Passage

Romans 1

• Glossary Term

  Apostle

  Established term; no significant collision.

  ROM.1.1

• Doctrine

  Apostleship

  Low collision risk: 사도 is specific and established.

  ROM.1.1

• Glossary Term

  Called

  NEVER use 팔자에 정해진 ('fixed by one's birth-chart/fate,' referencing the still-common Korean folk-astrology practice of saju-paljja, Four Pillars of Destiny).

  ROM.1.1, ROM.1.6-7

• Glossary Term

  Calling

  NEVER use 운명 (unmyeong, impersonal fate) or 팔자 (paljja, one's fixed life-lot per birth-chart astrology).

  ROM.1.1, ROM.1.6-7

• Doctrine

  Christian Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ; no significant doctrinal risk.

  ROM.1.12

• Glossary Term

  Covenant

  Korean Christian usage already maintains a clean structural distinction unavailable in some of this pipeline's other languages: 언약 (relational, divinely initiated covenant) is kept distinct from 계약 (gyeyak, an ordinary secular/commercial contract).

  ROM.1.3

• Glossary Term

  David

  Standard KRV proper name form.

  ROM.1.3

• Doctrine

  Davidic Covenant

  Requires OT background explanation; Korean already distinguishes 언약 (covenant) cleanly from 계약 (commercial contract), which helps rather than hinders this doctrine's clarity relative to some other languages in this pipeline.

  ROM.1.3

• Doctrine

  Deity of Christ

  CRITICAL: co-equal, eternal divine nature — not a spiritually powerful shamanistic deity or ancestor-spirit granted elevated status.

  ROM.1.4

• Doctrine

  Divine Calling

  Must be kept distinct from saju-paljja birth-chart astrology (사주팔자), still commonly consulted in Korea.

  ROM.1.1, ROM.1.6-7

• Glossary Term

  Exhort

  Standard term for encouraging fellow believers.

  ROM.1.12

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ specifically, not superstitious belief (미신) or confidence placed in fortune-telling/astrology practices still common in Korean folk life.

  ROM.1.17

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  Personal trust placed in Christ specifically.

  ROM.1.17

• Glossary Term

  Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ.

  ROM.1.12

• Doctrine

  Fulfillment of Prophecy

  Linear, one-time historical fulfillment (OT to NT), not a fortune-telling prediction (점, 사주팔자 예측) coming true by chance.

  ROM.1.2-4

• Glossary Term

  Glory

  Avoid collapsing into 명예 (secular honor/reputation) or 출세 (chulse, career/social success), both prominent in Korea's intensely status-and-achievement-conscious culture.

  ROM.1.4

• Glossary Term

  God

  CRITICAL: this package standardizes on 하나님 (Protestant usage, popularized through the late-19th-century Korean Bible translation tradition, built on 하나 'one' plus the honorific 님, emphasizing explicit monotheism).

  ROM.1.4

• Doctrine

  Gospel

  복음 is established and unambiguous as a word, but its root character 복 (fortune/blessing) sits inside the same semantic field targeted by 기복신앙 ('fortune-seeking faith') critique; teaching must be explicit the gospel announces salvation, not forecasted prosperity.

  ROM.1.1, ROM.1.16

• Glossary Term

  Gospel

  Established KRV term, literally 'blessing-news' (福音).

  ROM.1.1, ROM.1.16

• Doctrine

  Humanity of Christ

  Real, physical human nature, not a provisional manifestation-form (화신) exchangeable for another appearance.

  ROM.1.3

• Doctrine

  Incarnation

  NEVER 화신 (a Buddhist avatar/incarnation-of-a-buddha concept describing a provisional, repeatable manifestation).

  ROM.1.3

• Glossary Term

  Incarnation

  Established Korean theological term ('holy flesh-becoming').

  ROM.1.3

• Doctrine

  Inspiration of Scripture

  Distinguish God-breathed Scripture from Confucian classical texts (경, gyeong) transmitted through a scholarly lineage, or from folk divination manuals; Scripture is the direct communication of a personal God.

  ROM.1.2

• Glossary Term

  Jesus

  Standard KRV transliteration.

  ROM.1.4

• Glossary Term

  Justification

  CRITICAL: established KRV compound, a forensic declaration ('being made/declared righteous'), not a process.

  ROM.1.16

• Glossary Term

  Law

  The Mosaic Law.

  ROM.1.2-4

• Glossary Term

  Lord

  Established term with required honorific suffix 님 (nim).

  ROM.1.4

• Doctrine

  Lordship of Christ

  CRITICAL: Romans 10:9 — 예수는 주님이시다 is the salvation confession.

  ROM.1.4

• Glossary Term

  Messiah

  그리스도 (transliteration of 'Christos') is the KRV standard, used consistently.

  ROM.1.3-4

• Doctrine

  Messianic Promise

  Korea's high existing Christian literacy makes this comparatively lower-risk than in Japan; still avoid conflating with 미륵 (Maitreya, the future Buddha of Korean Buddhist eschatology, historically invoked by Korean folk-millenarian movements).

  ROM.1.3-4

• Glossary Term

  Mission

  Korea is now one of the world's largest missionary-sending nations per capita; unlike the foreign-stigma risk found in some other Asian contexts, the risk flavor here is closer to an inverse concern — a success-and-growth-oriented, numbers-driven missions culture that some Korean church leaders themselves have flagged as a caution.

  ROM.1.5, ROM.1.13-14

• Doctrine

  Mission to the Nations

  Korea is a leading missionary-sending nation; the caution here is a success-and-growth-oriented missions culture rather than a foreign-stigma or receptivity problem.

  ROM.1.5, ROM.1.13-14

• Doctrine

  Mutual Edification

  Building one another up in faith; no significant doctrinal risk.

  ROM.1.12

• Doctrine

  Obedience of Faith

  Korea's historically rigorous Confucian hierarchical-obedience ethics (including the traditional, rejected 'three obediences' doctrine for women) risk reducing obedience of faith to hierarchical social-status compliance rather than a Spirit-produced response to grace.

  ROM.1.5

• Glossary Term

  Obedience Of Faith

  Romans 1:5 and 16:26.

  ROM.1.5

• Glossary Term

  Power Of God

  CRITICAL: Korean shamanism (무속신앙) is fundamentally organized around a mudang's claimed spiritual power (영력, yeongnyeok) to heal, exorcise, and grant fortune through gut ritual.

  ROM.1.16

• Doctrine

  Power of God for Salvation

  CRITICAL: 능력 required, but must be explicitly distinguished from a mudang's shamanistic spirit-power (영력) sought for healing/blessing.

  ROM.1.16

• Glossary Term

  Prophecy

  God-inspired declaration; distinguish from 점 (fortune-telling divination) and from 사주팔자 (saju-paljja) astrological prediction, both widely practiced in Korean folk culture.

  ROM.1.2-4

• Glossary Term

  Prophet

  God's spokesperson; distinguish from 점쟁이 (jeomjaengi, a fortune-teller) and from a mudang shaman who claims to speak for spirits, both still commonly consulted in Korean folk practice.

  ROM.1.2

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

  NEVER use 환생 (hwansaeng, rebirth) or 윤회 (yunhoe, the reincarnation cycle).

  ROM.1.4

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

  부활, not 환생 (rebirth) or 윤회 (reincarnation cycle).

  ROM.1.4

• Glossary Term

  Righteousness

  의 also anchors 의리 (uiri), a Korean ethical concept of loyalty and faithfulness in relationships prominent in Korean social ethics and popular culture (e.g.

  ROM.1.16

• Doctrine

  Sainthood (Called to be Holy)

  All believers are 성도 corporately; not an elevated Daoist-immortal (신선) or spiritually-accomplished-master (도인) class.

  ROM.1.7

• Doctrine

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: NEVER 해탈 (Buddhist liberation from samsara).

  ROM.1.16

• Glossary Term

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: NEVER use 해탈 (haetal, Buddhist liberation from samsara) or describe salvation as 윤회에서 벗어남 ('escaping the cycle of rebirth').

  ROM.1.16

• Glossary Term

  Seed Of David

  Romans 1:3; conveys physical lineage and OT covenant fulfillment.

  ROM.1.3

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be confused with shamanistic ritual purification performed in a gut ceremony to remove misfortune (부정을 씻음).

  ROM.1.1

• Glossary Term

  Sin

  Distinguish from 액운 (aegun, bad luck/misfortune attributed to fate or spiritual causes in folk belief) and from 체면 손상 (loss of face/social standing, 체면 chemyeon being a strong Korean social concept).

  ROM.1.18

• Glossary Term

  Son Of God

  Korea's own founding myth (the Dangun legend) tells of Hwanung, described as the son of the heavenly god Hwanin, descending to found Korea's first kingdom — a real but comparatively low-intensity echo (mythological/legendary rather than a living state ideology, unlike historic Chinese or pre-1946 Japanese imperial-divinity doctrines).

  ROM.1.4

• Doctrine

  Sonship of Christ

  Korea's own founding myth (Dangun/Hwanung as son of the heavenly god Hwanin) offers a real but comparatively low-intensity echo, being legendary rather than a living state ideology.

  ROM.1.4

• Doctrine

  Spiritual Gifts

  Spirit-given enablements for building up the church; must not be framed as a shaman's spirit-power (영력) sought for personal display or this-worldly benefit, a risk Korean charismatic church leaders have themselves flagged.

  ROM.1.11

• Glossary Term

  Spiritual Gifts

  Established term, prominent in Korean Pentecostal/charismatic church life.

  ROM.1.11

• Doctrine

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term; minor risk of generic secular gratitude without reference to God specifically.

  ROM.1.8, ROM.1.21

• Glossary Term

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term.

  ROM.1.8, ROM.1.21

• Doctrine

  Universal Human Accountability

  All humanity equally guilty before God regardless of social standing; must be taught as guilt before a personal God, not merely loss of face (체면 손상) or bad luck (액운).

  ROM.1.18

• Doctrine

  Universal Scope of the Gospel

  No ethnic barrier to the gospel; must resist framing that echoes Korea's ethnic-nationalist 단일민족 ('single ethnic nation') self-conception.

  ROM.1.16