Passage
Romans 15
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Doctrine
Christ-Centered Ministry
Ministry done in Christ's name and by his power, for his glory, not achievement-oriented ministry success measured by growth metrics.
ROM.15.17-21
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Doctrine
Christian Fellowship
Shared participation in Christ; no significant doctrinal risk.
ROM.15.24
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Glossary Term
Church
Established term.
ROM.15.26
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Doctrine
Church as God's People
New covenant community, not a shamanistic village shrine (당집) or Buddhist temple institution (절).
ROM.15.26
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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.15.12
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Glossary Term
David
Standard KRV proper name form.
ROM.15.12
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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.15.12
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Doctrine
Evangelism
Frame in terms of gospel-motivated proclamation and witness, not numbers-driven achievement culture.
ROM.15.20
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Glossary Term
Exhort
Standard term for encouraging fellow believers.
ROM.15.2
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Glossary Term
Fellowship
Shared participation in Christ.
ROM.15.24
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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.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Avoid framing through Korea's historically powerful ethnic-nationalist self-conception of 단일민족 (danil minjok, 'a single, homogeneous ethnic nation'), which risks reinforcing an ethnic-insider/foreigner (외국인) reading rather than the specific redemptive-historical Jew/non-Jew category Romans addresses.
ROM.15.7-12
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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.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Gospel
Established KRV term, literally 'blessing-news' (福音).
ROM.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Holy
Set apart for God, morally pure.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Holy Spirit
CRITICAL: always use the compound 성령; NEVER use 신령 (sillyeong, a generic 'divine spirit') or 신 (sin) alone, both central to Korean shamanism (무속신앙), where a mudang channels or is possessed by spirits during a gut ritual.
ROM.15.16
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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.15.4
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Prayer on behalf of others addressed directly to God through Christ.
ROM.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; established form.
ROM.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Kingdom Mission
God's reign advancing through the gospel; Korea has no live competing 'divine kingdom' state ideology, making this comparatively lower-risk than in some other languages in this pipeline.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Kingdom Of God
Unlike some other languages in this pipeline, Korea has no live competing state ideology claiming a 'divine kingdom' framing (no equivalent of a Mandate-of-Heaven dynasty system or a divine-emperor doctrine), so the political-collision risk is comparatively low.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Law
The Mosaic Law.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Messiah
그리스도 (transliteration of 'Christos') is the KRV standard, used consistently.
ROM.15.8-12
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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.15.8-12
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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.15.15-24
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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.15.15-24
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Doctrine
Mutual Edification
Building one another up in faith; no significant doctrinal risk.
ROM.15.2
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
Direct access to God in Christ's name; distinguish from a mudang's ritual mediation between the living and spirits during a gut ceremony.
ROM.15.30-32
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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.15.8-12
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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.15.4
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Doctrine
Sanctification
Spirit-wrought process, distinguished from ascetic self-cultivation (수행, 도 닦기) drawn from Korean Buddhist/folk-religious practice.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work in a believer already justified by faith.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3; conveys physical lineage and OT covenant fulfillment.
ROM.15.12
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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.15.16
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Directly challenges any lingering ethnic-insider framing; must translate with theological clarity rather than softened diplomatic language.
ROM.15.7-12