Passage

Romans 13

• Glossary Term

  Justification

  A forensic-legal declaration (being 'made/declared right'), not merely forgiveness.

  ROM.13.11

• Glossary Term

  Righteousness

  CRITICAL: Kebenaran can ambiguously mean 'truth/correctness' as well as moral righteousness in everyday Malay; context must make clear this is right standing before God, not merely factual accuracy.

  ROM.13.11

• Doctrine

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: Salvation received now through Christ's finished work, not an outcome deferred to Allah's undisclosed judgment.

  ROM.13.11

• Glossary Term

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: Keselamatan shares its root with selamat, an extremely common everyday word ('selamat pagi,' good morning; 'selamat datang,' welcome), which risks the doctrine reading as a vague, generic well-wishing rather than a specific, present deliverance secured by Christ.

  ROM.13.11