Passage
Romans 15
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Doctrine
Christ-Centered Ministry
Ministry done in Christ's name, by his power, for his glory; not humanitarian service divorced from the gospel.
ROM.15.17-21
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Doctrine
Christian Fellowship
Shared participation in Christ; not merely social or communal association.
ROM.15.24
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Glossary Term
Church
کلیسیا (transliterated) refers to the gathered assembly of believers.
ROM.15.26
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Doctrine
Church as God's People
New covenant community, not a mosque congregation, temple institution, or Sufi order structure.
ROM.15.26
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Glossary Term
Covenant
عہد (an Arabic-derived term for covenant/promise) is used in existing regional Bible-translation titles (e.g.
ROM.15.12
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Glossary Term
David
Standard proper-name form, shared in root with the Quranic Dawud; the biblical covenant narrative behind David's significance in Romans differs from the Quranic Dawud narrative and should be explained rather than assumed shared.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires explicit Old Testament background teaching; the Quranic Dawud narrative does not carry the same royal-covenant significance and should not be assumed as shared background.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Evangelism
Culturally sensitive given the region's religious-communal history; use language of proclamation and witness, not confrontation.
ROM.15.20
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Glossary Term
Exhort
Context-sensitive: use منٛزبولی-adjacent pleading language for entreaty; حوصلہ دِنہ (encourage/strengthen) for edification contexts.
ROM.15.2
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Glossary Term
Fellowship
Shared participation in Christ; رفاقت conveys purposeful companionship better than a generic word for friendship.
ROM.15.24
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear, historical fulfillment (Old Testament promise to New Testament fulfillment in Christ), not the Quranic prophetology model of each revelation superseding the last.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Non-Jewish peoples; a descriptive rendering built on قوم (people/nation), a term already familiar from regional political and religious discourse.
ROM.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Gospel
Injil is shared Quranic vocabulary understood by mainstream Islamic teaching as a scripture given to Isa and later corrupted (tahrif); this curriculum must present the actual content of the New Testament gospel rather than assume the shared word carries it.
ROM.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Gospel
انجیل (Injil, from Arabic al-Injil) is the term used in existing Kashmiri Bible-translation work and shared with Quranic vocabulary, where it names a scripture given to Isa that mainstream Islamic teaching holds was later corrupted (tahrif).
ROM.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Holy
پاک (a Persian-derived term shared with Islamic religious vocabulary) conveys moral purity and being set apart for God.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Holy Spirit
CRITICAL: پاک روح must always be used in full.
ROM.15.16
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Doctrine
Inspiration of Scripture
Distinguish God-breathed, uncorrupted Scripture from the Islamic tahrif doctrine (that earlier scriptures including the Injil were textually corrupted and superseded by the Quran) and from Trika's non-scriptural, guru-transmitted philosophical tradition.
ROM.15.4
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Glossary Term
Intercession
A descriptive term for pleading on behalf of others (Romans 8:26-27), kept distinct from شفاعت, the specific Islamic theological category of an authorized figure's (a prophet's, or in Sufi practice a wali's) mediating intercession -- Romans describes the Spirit's own direct intercession, not a human or angelic mediator's.
ROM.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Israel
Standard proper name; note the modern nation-state of Israel shares this name, so context should clarify when the biblical people/covenant referent, not the contemporary state, is meant -- a distinction of particular sensitivity given regional geopolitics.
ROM.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Kingdom Mission
God's reign advancing through the gospel; must be distinguished from any territorial-political framing given the region's extraordinarily sensitive contested-sovereignty history.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Kingdom Of God
God's sovereign reign; should be explicitly distinguished from any territorial-political framing given the extraordinarily sensitive, decades-long contested-sovereignty history of the Kashmir region itself.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Law
شریعت (an Arabic loanword sharing its root with Islamic Sharia) is the standard term for the Mosaic Law/Torah and law generally.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Messiah
CRITICAL: مسیح is transliterated directly from Arabic, shared with the Quranic title for Isa (al-Masih).
ROM.15.8-12
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
CRITICAL: Masih is shared Quranic vocabulary for Isa, but mainstream Islamic theology denies Christ's divinity, atoning death, and resurrection while still using the title.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Mission
'The proclamation of the Gospel.' Given the region's decades-long conflict and religious-communal sensitivity, this curriculum should frame evangelism as gentle proclamation and witness rather than confrontation.
ROM.15.15-24
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Doctrine
Mission to the Nations
Given the region's decades-long conflict and religious-communal sensitivity, frame evangelism as gentle proclamation and witness, not confrontation.
ROM.15.15-24
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Doctrine
Mutual Edification
Building one another up in faith; no significant doctrinal risk.
ROM.15.2
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
Direct access to God in Christ's name; distinguish from shafa'at (a prophet's or Sufi saint's authorized mediating intercession) in mainstream Islamic and Sufi theology.
ROM.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
A standard descriptive term for prophetic declaration; distinct from astrology or folk fortune-telling.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Prophet
پیغمبر (Persian loanword) is standard and shared with Islamic usage for both Old Testament and Quranic prophetic figures -- a genuine point of contact requiring care that readers do not assume OT prophets fit a Quranic prophetology (each superseding the last with a new revealed book) rather than a unified, progressively unfolding covenant history.
ROM.15.4
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Doctrine
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing moral transformation, not ritual ablution (wuzu) before prayer, and not Trika disciplines aimed at recognizing already-present purity.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy, distinct from ritual purification (wuzu) before Islamic prayer and from Trika spiritual disciplines aimed at recognizing one's own already-present purity of consciousness.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3; a descriptive phrase conveying physical lineage and Old Testament covenant fulfillment; requires explicit background teaching since the Quranic Dawud narrative does not carry the same royal-covenant significance.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Separation unto God's Service
Must not be confused with the Sufi ascetic withdrawal practiced within the Rishi tradition, nor with Trika spiritual disciplines aimed at recognizing one's already-present purity.
ROM.15.16
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Must be taught with theological clarity rather than mapped onto the region's own communal history, which addresses a different (political/social) kind of division from the one Romans is resolving.
ROM.15.7-12