Passage

Romans 16

• Doctrine

  Christian Fellowship

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

  ROM.16.3-16

• Glossary Term

  Church

  Never मन्दिर (Hindu temple) and never मठ (a monastic institution attached to a particular deity or guru lineage, common across Mithila's Shaiva and Vaishnava centers).

  ROM.16.1-16

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  New covenant community, not a ritual institution modeled on the region's math (monastic) structures or a caste-segregated assembly.

  ROM.16.1-16

• Glossary Term

  Fellowship

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

  ROM.16.3-16

• 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.16.26

• Glossary Term

  Obedience Of Faith

  Romans 1:5 and 16:26.

  ROM.16.26

• Doctrine

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term.

  ROM.16.4

• Glossary Term

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term; no significant doctrinal risk.

  ROM.16.4