Passage

Romans 10

• Doctrine

  Evangelism

  Safety implications for proclaiming the gospel vary significantly across the four states Kurdish spans; language of witness must be calibrated to the specific political and legal context of the intended audience.

  ROM.10.14-15

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Shares the region's six-pillars creedal-assent structure; must be anchored as personal trust in Christ specifically.

  ROM.10.9-10, ROM.10.17

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  Shares the region's Sunni (predominantly Shafi'i madhhab among Kurds, distinct from the Hanafi madhhab common elsewhere in this batch) six-pillars creedal structure.

  ROM.10.9-10, ROM.10.17

• Doctrine

  Fulfillment of Prophecy

  Naskh (abrogation) doctrine treats later revelation as superseding earlier revelation; Romans' fulfillment argument needs deliberate framing against this default.

  ROM.10.11

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  Umet carries the loaded pan-Islamic community sense; the descriptive 'ne-cihû' ('non-Jews') avoids that association.

  ROM.10.12

• Doctrine

  Gospel

  Mizgînî is a native Kurdish word, lower risk than Arabic's shared-Quranic-vocabulary Injil; still needs qualification as the specific NT proclamation where the Islamic Încîl/tahrif association is likely.

  ROM.10.15-16

• Glossary Term

  Gospel

  A native Kurdish word for 'good news,' not an Arabic loanword like Injil - a genuine linguistic asset.

  ROM.10.15-16

• Glossary Term

  Intercession

  A transparent native compound ('the work of being in-between').

  ROM.10.1

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Unusually for this batch, popular Kurdish sentiment - especially in Iraqi Kurdistan - toward Israel is often notably more favorable than the regional norm, reflecting shared minority-status solidarity and historical Israeli support for Kurdish autonomy; still requires care given real variation across the four host states Kurdish spans.

  ROM.10.12

• Glossary Term

  Jesus

  CRITICAL: as in Persian and Pashto, the small Kurdish Christian presence (historically Assyrian/Chaldean rather than ethnically Kurdish) has not produced a rival native transliteration; 'Îsa' is used without naming controversy.

  ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12

• Glossary Term

  Justification

  CRITICAL: compound phrase ('to be counted/reckoned as just') required to convey the forensic declaration rather than a process of becoming righteous.

  ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10

• Glossary Term

  Law

  CRITICAL: bare 'Şerîet' risks conflation with Islamic law generally, hence the explicit 'of Moses' qualifier.

  ROM.10.11

• Glossary Term

  Lord

  CRITICAL: applying supreme, exclusive Lordship to Jesus (Romans 10:9) is the deity claim itself, resisted on the same tawhid grounds as in Arabic and Persian, and must not be softened to mere ownership or leadership.

  ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12

• Doctrine

  Lordship of Christ

  CRITICAL: applying supreme Lordship to Jesus (Romans 10:9) is the deity claim itself and must never be softened.

  ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12

• Doctrine

  Prayer and Intercession

  Shares the region's general shafa'at-adjacent theological complexity; Kurdish tribal reconciliation customs offer a modest but less institutionally developed parallel than found elsewhere in the region.

  ROM.10.1

• Glossary Term

  Prophecy

  Low independent risk beyond the prophet entry's own note.

  ROM.10.11

• Glossary Term

  Righteousness

  Rastî (native Kurdish for 'rightness/truth,' from 'rast,' straight/correct) is too thin for Paul's weighty forensic sense, reading as mere correctness.

  ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10

• Doctrine

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: rizgarî is the defining vocabulary of Kurdish political nationalism across all four host states; this doctrine must be anchored firmly to personal, spiritual deliverance from sin, distinct from the national liberation struggle the same word evokes.

  ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10

• Glossary Term

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: rizgarî and its companion azadî (freedom) are the defining vocabulary of Kurdish political nationalism across all four host states - the century-long stateless liberation struggle is described using exactly these words ('Rizgariya Kurdistanê').

  ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10

• Doctrine

  Unity of Jews and Gentiles

  Kurdish popular sentiment toward Israel, notably in Iraqi Kurdistan, is often more favorable than the regional norm, giving this doctrine a less acutely charged political backdrop than in Arabic or Persian, though variation across the four host states still requires care.

  ROM.10.12

• Doctrine

  Universal Scope of the Gospel

  Must be framed so as not to be heard as religious pluralism, while retaining the full inclusive force of the text.

  ROM.10.12-13