Core Glossary: 2 John

Curriculum: 2 John Destination language: Kashmiri (Koshur), Perso-Arabic script Baseline anchor: translation_memory.json v1 (Romans). All rows marked “Reused (baseline)” carry the exact recorded rendering and must not be altered. Rows marked “New (2 John)” are proposed extensions requiring the same review discipline (theologian review for Critical/High, native-speaker review for Medium) before Phase 2 deployment.

#	English term	Original (Greek)	Kashmiri rendering	Transliteration	Doctrine risk	Doctrine	Status	Key passage(s)	Notes / rejected alternatives
1	Truth	ἀλήθεια	سچائی	sachā’ī	High	Walking in Truth and Love	New (2 John)	1:1,2,3,4	Avoid حق (Al-Ḥaqq, a Divine Name in Islam) as primary term; must distinguish from Trika’s monistic “Truth as sole Reality.”
2	Love (agapē)	ἀγάπη / ἀγαπάω	محبت	muḥabbat	High	Walking in Truth and Love	New (2 John)	1:1,3,5,6	Distinguish from Sufi ʿishq-e-ḥaqīqī mystical-longing love; biblical love here is commandment-expressed and covenantal, not sentiment/absorption.
3	Commandment	ἐντολή	فرمان	farmān	High	Walking in Truth and Love; Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ	New (2 John)	1:4,5,6	Rejected: حکم (ḥukm) — too closely tied to Sharia legal-ruling (aḥkām) framework; parallels baseline’s شریعت caution.
4	Walk (conduct of life)	περιπατέω	چلُن	chalun	Medium	Walking in Truth and Love	New (2 John)	1:4,6	Must retain metaphorical “conduct/lifestyle” sense, not literal ambulation only; avoid flattening to rule-checklist observance.
5	Deceiver	πλάνος	گمراہ کُن	gumrāh kun	High	Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation	New (2 John)	1:7	Rejected: دجال (Dajjāl) — a specific, named Islamic eschatological figure with detailed hadith narrative; never use as generic gloss.
6	Antichrist	ἀντίχριστος	مسیح دشمن	Masīḥ dushman	Critical	Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation	New (2 John)	1:7	Rejected: دجال — same concern as above, intensified; must teach as a doctrinal category (denial of incarnation), distinct from Islamic Dajjāl eschatology, active already in apostolic times. Built on baseline مسیح, reused exactly.
7	Confess	ὁμολογέω	اقرار کرُن	iqrār karun	High	Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation	New (2 John)	1:7	Object must always be explicit (Christ’s incarnate coming), avoiding drift toward shahāda-style generic creedal confession.
8	Come/coming in the flesh (Incarnation)	ἐρχόμενον ἐν σαρκί	خُدا منش رُوپ منز آمت	Khudā manūsh rūp manz āmat	Critical	Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation	Reused (baseline)	1:7	Exact reuse of baseline “incarnation” entry. Additional 2 John-specific note: bridges naturally to the mainstream Sunni denial of the crucifixion (Qur’an 4:157) as a related functional-docetism objection.
9	Teaching / doctrine	διδαχή	تعلیم	taʿlīm	High	Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ	New (2 John)	1:9,10	Always anchor as “the teaching of Christ” (مسیحہٕ ہٕنٛز تعلیم); bare تعلیم risks generic-religious-instruction default.
10	Abide / remain	μένω	ٹِکُن	ṭikun	High	Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ	New (2 John)	1:2,9	Distinguish persevering fidelity to received apostolic content from Sufi/Trika contemplative “abiding” attained through spiritual discipline.
11	Reward	μισθός	اجر	ajar	High	Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ	New (2 John)	1:8	Parallel risk to baseline grace/salvation cluster: must not be read as merit weighed toward paradise; reward here is preserved fruit of gospel labor.
12	Goes ahead / beyond (false progress)	προάγων	تعلیمہٕ ہٕنٛدِ حد ونٛگتھ گژھُن	taʿlīma hindi ḥad wangath gazhun	High	Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ	New (2 John)	1:9	Descriptive phrase required; must not suggest legitimate spiritual advancement (Sufi maqāmāt / Trika recognition-stages) is itself being criticized.
13	Does not have God / has the Father and the Son	θεὸν οὐκ ἔχει / τὸν πατέρα καὶ τὸν υἱὸν ἔχει	خُدا چھُنہٕ حاصل / باپت تہٕ پُتر حاصل چھِ	Khudā chhunuh hāṣil / bāpath tah putr hāṣil chhi	Critical	Deity of Christ; Sonship of Christ (baseline doctrines)	New phrase, reuses baseline terms	1:9	Direct Tawhid flashpoint; must be taught plainly per baseline Sonship/Deity Critical guidance, not softened.
14	Receive into the house (hospitality)	λαμβάνειν εἰς οἰκίαν	گرہٕ منز رَٹُن	garah manz raṭun	High	Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment	New (2 John)	1:10	Cuts against strong regional mehmān-nawāzī hospitality norms (shared Muslim/Pandit/Rishi values); must be framed as a narrow doctrine-specific exception, not general inhospitality license.
15	Say “greetings” (formal endorsement greeting)	χαίρειν λέγειν	سلام کہِن	salām kahin	Medium-High	Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment	New (2 John)	1:10,11	سلام carries heavy Islamic devotional/social weight; must be distinguished from withholding ordinary courtesy — this is refusal of formal public endorsement only.
16	Participate / share in (complicity)	κοινωνέω	شامل ہُن	shāmil hun	High	Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment	New (2 John)	1:11	Rejected: شریک ہُن (sharīk hun) — root proximity to شرک (shirk), the gravest sin in Islamic theology; avoid despite closer literal semantic fit.
17	Evil works	ἔργα πονηρά	بد کارؠ	bad kāryi	Medium	Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment	New (2 John)	1:11	Reinforces baseline “sin” (گناہ) doctrine — false teaching treated as culpable action, not neutral error.
18	World	κόσμος	عالَم	ʿālam	Medium	Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation	New (2 John)	1:7	Standard shared term; ensure Johannine morally-charged sense retained, not flattened to neutral geography.
19	Elder (self-designation)	πρεσβύτερος	بزرگ	buzurg	Medium	(Epistolary framing; supports Perseverance/Discernment doctrines)	New (2 John)	1:1	Distinguish apostolic-office/eyewitness authority from Rishi Sufi “buzurg” venerated-saint/pīr status.
20	Elect (lady/sister)	ἐκλεκτή	چُنٲیتؠ	chunāyith	High	(Applies baseline Election doctrine corporately)	New (2 John), reuses baseline root	1:1,13	Built on baseline خُدایُک چُنٲوُن; likely personifies local congregations, not a single elite individual — flag for native-speaker confirmation of corporate reading.
21	Lady (respectful address)	κυρία	معزز خاتون	muʿazzaz khātūn	Medium	(Distinguishes human title from divine Lordship)	New (2 John)	1:1,5	Must never use any خُدا-compound; keep clearly distinct from baseline خُداوند (Lord, reserved Critically for Christ).
22	Mercy	ἔλεος	رحم	raham	High	Grace (baseline doctrine, extended)	New (2 John), promotes baseline’s permitted-synonym note to standalone term	1:3	Baseline lists رحم only as supporting synonym for grace, never replacement; here it is Scripture’s own distinct term alongside χάρις — same deeds-weighing collision risk as فضل applies.
23	Grace	χάρις	فضل	faz’l	Critical	Grace	Reused (baseline)	1:3	Exact reuse; full baseline Critical reasoning applies (shaktipat / deeds-weighed mercy, two distinct wrong frames).
24	Peace	εἰρήνη	امن	amn	Medium	Peace with God	Reused (baseline)	1:3	Exact reuse.
25	God	θεός	خُدا	Khudā	High	Deity of Christ	Reused (baseline)	1:3,9	Exact reuse.
26	Father	πατήρ	باپت	bāpath	Critical	Adoption / Sonship of Christ	Reused (baseline)	1:3,4,9	Exact reuse.
27	Son of God / Son of the Father	υἱὸς τοῦ πατρός	باپتُک پُتر	bāpathuk putr	Critical	Sonship of Christ; Deity of Christ	Reused (baseline root)	1:3	Adapted from baseline خُدایہ ہند پُتر to “Son of the Father” phrasing; same Critical Tawhid-collision reasoning applies.
28	Jesus	Ἰησοῦς	یِسوع	Yisūʿ	Critical	Lordship of Christ	Reused (baseline)	1:3	Exact reuse; never عیسیٰ.
29	Christ / Messiah	Χριστός	مسیح	Masīḥ	Critical	Messianic Promise	Reused (baseline)	1:3,7,9	Exact reuse.
30	Joy	χαρά	خوشی	khushī	Low	(Supports pastoral tone; no independent doctrine)	New (2 John)	1:4,12	No significant doctrinal risk.
31	Face to face	στόμα πρὸς στόμα	مکھ برابر مکھ	mukh barābar mukh	Low	(Idiom; no doctrine)	New (2 John)	1:12	Idiom-handling case: render meaning, not literal “mouth to mouth” calque.
32	Send greetings (closing salutation)	ἀσπάζεται	سلام واریو	salām wārīv	Low	(Epistolary closing; no independent doctrine)	New (2 John)	1:13	Should read as lexically distinct from the withheld “greeting” of vv. 10-11 to avoid apparent inconsistency; native-speaker review point.

Risk Summary for 2 John

Risk tier	Count	Terms
Critical	6	Antichrist; Incarnation (reused); “does not have God/has Father and Son”; Grace (reused); Son of the Father (reused); [Messianic/Deity/Sonship doctrines underlying multiple rows]
High	12	Truth; Love; Commandment; Deceiver; Confess; Teaching/doctrine; Abide/remain; Reward; Goes-ahead (false progress); Receive into house; Participate/share; Elect; Mercy; God; Jesus (Critical actually — see table)
Medium	8	Walk; World; Elder; Lady; Peace (reused); Evil works; Say-greetings (endorsement)
Low	4	Joy; Face to face; Send greetings; (watch yourselves, low-medium)

Note: exact tier boundaries follow the per-term rows above; this summary aggregates for review-routing purposes and should be reconciled against the doctrine_risk_registry.json extension in a subsequent step.

Terms Requiring Human Theologian Review Before Phase 2 (Critical + High)

Truth, Love, Commandment, Deceiver, Antichrist, Confess, Incarnation (reused), Teaching/doctrine, Abide/remain, Reward, Goes-ahead, “Does not have God” phrase, Receive into house, Participate/share, Elect, Mercy, Grace (reused), Son of the Father (reused), Jesus (reused), Christ/Messiah (reused), God (reused), Father (reused).

Terms Requiring Native Speaker Review Only (Medium)

Walk, World, Elder, Lady (κυρία), Evil works, Say-greetings (χαίρειν λέγειν), Peace (reused).

Terms Requiring Automated Review Only (Low)

Joy, Face to face, Send greetings, Watch yourselves.

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Critical Risk Terms

Grace

Approved rendering: فضل
Transliteration: faz’l
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: شکتی پات (Shaktipat, the Kashmir Shaivite descent of divine power/grace, never use as a substitute), رحم (mercy in the general Islamic sense of divine compassion weighed against deeds, use only as a supporting synonym, never a replacement)
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package; rendering and full reasoning copied exactly. 2 John-specific extension: in 2 John 1:3 فضل is paired with رحم (mercy, a new standalone term in this curriculum) and امن (peace) as gifts flowing jointly from God the Father AND Jesus Christ ‘the Son of the Father’ — this joint sourcing reinforces the Deity/Sonship of Christ doctrine and is a teaching opportunity to resist a deeds-weighed reading of both فضل and رحم together. See doctrine ‘Grace, Mercy, and Peace from the Father and the Son’ (Critical).

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Father

Approved rendering: باپت
Transliteration: bāpath
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: πατήρ
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package; rendering copied exactly. 2 John-specific extension: appears in 1:3 (co-source of grace/mercy/peace, paired explicitly with the Son) and 1:9 (‘has both the Father and the Son’) — reinforcing rather than replacing its baseline Adoption association; here its primary doctrinal load is Sonship/Deity of Christ, not Adoption, and should be cross-taught accordingly.

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Son Of God

Approved rendering: خُدایہ ہند پُتر
Transliteration: Khudāya hind putr
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: نبی (a great prophet, an explicit downgrade and mainstream Islamic reading of Isa’s status, rejected)
Original: υἱὸς τοῦ πατρός
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package; rendering and reasoning copied exactly. 2 John does not use this exact phrase verbatim (it uses ‘the Son of the Father,’ see new term son_of_the_father below, built on this same root) but the underlying doctrine and Critical-tier reasoning apply without modification wherever Christ’s Sonship is discussed in this curriculum’s teaching materials.

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Son Of The Father

Approved rendering: باپتُک پُتر
Transliteration: bāpathuk putr
Doctrine: Sonship and Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: نبی (prophet, an explicit downgrade, rejected per baseline son_of_god reasoning)

New phrase specific to 2 John 1:3’s wording (τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ πατρός), adapted from the baseline’s خُدایہ ہند پُتر root to match ‘Son of the Father.’ Same Critical Tawhid-collision reasoning as baseline son_of_god applies in full: directly contradicts Qur’an 112’s denial that God begets or is begotten. In 2 John 1:3 this phrase names Christ as joint source, with the Father, of grace/mercy/peace; in 1:9 (via does_not_have_god below) the same relationship is stated as the dividing line between having and not having God at all. Must be taught plainly, never softened.

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Jesus

Approved rendering: یِسوع
Transliteration: Yisūʿ
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: عیسیٰ (the Quranic Arabic/Perso-Arabic form, reserve only for explicit interfaith-dialogue contexts)
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package; rendering and reasoning copied exactly. Appears in 2 John 1:3 (co-source of grace/mercy/peace) and 1:7 (subject of the incarnation-denial the deceivers reject).

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Messiah

Approved rendering: مسیح
Transliteration: Masīḥ
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package; rendering and reasoning copied exactly. 2 John-specific extension: this exact root is reused transparently to build the new compound term مسیح دشمن (antichrist, see below) — translators must recognize that term as built on this established root, not as an unrelated coinage.

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Incarnation

Approved rendering: خُدا منش رُوپ منز آمت
Transliteration: Khudā manūsh rūp manz āmat
Doctrine: Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: اوتار (avatar, a Vaishnava-style deity-descent familiar to some Kashmiri Pandit readers through wider Indian Hindu exposure, never use)
Original: ἐρχόμενον ἐν σαρκί
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package; rendering and reasoning copied exactly, no modification. 2 John-specific extension (1:7): the false teachers John opposes appear to have denied precisely this reality (a docetic Christology, holding Christ only ‘seemed’ to have a body) — a striking historical parallel to the mainstream Sunni reading of Qur’an 4:157 (‘it was made to appear so to them,’ denying the crucifixion). Both traditions deny that what appeared to happen to Christ’s body actually happened; this verse gives this curriculum a natural, pastorally useful bridge to address that specific, well-known objection directly rather than avoiding it.

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Lord

Approved rendering: خُداوند
Transliteration: Khudāwand
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: مالِک (owner/master, reserve for ordinary human authority contexts)

Inherited from Romans package; rendering and reasoning copied exactly. 2 John-specific extension: this term must NEVER be used to render κυρία (‘lady,’ the human addressee of 1:1 and 1:5) or any خُدا-compound applied to her; see new term ‘lady’ below. Reserve خُداوند exclusively for Christ’s exclusive, supreme divine Lordship.

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Antichrist

Approved rendering: مسیح دشمن
Transliteration: Masīḥ dushman
Doctrine: The Antichrist as a Doctrinal Category
Rejected alternatives: دجال (Dajjāl — same concern as ‘deceiver’ above, intensified, since ἀντίχριστος is etymologically and conceptually the NT term closest to this Islamic eschatological figure)
Original: ἀντίχριστος
Category: Christology

CRITICAL: readers may spontaneously import Dajjāl’s specific hadith-narrative content (physical description, forty-day reign, defeat by Isa’s return) onto this term. مسیح دشمن (built transparently on the established مسیح root, reused exactly from the baseline) avoids borrowing that narrative while still naming direct opposition to Christ. Must never stand without an explanatory clause at every doctrinally significant occurrence (not just first use): ‘many who deny that Christ came in the flesh — this itself is [the spirit of] antichrist.’ Must be taught explicitly as a present, plural, apostolic-era doctrinal category, distinct from Islamic Dajjāl eschatology, while acknowledging the shared intuition that history includes deceptive opposition to the true Messiah.

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Does Not Have God

Approved rendering: خُدا چھُنہٕ حاصل / باپت تہٕ پُتر حاصل چھِ
Transliteration: Khudā chhunuh hāṣil / bāpath tah putr hāṣil chhi
Doctrine: Sonship and Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: a softened rendering such as ‘does not fully know God’ — rejected as blunting the verse’s deliberate binary force
Original: θεὸν οὐκ ἔχει / τὸν πατέρα καὶ τὸν υἱὸν ἔχει
Category: Christology

CRITICAL: the single highest-risk sentence in this curriculum. 1:9 states with maximal bluntness that whoever does not abide in the teaching of Christ ‘does not have God,’ while whoever abides ‘has both the Father and the Son’ — directly contradicting mainstream Islamic Tawhid theology’s affirmation of God-without-Son and echoing Qur’an 112’s denial that God begets or is begotten. Must be rendered at full force, never softened; require theologian review of every occurrence; pair with mandatory pastoral framing acknowledging this as a direct, known point of friction. Retain the full compositional paraphrase — do not compress into a single clause, which would lose the deliberate structural parallelism of the Greek.

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High Risk Terms

God

Approved rendering: خُدا
Transliteration: Khudā
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: θεός
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package; rendering copied exactly (baseline translation_memory.json records this as High risk under Deity of Christ; note the companion bible_term_registry.json records Critical — both risk tiers apply; treat as Critical for review-routing purposes in this curriculum given 2 John 1:9’s direct Tawhid flashpoint). 2 John-specific extension: anchors the Critical claim in 1:9 that rejecting the Son means ‘not having God’ at all — must be taught plainly, not softened.

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Election

Approved rendering: خُدایُک چُنٲوُن
Transliteration: Khudāyuk chunāwun
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: قسمت (fate, tied to the Islamic concept of taqdir/al-qadar, divine predetermination, use with caution)

Inherited from Romans package; rendering and reasoning copied exactly. 2 John extends this doctrine corporately via the adjectival form چُنٲیتؠ (see new term ‘elect’ below), applying it to a personified local congregation (‘the elect lady,’ 1:1) and her sister congregation (1:13) rather than to an individual, as more typical in Romans 9.

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Faith

Approved rendering: ایمان
Transliteration: īmān
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: یقین (certainty/conviction, too intellectual/impersonal alone)

Inherited from Romans package; rendering and reasoning copied exactly. 2 John-specific cross-reference: the object-explicitness principle documented for ایمان (personal trust in Christ specifically, not generic confessional submission) is directly applied to اقرار کرُن (confess, see new term below) in 2 John 1:7, which likewise requires its object (Christ’s incarnate coming) to be stated explicitly rather than left implicit.

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Sin

Approved rendering: گناہ
Transliteration: gunāh
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability

Inherited from Romans package; rendering and reasoning copied exactly. 2 John-specific extension: forms the implicit background for بد کارؠ (‘evil works,’ see new term below) in 1:11 — false teaching about Christ’s person is treated in this letter as morally culpable action, not neutral intellectual disagreement, reinforcing rather than contradicting the baseline sin doctrine.

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Truth

Approved rendering: سچائی
Transliteration: sachā’ī
Doctrine: Walking in Truth and Love
Rejected alternatives: حق (al-Ḥaqq, one of the traditional Divine Names in Islamic theology; risks readers hearing an abstract divine attribute rather than the specific apostolic content about Christ’s incarnate coming)
Original: ἀλήθεια
Category: Christian Living

Occurs five times in this short letter (1:1, 2, 3, 4). For Muslim-background readers, must be anchored to the specific historical/apostolic content about Christ, not left as abstract divine-attribute language. For Kashmiri Pandit (Trika) readers, must be distinguished from Kashmir Shaivism’s monistic claim that ultimate Truth/Reality is the sole undivided Shiva-consciousness (an ontological identity claim); Johannine truth here is relational and propositional, received or rejected, not a statement that the self already is the Real. At first use (1:4), explicitly anchor to ‘the truth about Christ’s person and coming.‘

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Love

Approved rendering: محبت
Transliteration: muḥabbat
Doctrine: Walking in Truth and Love
Original: ἀγάπη / ἀγαπάω
Category: Christian Living

محبت is the standard, widely attested regional Bible-translation term for agapē, but it is also the central devotional term in Kashmiri Sufi (Rishi-order) mystical vocabulary for ʿishq-e-ḥaqīqī, an experiential, often ecstatic longing-absorption toward the Divine Beloved. Must be taught, via 1:5-6’s explicit definition (‘this is love, that we walk according to his commandments’), as covenantal, obedience-expressed love among believers, not mystical longing, while acknowledging the genuine point of contact between the two vocabularies. Keep vv.5-6 rendered as a single tightly-linked unit; do not quote 1:5’s ‘love’ without 1:6’s definition nearby.

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Commandment

Approved rendering: فرمان
Transliteration: farmān
Doctrine: Walking in Truth and Love
Rejected alternatives: حکم (ḥukm, the standard term for a Sharia legal ruling, aḥkām al-sharī’ah; risks defaulting readers toward a comprehensive rule-of-law framework parallel to Sharia observance, echoing the baseline’s caution for شریعت)
Original: ἐντολή
Category: Christian Living

A Persian-rooted term for a royal decree/charge, preserving the relational, personally-issued sense of ἐντολή without importing a full legal-code frame. Must be explicitly taught, per 1:5-6, as the single relational charge to love one another received ‘from the beginning,’ not a checklist of rules.

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Deceiver

Approved rendering: گمراہ کُن
Transliteration: gumrāh kun
Doctrine: Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: دجال (Dajjāl, a specific, named Islamic eschatological figure with a detailed hadith narrative; never use as a generic gloss for John’s category of ‘many deceivers’)
Original: πλάνος
Category: False Teaching

Names the false teachers of 1:7 denying Christ’s genuine incarnate coming. Using Dajjāl would wrongly import an extra-biblical, single-figure end-times narrative onto John’s category of ‘many deceivers’ already active in the first century (past tense, ‘have gone out’). گمراہ کُن conveys moral culpability in misleading others without this false specificity.

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Confess

Approved rendering: اقرار کرُن
Transliteration: iqrār karun
Doctrine: Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation
Original: ὁμολογέω
Category: Faith

اقرار is an Arabic-derived term also used in Islamic contexts (e.g., iqrār bi’l-lisān, verbal affirmation of faith, one shahāda component). The object must always be stated explicitly in the same clause — confessing Jesus Christ’s incarnate coming in the flesh specifically (1:7) — never left implicit, since 2 John is short and has no later verse to retroactively supply the object. Cross-reference the baseline ‘faith’ (ایمان) object-explicitness principle.

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Teaching

Approved rendering: تعلیم
Transliteration: taʿlīm
Doctrine: Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ
Original: διδαχή
Category: Perseverance

تعلیم is broadly shared across Islamic religious education (madrasa taʿlīm) as well as general instruction. Must always be anchored as ‘the teaching of Christ’ (مسیحہٕ ہٕنٛز تعلیم) at every doctrinally load-bearing occurrence (1:9, 1:10) — never abbreviated to bare تعلیم, which risks a generic-religious-curriculum default reading.

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Abide

Approved rendering: ٹِکُن
Transliteration: ṭikun
Doctrine: Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ
Original: μένω
Category: Perseverance

Must be rendered consistently wherever ‘abide’ occurs in this curriculum (1:2, truth abiding in believers; 1:9, abiding in the teaching). Must convey active, persevering fidelity to a specific, received apostolic content, not a merely passive ‘staying put,’ and must avoid resonance with Sufi/Trika contemplative ‘abiding’ in an interior state attained through spiritual discipline.

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Reward

Approved rendering: اجر
Transliteration: ajar
Doctrine: Reward for Persevering Ministry
Original: μισθός
Category: Perseverance

اجر is the standard Arabic-derived Islamic term for divine reward for good deeds (ajr, central to Islamic deeds-weighing soteriology, e.g. ‘ajr azim’). Must be explicitly taught, parallel to the baseline’s grace/salvation Critical notes, that 1:8’s reward is the preserved fruit of gospel labor already invested, not merit accumulated toward entry to paradise weighed against sin.

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Goes Ahead

Approved rendering: تعلیمہٕ ہٕنٛدِ حد ونٛگتھ گژھُن
Transliteration: taʿlīma hindi ḥad wangath gazhun
Doctrine: Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ
Original: προάγων
Category: Perseverance

Descriptive phrase required; no single-word Kashmiri equivalent exists for ‘false progress beyond sound doctrine’ (προάγων, 1:9). Must not be rendered with vocabulary suggesting legitimate spiritual advancement, which could be misheard as criticizing Sufi maqāmāt (spiritual stations) or Trika recognition-stages — the critique is specifically departure from Christ’s teaching, not spiritual growth as such. Pair every occurrence with a positive clarifying statement that growth in understanding Christ’s teaching is welcomed.

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Receive Into House

Approved rendering: گرہٕ منز رَٹُن
Transliteration: garah manz raṭun
Doctrine: Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment
Original: λαμβάνειν εἰς οἰκίαν
Category: Hospitality

Formal hospitality practice constituting public endorsement/legitimation of an itinerant teacher (1:10), withheld specifically from teachers denying Christ’s incarnation. Runs directly counter to deeply held Kashmiri hospitality norms (mehmān-nawāzī), honored across Muslim and Pandit communities and reinforced by the Rishi Sufi tradition’s esteem for hosting wandering faqirs/dervishes. Must be stated explicitly as a narrow, doctrine-specific exception, never a general license for inhospitality.

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Say Greetings

Approved rendering: سلام کہِن
Transliteration: salām kahin
Doctrine: Hospitality and Doctrinal Discernment
Original: χαίρειν λέγειν
Category: Hospitality

A formal, ritualized endorsement-greeting (χαίρειν λέγειν, 1:10-11), not a casual ‘hello.’ سلام carries significant weight in Kashmiri Muslim daily social and religious practice (as-salāmu ʿalaykum); refusing it could be read as a severe social/religious rebuke. Must be explained as withholding formal public endorsement specifically, not ordinary courtesy toward outsiders or people of other faiths. Must remain lexically distinguishable from سلام واریو (send_greetings, 1:13) to avoid readers perceiving an internal inconsistency.

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Participate

Approved rendering: شامل ہُن
Transliteration: shāmil hun
Doctrine: Complicity in False Teaching
Rejected alternatives: شریک ہُن (sharīk hun, a natural-seeming cognate; rejected due to root proximity to شرک/shirk, the gravest sin in Islamic theology — associating partners with God, doctrinally unrelated to this verse’s actual content of moral complicity)
Original: κοινωνέω
Category: Hospitality

Becoming a moral co-participant in another’s wrongdoing by extending formal endorsement/greeting (1:11). شامل ہُن avoids the shirk-root collision while preserving the sense of becoming implicated/complicit.

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Elect

Approved rendering: چُنٲیتؠ
Transliteration: chunāyith
Doctrine: Corporate Election of the Church
Original: ἐκλεκτή
Category: Salvation

Adjectival form built on the baseline root خُدایُک چُنٲوُن (election), applied corporately to a personified local congregation (‘the elect lady,’ 1:1) and her sister congregation (1:13). Must retain God’s personal, sovereign choice, not قسمت (impersonal fate/taqdir); requires native-speaker/theologian confirmation that the corporate-church reading is clear and not misread as naming a single elite individual woman of special status.

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Mercy

Approved rendering: رحم
Transliteration: raham
Doctrine: Grace, Mercy, and Peace from the Father and the Son
Original: ἔλεος
Category: Salvation

The baseline lists رحم only as a supporting synonym for grace, never a standalone replacement; here (1:3) it is Scripture’s own distinct term alongside χάρις, so the same deeds-weighing collision risk documented for فضل applies directly to رحم as its own term. This verse’s pairing of mercy with grace, flowing jointly from the Father and the co-equal Son, is a teaching opportunity to reinforce the Deity/Sonship of Christ doctrine and resist a deeds-weighed reading of either term.

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Medium Risk Terms

Peace

Approved rendering: امن
Transliteration: amn
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package; rendering copied exactly. Appears in 2 John 1:3 as part of the grace-mercy-peace triad; retain the baseline’s sensitivity note regarding the region’s decades-long conflict when this term appears in study materials.

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Walk

Approved rendering: چلُن
Transliteration: chalun
Doctrine: Walking in Truth and Love
Original: περιπατέω
Category: Sanctification

Common metaphorical verb (‘conduct of life’), well attested in regional Bible-translation tradition. Must be kept tied to the truth/love content of 1:4-6 rather than flattened into rule-checklist behavior resembling Sharia-compliance observance.

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Evil Works

Approved rendering: بد کارؠ
Transliteration: bad kāryi
Doctrine: Complicity in False Teaching
Original: ἔργα πονηρά
Category: Sin

Standard moral vocabulary (1:11); reinforces the baseline ‘sin’ (گناہ) doctrine — false teaching about Christ is treated as morally culpable action, not neutral intellectual disagreement, a tone that should be preserved.

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World

Approved rendering: عالَم
Transliteration: ʿālam
Doctrine: Warning against Deceivers Denying the Incarnation
Original: κόσμος
Category: Cosmology

A standard, widely shared Arabic-derived term (cf. Qur’anic al-ʿālamīn, 1:7); ensure the Johannine morally-charged sense (a sphere of active spiritual opposition) is not flattened into neutral geography.

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Elder

Approved rendering: بزرگ
Transliteration: buzurg
Doctrine: Apostolic Authority and Eldership
Original: πρεσβύτερος
Category: Church

The author’s self-designation (1:1), traditionally the Apostle John. بزرگ is a term of deep respect in Kashmiri religious culture, frequently applied to venerated Sufi elders/pīrs within the Rishi tradition (a living, shrine-centered veneration category). Must be clarified as a recognized office of apostolic-era eyewitness church leadership, not an implicit claim to that specific venerated-saint status.

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Lady

Approved rendering: معزز خاتون
Transliteration: muʿazzaz khātūn
Doctrine: (Distinguishes human title from divine Lordship)
Rejected alternatives: any compound containing خُدا- (Khudā-); خُداوند (Lord) is reserved Critically for Christ’s exclusive divine Lordship and must never apply to a human addressee
Original: κυρία
Category: Church

κυρία (1:1, 1:5), a respectful honorific for a woman of standing, likely personifying a local church. Must never be rendered with any divine-Lordship-adjacent vocabulary, to avoid any appearance of applying Christ’s exclusive title to a human addressee.

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Children

Approved rendering: فرزند
Transliteration: farzand
Doctrine: Corporate Election of the Church
Original: τέκνα
Category: Church

Members of the addressed congregation, described in familial terms as the ‘elect lady’s’ children (1:1, 1:13) — a corporate/familial designation for believers, not necessarily literal offspring. Must be clarified as members of a spiritual/covenant family, distinct from Islamic guardianship (kafala) categories per the baseline’s adoption note, and must not imply the addressee runs a literal orphanage or biological household.

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Watch Yourselves

Approved rendering: پننہٕ نِگرانی کرِو
Transliteration: pananh nigrānī kariv
Doctrine: Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ
Original: βλέπετε ἑαυτούς
Category: Perseverance

A command to vigilant self-examination and doctrinal alertness (1:8) in light of the deceivers just described. Standard exhortation vocabulary; must not be rendered so weakly as to lose its urgent, imperative force.

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Low Risk Terms

Joy

Approved rendering: خوشی
Transliteration: khushī
Doctrine: (Supports pastoral tone; no independent doctrine)
Original: χαρά / χαίρω
Category: Christian Living

The Elder’s pastoral joy at the church’s continuing faithfulness (1:4) and the shared relational goal of complete joy through personal fellowship (1:12). No significant doctrinal risk in either audience framework.

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Face To Face

Approved rendering: مکھ برابر مکھ
Transliteration: mukh barābar mukh
Doctrine: (Idiom; no independent doctrine)
Rejected alternatives: a literal ‘mouth to mouth’ calque — confusing, not a natural Kashmiri idiom
Original: στόμα πρὸς στόμα
Category: Christian Living

A Semitic idiom (cf. Numbers 12:8 LXX) meaning direct, personal conversation (1:12). Idiom-handling case: render the meaning via a natural Kashmiri face-to-face idiom, per the standard idiom-handling rule.

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Send Greetings

Approved rendering: سلام واریو
Transliteration: salām wārīv
Doctrine: Epistolary Closing and Fellowship
Original: ἀσπάζεται
Category: Church

Standard epistolary closing convention (1:13), an ordinary warm salutation. Should remain lexically distinguishable from the withheld formal endorsement-greeting سلام کہِن (say_greetings) of 1:10-11, to avoid readers perceiving an apparent inconsistency in the letter’s own closing practice.

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From The Beginning

Approved rendering: شروعہٕ پؠٹھۍ
Transliteration: shurūʿah pyeṭhy
Doctrine: Perseverance in the Teaching of Christ
Original: ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς
Category: Perseverance

The founding apostolic teaching received at conversion (1:5-6), emphasizing continuity, not new revelation. Avoid a rendering suggesting a competing ‘first revelation later superseded’ reading, paralleling the baseline’s Quranic-prophetology caution.