Passage

Romans 16

• Doctrine

  Christian Fellowship

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

  ROM.16.3-16

• 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.16.1-16

• 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.16.1-16

• 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.16.3-16

• Doctrine

  Obedience of Faith

  CRITICAL: submission is the defining category of the surrounding Islamic religious culture; must be taught as faith's fruit, never its ground.

  ROM.16.26

• Glossary Term

  Obedience Of Faith

  Shares the region's Islamic submission-as-core-category risk; must be taught as faith's fruit, never its ground.

  ROM.16.26

• Doctrine

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term with broad positive overlap; low risk.

  ROM.16.4

• Glossary Term

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term with broad positive overlap; low risk.

  ROM.16.4