृपा, दया, वरदान, भाग्य, कर्म-फल, पुण्य
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Occurs in the letter’s distinctive threefold greeting formula with दया and शांति (1:2,14; 6:21).

Faith

Approved rendering: विश्वास
Transliteration: viśvāsa
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Rejected alternatives: श्रद्धा, आस्था, भरोसा
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Throughout 1 Timothy denotes both personal trust and, by extension, the objective body of belief (‘the faith,’ 1:19; 3:9; 4:1; 5:8; 6:10,12) — context must disambiguate.

Called

Approved rendering: बुलाए हुए
Transliteration: bulāe hue
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Rejected alternatives: निमंत्रित, आमंत्रित

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Applied to Timothy’s calling to eternal life (6:12).

Calling

Approved rendering: बुलाहट
Transliteration: bulāhaṭ
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Rejected alternatives: आह्वान

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation.

Holy

Approved rendering: पवित्र
Transliteration: pavitra
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Rejected alternatives: शुद्ध, निर्मल
Original: ἅγιος / ὅσιος
Category: Sanctification

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Cognate ὅσιος describes hands lifted in prayer (2:8, ὁσίους χεῖρας).

Sanctification

Approved rendering: पवित्रीकरण
Transliteration: pavitrikaraṇa
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Rejected alternatives: सफाई, शुद्धिकरण
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Linked at 2:15 with faith, love, and self-control as continuing marks of a faithful life.

Law

Approved rendering: व्यवस्था
Transliteration: vyavasthā
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Rejected alternatives: धर्म, शरीयत, नियम
Original: νόμος
Category: Sound Doctrine

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Misused by would-be ‘teachers of the law’ (1:7-9) who miss its proper target (transgressors, not the righteous).

Sin

Approved rendering: पाप
Transliteration: pāpa
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Rejected alternatives: अधर्म, अशुद्धता
Original: ἁμαρτία / ἁμαρτωλός
Category: Sin

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Christ came to save ‘sinners’ (1:15); public sin among elders requires open rebuke (5:20-24).

Glory

Approved rendering: महिमा
Transliteration: mahimā
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Rejected alternatives: देव-ज्योति, प्रकाश
Original: δόξα
Category: God

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Subject of the letter’s doxologies (1:11,17) and Christ’s exaltation ‘in glory’ (3:16).

Conscience

Approved rendering: विवेक
Transliteration: viveka
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Rejected alternatives: अंतरात्मा
Original: συνείδησις
Category: Sound Doctrine

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. A good conscience marks genuine faith (1:5,19); a ‘seared’ conscience marks doctrinal defection (4:2); deacons must hold the faith with a clear conscience (3:9). Never leave unmodified — always pair with a moral/relational qualifier (शुद्ध विवेक, दागी हुई विवेक) to guard against a Vedantic discrimination-faculty reading.

Confession Of Faith

Approved rendering: अंगीकार करना
Transliteration: aṅgīkāra karanā
Doctrine: Christ as the One Mediator
Rejected alternatives: स्वीकार करना
Original: ὁμολογία / ὁμολογέω
Category: Christ as Mediator

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Extended in this book to Timothy’s own confession and Christ’s testimony before Pilate (6:12-13) — see good_confession.

Redemption

Approved rendering: छुटकारा
Transliteration: chuṭakārā
Doctrine: Christ as the One Mediator
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ति, मोक्ष

Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Root underlying 2:6’s ἀντίλυτρον — see ransom entry.

Eternal Life

Approved rendering: अनन्त जीवन
Transliteration: ananta jīvana
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Rejected alternatives: अमरता (immortality-through-liberation framing)
Original: ζωὴ αἰώνιος
Category: Godliness and Contentment

Inherited from Galatians baseline extension; reused exactly, no deviation. 1:16; 4:8; 6:12,19. Must NEVER be confused with अमरता (6:16, God’s own exclusive uncreated attribute) — see immortality entry; the अमरता prohibition applies only to THIS term.

Promise

Approved rendering: प्रतिज्ञा
Transliteration: pratijñā
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Rejected alternatives: वरदान, वचन (alone, ambiguous)
Original: ἐπαγγελία
Category: Godliness and Contentment

Inherited from Galatians baseline extension; reused exactly, no deviation. 4:8, the promise of life present and to come.

Election

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर का चुनाव / चुने हुए
Transliteration: Parameśvara kā cunāva / cune hue
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Rejected alternatives: भाग्य, नियति, किस्मत
Original: ἐκλεκτός / ἐκλογή
Category: Church Leadership

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Adjectivally of ‘the elect angels’ (5:21) — see elect_angels entry.

Sovereignty

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर की संप्रभुता
Transliteration: Parameśvara kī saṃprabhutā
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Rejected alternatives: भाग्य, नियति

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Distinct from, but the conceptual base for, sovereignty_of_god/अद्वितीय संप्रभु (6:15’s δυνάστης), a narrower doxological title.

Impartiality Of God

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर किसी का पक्षपात नहीं करता
Transliteration: Parameśvara kisī kā pakṣapāta nahīṃ karatā
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Elder Accountability

Inherited from Galatians baseline extension; reused exactly, no deviation. Root: पक्षपात. Underlies the 5:21 charge against partiality in judging elders — see partiality_prokrisis entry for the book-specific application.

Deacon

Approved rendering: सेवक / सेविका
Transliteration: sevaka / sevikā
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Original: διάκονος
Category: Church Leadership

Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline (सेविका established for Phoebe, Romans 16:1); masculine सेवक is the default office-term for 1 Timothy 3:8-13’s predominantly masculine grammatical forms. Risk elevated to High in this book because 3:8-13 is the NT’s fullest qualifications text for the office.

Flesh

Approved rendering: शरीर
Transliteration: śarīra
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Rejected alternatives: देह (in sarx contexts)

Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Occurs at 3:16 (ἐφανερώθη ἐν σαρκί, ‘manifested in flesh’) directly touching the incarnation doctrine — this specific occurrence is a positive, non-technical-sarx use describing Christ’s real human body, not the fallen-nature sense of Romans 7-8/Galatians 5.

Worship

Approved rendering: आराधना
Transliteration: ārādhanā
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Rejected alternatives: पूजा

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. General worship term available for teaching contexts; 1 Timothy itself uses more specific vocabulary (προσευχή, ἔντευξις, etc. — see fourfold_prayer entry) for the concrete acts of 2:1-10.

Sound Doctrine

Approved rendering: खरी शिक्षा
Transliteration: kharī śikṣā
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία
Category: Sound Doctrine

NEW. 1:10; 6:3 (ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία). Deliberately paired against 6:4’s νοσῶν (‘sick/diseased,’ रोगी/बीमार) — preserve the health/sickness metaphor pairing wherever both occur in a document.

Doctrine Teaching

Approved rendering: शिक्षा
Transliteration: śikṣā
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: διδασκαλία
Category: Sound Doctrine

NEW. This curriculum’s standard rendering for the διδασκαλία word-family (1:10; 4:1,6,13,16; 5:17; 6:1,3). Must be used consistently throughout for both the noun and, where applicable, cross-referenced with διδακτικός (‘able to teach,’ 3:2).

Savior

Approved rendering: उद्धारकर्ता
Transliteration: uddhārakartā
Doctrine: Christ as the One Mediator
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Christology

NEW. 1:1; 2:3; 4:10 (σωτήρ). Built regularly on baseline उद्धार root; applied to both Father and Son — must be used consistently across both referents. Theologian review required to guard against a guru/avatar-among-many framing of ‘a’ savior rather than ‘the’ exclusive Savior.

Ransom

Approved rendering: छुटकारे की कीमत
Transliteration: chuṭakāre kī qīmat
Doctrine: Christ as the One Mediator
Rejected alternatives: बलि/यज्ञ ritual-offering vocabulary
Original: ἀντίλυτρον
Category: Christ as Mediator

NEW. 2:6 (ἀντίλυτρον). Built on baseline छुटकारा. Must not be assimilated to बलि/यज्ञ vocabulary — direction of the payment is God’s own provision for humanity, never humanity’s offering to appease a deity.

Teach Different Doctrine

Approved rendering: दूसरी ही शिक्षा देना
Transliteration: dūsarī hī śikṣā denā
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: ἑτεροδιδασκαλέω
Category: Sound Doctrine

NEW. 1:3; 6:3 (ἑτεροδιδασκαλέω). Mirrors the baseline’s ἕτερος-distinction pattern from Galatians’ false_gospel — a different-in-kind rival teaching, not a lesser variant.

Doctrines Of Demons

Approved rendering: दुष्टात्माओं की शिक्षाएँ
Transliteration: duṣṭātmāoṃ kī śikṣāeṃ
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Rejected alternatives: देवता (Hindu benevolent deity — hard forbidden)
Original: διδασκαλίαι δαιμονίων
Category: Sound Doctrine

NEW. 4:1. δαιμόνιον must NEVER be rendered देवता — the NT’s δαιμόνιον is uniformly a hostile, deceptive spiritual being opposed to God, unlike a generally benevolent Hindu deity-figure.

Love Of Money

Approved rendering: धन का लोभ
Transliteration: dhan kā lobh
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Original: ἀφιλάργυρος (3:3, negated) / φιλαργυρία (6:10)
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. 3:3 (ἀφιλάργυρος, negated) and 6:10 (φιλαργυρία). Identical root must be used at both occurrences to preserve the letter’s internal cross-reference between leadership disqualification and the general root-of-evils warning.

Submission

Approved rendering: अधीनता
Transliteration: adhīnatā
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Original: ὑποταγή
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. 3:4 (household sense, lower-stakes) and 2:11 (doctrinally contested assembly-context sense — part of the ἡσυχία/αὐθεντεῖν interpretive cluster). Must not connote permanent status-inferiority given India’s caste/gender-inflected hierarchies. Native-speaker and theologian review flagged for all occurrences.

Quietness

Approved rendering: मौन / शान्ति से
Transliteration: maun / śānti se
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Original: ἡσυχία
Category: Public Worship

NEW. 2:11-12 (ἡσυχία); same word describes the quiet life prayed for by all believers (2:2). Part of the single 2:11-15 interpretive unit; render literally, record both major interpretive traditions, do NOT resolve. Mandatory theologian review as a unit.

Exercise Authority

Approved rendering: अधिकार रखना/चलाना
Transliteration: adhikār rakhanā/calānā
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Original: αὐθεντεῖν
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. 2:12 (αὐθεντεῖν). Genuinely lexically contested (neutral ‘exercise authority’ vs. negative ‘domineer’). Render as neutrally as the Greek’s own ambiguity allows; mandatory theologian review; do not import either a complementarian or egalitarian resolution.

Modesty

Approved rendering: लज्जा
Transliteration: lajjā
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Original: αἰδώς
Category: Public Worship

NEW. 2:9 (αἰδώς). Extends the baseline honor/shame routing rule (Romans 13-14 precedent). Must convey dignified self-possession, never shame-based control of women. Combined native-speaker + theologian review.

Widow

Approved rendering: विधवा
Transliteration: vidhavā
Doctrine: Care for Widows and the Household of Faith
Original: χήρα
Category: Care for Widows

NEW. 5:3-16. Acute cultural-sensitivity flag beyond ordinary doctrinal risk (India’s history of widow marginalization: remarriage restriction, inheritance disputes, stigma, historically satī). Must present high dignity and structured provision as countercultural biblical value without further stigmatizing widows. Mandatory theologian AND native-speaker review for the whole unit.

Widow Indeed

Approved rendering: सचमुच की विधवा
Transliteration: sacmuc kī vidhavā
Doctrine: Care for Widows and the Household of Faith
Original: ὄντως χήρα
Category: Care for Widows

NEW. 5:5,9,16 (ὄντως χήρα). Frame as a support-eligibility distinction (church’s direct responsibility vs. family-first responsibility), never a hierarchy of legitimacy.

Denied The Faith

Approved rendering: विश्वास का इन्कार करना
Transliteration: viśvāsa kā inkār karanā
Doctrine: Care for Widows and the Household of Faith
Original: τὴν πίστιν ἠρνήσατο / ἠθέτησαν
Category: Care for Widows

NEW. 5:8,12. Failing to provide for family declared ‘worse than an unbeliever’ — a startlingly strong statement that must NOT be softened.

Forbidding Marriage Foods

Approved rendering: विवाह करने से रोकना / भोजन से परहेज़ करना
Transliteration: vivāh karane se roknā / bhojan se parhez karanā
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: κωλυόντων γαμεῖν, ἀπέχεσθαι βρωμάτων
Category: Sound Doctrine

NEW. 4:3. Ascetic false teaching claiming marriage/certain foods are INHERENTLY unholy — not a condemnation of celibacy or fasting as personal disciplines. Mandatory native-speaker and theologian review given India’s ascetic traditions (āśrama renunciation stages; Hindu/Jain dietary/fasting-as-merit practice).

Immortal Invisible Only God

Approved rendering: अविनाशी और अदृश्य, एकमात्र परमेश्वर
Transliteration: avināśī aur adṛśya, ekamātra Parameśvara
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Original: ἀφθάρτῳ ἀοράτῳ μόνῳ θεῷ
Category: Church as Pillar of Truth

NEW. 1:17. Mandatory translator note: अविनाशी sits close to Vedantic Brahman/Ātman descriptions (अक्षर/अविनाशी); note must distinguish the personal, singular, Trinitarian referent from an impersonal imperishable Absolute, reusing the baseline’s ब्रह्म/परमात्मा caution.

Deceiving Spirits

Approved rendering: भरमानेवाली आत्माएँ
Transliteration: bharamānevālī ātmāeṃ
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: πνεύματα πλάνα
Category: Sound Doctrine

NEW. 4:1 (πνεύματα πλάνα). Must be distinguished sharply from पवित्र आत्मा (Holy Spirit) — no shared terminology confusion permitted.

Good Confession

Approved rendering: अच्छा अंगीकार
Transliteration: acchā aṅgīkāra
Doctrine: Christ as the One Mediator
Original: ὁμολογία καλή
Category: Christ as Mediator

NEW. 6:12-13. Extends baseline confession_of_faith to Christ’s own historical testimony before Pilate — a valuable cross-curricular teaching link grounding the confession in history, not merely devotion.

Household Of God

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर का घराना
Transliteration: Parameśvara kā gharānā
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Original: οἶκος θεοῦ
Category: Church as Pillar of Truth

NEW. 3:15. Apposed with ‘church of the living God’ in the same verse, grounding the letter’s stated purpose (3:14-15).

Vindicated In Spirit

Approved rendering: आत्मा में सच्चा ठहराया गया
Transliteration: ātmā meṃ saccā ṭaharāyā gayā
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Rejected alternatives: धर्मी ठहराया जाना (RESERVED for believer’s justification — must never be reused here)
Original: ἐδικαιώθη ἐν πνεύματι
Category: Church as Pillar of Truth

NEW. 3:16b (ἐδικαιώθη ἐν πνεύματι). Christ’s own vindication — a distinct δικαιόω-root doctrine from the believer’s forensic justification. Theologian review required for the whole six-line hymn.

Mystery Of The Faith

Approved rendering: विश्वास का भेद
Transliteration: viśvāsa kā bheda
Doctrine: Guarding the Deposit of Faith
Original: μυστήριον τῆς πίστεως
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. 3:9. Compounds baseline भेद with baseline विश्वास. Elevated to High because it functions as a deacon office qualification — doctrinal integrity and moral integrity (शुद्ध विवेक) cannot be separated.

Double Honor

Approved rendering: दोहरा सम्मान
Transliteration: doharā sammān
Doctrine: Care for Widows and the Household of Faith
Original: διπλῆ τιμή
Category: Care for Widows

NEW. 5:17. Frequently understood to include material remuneration (confirmed by 5:18’s citations) — should not be spiritualized away into purely attitudinal respect.

Turned Aside After Satan

Approved rendering: शैतान के पीछे भटक जाना
Transliteration: śaitān ke pīche bhaṭak jānā
Doctrine: Care for Widows and the Household of Faith
Original: ἐξετράπησαν ὀπίσω τοῦ Σατανᾶ
Category: Care for Widows

NEW. 5:15. Serious apostasy-language relevant to Sound Doctrine’s broader concern with defection; must not be softened.

Sovereignty Of God

Approved rendering: अद्वितीय संप्रभु
Transliteration: advitīya saṃprabhu
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Original: δυνάστης
Category: God

NEW. 6:15 (δυνάστης). Builds on baseline sovereignty root; preserves μόνος (‘only’) — must not be softened into a ruler among rulers, given the doxology’s polemical context against Timothy’s rich patrons.

Partiality Prokrisis

Approved rendering: पक्षपात
Transliteration: pakṣapāt
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Elder Accountability

NEW book-specific application of baseline पक्षपात root. 5:21 (πρόκρισις) — the impartiality charge sworn before God, Christ, and the elect angels concerning elder discipline. Must be rendered unqualified and forceful, directly confronting caste/patron-status favoritism, never softened into mere procedural courtesy.

Medium Risk Terms

Mercy

Approved rendering: दया
Transliteration: dayā
Doctrine: God
Original: ἔλεος
Category: God

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. 1 Timothy’s greeting (1:2,13,16) uniquely adds ἔλεος/दया to the standard grace/peace pair; must render identically across 1-2 Timothy/Titus greetings.

Peace

Approved rendering: शांति
Transliteration: śānti
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Rejected alternatives: चैन, सुकून
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. 1:2 (greeting) and 2:2 (quiet and peaceable life).

Apostle

Approved rendering: प्रेरित
Transliteration: prerita
Doctrine: Paul’s Apostleship and Divine Commissioning
Rejected alternatives: दूत, संदेशवाहक
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church Leadership

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Grounded in direct divine commissioning (1:1, κατ᾿ ἐπιταγήν; 2:7), not human teacher-lineage (guru-parampara).

Church

Approved rendering: कलीसिया
Transliteration: kalīsiyā
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Rejected alternatives: मंदिर, गिरजाघर
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. ‘The church of God’ (3:5) and ‘the church of the living God’ (3:15).

Gentiles

Approved rendering: अन्यजाति / राष्ट्र
Transliteration: anyajāti / rāṣṭra
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Rejected alternatives: विदेशी

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. राष्ट्र in mission/proclamation contexts (2:7; 3:16).

Intercession

Approved rendering: मध्यस्थता
Transliteration: madhyasthatā
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Rejected alternatives: शफाअत
Original: ἔντευξις
Category: Public Worship

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Part of the fourfold prayer call (2:1) and the sanctifying use of God’s gifts (4:5).

Spiritual Gifts

Approved rendering: आत्मिक वरदान
Transliteration: ātmika varadāna
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Rejected alternatives: वरदान, देवीय शक्तियां
Original: χάρισμα
Category: Church Leadership

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Timothy’s ministry gift received at ordination via prophecy and elders’ laid-on hands (4:14).

Mystery

Approved rendering: भेद
Transliteration: bheda
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Rejected alternatives: रहस्य
Original: μυστήριον
Category: Church as Pillar of Truth

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Base term; risk elevates to High/Critical in this book’s compounds — see mystery_of_the_faith (3:9) and mystery_of_godliness (3:16).

Governing Authorities

Approved rendering: राजा और सब अधिकारी
Transliteration: rājā aur sab adhikārī
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Original: ὑπεροχή (concept)
Category: Public Worship

Inherited from Romans baseline (शासन के अधिकारी) and extended per this book’s 2:2 phrasing. Flag for native-speaker review per baseline’s civil-authority routing rule.

Hypocrisy

Approved rendering: कपट
Transliteration: kapaṭa
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: ὑπόκρισις
Category: Sound Doctrine

Inherited from Galatians baseline extension; reused exactly, no deviation. Opposite of a ‘sincere faith’ (ἀνυπόκριτος, 1:5) and characteristic of the liars of the last days (4:2).

Slavery

Approved rendering: दास / दासत्व
Transliteration: dāsa / dāsatva
Doctrine: Social Order: Slaves and Masters
Original: δοῦλος / δουλεία
Category: Godliness and Contentment

Inherited from Galatians baseline extension; reused exactly, no deviation. The household-slave relationship regulated (not endorsed or abolished) at 6:1-2. Keep sharply distinct from δεσπότης/स्वामी and from प्रभु.

Council Of Elders

Approved rendering: प्राचीनों की सभा
Transliteration: prācīnoṃ kī sabhā
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Original: πρεσβυτέριον
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. 4:14 (πρεσβυτέριον). Reinforces the plural, non-solitary, non-self-appointed model of installing leaders.

Above Reproach

Approved rendering: निष्कलंक
Transliteration: niṣkalaṅka
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Original: ἀνεπίλημπτος
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. 3:2 (ἀνεπίλημπτος), the governing overseer qualification. Keep distinct from पवित्र (holy, an ontological set-apartness) — this is a reputational, publicly verifiable standard.

Blameless Deacons

Approved rendering: निर्दोष
Transliteration: nirdoṣ
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Original: ἀνέγκλητος
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. 3:10 (ἀνέγκλητος), applied to deacons after testing. Near-synonym of निष्कलंक — flag for native-speaker review on whether Hindi naturally sustains both as distinct terms or requires a footnote explaining the underlying Greek variation.

Manage Household

Approved rendering: अच्छी रीति से प्रबन्ध करना / अगुवाई करना
Transliteration: acchī rīti se prabandha karanā / aguvāī karanā
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Original: προΐστημι
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. προΐστημι, spanning household governance (3:4-5,12) and congregational leadership (5:17) with one Greek verb, grounding Paul’s smaller-to-larger argument (3:5). Preserve the domestic/ecclesial parallel across both senses.

Dignity

Approved rendering: गम्भीरता / गम्भीर
Transliteration: gambhīratā / gambhīra
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Original: σεμνότης / σεμνός
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. σεμνότης/σεμνός (2:2; 3:4,8,11). Visible dignity/seriousness commending the gospel to outside observers.

Self Control

Approved rendering: संयम / संयमी
Transliteration: saṅyam / saṅyamī
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Original: σώφρων / σωφροσύνη
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. σώφρων/σωφροσύνη (2:9,15; 3:2). Note required: ordinary Hindi moral self-restraint distinct from the Yoga-Sūtra yama-discipline sense — flowing from transformed character, not a power-generating technique.

Test Examine

Approved rendering: जाँच करना / परखना
Transliteration: jāṃc karanā / parakhanā
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Original: δοκιμάζω
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. 3:10 (δοκιμάζω). Reinforces the qualification-based, non-instantaneous nature of office, contrasting with a guru’s dīkṣā (initiation) model of instant authority transfer.

Boldness

Approved rendering: निडरता
Transliteration: niḍartā
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Original: παρρησία
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. 3:13 (παρρησία). Relational confidence grounded in a good conscience, not spiritual merit accumulated toward liberation.

Training For Godliness

Approved rendering: भक्ति के लिये अभ्यास करना
Transliteration: bhakti ke liye abhyās karanā
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Original: γύμναζε σεαυτὸν πρὸς εὐσέβειαν
Category: Godliness and Contentment

NEW. 4:7 (γύμναζε πρὸς εὐσέβειαν), contrasted with mere bodily exercise (4:8). Note: athletic-style disciplined effort toward the true God, not a yogic siddhi-generating technique — अभ्यास also names a classical yoga methodology term.

Appearing

Approved rendering: प्रकट होना / प्रकटन
Transliteration: prakaṭ honā / prakaṭan
Doctrine: Christ as the One Mediator
Original: ἐπιφάνεια
Category: Christ as Mediator

NEW. 6:14 (ἐπιφάνεια), Christ’s future eschatological appearing, in whose light Paul charges Timothy.

Master Despotes

Approved rendering: स्वामी
Transliteration: svāmī
Doctrine: Social Order: Slaves and Masters
Original: δεσπότης
Category: Godliness and Contentment

NEW. 6:1-2 (δεσπότης), a first-century household master over a δοῦλος-slave. Mandatory note: NEVER confuse with or interchange for प्रभु (Christ’s exclusive divine Lordship). Native-speaker review flagged given real-world social-justice sensitivity; passage regulates conduct within an institution, neither endorsing nor abolishing it.

Fight The Good Fight

Approved rendering: विश्वास की अच्छी लड़ाई लड़ो
Transliteration: viśvāsa kī acchī laṛāī laṛo
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment
Original: ἀγωνίζου τὸν καλὸν ἀγῶνα
Category: Godliness and Contentment

NEW. 6:12 (ἀγωνίζου τὸν καλὸν ἀγῶνα). Athletic/military contest metaphor for sustained spiritual perseverance — must not collide with dharma-yuddha-style religious-war concepts.

Knowledge Of Truth

Approved rendering: सत्य का ज्ञान
Transliteration: satya kā jñāna
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: ἐπίγνωσις ἀληθείας
Category: Sound Doctrine

NEW. 2:4 (ἐπίγνωσις ἀληθείας). Positive counterpart to falsely_called_knowledge (6:20) — teach both as a deliberate contrastive pair within the same letter.

Myths Genealogies

Approved rendering: कल्पित कहानियाँ / वंशावलियाँ
Transliteration: kalpit kahāniyāṃ / vaṃśāvaliyāṃ
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Rejected alternatives: पुराण (hard forbidden — named Hindu scripture genre)
Original: μῦθος / γενεαλογία
Category: Sound Doctrine

NEW. 1:4; 4:7 (μῦθος/γενεαλογία). μῦθος must NEVER be rendered पुराण — would falsely equate Paul’s opponents’ speculative traditions with a revered Hindu scripture category.

Handed To Satan

Approved rendering: शैतान के हाथ में सौंप देना
Transliteration: śaitān ke hāth meṃ sauṃp denā
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Elder Accountability
Original: παραδίδωμι τῷ Σατανᾷ
Category: Sound Doctrine

NEW. 1:20. A church-discipline formula; must be distinguished from folk-exorcism/curse-transfer ritual — this is a disciplinary act of the church under Christ’s authority, not magical curse-transfer.

Shipwrecked Faith

Approved rendering: विश्वास के जहाज़ का डूब जाना
Transliteration: viśvāsa ke jahāz kā ḍūb jānā
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: ναυαγέω
Category: Sound Doctrine

NEW. 1:19 (ναυαγέω). Vehicle of the metaphor must be supplied explicitly since Hindi lacks a single verb equivalent. Flag for native-speaker review re: inland vs. coastal reader intelligibility.

Conceited

Approved rendering: घमण्ड से फूल जाना
Transliteration: ghamaṇḍ se phūl jānā
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Original: τυφόω
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. 3:6; 6:4 (τυφόω), pride pictured as smoke that clouds vision. Built on baseline घमण्ड root.

Creature Of God

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर की सृष्टि
Transliteration: Parameśvara kī sṝṣṭi
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: κτίσμα θεοῦ
Category: Sound Doctrine

NEW. 4:4 (κτίσμα θεοῦ). Every created thing, good and to be received with thanksgiving — refutes ascetic false teaching.

Laying On Of Hands

Approved rendering: हाथ रखना
Transliteration: hāth rakhanā
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Original: ἐπίθεσις τῶν χειρῶν
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. 4:14 (ordination) and 5:22 (Paul’s caution against hasty use).

Good Standing

Approved rendering: अच्छा पद
Transliteration: acchā pada
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Original: βαθμὸς καλός
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. 3:13 (βαθμὸς καλός), the good standing gained through faithful deacon service.

Unapproachable Light

Approved rendering: अगम्य ज्योति
Transliteration: agamya jyoti
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Original: φῶς ἀπρόσιτον
Category: Church as Pillar of Truth

NEW. 6:16 (φῶς ἀπρόσιτον). Per baseline’s standing caution against light-metaphors drifting toward Hindu divine-radiance concepts, mitigated by the ‘unapproachable’ qualifier but still requiring a brief note.

Elect Angels

Approved rendering: चुने हुए स्वर्गदूत
Transliteration: cune hue svargadūt
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Elder Accountability
Original: ἐκλεκτῶν ἀγγέλων
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. 5:21. Built on the baseline election root.

Accusation Two Or Three Witnesses

Approved rendering: दो या तीन गवाहों पर आरोप
Transliteration: do yā tīn gavāhoṃ par ārop
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Elder Accountability

NEW. 5:19-20. Protects leaders from unsubstantiated accusation while requiring public accountability.

Able To Teach

Approved rendering: शिक्षा देने में निपुण
Transliteration: śikṣā dene meṃ nipuṇ
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Original: διδακτικός
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. 3:2 (διδακτικός). The only overseer qualification that is explicitly a skill/gift rather than a character trait; ties Qualifications for Leadership directly to Sound Doctrine.

Trustworthy Saying

Approved rendering: यह बात विश्वास के योग्य है
Transliteration: yah bāt viśvāsa ke yogya hai
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: πιστὸς ὁ λόγος
Category: Sound Doctrine

NEW. 1:15; 3:1; 4:9 (πιστὸς ὁ λόγος). Fixed Pastoral-epistle formula; must be rendered identically at all occurrences and matched with any future 2 Timothy/Titus curriculum on this Language Package.

Purity

Approved rendering: पवित्रता / शुद्धता
Transliteration: pavitratā / śuddhatā
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Original: ἁγνεία
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. 4:12; 5:2 (ἁγνεία), a near-synonym of but lexically distinct from ἁγιασμός. Flag for native-speaker review to select the term best avoiding overlap with पवित्र (holy).

Root Vice List

Approved rendering: अधर्मी, हत्यारा, व्यभिचारी, आदि
Transliteration: adharmī, hatyārā, vyabhicārī, ādi
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Original: 1:9-10 vice list (ἄνομος, ἀσεβής, πατρολῴας, ἀνδροφόνος, πόρνος, ἀρσενοκοίτης, ἀνδραποδιστής, ψεύστης, ἐπίορκος, κτλ.)
Category: Sound Doctrine

NEW. 1:9-10 vice list. ἀρσενοκοίτης and ἀνδραποδιστής individually flagged for pastoral-sensitivity native-speaker review — the latter has acute resonance in India’s contemporary human-trafficking context. Render literally without softening or over-specifying scope.

Greedy Dishonest Gain

Approved rendering: अनुचित लाभ का लोभी
Transliteration: anucit lābh kā lobhī
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership

NEW. 3:8 (αἰσχροκερδής), distinguished from ἀφιλάργυρος (3:3) by the added note of dishonesty in the means of gain.

Good Testimony Outsiders

Approved rendering: बाहरवालों में अच्छी साख
Transliteration: bāharvāloṃ meṃ acchī sākh
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership

NEW. 3:7 (μαρτυρία καλὴ ἀπὸ τῶν ἔξωθεν). Credibility recognizable even to non-believers — a publicly observable life, not merely internal piety.

Unhypocritical Sincere

Approved rendering: निष्कपट
Transliteration: niṣkapaṭ
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching

NEW. 1:5 (ἀνυπόκριτος), built on baseline कपट root.

Widows Qualifying Works

Approved rendering: बच्चों का पालन-पोषण किया, अतिथि-सत्कार किया, पवित्र जनों के पाँव धोए, दुखियों की सहायता की
Transliteration: baccoṃ kā pālan-poṣaṇ kiyā, ādi
Doctrine: Care for Widows and the Household of Faith

NEW. 5:10, the enrolled widow’s qualifying works list. Foot-washing ties naturally to Indian hospitality customs, likely to translate with strong natural resonance.

Gave Occasion To Adversary

Approved rendering: विरोधी को अवसर देना
Transliteration: virodhī ko avasar denā
Doctrine: Care for Widows and the Household of Faith

NEW. 5:14 (ἀφορμὴν τῷ ἀντικειμένῳ).

Low Risk Terms

Prophecy

Approved rendering: भविष्यवाणी
Transliteration: bhaviṣyavāṇī
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Rejected alternatives: भविष्यफल
Original: προφητεία
Category: Sound Doctrine

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Identified Timothy’s calling (1:18) and accompanied his ordination (4:14).

Thanksgiving

Approved rendering: धन्यवाद
Transliteration: dhanyavāda
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Original: εὐχαριστία
Category: Public Worship

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Part of the fourfold call to prayer (2:1) and the proper response to God’s creation (4:3-4).

Hospitality

Approved rendering: अतिथि-सत्कार
Transliteration: atithi-satkāra
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Original: φιλόξενος
Category: Church Leadership

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. An overseer qualification (3:2) and a mark of the ‘widow indeed’ (5:10).

Household Of Faith

Approved rendering: विश्वास के घराने के लोग
Transliteration: viśvāsa ke gharāne ke loga
Doctrine: Care for Widows and the Household of Faith
Original: οἰκεῖος τῆς πίστεως (concept, cf. 5:8’s προνοεῖ τῶν ἰδίων)
Category: Care for Widows

Inherited from Galatians baseline extension; reused exactly, no deviation. Conceptually parallels 5:8’s προνοεῖ τῶν ἰδίων (family responsibility for widows) and 3:15.

Doxology

Approved rendering: महिमा-गान
Transliteration: mahimā-gāna
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Rejected alternatives: स्तुति
Original: — (genre label)
Category: Church as Pillar of Truth

Inherited from Romans baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Genre-label for 1:17 and 6:15-16.

Boasting

Approved rendering: घमण्ड
Transliteration: ghamaṇḍa
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership

Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package; reused exactly, no deviation. Root underlying τυφόω (‘puffed up,’ 3:6; 6:4) — see conceited entry.

Amen

Approved rendering: आमीन
Transliteration: āmīna
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Original: ἀμήν
Category: Public Worship

Inherited from Galatians baseline extension; reused exactly, no deviation. Textually attested at 1:17 and/or 6:21 in some manuscripts.

Oikonomia Theou

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर की योजना
Transliteration: Parameśvara kī yojanā
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching
Rejected alternatives: परमेश्वर की व्यवस्था (rejected — व्यवस्था reserved for Torah/Law), अर्थव्यवस्था (Local Church movement’s ‘God’s economy’ system — hard forbidden)

NEW. 1:4 (οἰκονομία θεοῦ). NEVER अर्थव्यवस्था — this imports Witness Lee’s ‘Local Church’ theological system, assessed by outside doctrinal review as risking a Creator-creature boundary collapse.

Nomodidaskalos

Approved rendering: व्यवस्था के शिक्षक
Transliteration: vyavasthā ke śikṣak
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching

NEW. 1:7. Builds on baseline व्यवस्था.

Eternal Dominion

Approved rendering: सदा का प्रभुत्व
Transliteration: sadā kā prabhutva
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth
Original: κράτος αἰώνιον
Category: Church as Pillar of Truth

NEW. 6:16 (κράτος αἰώνιον), closing the 6:15-16 doxology; distinct root from δύναμις/power_of_God’s baseline सामर्थ्य.

Sober

Approved rendering: सचेत
Transliteration: sacet
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership
Original: νηφάλιος
Category: Church Leadership

NEW. 3:2,11 (νηφάλιος). Sobriety extended to mental/moral clear-headedness.

Public Reading

Approved rendering: सार्वजनिक पाठ
Transliteration: sārvajanik pāṭh
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer
Original: ἀνάγνωσις
Category: Public Worship

NEW. 4:13 (ἀνάγνωσις), the public reading of Scripture as a core corporate-worship practice.

Orderly Respectable

Approved rendering: व्यवस्थित / शिष्ट
Transliteration: vyavasthit / śiṣṭa
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership

NEW. 3:2 (κόσμιος). शिष्ट preferred over व्यवस्थित to avoid confusion with व्यवस्था (reserved for Torah).

Gentle

Approved rendering: कोमल / नम्र
Transliteration: komal / namra
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership

NEW. 3:3 (ἐπιεικής). नम्र loosely echoes the Galatians baseline fruit-of-the-Spirit family नम्रता.

Peaceable

Approved rendering: शान्तिप्रिय
Transliteration: śānti-priya
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership

NEW. 3:3 (ἄμαχος), drawing on baseline शांति root.

Drunkard

Approved rendering: पियक्कड़
Transliteration: piyakkaṛ
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership

NEW. 3:3 (πάροινος).

Violent Pugnacious

Approved rendering: मारपीट करनेवाला
Transliteration: mārapīṭ karanevālā
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership

NEW. 3:3 (πλήκτης).

Double Tongued

Approved rendering: दुज़बानी करनेवाला
Transliteration: dujbānī karanevālā
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership

NEW. 3:8 (δίλογος).

New Convert

Approved rendering: नया विश्वासी
Transliteration: nayā viśvāsī
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership

NEW. 3:6 (νεόφυτος). Spiritual maturity, not mere correct belief, required for oversight.

Care For Look After

Approved rendering: देखरेख करना
Transliteration: dekhrekh karanā
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership

NEW. 3:5 (ἐπιμελέομαι). Household management escalates to pastoral care via this verb.

Reproach Snare

Approved rendering: निन्दा / जाल-फंदा
Transliteration: nindā / jāl-phandā
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership

NEW. ὀνειδισμός (3:7) / παγίς (3:7; 6:9).

Pattern Example

Approved rendering: आदर्श / नमूना
Transliteration: ādarś / namūnā
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching

NEW. ὑποτύπωσις (1:16) / τύπος (4:12).

Patience

Approved rendering: सहनशीलता
Transliteration: sahanaśīlatā
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching

NEW. 1:16 (μακροθυμία).

Blessed Of God

Approved rendering: धन्य
Transliteration: dhanya
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth

NEW. 1:11; 6:15 (μακάριος), uniquely of God in this letter.

Honor General

Approved rendering: सम्मान / आदर
Transliteration: sammān / ādar
Doctrine: The Church as Pillar of Truth

NEW. τιμή (1:17; 5:3,17), with an explicit note when the financial-support sense is active (5:3,17) vs. the attitudinal sense elsewhere.

Progress Advancement

Approved rendering: उन्नति / प्रगति
Transliteration: unnati / pragati
Doctrine: Qualifications for Church Leadership

NEW. 4:15 (προκοπή).

Herald Teacher

Approved rendering: प्रचारक / शिक्षक
Transliteration: pracārak / śikṣak
Doctrine: Public Worship and Prayer

NEW. κήρυξ / διδάσκαλος (2:7).

Food And Covering

Approved rendering: भोजन और वस्त्र
Transliteration: bhojan aur vastra
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment

NEW. 6:8 (διατροφαὶ καὶ σκεπάσματα).

Uncertain Riches

Approved rendering: अनिश्चित धन
Transliteration: aniścit dhan
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment

NEW. 6:17 (πλούτου ἀδηλότης).

Good Foundation

Approved rendering: अच्छी नींव
Transliteration: acchī nīṃva
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment

NEW. 6:19 (θεμέλιον καλόν). Must not be read as merit-accumulation toward salvation, but as grace-enabled fruit.

Approved rendering: बांटने में उदार
Transliteration: bāṇṭne meṃ udār
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment

NEW. 6:18 (κοινωνικός), lightly echoing the baseline संगति root.

Gives Life To All Things

Approved rendering: जो सबको जीवन देता है
Transliteration: jo sabko jīvan detā hai
Doctrine: Christ as the One Mediator

NEW. 6:13 (ζωοποιοῦντος τὰ πάντα).

Swerved Wandered Off

Approved rendering: भटक जाना
Transliteration: bhaṭak jānā
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine versus False Teaching

NEW. 1:6; 6:21 (ἀστοχέω). Forms an intentional literary frame around the whole letter.

Bodily Exercise

Approved rendering: शारीरिक कसरत
Transliteration: śārīrik kasarat
Doctrine: Godliness and Contentment

NEW. 4:8 (σωματικὴ γυμνασία), contrasted with training for godliness.

Family Metaphor

Approved rendering: पिता/माता/भाई/बहन के समान
Transliteration: pitā/mātā/bhāī/bahin ke samān
Doctrine: Care for Widows and the Household of Faith

NEW. 5:1-2, reuses the baseline brotherly_love family-language convention.

Provide For Ones Own

Approved rendering: अपनों के लिये प्रबन्ध करना
Transliteration: apanoṃ ke liye prabandha karanā
Doctrine: Care for Widows and the Household of Faith

NEW. 5:8 (προνοεῖ τῶν ἰδίων), the family-first responsibility principle.

Wine For Stomach

Approved rendering: थोड़ा दाखमधु / पेट / कमज़ोरी
Transliteration: thoṛā dākhamadhu / peṭ / kamzorī
Doctrine: Care for Widows and the Household of Faith

NEW. 5:23. Cultural sensitivity note (not doctrinal-risk flag): Indian Christian communities vary in conviction regarding alcohol.

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