Core Glossary

08 — Core Glossary: 1 John (Konkani Destination Language Package)

Curriculum: 1 John Destination language: Konkani (Devanagari script) Status: Extends baseline Romans translation_memory.json / bible_term_registry.json. Terms marked REUSE must be copied verbatim from the baseline — no re-derivation permitted. Terms marked NEW are proposed additions for this curriculum and must be added to translation_memory.json (with version increment) before Phase 2 translation begins, per 12_ai_translation_requirements.md §“Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions.”

A. Reused Baseline Terms (verbatim — no changes)

English Term	Konkani	Transliteration	Doctrine Risk	Chapters Cited	Notes
God	देव	dev	Critical	1–5 (constant)	MANDATORY exclusivity marker (“एकच खरो देव”) at every doctrinally load-bearing occurrence; 1 John 5:20 (“the true God”) is the natural anchor verse for this marker.
Jesus	येशू	yeśū	Critical	1, 2, 4, 5	Never जेजू.
Christ	ख्रिस्त	khrist	Critical	1, 2, 4, 5
Son of God	देवाचो पुत्र	devāco putra	Critical	1, 3, 4 (4:15), 5	Paired with NEW term “only begotten” (एकुलतो पूत) at 4:9.
Holy Spirit / Spirit	पवित्र आत्मा	pavitra ātmā	Critical	3, 4, 5	Never ब्रह्म/परमात्मा. Note: bare “his Spirit” (4:13) still refers to this same personal Spirit.
faith / believe	विश्वास	viśvās	High	3, 4, 5	Central to 5:1, 5:4-5, 5:13 (believing in the name of the Son).
sin	पाप	pāp	High	1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (constant)
righteousness / righteous	नीतिमत्ता / नीतिमान	nītimattā / nītimān	Critical	2, 3	Never धर्म.
fellowship	सहभागिता	sahabhāgitā	Low	1
holy / saints	पवित्र / पवित्र जन	pavitra / pavitra jan	High	(background; not heavily thematized in 1 John but consistent register required)
law	नियमशास्त्र	niyamaśāstra	High	(background reference only; ἀνομία in 3:4 is a related but distinct NEW term, see below)
intercession	मध्यस्थी	madhyasthī	Medium	2 (root for NEW “advocate” term)
grace	कृपा	kṛpā	High	(thematically present at 4:19’s “he first loved us,” though the word χάρις itself does not occur in 1 John)	Noted for consistency; not a direct lexical occurrence.
salvation	तारण	tāraṇ	Critical	(root for NEW “Savior” term, 4:14)
resurrection	पुनरुत्थान	punaruthān	Critical	(not directly thematized; पुनर्जन्म remains the forbidden term guarding both this and the NEW “born of God” term below)

B. New Terms Proposed for This Curriculum

English Term	Greek Original	Konkani Translation	Transliteration	Doctrine Risk	Chapters Cited	Rejected Alternatives	Notes
love (noun/verb)	ἀγάπη / ἀγαπάω	मोग / मोग करप	mog / mog karap	Critical	1, 2, 3, 4 (constant), 5	भक्ती, काम, माया	Central to “God Is Love” doctrine (4:8,16). भक्ती reserved for temple devotion (per baseline); काम = sensual desire; माया = Vedantic illusion/attachment. मोग is the plain, unloaded Konkani word for love.
God is Love (statement)	ὁ θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν	देव मोग आसा	dev mog āsā	Critical	4:8, 4:16	—	Requires baseline’s mandatory exclusivity marker: एकच खरो देव मोग आसा. Twin doctrinal statement to “God is Light” (1:5).
light	φῶς	प्रकाश	prakāś	Critical	1 (esp. 1:5,7), 2:8-10	उजवाड (rejected for formal register, though not doctrinally wrong), तेज (rejected per baseline’s glory-term precedent)	“God is Light” (1:5) is the letter’s first ontological statement about God. Must be reinforced as moral/revelatory light, never conflated with Vedantic self-luminous-Brahman imagery or devotional lamp/flame (आरती) symbolism.
darkness	σκότος	अंधार	andhār	Medium	1, 2	—	Moral-spiritual realm of sin, opposed to प्रकाश.
confess	ὁμολογέω	कबूल करप	kabūl karap	High	1:9, 4:2-3, 4:15	जाहीर करप, मान्य करप	Distinguish from Goan Catholic sacramental confession to a priest (a distinct Romi Konkani-register institution, out of scope here); this is direct acknowledgment to God or open doctrinal confession of Christ.
forgive / forgiveness	ἀφίημι / ἄφεσις	माफी / माफी दिवप	māphī / māphī divap	High	1:9, 2:12	क्षमा	क्षमा rejected: names a self-practiced ascetic virtue (patient forbearance; cf. Jain Kṣamāvāṇī) rather than a gift graciously granted by God through Christ’s atoning work.
cleanse	καθαρίζω	शुद्ध करप	śuddha karap	High	1:7, 1:9	निर्मळ करप	MANDATORY note distinguishing moral cleansing by Christ’s blood from ritual purification (river/temple bathing) common to both Hindu and folk-Catholic practice.
purify (self)	ἁγνίζω	शुद्ध करप (reflexive)	śuddha karap	Medium	3:3	—	Distinct Greek word from καθαρίζω; active self-directed pursuit of holiness in hope, not the completed cleansing accomplished by Christ’s blood.
blood (of Jesus)	αἷμα	रगत	ragat	High	1:7, 5:6-8	—	Sacrificial/atoning significance must be taught explicitly; distinguish from ritual blood-offering traditions in regional Shakta devotional practice.
propitiation	ἱλασμός	पापांखातीरचें प्रायश्चित्त	pāpāmkhātīrcẽ prāyaścitta	Critical	2:2, 4:10	(descriptive alternative considered: पापांची क्षमा मेळपाखातीर बलिदान)	प्रायश्चित्त is the likely established Bible-tradition rendering but is also the standard Hindu term for a self-performed penitential/expiatory rite. MANDATORY translator note at every occurrence: this is God’s own gift in Christ, given once, not a human ritual act.
antichrist	ἀντίχριστος	अंतिख्रिस्त	antikhrist	High	2:18, 2:22, 4:3	—	Distinguish from the Hindu eschatological Kalki-avatar figure; this is one who denies Christ’s identity/incarnation, a doctrinal category, not a generic apocalyptic warrior.
world (hostile sense)	κόσμος	जग	jag	High	2:15-17, 3:1,13, 4:1-5,9,14,17, 5:4-5,19	संसार	संसार rejected: evokes the Hindu cycle of worldly existence/rebirth that ascetic renunciation (sannyāsa) seeks to escape — a soteriological framework absent from 1 John. जग carries two senses (loved-by-God object, 4:9; hostile system, 2:15) that must be disambiguated by context at each occurrence.
overcome	νικάω	जिखणें	jikhaṇẽ	High	2:13-14, 4:4, 5:4-5	—	Distinguish from the yogic jitendriya ideal (conquest of the senses through ascetic discipline); victory here is by faith in Christ, not self-mastery or world-renunciation.
abide / remain	μένω	रावप	rāvap	High	2:6,10,14,24,27-28; 3:6,9,14-15,17,24; 4:12-13,15-16 (constant, structural term)	—	Relational, personal mutual indwelling; must not be read as non-dual merging of the believer’s self into the divine.
born of God / new birth	γεννάω ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ	देवा वटल्यान जल्माल्लो	devā vaṭlyān janmāllo	Critical	2:29, 3:9, 4:7, 5:1,4,18	—	NEVER पुनर्जन्म (reincarnation/rebirth cycle, already forbidden by baseline for “resurrection”). A single, non-repeatable spiritual origin, evidenced by love, righteousness, and faith.
children of God	τέκνα θεοῦ	देवाची भुरगीं	devācī bhurgī	High	3:1-2,10; 5:2	—	Cross-reference with baseline’s Adoption term (दत्तक पुत्र करून घेणें, Romans’ υἱοθεσία); both true, complementary categories (organic new-birth sonship and legal adoption), not contradictory.
seed (of God)	σπέρμα	बीज	bīj	High	3:9	—	Caution: बीज (bīja) is a significant technical term in Hindu/Tantric thought (bīja mantra; karmic seed of future rebirth); clarify as the divine life implanted at new birth, an organic-growth sanctification metaphor, not a karmic seed.
lawlessness	ἀνομία	नियमहीनताय	niyamahīnatāy	Critical	3:4	अधर्म	अधर्म explicitly rejected: this is precisely the word the baseline already excludes for both “sin” and “law/righteousness” because of its dharmic cosmic-order connotations. नियमहीनताय (coined from नियम + हीनताय) avoids this collision. Flag for Phase 2 QA as a likely default-mistake risk.
devil	διάβολος	सैतान	saitān	Medium	3:8,10	—	One specific, personal fallen being; not the broader impersonal category of malevolent local/ancestral spirits (bhuta) in regional folk belief.
the evil one	ὁ πονηρός	तो दुष्ट (/ सैतान)	to duṣṭa	Medium	2:13-14, 3:12, 5:18-19	—	Same personal-being distinction as διάβολος.
murderer	ἀνθρωποκτόνος	खुनी	khunī	Medium	3:15	—	Retain full force of moral equivalence between hatred and murder.
testify / witness / testimony	μαρτυρέω / μαρτυρία	साक्ष दिवप / साक्ष	sākṣa divap / sākṣa	Medium	1:2, 4:14, 5:6-11	—	Firsthand, historical/legal eyewitness testimony, not secondhand tradition.
Savior	σωτήρ	तारणार	tāraṇār	Critical	4:14	मुक्तिदाता, मोक्षदाता	Built on baseline’s तारण root; never a liberator-from-rebirth-cycle term.
only begotten	μονογενής	एकुलतो पूत	ekulto put	Critical	4:9	—	Paired with देवाचो पुत्र; must convey unique, exclusive Sonship — not one avatar/divine son among several.
manifest	φανερόω	उजो केलो / प्रगट जालो	ujo kelo / pragaṭ jālo	High	3:2,5,8; 4:9	—	Real, historical, visible disclosure — not a symbolic or mythic periodic “appearance.”
perfect / perfected / complete	τέλειος / τελειόω	पूर्ण / पूर्ण जावप	pūrṇa / pūrṇa jāvap	Critical	2:5, 4:12,17-18	सिद्ध, सिद्धी	सिद्ध/सिद्धी rejected: names yogic/ascetic spiritual attainment through discipline, a revered regional category. God’s love reaching its full expression in believers, not self-achieved spiritual perfection.
fear	φόβος	भ्यें	bhyẽ	Medium	4:18	—	Servile dread of judgment, expelled (not merely managed) by perfected love; distinguish from karmic fear of unknown future retribution.
punishment / torment	κόλασις	शिक्षा	śikṣā	Medium	4:18	—	Personal, judicial punishment from God, not impersonal karmic consequence.
brother	ἀδελφός	भाव	bhāv	Medium	2:9-11; 3:10,14-17; 4:20-21	—	Fellow believer, transcending caste and Hindu/Catholic communal lines — central to “Love for the Brethren” doctrine.
commandment	ἐντολή	आज्ञा	āj̈ñā	Medium	2:3-8; 3:22-24; 4:21; 5:2-3	—	Consistent root with baseline’s विश्वासाची आज्ञाधारकता; the love-command flowing from relationship, not legalistic नियमशास्त्र-observance.
know (relational)	γινώσκω	वळखप	waḷkhaṇẽ	Medium	2:3-5,13-14,29; 3:1,6,16,20,24; 4:2,6-8,13,16 (structural, recurring)	जाणप (reserved for plain factual knowledge)	Relational, ethically-evidenced knowledge of God; guards against a proto-Gnostic claim to esoteric knowledge apart from obedience/love.
truth	ἀλήθεια	सत्य	satya	High	1:6,8; 2:4,21; 3:18-19; 4:6; 5:6	—	Distinguish from Advaitic Satya as an impersonal metaphysical Absolute (cf. Sat-Chit-Ananda); here, personal truth about Christ’s identity, taught by the Spirit.
liar / deceiver	ψεύστης / πλάνος	लबाड / फटवणी करपी	labāḍ / phaṭvaṇī karpī	Medium	1:10; 2:4,22; 4:1,6,20; 5:10	—	Retain full bluntness; do not soften.
spirit of truth / spirit of error	πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας / πνεῦμα τῆς πλάνης	सत्याचो आत्मो / भोंवड्याचो आत्मो	satyāco ātmo / bhõvḍyāco ātmo	High	4:6	—	Contrast is doctrinal (confession of Christ’s incarnation), not a generic multiplicity-of-spirits framework.
test the spirits	δοκιμάζετε τὰ πνεύματα	आत्म्यांची परीक्षा घेवप	ātmyāncī parīkṣā ghevap	Critical	4:1	—	Grounded local risk: Goan folk practices of spirit-testing/possession/exorcism (bhuta worship, Perni Jagor). MANDATORY note: the criterion is doctrinal (confession of the incarnation), not general spirit-discernment.
anointing	χρῖσμα	अभिषेक	abhiṣek	Critical	2:20, 2:27	पवित्र आत्म्याचें दान (considered as safer descriptive alternative)	Abhiṣeka is the standard Hindu ritual name for ceremonial bathing/anointing of a temple murti (Shantadurga, Mangueshi, Mahalasa). MANDATORY note: this is the Spirit’s inward teaching gift to believers, never an external ritual performed on an image.
advocate / paraclete	παράκλητος	आमचो मध्यस्थ	āmco madhyastha	High	2:1	—	Built on baseline’s मध्यस्थी root. Christ is the sole advocate with the Father — not one intermediary among several patron/saint/local-spirit intercessors.
Word of Life	ὁ λόγος τῆς ζωῆς	जिणेचो शब्द	jiṇecho śabda	High	1:1	—	Anti-docetic emphasis: the eternal Word made tangibly heard/seen/touched. Read together with देहधारण (Incarnation).
confidence / boldness	παρρησία	भरवसो	bharvaso	High	2:28; 3:21; 4:17; 5:14	—	Bold, direct confidence before God grounded in Christ, not fearful ritually-mediated approach through an intermediary.
eternal life	ζωὴ αἰώνιος	सार्वकालीक जीण	sārvakālīk jīṇ	Critical	1:2; 2:25; 3:15; 5:11-13,20	—	NEVER मोक्ष/मुक्ती. Personal, relational, Christ-mediated life with a personal God, consistent with baseline’s तारण distinction.
sin unto death / not unto death	ἁμαρτία πρὸς θάνατον / μὴ πρὸς θάνατον	पापाक मरण फावो जाता तें पाप / मरण फावो जायना तें पाप	pāpāk maraṇ phāvo jātā tẽ pāp	High	5:16-17	—	Not a karmic “greater/lesser sin” ledger; likely distinguishes final apostasy from ordinary sins of a believer remaining in fellowship. Requires theologian handling.
keep / guard (oneself)	τηρέω	राखप	rākhap	Medium	5:18	—	Christ keeps the believer safe from the evil one.
true (God)	ἀληθινός	खरो (देव)	kharo (dev)	Critical	5:20	—	Direct textual anchor for baseline’s mandatory देव exclusivity marker: “एकच खरो देव.” Immediately precedes the idols warning (5:21) — flag for theologian review.
idols	εἴδωλα	मूर्ती	mūrtī	Critical	5:21	खोट्या देवांच्यो मूर्ती (descriptive pairing recommended)	Directly engages Goa’s living murti-worship tradition (temple and, in some folk-Catholic practice, santo veneration). Requires mandatory human theologian AND native-speaker pastoral-tone review; frame as call to exclusive loyalty to God, delivered invitationally, never as an attack on neighbors’ religious practice (cf. baseline’s Inquisition-history sensitivity notes).
understanding	διάνοια	समज	samaj	Low	5:20	—
pride of life	ἀλαζονεία τοῦ βίου	जिणेचो गर्व	jiṇecho garva	Low-Medium	2:16	—
lust / desire (sinful)	ἐπιθυμία	वाईट इच्छा	vāīṭ icchā	Critical	2:16-17	वासना	वासना rejected: technical Yoga/Sāṃkhya term for a latent karmic impression driving future rebirth; would badly distort this verse’s sense of present, morally culpable desire.
Cain	Κάϊν	कयीन	Kayīn	Low	3:12	—	Established OT proper-name form; requires brief background note (low OT narrative literacy assumed).

C. Risk Summary for 1 John Additions

Risk Tier	Count (New Terms)	Review Routing
Critical	13	Human theologian (mandatory, every occurrence)
High	16	Human theologian
Medium	12	Native speaker review
Low / Low-Medium	4	Automated / native speaker spot-check

Highest-priority terms for Phase 2 theologian pre-briefing (grounded, book-specific, and not paralleled in the Romans package):

मूर्ती (idols, 5:21) — direct collision with Goa’s dominant devotional practice (murti worship).
अभिषेक (anointing, 2:20,27) — direct collision with temple ritual vocabulary.
आत्म्यांची परीक्षा (testing the spirits, 4:1) — collision with regional spirit-possession/folk-exorcism practice.
पापांखातीरचें प्रायश्चित्त (propitiation, 2:2, 4:10) — collision with Hindu self-performed expiatory-rite concept.
नियमहीनताय vs. the excluded अधर्म (lawlessness, 3:4) — a book-specific terminological trap.
बीज (seed of God, 3:9) and वाईट इच्छा vs. excluded वासना (lust, 2:16) — both guard against Yoga/Sāṃkhya technical-term collision.

This glossary must be merged into translation_memory.json (version increment required) before any Phase 2 segment translation of 1 John begins, per 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.

Critical Risk Terms

God

Approved rendering: देव
Transliteration: dev
Doctrine: God is Light / God is Love
Rejected alternatives: भगवान
Original: θεός
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. देव retained as the established Bible-tradition term but is also Goa’s generic word for any individual temple deity (Shantadurga dev, Mangueshi dev, Mahalasa dev). 1 John 5:20 (‘the true God’) is the single clearest anchor verse in the whole book for the baseline’s mandatory ‘एकच खरो देव’ exclusivity marker, immediately preceding the idols warning of 5:21. Also mandatory at 4:8 and 4:16 (‘God is love’).

Father

Approved rendering: पिता
Transliteration: pitā
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family / New Birth and Children of God
Rejected alternatives: ब्रह्मा, निर्माणकार
Original: πατήρ
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. God as personal Father, the ground of believers’ new-birth status as his children (3:1) and the one before whom Christ acts as advocate (2:1). Never a Hindu creator-deity name.

Jesus

Approved rendering: येशू
Transliteration: yeśū
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ / Incarnation and Antichrist
Rejected alternatives: जेजू
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package. Never जेजू (Romi Konkani Catholic spelling, out of scope for this Devanagari register).

Christ

Approved rendering: ख्रिस्त
Transliteration: khrist
Doctrine: Incarnation and Antichrist
Rejected alternatives: मसीहा (reserved for OT-fulfillment contexts)
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology

Formalized here as a full translation_memory entry for the first time in this pipeline, based on the proper-name transliteration table already present in the baseline 12_ai_translation_requirements.md. Confessing ‘Jesus is the Christ’ (2:22; 5:1) is precisely the confession antichrists deny. Distinct from, but not contradictory to, the baseline’s separate मसीहा (Messiah) rendering used in Romans — both name the same reality; ख्रिस्त functions in 1 John as Jesus’ repeatedly confessed or denied proper title.

Son Of God

Approved rendering: देवाचो पुत्र
Transliteration: devāco putra
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ / Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: देवाचो अंश, देवपुरुष
Original: υἱὸς θεοῦ
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package. Confessing Jesus as the Son of God is the salvation-defining confession in 1 John (4:15; 5:5,10-13). Paired with the new term देवाचो एकुलतो पूत (only begotten) at 4:9.

Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: पवित्र आत्मा
Transliteration: pavitra ātmā
Doctrine: Anointing and the Spirit’s Teaching Ministry
Rejected alternatives: ब्रह्म, परमात्मा
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον / τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Never ब्रह्म or परमात्मा. Note: 1 John 4:13’s bare ‘his Spirit’ still refers to this same personal, divine Holy Spirit.

Righteousness

Approved rendering: नीतिमत्ता
Transliteration: nītimattā
Doctrine: Practicing Righteousness as Evidence of New Birth
Rejected alternatives: धर्म, पुण्य, न्याय
Original: δικαιοσύνη / δίκαιος
Category: Sanctification

Inherited from Romans package. NEVER धर्म. Righteous conduct in 1 John is evidence flowing from completed new birth (2:29; 3:7,10), not merit accumulated toward future spiritual status.

Salvation

Approved rendering: तारण
Transliteration: tāraṇ
Doctrine: Assurance of Salvation and Eternal Life
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ती, मोक्ष, सुटका
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. NEVER मुक्ती or मोक्ष. Root concept for the new term तारणार (Savior, 4:14) and closely tied to सार्वकालीक जीण (eternal life).

Resurrection

Approved rendering: पुनरुत्थान
Transliteration: punaruthān
Doctrine: New Birth and Children of God (guard concept)
Rejected alternatives: पुनर्जन्म, पुनर्जीवन
Original: ἀνάστασις
Category: Eschatology

Inherited from Romans package. Not directly thematized as a lexical term in 1 John, but retained because पुनर्जन्म — its forbidden substitution — is the same word that must also be excluded from the new term ‘born of God’ (देवा वटल्यान जल्माल्लो); the two guardrails reinforce each other.

Messiah

Approved rendering: मसीहा
Transliteration: masīhā
Doctrine: Messianic Promise (background)
Rejected alternatives: अभिषिक्त पुरुष, अवतारी पुरुष

Inherited from Romans package. 1 John does not use this term directly, using ख्रिस्त instead as Jesus’ confessed proper title (2:22; 5:1); retained here only for cross-document consistency and to make explicit that ख्रिस्त and मसीहा name the same fulfilled OT reality.

Love

Approved rendering: मोग
Transliteration: mog
Doctrine: God is Love
Rejected alternatives: भक्ती, काम, माया, प्रेम

Central term of the whole letter. भक्ती is reserved elsewhere in this glossary for temple-deity devotional worship (wrong register: object, not source, of love); काम = sensual desire; माया = Vedantic illusion/attachment (opposite valence — something to be escaped, not God’s own nature); प्रेम carries stronger romantic/filmi connotations in contemporary usage. मोग is the plain, doctrinally unloaded Konkani word for love, used consistently for both ἀγάπη (noun) and ἀγαπάω (verb).

God Is Love

Approved rendering: देव मोग आसा
Transliteration: dev mog āsā
Doctrine: God is Love

1 John 4:8, 4:16. Must always carry the baseline’s mandatory exclusivity marker in doctrinally load-bearing use: ‘एकच खरो देव मोग आसा’ (the one true God is love), so देव is not read as ‘a god is love’ among Goa’s many temple deities (Shantadurga, Mangueshi, Mahalasa). Forms one half of the letter’s twofold ontological definition of God’s nature, paired with ‘God is light’ (1:5).

Light

Approved rendering: प्रकाश
Transliteration: prakāś
Doctrine: God is Light
Rejected alternatives: उजवाड, तेज
Original: φῶς
Category: God

1 John 1:5, 1:7, 2:8-10. उजवाड rejected as too informal/folk for this curriculum’s formal register; तेज already fenced by the baseline for ‘glory’ due to devi-luster/iconography associations. प्रकाश must be reinforced at first occurrence (1:5) as moral, revelatory light — God’s holy, truthful self-disclosure — never conflated with the self-luminous Vedantic Brahman-as-light imagery (Brahman as jyotisvarūpa) or with devotional lamp/flame (आरती) symbolism central to Goan Hindu and folk-Catholic worship alike. Requires the same exclusivity-marker handling the baseline mandates for देव.

Propitiation

Approved rendering: पापांखातीरचें प्रायश्चित्त
Transliteration: pāpāmkhātīrcẽ prāyaścitta
Doctrine: Christ as Advocate and Propitiation
Rejected alternatives: बलिदान (loses the atoning/wrath-averting sense alone), पापांची क्षमा मेळपाखातीर बलिदान (considered, rejected as clumsy descriptive alternative)
Original: ἱλασμός
Category: Salvation

1 John 2:2; 4:10. प्रायश्चित्त is the established Marathi/Konkani Bible-tradition word but is also the standard Hindu term for a self-performed penitential/expiatory rite (a prāyaścitta prescribed by śāstra). MANDATORY translator note at every occurrence: this propitiation is God’s own gift in Christ, given once; agency belongs to God, not the sinner — highest risk of ‘agency inversion’ of any term in this book.

Born Of God

Approved rendering: देवा वटल्यान जल्माल्लो
Transliteration: devā vaṭlyān janmāllo
Doctrine: New Birth and Children of God
Rejected alternatives: पुनर्जन्म, नवो जल्म (bare, risks reading as a subsequent birth in a further existence)
Original: γεννάω ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Salvation

1 John 2:29; 3:9; 4:7; 5:1,4,18. NEVER पुनर्जन्म (reincarnation/rebirth cycle, already forbidden by the baseline for ‘resurrection’). Names a single, non-repeatable spiritual origin from God, evidenced by love, righteousness, and faith — not a soul’s transmigration into a new body.

Lawlessness

Approved rendering: नियमहीनताय
Transliteration: niyamahīnatāy
Doctrine: Sin as Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: अधर्म
Original: ἀνομία
Category: Sin

1 John 3:4-6,8. Coined compound (नियम + हीनताय, ‘law-lessness’), not previously attested in Konkani Bible usage. Deliberately NOT अधर्म, which the baseline registry already excludes for both ‘sin’ and ‘law/righteousness’ precisely because it imports the Hindu dharmic cosmic-order framework this curriculum avoids. Flagged as the single highest default-mistake risk term in this book: ἀνομία’s literal ‘without-law’ sense could easily invite अधर्म as an intuitive but doctrinally wrong choice.

Savior

Approved rendering: तारणार
Transliteration: tāraṇār
Doctrine: God’s Love Manifested in Sending the Son
Rejected alternatives: मुक्तिदाता, मोक्षदाता
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Christology

1 John 4:14. Built on the baseline’s तारण root. Never a word suggesting a liberator from the rebirth cycle; Jesus is the unique, universal Savior of the world, not one of several regional deliverer-figures.

Only Begotten

Approved rendering: देवाचो एकुलतो पूत
Transliteration: devāco ekulto put
Doctrine: God’s Love Manifested in Sending the Son
Original: μονογενής
Category: Christology

1 John 4:9 (μονογενής). Always paired with देवाचो पुत्र in the same passage. एकुलतो (‘only,’ as in an only child) is the correct plain idiom but on its own could read as merely ‘only child’ in a family sense; pairing with देवाचो पुत्र reinforces exclusivity against any implied plurality of divine sons/avatars.

Perfect Complete

Approved rendering: पूर्ण / पूर्ण जावप
Transliteration: pūrṇa / pūrṇa jāvap
Doctrine: Perfected Love Casting Out Fear
Rejected alternatives: सिद्ध, सिद्धी
Original: τέλειος / τελειόω
Category: Sanctification

1 John 2:5; 4:12,17-18 (τέλειος/τελειόω). NEVER सिद्ध/सिद्धी, the yogic/ascetic attainment of spiritual perfection or supernatural power through disciplined practice, a prominent and revered regional category. This is God’s love reaching its intended goal in and through believers, not a self-achieved spiritual attainment. High risk translators default to सिद्धी in free/paraphrastic drafting.

Test The Spirits

Approved rendering: आत्म्यांची परीक्षा घेवप
Transliteration: ātmyāncī parīkṣā ghevap
Doctrine: Testing the Spirits
Rejected alternatives: आत्मो पारखप
Original: δοκιμάζετε τὰ πνεύματα
Category: Testing the Spirits

1 John 4:1. Grounded local risk: Goa’s active folk traditions of spirit-testing, spirit-possession, and exorcism-adjacent practice (bhuta/devchar worship, possession by local guardian spirits, and folk-Catholic Perni Jagor performance traditions). MANDATORY translator note at every occurrence: the test is a specific doctrinal criterion (does this teacher/spirit confess Jesus Christ come in the flesh?), not ritual discernment of ghosts, ancestral spirits, or possessing local deities.

Anointing

Approved rendering: अभिषेक
Transliteration: abhiṣek
Doctrine: The Anointing and the Spirit’s Teaching Ministry
Rejected alternatives: पवित्र आत्म्याचें दान (considered as safer descriptive alternative, rejected as less recognizable to the wider Konkani/Marathi Bible tradition)
Original: χρῖσμα
Category: Sanctification

1 John 2:20, 2:27 (χρῖσμα). अभिषेक is the standard, everyday Konkani/Marathi name for a core Hindu temple ritual — the ceremonial bathing/anointing of a deity’s murti with milk, water, oil, or honey, performed regularly at Shantadurga, Mangueshi, and Mahalasa temples. MANDATORY translator note at every occurrence: this is the Holy Spirit’s inward, non-ritual gift of teaching/discernment given to believers, never an external ritual poured over an image. Second-highest cultural-collision risk in the book.

Eternal Life

Approved rendering: सार्वकालीक जीण
Transliteration: sārvakālīk jīṇ
Doctrine: Assurance of Salvation and Eternal Life
Rejected alternatives: मोक्ष, मुक्ती, अमर जीण
Original: ζωὴ αἰώνιος
Category: Salvation

1 John 1:2; 2:25; 3:15; 5:11-13,20. NEVER मोक्ष/मुक्ती (release from the rebirth cycle into an impersonal, often formless, ultimate state). अमर जीण rejected: risks a merely biological non-death reading, losing relational content. Personal, relational, Christ-mediated life with a personal God, consistent with the baseline’s तारण distinction — the explicit stated purpose of the whole letter (5:13).

True God

Approved rendering: खरो देव
Transliteration: kharo dev
Doctrine: The True God and Warning Against Idols
Original: ὁ ἀληθινός
Category: God

1 John 5:20 (ὁ ἀληθινός). Directly instantiates the baseline’s required ‘एकच खरो देव’ formula. This is the single best natural occasion in 1 John to apply that mandatory marker; flag every occurrence for theologian review given its direct juxtaposition with the idols warning (5:21).

Idols

Approved rendering: मूर्ती
Transliteration: mūrtī
Doctrine: The True God and Warning Against Idols
Original: εἴδωλα
Category: God

1 John 5:21 (εἴδωλα). The single most culturally sensitive verse in the entire book: Goa’s Hindu temple tradition (Shantadurga, Mangueshi, Mahalasa, and many others) centers on murti (image) veneration, and Goan folk Catholicism includes santo/image veneration as well. Often paired descriptively as खोट्या देवांच्यो मूर्ती for clarity. Must be translated with full doctrinal clarity and an invitational, non-coercive tone consistent with the baseline’s Inquisition-era sensitivity notes — a call to exclusive loyalty, never an attack on neighbors’ religious practice. Mandatory human theologian AND native-speaker pastoral-tone review; highest cultural-collision risk in the whole book.

Lust Desire

Approved rendering: वाईट इच्छा
Transliteration: vāīṭ icchā
Doctrine: Warning Against Loving the World
Rejected alternatives: वासना
Original: ἐπιθυμία
Category: Sin

1 John 2:16-17 (ἐπιθυμία). वासना deliberately rejected: the technical Yoga/Sāṃkhya term for a latent karmic impression carried across lifetimes that drives future rebirth. That association would badly distort this verse’s sense of present, morally culpable desire.

High Risk Terms

Faith

Approved rendering: विश्वास
Transliteration: viśvās
Doctrine: Overcoming the World / New Birth
Rejected alternatives: श्रद्धा, भक्ती
Original: πίστις / πιστεύω
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package. Personal trust in Jesus as the Christ; the means by which believers overcome the world (5:4-5) and are born of God (5:1).

Sin

Approved rendering: पाप
Transliteration: pāp
Doctrine: Universal Sinfulness / Sin as Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: अधर्म, अशुद्धता
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin

Inherited from Romans package. Defined in 1 John 3:4 as lawlessness (see new term नियमहीनताय).

Holy

Approved rendering: पवित्र
Transliteration: pavitra
Doctrine: Anointing and the Spirit’s Teaching Ministry
Rejected alternatives: शुद्ध, निर्मळ
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification

Inherited from Romans package. Background register term for पवित्र आत्मा and related compounds; not independently thematized in 1 John.

Saints

Approved rendering: पवित्र जन
Transliteration: pavitra jan
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: संत, भक्त

Inherited from Romans package. Not heavily thematized in 1 John but retained for register consistency across the curriculum.

Law

Approved rendering: नियमशास्त्र
Transliteration: niyamaśāstra
Doctrine: Sin as Lawlessness
Rejected alternatives: धर्म, कायदो
Original: νόμος
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Never धर्म. Retained here as the implicit background concept behind ἀνομία (‘lawlessness,’ 3:4), which is rendered with the separate coined term नियमहीनताय, deliberately NOT a compound of this word with negation via धर्म.

Grace

Approved rendering: कृपा
Transliteration: kṛpā
Doctrine: God’s Love Manifested in Sending the Son
Rejected alternatives: कर्मफळ, पुण्य, नशीब
Original: χάρις
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Not a direct lexical occurrence in 1 John (χάρις itself does not appear), but thematically present in ‘he first loved us’ (4:19), the letter’s clearest echo of the Romans grace-priority theme. Retained for cross-document consistency.

Confess

Approved rendering: कबूल करप
Transliteration: kabūl karap
Doctrine: Confession and Forgiveness of Sin / Incarnation and Antichrist
Rejected alternatives: जाहीर करप, मान्य करप

Used for both senses in 1 John: personal confession of sin to God (1:9) and doctrinal confession of Christ’s identity/incarnation (2:23; 4:2-3,15). Same verb, disambiguated by object in context. Must be distinguished from the Goan Catholic sacramental practice of confession to a priest (a distinct Romi Konkani-register institution out of scope here) — 1 John’s confession is direct, open acknowledgment, not ritual absolution mediated by a human priest.

Forgive

Approved rendering: माफी / माफी दिवप
Transliteration: māphī / māphī divap
Doctrine: Confession and Forgiveness of Sin
Rejected alternatives: क्षमा

1 John 1:9; 2:12. क्षमा rejected: names a self-practiced ascetic virtue (patient forbearance, cf. Jain Kṣamāvāṇī) rather than a gift graciously granted by God through Christ’s atoning work. Never क्षमा for God’s forgiving act.

Cleanse

Approved rendering: शुद्ध करप
Transliteration: śuddha karap
Doctrine: Confession and Forgiveness of Sin
Rejected alternatives: निर्मळ करप, धुवप
Original: καθαρίζω
Category: Sanctification

1 John 1:7, 1:9 (καθαρίζω). MANDATORY translator note at every occurrence distinguishing this moral cleansing accomplished by Christ’s blood from ritual purification practices (river/temple bathing) common to both Goan Hindu and folk-Catholic practice.

Blood

Approved rendering: रगत
Transliteration: ragat
Doctrine: Confession and Forgiveness of Sin / Threefold Witness
Original: αἷμα
Category: Salvation

1 John 1:7; 5:6-8. Christ’s blood as the once-for-all atoning basis of forgiveness and cleansing. Must be taught with explicit reference to Christ’s once-for-all sacrifice, distinguished from repeated ritual blood-offerings historically associated with some regional Shakta devotional practice.

Water And Blood

Approved rendering: उदक आनी रगत
Transliteration: udak āni ragat
Doctrine: Threefold Witness: Spirit, Water, and Blood

1 John 5:6-9. Almost certainly refers to Christ’s baptism and death, coordinated with the Spirit’s testimony as threefold witness reinforcing the letter’s anti-docetic insistence on Jesus’ real, embodied ministry and death. Requires an explanatory background note for readers with low Gospel-narrative literacy.

Antichrist

Approved rendering: अंतिख्रिस्त
Transliteration: antikhrist
Doctrine: The Incarnation and Antichrist
Original: ἀντίχριστος
Category: Christology

1 John 2:18, 2:22, 4:3. No native Konkani concept exists; transliteration/compounding (अंति + ख्रिस्त) preserves the term’s near-proper-noun technical status. Must be distinguished from the Hindu eschatological figure of Kalki (Vishnu’s final avatar who defeats evil at the end of the current age) — antichrist here is one who denies Christ’s real, historical incarnation and identity, a doctrinal category, not a generic apocalyptic warrior-figure.

World

Approved rendering: जग
Transliteration: jag
Doctrine: Warning Against Loving the World / Overcoming the World
Rejected alternatives: संसार
Original: κόσμος
Category: Ethics

1 John 2:15-17; 3:1,13; 4:1-5,9,14,17; 5:4-5,19. संसार rejected: evokes the Hindu cycle of worldly existence/rebirth that ascetic renunciation (sannyāsa) seeks to escape — a soteriological framework 1 John does not share. जग carries two distinct senses in this letter (loved-by-God object, 4:9,14; hostile world-system, 2:15) that must be disambiguated by context at each occurrence, since Konkani जग does not distinguish them lexically.

Overcome

Approved rendering: जिखणें
Transliteration: jikhaṇẽ
Doctrine: Overcoming the World by Faith
Rejected alternatives: जैत मेळोवप
Original: νικάω
Category: Ethics

1 John 2:13-14; 4:4; 5:4-5. Must be distinguished from the yogic jitendriya ideal (conquest of the senses through ascetic discipline) or from world-renouncing asceticism (sannyāsa) as the path to spiritual victory. Victory here is by faith in Christ while remaining engaged in ordinary life.

Abide

Approved rendering: रावप
Transliteration: rāvap
Doctrine: Fellowship with God and One Another
Rejected alternatives: वस्ती करप, टिकून रावप
Original: μένω
Category: Fellowship

1 John 2:6,10,14,24,27-28; 3:6,9,14-15,17,24; 4:12-13,15-16 (structural, high-frequency term). Must be taught as relational, personal, mutual indwelling that preserves the Creator-creature distinction — never a merging or non-dual absorption of the believer’s self into the divine, a live risk given regional familiarity with Advaitic non-dual union concepts. High cumulative risk given ~20 occurrences across chapters 2-4.

Children Of God

Approved rendering: देवाची भुरगीं
Transliteration: devācī bhurgī
Doctrine: New Birth and Children of God
Original: τέκνα θεοῦ
Category: Salvation

1 John 3:1-2,10; 5:2. τέκνα θεοῦ (organic new-birth sonship) is distinct from the baseline’s Adoption term (दत्तक पुत्र करून घेणें, Romans’ υἱοθεσία, a legal-inheritance concept). Must be cross-referenced with a translator note clarifying that both are true, complementary categories, not contradictory.

Seed Of God

Approved rendering: बीज
Transliteration: bīj
Doctrine: New Birth and Children of God
Original: σπέρμα
Category: Salvation

1 John 3:9. No natural unloaded alternative exists — a true vocabulary gap. बीज is a significant technical term in Hindu/Tantric thought (bīja mantra; the karmic seed determining future rebirth). MANDATORY translator note: this is the divine life implanted once at new birth, an organic-growth sanctification metaphor, NOT a karmic seed governing future rebirths.

Manifest

Approved rendering: उजो केलो / प्रगट जालो
Transliteration: ujo kelo / pragaṭ jālo
Doctrine: God’s Love Manifested in Sending the Son
Original: φανερόω
Category: Christology

1 John 3:2,5,8; 4:9 (φανερόω). Must convey a real, historical, visible event, not a symbolic or mythic ‘appearance’ akin to an avatar’s periodic manifestation.

Truth

Approved rendering: सत्य
Transliteration: satya
Doctrine: Testing the Spirits
Original: ἀλήθεια
Category: Faith

1 John 1:6,8; 2:4,21; 3:18-19; 4:6; 5:6. Must be distinguished from Advaitic Satya as an impersonal metaphysical Absolute (cf. Sat-Chit-Ananda); here, personal truth about Christ’s identity and God’s own character, taught by the Spirit of truth.

Spirit Of Truth Error

Approved rendering: सत्याचो आत्मो / भोंवड्याचो आत्मो
Transliteration: satyāco ātmo / bhõvḍyāco ātmo
Doctrine: Testing the Spirits
Original: πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας / πνεῦμα τῆς πλάνης
Category: Testing the Spirits

1 John 4:6. The doctrinal test (confessing Christ come in the flesh) must remain crisp and central — this is a binary theological test, not a generic ‘many spirits exist, be careful’ folk-religious caution. भोंवड्याचो is a coinage with no prior Bible-translation precedent; keep stable across all downstream documents.

Advocate

Approved rendering: आमचो मध्यस्थ
Transliteration: āmco madhyastha
Doctrine: Christ as Advocate and Propitiation
Rejected alternatives: वकील
Original: παράκλητος
Category: Salvation

1 John 2:1 (παράκλητος). वकील (‘lawyer,’ modern loan) rejected: introduces an inappropriately transactional/commercial register with no doctrinal pedigree. Built on the baseline’s मध्यस्थी root. Christ is the sole advocate/mediator with the Father — not one intermediary among several patron saints or local intercessory spirits common to both Hindu and folk-Catholic devotional practice.

Word Of Life

Approved rendering: जिणेचो शब्द
Transliteration: jiṇecho śabda
Doctrine: Word of Life and Apostolic Testimony
Original: ὁ λόγος τῆς ζωῆς
Category: Christology

1 John 1:1. Must be read together with देहधारण (baseline’s Critical Incarnation term) — the insistence on hearing/seeing/touching is precisely the anti-docetic point guarding against denial of Christ’s real physical incarnation.

Confidence

Approved rendering: भरवसो
Transliteration: bharvaso
Doctrine: Confidence Before God in Prayer
Rejected alternatives: धीर, हिंमत
Original: παρρησία
Category: Assurance

1 John 2:28; 3:21; 4:17; 5:14 (παρρησία). धीर/हिंमत rejected: lean toward courage-in-danger (secular bravery) rather than unashamed access before a judge. Must be distinguished from a fearful, ritually-mediated approach to a deity common in regional bhakti devotional posture — believers approach God directly and without fear because of Christ.

Sin Unto Death

Approved rendering: पापाक मरण फावो जाता तें पाप / मरण फावो जायना तें पाप
Transliteration: pāpāk maraṇ phāvo jātā tẽ pāp
Doctrine: Sin Unto Death and Intercessory Prayer
Original: ἁμαρτία πρὸς θάνατον / μὴ πρὸς θάνατον
Category: Sin

1 John 5:16-17. No existing Konkani theological vocabulary distinguishes these two categories; inherently a full descriptive paraphrase, not a term. Must not be reduced to a karmic ‘greater/lesser sin’ ledger weighed across lifetimes — likely distinguishes final apostasy from the ordinary sins of a believer remaining in fellowship. Requires careful theologian handling of the underlying interpretive difficulty, not just the translation choice.

Medium Risk Terms

Intercession

Approved rendering: मध्यस्थी
Transliteration: madhyasthī
Doctrine: Christ as Advocate and Propitiation
Rejected alternatives: शिफारस
Original: ἔντευξις (cf. παράκλητος, 2:1)
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Root for the new compound term आमचो मध्यस्थ (advocate, παράκλητος, 2:1).

Darkness

Approved rendering: अंधार
Transliteration: andhār
Doctrine: God is Light
Original: σκότος
Category: Sin

1 John 1:5-7; 2:8-11. Standard opposite of प्रकाश; must retain the moral-spiritual sense of sin, falsehood, and separation from God, not merely physical absence of light.

Purify Self

Approved rendering: शुद्ध करप
Transliteration: śuddha karap
Doctrine: Purification in Hope of Christ’s Return
Original: ἁγνίζω
Category: Sanctification

1 John 3:3 (ἁγνίζω), a distinct Greek verb from καθαρίζω sharing the same Konkani surface form. Konkani does not lexically distinguish these two verbs, so the distinction must live entirely in a mandatory translator note: this is active, hope-motivated self-directed pursuit of holiness, distinct from the completed cleansing by Christ’s blood at 1:7,9, and distinct from ritual purification.

Devil

Approved rendering: सैतान
Transliteration: saitān
Doctrine: Sin as Lawlessness
Original: διάβολος
Category: Sin

1 John 3:8,10 (transliteration). One specific, personal fallen being opposed to God, whose works Christ came to destroy — not the broader impersonal category of malevolent local/ancestral spirits (bhuta) recognized in regional folk belief.

Evil One

Approved rendering: तो दुष्ट
Transliteration: to duṣṭa
Doctrine: Kept Safe from the Evil One
Original: ὁ πονηρός
Category: Sin

1 John 2:13-14; 3:12; 5:18-19. Same personal-being distinction as सैतान/διάβολος — not the broader impersonal category of malevolent spirits or asuras/rakshasas.

Murderer

Approved rendering: खुनी
Transliteration: khunī
Doctrine: Love for the Brethren as Evidence of New Birth
Original: ἀνθρωποκτόνος
Category: Sin

1 John 3:15. Retain full force of hatred’s moral equivalence with murder; do not soften to ‘one who dislikes.‘

Testify Witness

Approved rendering: साक्ष दिवप / साक्ष
Transliteration: sākṣa divap / sākṣa
Doctrine: Word of Life and Apostolic Testimony / Threefold Witness
Original: μαρτυρέω / μαρτυρία
Category: Assurance

1 John 1:2; 4:14; 5:6-11. Firsthand, historical/legal eyewitness testimony, not secondhand tradition.

Fear

Approved rendering: भ्यें
Transliteration: bhyẽ
Doctrine: Perfected Love Casting Out Fear
Original: φόβος
Category: Assurance

1 John 4:18. Servile dread of divine punishment, expelled — not merely managed — by perfected love. Distinguish from a karmic fear of unknown future retribution across lifetimes.

Punishment

Approved rendering: शिक्षा
Transliteration: śikṣā
Doctrine: Perfected Love Casting Out Fear
Original: κόλασις
Category: Assurance

1 John 4:18 (κόλασις). Personal, judicial punishment from God, not an impersonal karmic consequence.

Brother

Approved rendering: भाव
Transliteration: bhāv
Doctrine: Love for the Brethren as Evidence of New Birth
Rejected alternatives: बंधू, सोयरो
Original: ἀδελφός
Category: Church

1 John 2:9-11; 3:10,14-17; 4:20-21. Central to the letter’s evidentiary test; must be understood as transcending caste and Hindu/Catholic communal lines, not merely blood relative or community-caste kin.

Commandment

Approved rendering: आज्ञा
Transliteration: āj̈ñā
Doctrine: The Dual Commandment: Faith in Christ and Love for the Brethren
Original: ἐντολή
Category: Church

1 John 2:3-8; 3:22-24; 4:21; 5:2-3. Consistent root with baseline’s विश्वासाची आज्ञाधारकता (‘obedience of faith’). Must not be read as legalistic नियमशास्त्र-observance — this is the New Covenant love-command, obedience flowing from relationship.

Know Relational

Approved rendering: वळखप
Transliteration: waḷkhaṇẽ
Doctrine: Obedience as Evidence of Knowing God
Rejected alternatives: जाणप (reserved for plain factual knowledge)
Original: γινώσκω
Category: Fellowship

1 John 2:3-5,13-14,29; 3:1,6,16,20,24; 4:2,6-8,13,16 (structural, high-frequency term). Must not read as abstract philosophical knowledge (ज्ञान/gnosis); guards against a proto-Gnostic claim to esoteric knowledge apart from obedience and love.

Liar Deceiver

Approved rendering: लबाड / फटवणी करपी
Transliteration: labāḍ / phaṭvaṇī karpī
Doctrine: Universal Sinfulness / Incarnation and Antichrist
Original: ψεύστης / πλάνος
Category: Faith

1 John 1:10; 2:4,22; 4:1,6,20; 5:10. Retain full bluntness; do not soften to ‘mistaken’ or ‘confused.‘

Keep Guard

Approved rendering: राखप
Transliteration: rākhap
Doctrine: Kept Safe from the Evil One
Original: τηρέω
Category: Assurance

1 John 5:18 (τηρέω). The believer, born of God, is kept safe by Christ from the evil one’s grasp.

Last Hour

Approved rendering: निमाणो वेळ
Transliteration: nimāṇo veḷ
Doctrine: The Incarnation and Antichrist
Original: ἐσχάτη ὥρα
Category: Eschatology

1 John 2:18 (ἐσχάτη ὥρα). May evoke comparison with the Hindu Kali Yuga (the present degenerate cosmic age within a repeating cycle) — clarify this is a linear, one-time eschatological framework moving toward Christ’s return, not a cyclical cosmic-age scheme.

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Fellowship

Approved rendering: सहभागिता
Transliteration: sahabhāgitā
Doctrine: Fellowship with God and One Another
Rejected alternatives: इश्टागत, समाज
Original: κοινωνία
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package. The letter’s stated purpose (1:3): shared participation in the life of the Father and Son, extended to fellow believers.

Understanding

Approved rendering: समज
Transliteration: samaj
Doctrine: Assurance of Salvation and Eternal Life
Original: διάνοια
Category: Assurance

1 John 5:20 (διάνοια). The faculty of comprehension given by Christ so believers may truly know the true God.

Pride Of Life

Approved rendering: जिणेचो गर्व
Transliteration: jiṇecho garva
Doctrine: Warning Against Loving the World
Original: ἀλαζονεία τοῦ βίου
Category: Ethics

1 John 2:16 (ἀλαζονεία τοῦ βίου). Self-exalting boastfulness about one’s circumstances or possessions.

Cain

Approved rendering: कयीन
Transliteration: Kayīn
Doctrine: Love for the Brethren as Evidence of New Birth
Original: Κάϊν
Category: Ethics

1 John 3:12. Established OT proper-name transliteration. Requires a brief OT background note given assumed low OT narrative literacy among the target audience.

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