Passage

Romans 7

• Glossary Term

  Holy

  圣洁 = set apart for God and morally pure.

  ROM.7.12

• Glossary Term

  Holy Spirit

  CRITICAL: always use the compound 圣灵; NEVER use 灵 (líng, 'spirit') alone, which in folk usage covers ancestral spirits (祖灵), nature spirits, and ghosts, and is invoked in ancestor-veneration ritual.

  ROM.7.12

• Doctrine

  Sanctification

  CRITICAL: 成圣 is a direct borrowing of the Neo-Confucian technical term for self-cultivation into sagehood through personal moral effort (Zhu Xi, Wang Yangming).

  ROM.7.12

• Glossary Term

  Sanctification

  CRITICAL: 成圣 ('becoming a sage/holy one') is itself a technical term in Neo-Confucian philosophy (Zhu Xi, Wang Yangming) for the process of self-cultivation by which a person perfects their innate moral nature into sagehood through personal effort.

  ROM.7.12

• Doctrine

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term; minor risk of generic secular gratitude without reference to God specifically.

  ROM.7.25

• Glossary Term

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term.

  ROM.7.25