Passage

Romans 15

• Doctrine

  Christ-Centered Ministry

  Ministry done in Christ's name and for his glory; security considerations for ministers vary by which of the four host states the ministry occurs in.

  ROM.15.17-21

• Doctrine

  Christian Fellowship

  'Heval' carries a secular revolutionary-movement ('comrade') echo in contemporary Kurdish political usage; context should disambiguate from Christian fellowship.

  ROM.15.24

• Glossary Term

  Church

  Dêr is the established word for a church building (Kurdistan has ancient Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac Christian heritage); 'Civata Mesîhî' (Messianic community) is needed for the NT sense of the gathered people, not a building.

  ROM.15.26

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  New covenant community, not primarily a building; religious freedom for gathering varies meaningfully across the four states Kurdish spans, from comparatively more open in Iraqi Kurdistan to much more restricted elsewhere.

  ROM.15.26

• Glossary Term

  Covenant

  Resonant with Kurdish tribal (aşîret) alliance-making traditions, but such peymans are typically negotiated between relative equals and can be revoked - unlike the unilaterally-initiated, gracious biblical covenant, a distinction that must be taught explicitly.

  ROM.15.12

• Glossary Term

  David

  Shared, positively-regarded Quranic prophet-king figure; supply the covenant-king typology pointing to Messiah explicitly.

  ROM.15.12

• Doctrine

  Davidic Covenant

  Dawid is a shared, positively-regarded Quranic prophet-king, but without the covenant-king typology pointing forward to a promised messianic heir; this background must be taught, not assumed.

  ROM.15.12

• 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.15.20

• Glossary Term

  Exhort

  Context-sensitive: şîret kirin (to admonish) for beseeching; handan kirin (to encourage) for building up.

  ROM.15.2

• Glossary Term

  Fellowship

  'Heval' (friend) is also the standard term of address within Kurdish leftist and nationalist political movements ('comrade'); hevaltî can carry a secular revolutionary-movement echo that context should be relied on to disambiguate from Christian fellowship.

  ROM.15.24

• Doctrine

  Fulfillment of Prophecy

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

  ROM.15.8-12

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

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

  ROM.15.7-12

• 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.15.19-20

• Glossary Term

  Gospel

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

  ROM.15.19-20

• Glossary Term

  Holy

  The standard, extremely common native Kurdish word for holy/sacred (Kitêba Pîroz, the Holy Book).

  ROM.15.16

• Glossary Term

  Holy Spirit

  CRITICAL: shares the same Quranic phrase and mainstream tafsir identification with the angel Jibril (Gabriel) found regionally - the created-being-versus-divine-Person distinction must be made explicit at every occurrence.

  ROM.15.16

• Doctrine

  Inspiration of Scripture

  Islamic wahy denotes verbatim divine dictation; biblical inspiration is God moving human authors to write in their own voice.

  ROM.15.4

• Glossary Term

  Intercession

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

  ROM.15.30-32

• 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.15.7-12

• Doctrine

  Kingdom Mission

  CRITICAL: the Kurds' century-long, deeply emotional national aspiration for an independent Kurdistan makes 'Kingdom of God' language especially prone to being heard as validating or blending with that specific political aspiration; must be taught as exclusively about God's spiritual reign.

  ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21

• Glossary Term

  Kingdom Of God

  CRITICAL: the Kurds are widely described as the largest stateless ethnic group in the world, with a century-long, deeply emotional national aspiration for an independent Kurdistan.

  ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21

• Glossary Term

  Law

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

  ROM.15.8-12

• Glossary Term

  Messiah

  CRITICAL: carries the same pre-loaded Quranic content as Arabic's al-Masih.

  ROM.15.8-12

• Doctrine

  Messianic Promise

  CRITICAL: Mesîh carries the same pre-loaded Quranic content as Arabic's al-Masih; some Kurdish communities' Alevi or Yarsani beliefs add further distinct divinely-guided-figure expectations worth considering by audience.

  ROM.15.8-12

• Glossary Term

  Mission

  Kurdish is unique in this batch for being split across four different state jurisdictions (Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria) with meaningfully different religious-freedom environments; evangelism-related material must be aware that safety implications differ significantly by which state's Kurdish population is the audience.

  ROM.15.15-24

• Doctrine

  Mission to the Nations

  Kurdish spans four state jurisdictions (Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria) with meaningfully different religious-freedom environments; safety implications for evangelism vary significantly depending on which population is the audience.

  ROM.15.15-24

• Doctrine

  Mutual Edification

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

  ROM.15.2

• 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.15.30-32

• Glossary Term

  Prophecy

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

  ROM.15.8-12

• Glossary Term

  Prophet

  Same finality-of-prophethood risk as Arabic's nabi (Muhammad as khatam al-anbiya); must be paired with fuller Christological titles.

  ROM.15.4

• Doctrine

  Sanctification

  The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy, not ritual purification.

  ROM.15.16

• Glossary Term

  Sanctification

  Pakkirin ('to purify,' from pak, clean) risks reading as ritual cleanliness; teqdîs keeps the specific theological sense of the Spirit's ongoing moral transformation.

  ROM.15.16

• Glossary Term

  Seed Of David

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

  ROM.15.12

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be confused with the hereditary, shrine-centered spiritual elite status of a Sufi 'pîr'; biblical separation is devoted engagement with the world by all believers, not an elevated office for a few.

  ROM.15.16

• 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.15.7-12