Passage

Romans 1

• Glossary Term

  Apostle

  Conveys an authorized, sent-out messenger with delegated authority.

  ROM.1.1

• Doctrine

  Apostleship

  Risk: reducing apostleship to a generic pandit or genealogist-scholar role, given the outsized cultural authority of the Maithil Brahmin pandit as custodian of the region's Panjikaran lineage registry.

  ROM.1.1

• Glossary Term

  Called

  Context-sensitive: in 1:1, called to apostleship; in 1:7, called to be saints; in 8:28-30, effectual calling to salvation.

  ROM.1.1, ROM.1.6-7

• Glossary Term

  Calling

  Noun-phrase form for the act/state of being called by God, built on the same native verb root as 'called' for consistency across the two forms.

  ROM.1.1, ROM.1.6-7

• Doctrine

  Christian Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ, not merely social or caste-community association.

  ROM.1.12

• Glossary Term

  Covenant

  Relational covenant bond, more than a legal contract (अनुबंध).

  ROM.1.3

• Glossary Term

  David

  Follows established North Indian Bible-translation proper-name form.

  ROM.1.3

• Doctrine

  Davidic Covenant

  Requires explicit Old Testament background explanation; no analogous royal-lineage covenant concept exists in Mithila's own kingdom-narrative tradition (the House of Janak).

  ROM.1.3

• Doctrine

  Deity of Christ

  CRITICAL: Co-equal divine nature, not divine promotion or an elevated devotee/avatar-figure.

  ROM.1.4

• Doctrine

  Divine Calling

  God's sovereign call must be distinguished from human religious seeking and from karma/fate-determined destiny (प्रारब्ध), both deeply embedded in everyday Maithili religious idiom.

  ROM.1.1, ROM.1.6-7

• Glossary Term

  Exhort

  Context-sensitive: use विनती (entreaty) for beseeching; उत्साहित करब (encourage) for building up, using the native Maithili infinitive -करब rather than Hindi's -करना.

  ROM.1.12

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ specifically, not the region's Ram-Sita or Shiva bhakti devotional reverence, however sincere.

  ROM.1.17

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  Trust placed in a specific person (Christ), not generalized devotional reverence.

  ROM.1.17

• Glossary Term

  Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ; समाज (society) is too generic-civic for this theological sense.

  ROM.1.12

• Doctrine

  Fulfillment of Prophecy

  Linear historical fulfillment (OT to NT), not the cyclical cosmic pattern (yuga cycles) in which a deity periodically descends to restore dharma, as in the region's own Ram-avatar narrative.

  ROM.1.2-4

• Glossary Term

  Glory

  God's radiant presence and honor.

  ROM.1.4

• Glossary Term

  God

  परमेश्वर (Supreme Lord) is preferred for doctrinal precision.

  ROM.1.4

• Doctrine

  Gospel

  Must be distinguished from ordinary good news.

  ROM.1.1, ROM.1.16

• Glossary Term

  Gospel

  Sanskrit tatsama term shared across Maithili and Hindi religious registers; retained because it is already the rendering used in the limited existing Maithili Scripture portions.

  ROM.1.1, ROM.1.16

• Doctrine

  Humanity of Christ

  Real, physical human nature, not a temporary divine appearance as in some Puranic avatar narratives.

  ROM.1.3

• Doctrine

  Incarnation

  CRITICAL: The eternal Son permanently assuming human nature, once.

  ROM.1.3

• Glossary Term

  Incarnation

  CRITICAL: NEVER अवतार.

  ROM.1.3

• Doctrine

  Inspiration of Scripture

  Distinguish God-breathed Scripture from the devotional authority Mithila grants to Vidyapati's poetry and to the Ramayana/Puranic narrative tradition that supplies the region's own sacred stories.

  ROM.1.2

• Glossary Term

  Jesus

  Standard form in the limited existing Maithili Scripture portions, following North Indian Bible-translation precedent.

  ROM.1.4

• Glossary Term

  Justification

  Compound phrase required, built on the native Maithili passive construction (कएल जाएब) rather than a borrowed Hindi passive, so the phrase reads as Maithili rather than transplanted Hindi.

  ROM.1.16

• Glossary Term

  Law

  Torah/Mosaic law.

  ROM.1.2-4

• Glossary Term

  Lord

  Established Christian term across North Indian Bible traditions, including the limited existing Maithili Scripture portions.

  ROM.1.4

• Doctrine

  Lordship of Christ

  CRITICAL: Romans 10:9 -- 'Jesus is Lord' is the salvation confession, rendered with the honorific verb form (छथि) appropriate to God.

  ROM.1.4

• Glossary Term

  Messiah

  Transliterated term.

  ROM.1.3-4

• Doctrine

  Messianic Promise

  CRITICAL: Messiah is a specific Jewish Old Testament concept fulfilled exclusively in Jesus.

  ROM.1.3-4

• Glossary Term

  Mission

  Describes the activity plainly.

  ROM.1.5, ROM.1.13-14

• Doctrine

  Mission to the Nations

  Because Mithila has a comparatively thin history of mission-institution presence compared to other regions in this pipeline, 'mission' vocabulary must be introduced and explained rather than assumed familiar; prefer सुसमाचार प्रचार (gospel proclamation).

  ROM.1.5, ROM.1.13-14

• Doctrine

  Mutual Edification

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

  ROM.1.12

• Doctrine

  Obedience of Faith

  Obedience flowing from faith, not duty-bound household compliance (कर्तव्य पालन), a concept with strong resonance in Mithila's dharma-ordered family and marriage customs.

  ROM.1.5

• Glossary Term

  Obedience Of Faith

  Romans 1:5 and 16:26.

  ROM.1.5

• Glossary Term

  Power Of God

  Use सामर्थ्य; never शक्ति alone, which carries strong Shakta-goddess associations in a region with active Durga/Kali worship traditions (e.g.

  ROM.1.16

• Doctrine

  Power of God for Salvation

  सामर्थ्य required; never शक्ति, which carries strong Shakta-goddess associations in a region with active Durga/Kali worship traditions.

  ROM.1.16

• Glossary Term

  Prophecy

  God-inspired declaration, distinct from astrological prediction (भविष्यफल).

  ROM.1.2-4

• Glossary Term

  Prophet

  God's spokesperson; distinguish from an astrologer/fortune-teller (ज्योतिषी), a live profession in a region where Panjikaran genealogists and astrologers both play matchmaking roles.

  ROM.1.2

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

  CRITICAL: NEVER पुनर्जन्म (rebirth within the cycle of रोकल-मुक्ति/samsara).

  ROM.1.4

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

  CRITICAL: Bodily, once-for-all resurrection.

  ROM.1.4

• Glossary Term

  Righteousness

  CRITICAL: Never धर्म (cosmic/social duty) and never सतीत्व (the chastity/wifely-virtue ideal embodied by Sita, Mithila's most culturally cherished moral exemplar).

  ROM.1.16

• Doctrine

  Sainthood (Called to be Holy)

  All believers are saints; not an ascetic elite or a gendered virtue-exemplar category modeled on Sita.

  ROM.1.7

• Doctrine

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: Never मुक्ति or मोक्ष.

  ROM.1.16

• Glossary Term

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: NEVER मुक्ति or मोक्ष -- these carry the standard North Indian Hindu liberation-from-rebirth meaning shared across Maithil Vaishnava and Shaiva practice.

  ROM.1.16

• Glossary Term

  Seed Of David

  Romans 1:3; conveys physical lineage and OT covenant fulfillment, using the Maithili genitive -क and instrumental -सँ markers rather than Hindi postpositions.

  ROM.1.3

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be confused with the region's monastic and ascetic renunciation traditions attached to Mithila's Shaiva and Vaishnava maths (monastic centers).

  ROM.1.1

• Glossary Term

  Sin

  Moral transgression before a personal God, distinguished from ritual impurity (अशुद्धता) and from an impersonal karmic debt.

  ROM.1.18

• Glossary Term

  Son Of God

  CRITICAL: full phrase required, using the Maithili genitive marker -क rather than Hindi का, so the phrase reads as native Maithili rather than borrowed Hindi.

  ROM.1.4

• Doctrine

  Sonship of Christ

  CRITICAL: Eternal, unique Sonship, not metaphorical or adoptive sonship.

  ROM.1.4

• Doctrine

  Spiritual Gifts

  Spirit-given enablements, not merit-earned boons (वरदान) granted for austerity or devotion.

  ROM.1.11

• Glossary Term

  Spiritual Gifts

  वरदान alone carries the Puranic sense of a boon granted by a deity for austerity or devotion; always pair with आत्मिक (spiritual) to mark it as Spirit-given, not earned or bargained-for.

  ROM.1.11

• Doctrine

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term.

  ROM.1.8, ROM.1.21

• Glossary Term

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term; no significant doctrinal risk.

  ROM.1.8, ROM.1.21

• Doctrine

  Universal Human Accountability

  All humanity equally guilty before God undermines caste and lineage-based spiritual hierarchy.

  ROM.1.18

• Doctrine

  Universal Scope of the Gospel

  No caste or lineage barrier to the gospel.

  ROM.1.16