Passage

Romans 16

• Doctrine

  Christian Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ; not merely social or communal association.

  ROM.16.3-16

• Glossary Term

  Church

  کلیسیا (transliterated) refers to the gathered assembly of believers.

  ROM.16.1-16

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  New covenant community, not a mosque congregation, temple institution, or Sufi order structure.

  ROM.16.1-16

• Glossary Term

  Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ; رفاقت conveys purposeful companionship better than a generic word for friendship.

  ROM.16.3-16

• Doctrine

  Obedience of Faith

  Obedience that flows from faith, not rule-compliance with a comprehensive religious law-code, given the prominence of Sharia-observance in regional Islamic practice.

  ROM.16.26

• Glossary Term

  Obedience Of Faith

  Romans 1:5 and 16:26.

  ROM.16.26

• Doctrine

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term, with genuine positive resonance with Islamic gratitude-to-Allah devotion.

  ROM.16.4

• Glossary Term

  Thanksgiving

  شکر (a widely shared Arabic-derived term for gratitude, prominent in Islamic devotional vocabulary as well) is standard.

  ROM.16.4