Passage

Romans 13

• 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.13.11

• 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.13.11

• 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.13.11

• 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.13.11