Cross-Reference Analysis
09 — Cross-Reference and Theme Analysis: 1 John (Konkani Destination Language Package)
Curriculum: 1 John
Core passage: 1 John 4:7–21
Destination language: Konkani (Devanagari script)
Governing authority: Baseline Romans translation_memory.json, bible_term_registry.json, doctrine_risk_registry.json, 12_ai_translation_requirements.md; extends analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md and analysis/08_core_glossary.md for this curriculum. All established renderings are reused verbatim; nothing here overrides the baseline.
Citation format: All passages are normalized as Book Chapter:Verse (e.g. Galatians 2:16, Genesis 15:6, 1 John 4:8) for cross-reference and reviewer use in this English-language analysis document. Phase 2 Konkani output must instead follow the baseline’s Konkani citation convention (book name + Arabic numerals, e.g. रोमकारांक 3:23). For this book, the working Konkani short-form book name is 1 योहान (citation form: 1 योहान 4:8), consistent with the established Marathi/Konkani Bible-translation family; this should be confirmed and locked in translation_memory.json before Phase 2 begins.
Methodological note on OT quotations: Unlike Romans, 1 John contains no formal introduced OT quotations (“as it is written,” “the scripture says,” etc.) and no citation formula. Its OT connection is entirely through allusion, echo, and typology — this is a genuine structural difference from Romans, not a gap in this analysis. Every chapter has been reviewed in full; where a chapter’s allusions are thin, this is noted explicitly rather than left silent.
PART A — Full Cross-Reference Matrix, Chapter by Chapter
Chapter 1 (1:1–10)
| Passage | Theme | Related Character(s) | OT/NT Connection | Translation Sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 John 1:1 | The eternal Word made manifest (Word of Life) | Jesus Christ (the Word) | Genesis 1:1 (“In the beginning”); John 1:1–14 (parallel curriculum John — same “in the beginning…the Word” language) | High. जिणेचो शब्द / देहधारण; must reinforce anti-docetic emphasis (real, tangible, historical Word), never a periodic avatar-style descent. |
| 1 John 1:1–3 | Apostolic eyewitness testimony (heard, seen, touched) | The apostles (implicitly John) | Luke 1:1–4 (parallel curriculum Luke — eyewitness preface); Acts 1:21–22 (parallel curriculum Acts — apostolic eyewitness qualification) | High. साक्ष दिवप; grounds the whole letter’s claim to real, historical, physical incarnation. |
| 1 John 1:5 | God is Light, no darkness at all | God the Father | Genesis 1:3–4 (creation of light); Psalm 27:1; Isaiah 60:19–20; John 1:4–5, 8:12 (parallel curriculum John) | Critical. प्रकाश; requires baseline exclusivity marker (“एकच खरो देव”); guard against Vedantic self-luminous-Brahman association and devotional lamp (आरती) imagery. |
| 1 John 1:6–7 | Walking in light/darkness; blood of Jesus cleanses | Jesus Christ | Leviticus 17:11 (life/atonement in the blood); Exodus 12:13 (Passover blood); Romans 3:25 (parallel curriculum Romans — propitiation by blood, direct doctrinal parallel) | High. रगत; once-for-all sacrificial blood, not repeated ritual blood-offering (cf. regional Shakta practice). |
| 1 John 1:8–10 | Confession, universal sinfulness, God as faithful/just/true | believers generally; implicitly contrasts with false teachers claiming sinlessness | Psalm 51:1–4 (David’s confession); Proverbs 28:13; Romans 3:4 (God is true, every man a liar); Romans 3:23 (parallel curriculum Romans — “all have sinned,” direct parallel) | High. Direct parallel to Romans’ Universal Human Accountability doctrine; render “all have sinned” language in both books with matching force — no softening in either. |
Chapter 2 (2:1–29)
| Passage | Theme | Related Character(s) | OT/NT Connection | Translation Sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 John 2:1–2 | Christ as Advocate (paraclete) with the Father | Jesus Christ, contrasted with the accuser (Satan) | Job 16:19–21 (heavenly witness/advocate); Zechariah 3:1–5 (Satan accuses Joshua the high priest, an angel defends); Romans 8:34 (parallel curriculum Romans — Christ interceding at God’s right hand, direct parallel); John 14:16,26 (parallel curriculum John — Spirit as “another Paraclete”) | High. आमचो मध्यस्थ; Christ as sole heavenly advocate; render consistently with Romans 8:34’s intercession language. |
| 1 John 2:2 | Propitiation for the whole world | Jesus Christ | Leviticus 16:14–15 (mercy seat, Day of Atonement); Isaiah 53:4–6,10–12 (suffering servant); Romans 3:25 (parallel curriculum Romans — ἱλαστήριον, same doctrine, related but distinct Greek term) | Critical. पापांखातीरचें प्रायश्चित्त; treat 1 John 2:2/4:10 and Romans 3:25 as the same underlying doctrine (Atonement/Propitiation) for teaching purposes, even though the Greek terms differ; mandatory translator note every occurrence. |
| 1 John 2:3–6 | Keeping commandments as evidence of knowing God | believers; implicit foil of proto-Gnostic false teachers | Deuteronomy 6:1–2; John 14:15 (parallel curriculum John — “if you love me, keep my commandments”) | Medium. वळखप; anti-Gnostic emphasis — knowledge without obedience is false. |
| 1 John 2:7–8 | Old/new commandment (love) | — | Leviticus 19:18 (love your neighbor); John 13:34–35 (parallel curriculum John — new commandment); Matthew 22:37–40 (parallel curriculum Matthew — greatest commandment) | Medium. आज्ञा; continuity with, not abrogation of, the Mosaic love-command. |
| 1 John 2:9–11 | Light/darkness and love/hate of brother | — | Leviticus 19:17–18 (do not hate your brother); Amos 5:18–20 (day-of-the-Lord darkness imagery, background only) | Medium. |
| 1 John 2:12–14 | Fathers, young men, little children (forgiveness, knowledge, strength, victory) | believers at differing maturity | Psalm 103:3 (forgiveness); 1 Corinthians 15:57 (parallel curriculum 1 Corinthians — victory through Christ) | Low–Medium. |
| 1 John 2:15–17 | Do not love the world; threefold lust/pride | — | Genesis 3:6 (Eve’s threefold temptation — desire of the flesh/eyes, self-exalting desire — a recognized thematic echo, not a quotation); James 4:4 (parallel curriculum James — “friendship with the world is enmity with God,” direct parallel); Romans 12:2 (parallel curriculum Romans — “do not be conformed to this world”) | High. जग (hostile sense); flag Genesis 3:6 echo for teaching notes but do not present it as a direct citation — it is thematic typology only. |
| 1 John 2:18–23 | Antichrist(s); denial of Father and Son | ”many antichrists”; false teachers | Daniel 7:8,25; 11:36–37 (self-exalting “little horn” figure — background typology for “antichrist”); Matthew 24:5,24 (parallel curriculum Matthew — false christs, false prophets) | High. अंतिख्रिस्त; distinguish sharply from the Hindu Kalki-avatar end-times figure; Daniel background may be cited for teacher training even though Daniel is outside current curriculum scope. |
| 1 John 2:20,27 | Anointing from the Holy One | Holy Spirit; “the Holy One” (Christ/the Father) | 1 Samuel 16:13 (Samuel anoints David); Isaiah 61:1 (anointed to preach good news — messianic, quoted by Jesus in Luke 4:18, parallel curriculum Luke); 2 Corinthians 1:21–22 (parallel curriculum 2 Corinthians — God anoints and seals believers with the Spirit, direct parallel) | Critical. अभिषेक; mandatory note distinguishing the Spirit’s inward teaching gift from temple abhisheka ritual (Shantadurga, Mangueshi, Mahalasa); align rendering with any future 2 Corinthians 1:21–22 treatment in this language package. |
| 1 John 2:28–29 | Confidence at his appearing; born of him | — | Isaiah 45:17 (“not put to shame”); 1 Corinthians 1:7–8 (parallel curriculum 1 Corinthians — blameless at the day of Christ) | High. भरवसो / देवा वटल्यान जल्माल्लो. |
Chapter 3 (3:1–24)
| Passage | Theme | Related Character(s) | OT/NT Connection | Translation Sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 John 3:1–2 | Children of God; future glory, “we shall be like him” | believers; “the world” as foil | Hosea 1:10 (“sons of the living God”); Psalm 17:15 (“I shall be satisfied… in your likeness”); Romans 8:16–19,29 (parallel curriculum Romans — direct parallel: Spirit bears witness we are children of God, predestined to be conformed to Christ’s image); 1 Corinthians 15:49 (parallel curriculum 1 Corinthians — we shall bear the image of the heavenly man) | High. देवाची भुरगीं; teach alongside baseline’s दत्तक पुत्र करून घेणें (Romans’ adoption term) as complementary categories — organic new-birth sonship and legal adoption — never as contradictory options. |
| 1 John 3:3 | Purify oneself as he is pure | — | Psalm 24:3–4 (clean hands, pure heart); Matthew 5:8 (parallel curriculum Matthew — pure in heart) | Medium. |
| 1 John 3:4–5 | Sin is lawlessness; Christ appeared to take away sins, sinless | Jesus Christ | Isaiah 53:9 (“no deceit in his mouth”); 2 Corinthians 5:21 (parallel curriculum 2 Corinthians — direct parallel: “he made him to be sin who knew no sin”) | Critical. नियमहीनताय (never अधर्म); Christ’s sinlessness rendering must align with any future 2 Corinthians 5:21 treatment. |
| 1 John 3:8 | Devil sins from the beginning; Son of God destroys his works | devil/serpent; Son of God | Genesis 3:1–15, esp. 3:15 (the protoevangelium — “he shall bruise your head” — the foundational OT messianic promise of the serpent-crusher); John 8:44 (parallel curriculum John — devil murderer and liar from the beginning) | Critical. This is the single strongest OT typological/messianic root in ch.3. Genesis 3:15 must be explicitly named in teaching notes as the promise Christ fulfills here; सैतान rendering must stay consistent with any future Genesis-curriculum rendering of the serpent. |
| 1 John 3:9 | God’s seed remains in the believer | — | (no direct OT quotation; thematically resonant with) Jeremiah 31:33 (new-covenant law written on hearts, background only) | High. बीज; avoid Tantric bīja-mantra/karmic-seed collision — this is implanted divine life, not a karmic seed of rebirth. |
| 1 John 3:11–12 | Love one another, not like Cain | Cain, Abel | Genesis 4:1–16 (direct named OT narrative) | Medium. Direct named OT character reference; requires a brief background gloss for readers with low OT narrative literacy, per the baseline’s established convention for OT-dependent terms (cf. baseline’s “seed of David” note). |
| 1 John 3:13 | The world hates you | — | John 15:18–19 (parallel curriculum John — direct parallel); John 17:14 (parallel curriculum John) | Medium. |
| 1 John 3:16–18 | Laying down life for brothers; compassion vs. a closed heart | Jesus Christ (model) | Deuteronomy 15:7–11 (open your hand to the poor); Isaiah 58:7,10 (share bread, satisfy the afflicted); James 2:15–17 (parallel curriculum James — direct parallel: faith without works) | Medium. |
| 1 John 3:21–24 | Confidence in prayer; keep commandments; believe and love | — | Psalm 66:18 (unconfessed sin hinders prayer); John 15:7,10 (parallel curriculum John — abide in me, keep my commandments) | High. भरवसो; ties directly to Assurance and Prayer/Intercession doctrines. |
Chapter 4 (4:1–6; verses 7–21 are the core passage, fully treated in 07_semantic_analysis.md Part A — key cross-references repeated here for matrix completeness)
| Passage | Theme | Related Character(s) | OT/NT Connection | Translation Sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 John 4:1–3 | Testing the spirits; confessing Jesus Christ come in the flesh | false prophets; Spirit of God vs. spirit of antichrist | Deuteronomy 13:1–5 (testing a prophet who performs signs); Deuteronomy 18:20–22 (testing a prophet’s word); Jeremiah 23:16–22 (false prophets); Matthew 7:15–20 (parallel curriculum Matthew — false prophets known by fruit) | Critical. आत्म्यांची परीक्षा; grounded local risk (bhuta/Perni Jagor folk spirit-testing practice); doctrinal criterion is confession of the incarnation. |
| 1 John 4:2–3 | Incarnation/Antichrist doctrinal hinge | Jesus Christ | Romans 1:3–4 (parallel curriculum Romans — the baseline’s own core incarnation passage: “descended from David according to the flesh… declared Son of God”); John 1:14 (parallel curriculum John — “the Word became flesh”) | Critical. The single strongest cross-curriculum doctrinal link in the entire book. देहधारण rendering and mandatory translator note must be verbatim-consistent with the Romans package. |
| 1 John 4:9–10 | God sent his only Son that we might live; sent as propitiation | God the Father, the Son | John 3:16–17 (parallel curriculum John — direct parallel, same μονογενής word, “God so loved the world he gave his only Son”); Romans 5:8 (parallel curriculum Romans — direct parallel: “while we were sinners Christ died”); Romans 8:32 (parallel curriculum Romans — “he did not spare his own Son”) | Critical. एकुलतो पूत must render consistently with any future John 3:16 rendering in this language package — flag for cross-document consistency check. |
| 1 John 4:14 | Father sent the Son as Savior of the world | God the Father, Jesus Christ | Isaiah 45:21–22 (“a righteous God and a Savior… there is no other”); Luke 2:11 (parallel curriculum Luke — “a Savior, who is Christ the Lord”); John 4:42 (parallel curriculum John — “Savior of the world”) | Critical. तारणार; consistency required with baseline’s तारण term across all curricula. |
| 1 John 4:18 | Perfect love casts out fear | — | Romans 8:15 (parallel curriculum Romans — direct lexical/thematic parallel: “you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear… Abba, Father”) | High. भ्यें must render consistently in both Romans 8:15 and 1 John 4:18. |
| 1 John 4:19 | We love because he first loved us | — | Deuteronomy 7:7–8 (the Lord set his love on you because he loves you); Romans 5:8 (parallel curriculum Romans); Ephesians 2:4–5 (parallel curriculum Ephesians — “because of the great love with which he loved us”) | High. Mirrors the baseline’s grace-priority doctrine (कृपा) even though χάρις itself never occurs in 1 John; teach as the same principle established in Romans. |
Chapter 5 (5:1–21)
| Passage | Theme | Related Character(s) | OT/NT Connection | Translation Sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 John 5:1 | Everyone who believes is born of God | — | John 1:12–13 (parallel curriculum John — direct parallel: right to become children of God, “born… of God”) | Critical. देवा वटल्यान जल्माल्लो. |
| 1 John 5:4–5 | Whatever is born of God overcomes the world; victory is faith | believers | John 16:33 (parallel curriculum John — direct parallel: “I have overcome the world”); Romans 8:37 (parallel curriculum Romans — direct parallel: “more than conquerors”) | High. जिखणें; render consistently with Romans 8:37’s victory language. |
| 1 John 5:6–8 | Water, blood, and Spirit testify | Jesus Christ | John 19:34–35 (parallel curriculum John — direct parallel: blood and water from Christ’s pierced side); Exodus 12:1–13 (Passover blood typology, background); Leviticus 17:11 | High. रगत/उदक; needs an explanatory note bridging the Gospel narrative (baptism, crucifixion) for readers with low OT/Gospel background. |
| 1 John 5:9–12 | God’s testimony concerning his Son | God, the Son | Deuteronomy 19:15 (two or three witnesses establish a matter); John 5:31–37 (parallel curriculum John — direct parallel: testimony about Jesus) | Medium. |
| 1 John 5:13 | Written that you may know you have eternal life | — | John 20:31 (parallel curriculum John — direct structural parallel: “these are written that you may believe… and have life”) | High. सार्वकालीक जीण; match rendering to any John 20:31 treatment for structural-parallel consistency. |
| 1 John 5:14–15 | Confidence in prayer according to his will | — | Psalm 34:15,17 (the Lord hears the righteous); Matthew 7:7–11 (parallel curriculum Matthew — ask and it will be given) | Medium. |
| 1 John 5:16–17 | Sin unto death / not unto death; intercessory prayer | — | Numbers 15:27–31 (unwitting sin vs. sin with a high hand — background typology for the distinction); 1 Corinthians 11:30 (parallel curriculum 1 Corinthians — some believers died from abusing the Lord’s Supper) | High. Requires theologian handling; must not become a karmic greater/lesser-sin ledger. |
| 1 John 5:18–19 | Born of God kept safe; whole world lies in the evil one | believers; “the evil one” | Genesis 3:15 (background — ultimate defeat of the serpent); Job 1:6–12 (Satan’s limited dominion, background); John 12:31, 14:30 (parallel curriculum John — “ruler of this world”) | Medium. |
| 1 John 5:20 | The Son gives understanding to know the true God; eternal life | God the Father, Jesus Christ | Jeremiah 10:10 (“the LORD is the true God”); Isaiah 45:5–6,21–22 (God’s exclusivity); John 17:3 (parallel curriculum John — direct parallel: “this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent”) | Critical. खरो देव; natural anchor point for the baseline’s mandatory exclusivity marker; match rendering to any future John 17:3 treatment. |
| 1 John 5:21 | Keep yourselves from idols | — | Exodus 20:3–4 (first/second commandments); Deuteronomy 5:7–8; Jeremiah 10:1–16 (extended OT polemic against idols, background); 1 Corinthians 10:14 (parallel curriculum 1 Corinthians — “flee from idolatry”) | Critical. मूर्ती; the single most culturally sensitive verse in the entire book — direct collision with Goa’s living murti-worship tradition. Mandatory human theologian AND native-speaker pastoral-tone review; frame invitationally, never as an attack on neighbors’ practice, per baseline’s Inquisition-history sensitivity notes. |
Full-book coverage confirmation: All five chapters of 1 John have been reviewed for OT allusion, typology, and cross-curriculum parallel content; no chapter was found to contribute zero new cross-reference material, so no chapter is silently omitted.
PART B — Messianic References Summary
| Passage | Messianic Content | Cross-Reference | Sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 John 2:1 | ”Jesus Christ the righteous” as heavenly Advocate — royal/priestly messianic role | Romans 8:34; Isaiah 53:11 (the righteous servant justifies many) | High. Christ’s mediatorial role must remain singular and exclusive. |
| 1 John 2:20,27 | Believers’ derivative “anointing” from “the Holy One” — conceptually rooted in Christ’s own title (Χριστός = “Anointed One”) | 1 Samuel 16:13; Isaiah 61:1; Luke 4:18 (parallel curriculum Luke) | Critical. Must not blur the distinction between Christ’s unique messianic anointing (baseline’s मसीहा) and believers’ derivative Spirit-anointing (अभिषेक) — these are related but not identical categories; a translator note distinguishing them is required. |
| 1 John 4:2–3, 4:15, 5:1, 5:5 | ”Jesus is the Christ” / “Jesus Christ come in the flesh” — the letter’s central messianic confession | Romans 1:3–4, 9:5, 10:9 (parallel curriculum Romans); Matthew 16:16 (parallel curriculum Matthew — Peter’s confession) | Critical. Reuse baseline’s मसीहा/ख्रिस्त/देहधारण exactly; this confession must never be softened or generalized. |
| 1 John 3:8 | Christ as the promised serpent-crusher who destroys the devil’s works | Genesis 3:15 (protoevangelium) | Critical. The clearest direct messianic-typological fulfillment claim in the book; must be flagged for explicit teaching. |
| 1 John 4:14 | Jesus as “Savior of the world,” sent by the Father | Isaiah 45:21–22; Luke 2:11; John 4:42 | Critical. तारणार; never a liberator-from-rebirth-cycle rendering. |
PART C — Typological Connections
| OT Type | NT Fulfillment/Antitype in 1 John | Typological Logic | Konkani Rendering Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| The serpent’s defeat promised in Genesis 3:15 | 1 John 3:8 — the Son of God destroys the devil’s works | The “seed” who crushes the serpent’s head is realized in Christ’s decisive victory over the devil | Consistency required between सैतान (1 John) and any future rendering of “the serpent” in a Genesis curriculum. |
| The Day-of-Atonement mercy seat and sacrificial blood (Leviticus 16) | 1 John 2:2, 4:10 — Christ himself as ἱλασμός (propitiation) | The once-a-year, priest-mediated atonement is fulfilled in a single, final, person-centered atonement | प्रायश्चित्त with mandatory note; align teaching with Romans 3:25 (ἱλαστήριον). |
| The Passover lamb’s blood applied for protection/deliverance (Exodus 12) | 1 John 1:7, 5:6–8 — the blood of Jesus cleanses; blood and water testify | The lamb’s blood that delivered Israel from death is fulfilled in Christ’s blood that cleanses from sin’s guilt | रगत; teach explicitly as fulfillment, not analogy alone. |
| Cain and Abel (Genesis 4) as a negative moral pattern | 1 John 3:12 — believers must not love “as Cain,” whose deeds were evil | A pattern-contrast (not a positive type): Cain’s hatred is the antithesis the believing community must reject | कयीन; requires background gloss given low assumed OT narrative literacy. |
| Prophet/priest/king anointing (1 Samuel 16; Isaiah 61) | 1 John 2:20,27 — believers’ Spirit-anointing | The OT pattern of God setting apart his servants by anointing is echoed (not repeated ritually) in every believer’s inward anointing by the Spirit | अभिषेक; mandatory note distinguishing from temple ritual anointing. |
PART D — Parallels to Romans and Other Curriculum Books, with Rendering-Consistency Rules
| 1 John Passage | Romans (or other curriculum) Parallel | Shared Doctrine (per doctrine_risk_registry.json) | Rendering-Consistency Rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 John 1:8–10 | Romans 3:23 | Universal Human Accountability | Both “all have sinned” statements must retain identical unqualified force; no softening in either book. |
| 1 John 2:1–2 | Romans 8:34; Romans 3:25 | Intercession; Atonement/Propitiation | Christ’s advocacy/intercession (मध्यस्थी root) and propitiation (प्रायश्चित्त) must be taught as the same doctrines across both books, even where the underlying Greek differs (παράκλητος/ἱλασμός vs. ἱλαστήριον). |
| 1 John 2:15–17 | Romans 12:2 | (implicit) worldliness vs. renewed mind | जग must carry its “hostile world-system” sense consistently in both books; never संसार. |
| 1 John 2:18–23, 4:2–3 | Romans 1:3–4 | Incarnation; Messianic Promise; Deity of Christ | This is the single strongest cross-curriculum link in the whole package. देहधारण and its mandatory translator note (distinguishing from अवतार) must be word-for-word consistent between Romans 1:3 and every occurrence in 1 John. |
| 1 John 3:1–2 | Romans 8:16–19, 29 | Adoption; Christian Identity in Christ | देवाची भुरगीं (organic new-birth sonship) and baseline’s दत्तक पुत्र करून घेणें (legal adoption) must be explicitly taught as complementary, not competing, categories — both convey full filial status and inheritance. |
| 1 John 4:9–10, 4:19 | Romans 5:8; Romans 8:32; Romans 3:24 (grace) | Grace; Sonship of Christ | एकुलतो पूत/देवाचो पुत्र rendering, and the grace-priority logic (God loved first, apart from merit), must match Romans’ कृपा doctrine notes even though 1 John never uses χάρις itself. |
| 1 John 4:18 | Romans 8:15 | Assurance of Salvation; Adoption | भ्यें (fear) must render identically in both books; both passages contrast fear with the intimacy of adoption/love. |
| 1 John 5:4–5 | Romans 8:37 | Overcoming the World; Assurance | जिखणें (overcome/conquer) must match Romans 8:37’s “more than conquerors” register. |
| 1 John 5:20 | (anticipates) John 17:3 | Deity of Christ; God’s exclusivity | खरो देव anchors the baseline’s mandatory “एकच खरो देव” marker; lock this rendering now so it can be applied identically when John 17:3 is processed. |
| 1 John 5:21 | (parallels) 1 Corinthians 10:14 | (new doctrine specific to this book; no direct Romans equivalent) | मूर्ती rendering and its mandatory pastoral-tone review apply to this book specifically; if a future curriculum (e.g. 1 Corinthians, 1 Thessalonians) reaches idol-polemic passages, reuse this same term and review protocol rather than re-deriving it. |
General Rendering-Consistency Rules for Shared Quotations and Cross-Curriculum Terms
- No direct OT quotations are shared verbatim between Romans and 1 John — Romans quotes the OT directly (e.g. Habakkuk 2:4 at Romans 1:17, Genesis 15:6 at Romans 4:3), while 1 John works entirely through allusion. Consistency rules therefore apply to (a) shared doctrinal vocabulary already fixed by the baseline, and (b) preparing for future consistent handling once the OT books behind these allusions (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel) enter this pipeline.
- Confession formulas are related but distinct and must not be merged: Romans 10:9’s “Jesus is Lord” (येशू प्रभू आसा) is the lordship confession; 1 John’s “Jesus is the Christ” / “Jesus Christ come in the flesh” (4:2–3, 5:1) is the messianic-incarnational confession. Keep separate, consistent renderings for each; do not substitute one for the other even though both are “salvation confessions” in their respective contexts.
- Paraclete (παράκλητος) has two distinct referents across the Johannine corpus: Christ (1 John 2:1) and the Holy Spirit (John 14:16, “another Paraclete”). Both may draw on the same मध्यस्थ root, but the referent (Christ vs. Spirit) must always be clear from context and, where necessary, marked explicitly in a translator note.
- Proper names and transliterations (सैतान for the devil/Satan; कयीन for Cain) must be locked now and reused identically whenever Genesis, John, or other curricula reach the same figures.
- “Only Son” (μονογενής, 1 John 4:9) must render identically to any future treatment of John 3:16, since both verses use the same Greek term for the same doctrinal claim (देवाचो पुत्र + एकुलतो पूत).
- World (κόσμος) must be disambiguated by context at every single occurrence, across every curriculum book, into either the loved-by-God sense (John 3:16-style) or the hostile-system sense (1 John 2:15-style) — never collapse both into one uniform gloss, and never substitute संसार for either sense.
- Propitiation/atonement vocabulary (1 John 2:2, 4:10; Romans 3:25) must be taught as one unified doctrine across curricula even though the Greek terms differ (ἱλασμός vs. ἱλαστήριον); both require the same mandatory translator note distinguishing God’s own gift in Christ from a self-performed Hindu prāyaścitta rite.
- Citation format in all Phase 1 English-language analysis documents:
Book Chapter:Verse(e.g.Genesis 3:15,Romans 8:37,1 John 4:8). Phase 2 Konkani-language output must instead follow baseline citation conventions (Konkani book name + Arabic numerals), with 1 योहान proposed and pending confirmation as this book’s short Konkani form.
This document extends but does not override translation_memory.json, bible_term_registry.json, doctrine_risk_registry.json, and 12_ai_translation_requirements.md. See analysis/10_biblical_theme_map.md for the accompanying theme-structure analysis.