Grace

Deliberately different from Hindi, which rejects कृपा as too weak and prefers अनुग्रह; in the Konkani/Marathi Bible tradition कृपा is the established, doctrinally load-bearing term for unmerited grace and carries no weaker connotation here. Must still be taught as unearned favor, directly against a karma-merit worldview; never कर्मफळ (fruit of karma) or पुण्य (accumulated merit).