Passage

Romans 13

• Glossary Term

  Justification

  CRITICAL: established CUV compound, literally 'called/reckoned righteous' — a forensic declaration, not a process.

  ROM.13.11

• Glossary Term

  Righteousness

  CRITICAL: 义 is also one of the Confucian Five Constant Virtues (仁义礼智信) — a social-ethical duty of rightness owed within relationships, cultivated by moral effort.

  ROM.13.11

• Doctrine

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: NEVER 解脱 (Buddhist liberation from samsara) or 超度 (a posthumous rite performed on behalf of the dead).

  ROM.13.11

• Glossary Term

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: NEVER use 解脱 (jiětuō) — Buddhist liberation from the cycle of samsara/suffering, the rough functional equivalent of Hindu moksha.

  ROM.13.11