Core Glossary
08 Core Glossary — English → Manipuri | 2 Corinthians 1–13
Purpose
This glossary lists every load-bearing theological term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, drawn from the entire book of 2 Corinthians (chapters 1–13, with the core passage 5:11-21 given priority weighting). Terms already established in the Romans baseline (translation_memory.json / bible_term_registry.json) are marked “Reuse — Romans TM” and repeated here with their exact recorded rendering, unchanged, for curriculum completeness. Terms new to this curriculum are marked “New — 2 Corinthians” and are provisional pending theologian/native-speaker confirmation, following the same practice the baseline itself uses for its own provisional entries.
Risk tiers (Critical / High / Medium / Low) and review routing follow the definitions in the baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json:
- Critical / High → Human theologian review required
- Medium → Native speaker review recommended
- Low → Automated review sufficient
Part A — Terms Reused Exactly from the Romans Baseline
| English term | Manipuri rendering | Transliteration | Risk | 2 Corinthians occurrences | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| God | তেংবাং মপু | Tengban Mapu | Critical | throughout | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Lord | মপু ইবুংগো | Mapu Ibungo | Critical | 1:2-3, 4:5, 5:11, 10:17-18, 13:14 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Jesus | জিসু | Jisu | Critical | throughout | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Christ / Messiah | ক্রিস্তো | Christo | Critical | throughout | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Holy Spirit | থাওয়াই অসেংবা | Thawai Asengba | Critical | 1:22, 3:3-18, 5:5, 6:6, 13:13-14 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Father | ইপা | Ipa | Critical | 1:2-3, 6:18 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Grace | মথৌ তাদনা পীবা তেংবাং | mathou tadana piba tengbang | Critical | 1:2, 4:15, 6:1, 8:1,9, 9:8,14, 12:9, 13:14 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Faith | থাজবা | thajaba | High | 1:24, 4:13, 5:7, 8:7, 10:15, 13:5 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Righteousness | অচুম্বা চৎনবিরাক | achumba chatnabirak | Critical | 3:9, 5:21, 6:7,14, 9:9-10, 11:15 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Justification | অচুম্বা ওইহনবা | achumba oihanba | Critical | (implicit, 5:21) | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Salvation | অহানবা | ahanba | Critical | 1:6, 6:2, 7:10 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Resurrection | সিবদগী হিংজত-লকপা | sibadagi hingjat-lakpa | Critical | 4:14, 5:15 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Sin | পাপ | pap | High | 5:19,21, 11:7 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Holy | অসেংবা | asengba | High | 1:12, 6:6, 7:1 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Saints | অসেংবা মীওই | asengba miwoi | High | 1:1, 8:4, 9:1,12, 13:12 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Sanctification | অসেংবা ওইহনবা | asengba oihanba | High | 7:1 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Apostle | তবিদগী থাবিরকপা | tabidagi thabirakpa | Medium | 1:1, 11:5,13, 12:11-12 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Called / Calling | কৌখিবা / কৌবগী থৌদাং | koukhiba / koubagi thoudang | High | 1:1 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Church | কলিসিয়া | kalisiya | Medium | 1:1, 8:1,18-24, 11:8, 12:13 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Fellowship | লোইনবা | loinaba | Low | 6:14, 8:4, 13:13-14 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Thanksgiving | থাগৎচরি | thagatchari | Low | 1:11, 2:14, 4:15, 9:11-12 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Glory | মতিক চাউবা | matik chauba | High | 3:7-11,18, 4:4,6,17, 8:19,23 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Law | য়াথাং | yathang | Medium/High | 3:6-15 (contextual) | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Gentiles | অতোপ্পা ফুরুপ | atoppa phurup | Medium | (implicit background) | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Covenant | ৱারেপ্পা | wareppa | High | 3:6,14 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Election | তেংবাং মপুগী খনবা | Tengban Mapugi khanba | High | (implicit, 5:14 root) | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Providence | তেংবাং মপুগী থৌরাং | Tengban Mapugi thourang | High | 1:3-11 (thematic) | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Intercession | মখোয়গী মফমদা হায়জবা | makhoigi mafamda haijaba | Medium | 1:11, 9:14, 13:7,9 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Exhort / Entreat | থাওয়াই পীবা / হায়জবা | thawai piba / haijaba | Low | 5:20, 6:1, 10:1, 13:11 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Peace | ইনগবা | ingba | Medium | 13:11 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Kingdom of God | তেংবাং মপুগী লৈপাক | Tengban Mapugi leipak | Medium | (implicit) | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Spiritual Gifts | থাওয়াইগী খুদোল | thawaigi khudol | Medium | (implicit, ch.1) | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Power of God | তেংবাং মপুগী পাংথোক-থেংনবা | Tengban Mapugi pangthok-thengnaba | High | 4:7, 12:9, 13:4 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Imputed Righteousness | পীথোকপা অচুম্বা চৎনবিরাক | pithokpa achumba chatnabirak | Critical | 5:21 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Adoption | মচা ওইনা লৌবা | macha oina louba | High | 6:18 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Incarnation | মীওইগী মহৈ লৌবা | miwoigi mahai louba | Critical | 5:16 (contrastive) | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Son of God | তেংবাং মপুগী মচানুপা | Tengban Mapugi machanupa | Critical | 1:19 | Reuse — Romans TM |
| Christian Identity in Christ (“in Christ”) | ক্রিস্তোদা ক্রিস্তান খংনবা | Christoda Christan khangnaba | High | 5:17,19,21, 13:5 | Reuse — Romans TM |
(All other Romans-baseline terms not listed above but present in the doctrine_risk_registry — e.g. obedience_of_faith, gospel, mission, prophet/prophecy, David, Israel, abba — remain in force wherever they occur in this curriculum’s supporting material and are unchanged.)
Part B — New Terms Introduced by 2 Corinthians
| English term | Manipuri rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Key passages | Alternatives rejected | Manipuri-specific risk reasoning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reconciliation (to God) | ইনহনবগী থৌদাং (noun); ইনহনবা (verb) | inhanbagi thoudang / inhanba | Critical | Reconciliation with God | 5:18-20 | A borrowed ritual-appeasement term (never adopted) | Must be God’s own initiative restoring a broken relationship through Christ’s finished work — not ritual propitiation of an offended Umang Lai deity/ancestral spirit at Lai Haraoba, and not a bhakti-devotee’s gradually cultivated closeness to Krishna. |
| New Creation | অনৌবা শেম্বা | anouba shemba | Critical | New Creation in Christ | 5:17 | — | Must not be heard as পুনর্জন্ম (rebirth/reincarnation, already forbidden for “resurrection” in the baseline) nor as invoking Sanamahi’s Sanamahi/Pakhangba creation narrative; this is a decisive, one-time re-creation of the individual in Christ. |
| Comfort (divine consolation) | তেংবাং মপুগী ঙাইহনবা | Tengban Mapugi ngaihanba | High | Suffering and Comfort in Ministry | 1:3-7, 7:6 | passive resignation/fate framing | Must be active, personal, purposive divine care — never rendered so as to suggest impersonal fate (ৱাইফম, already forbidden for providence) or private devotional consolation sought through bhakti practice. |
| Affliction / Suffering | আওবা | awaba | High | Suffering and Comfort in Ministry | 1:4,8; 4:17; 6:4; 11:23-28 | — | Suffering endured specifically for the gospel, not karmic consequence or ritual impurity requiring purification rites. |
| New Covenant | অনৌবা ৱারেপ্পা | anouba wareppa | High | New Covenant versus the Old | 3:6,14 | — | Requires explicit OT background teaching; no Sanamahi covenant-theology analogue exists, though royal Pakhangba-descent lineage-thinking offers a distinct, non-equivalent point of resonance. |
| Old Covenant | মমাংগী ৱারেপ্পা | mamangi wareppa | Medium | New Covenant versus the Old | 3:14 | — | — |
| Letter (of the law) | ইরিবা ৱারোল | iriba warol | High | New Covenant versus the Old | 3:6 | য়াথাং alone (too broad) | Narrower than “law” generally — names the written-letter administration contrasted with the Spirit’s life-giving ministry. |
| Veil | মায় কুপ্পা | mai kuppa | Medium | New Covenant versus the Old | 3:13-16 | — | Strictly metaphorical (spiritual blindness); must not be misheard as commentary on literal Meitei face/head-covering dress customs. |
| Transformed | হোংদোকপা | hongdokpa | High | New Covenant versus the Old; Sanctification | 3:18 | — | Progressive Spirit-wrought Christlikeness; must not be conflated with avatar-style appearance-change (forbidden অবতার) or cyclical rebirth (forbidden পুনর্জন্ম). |
| Image (eikōn) | মশক | mashak | Medium | New Covenant versus the Old | 3:18 | — | — |
| Boldness | কীবা য়াওদনা ফোংদোকপা | kiba yaodana phongdokpa | Medium | Sincerity and Apostolic Authority | 3:12 | — | — |
| Flesh (kata sarka, evaluative sense) | হাক্চাংগী মতুংইন্না | hakchanggi matungina | High | Christian Identity in Christ; Deity of Christ | 5:16 | — | Names a fallen, external evaluative viewpoint, sharply distinct from the baseline’s positive incarnation term (Christ’s real assumption of human nature) — collapsing the two risks avatar-descent-style misreading of Christ’s identity. |
| Love (agapē, general) | নুংশিবা | nungshiba | High | Reconciliation with God; general | 5:14, 13:11,13-14 | ভক্তি-shaped “devotional feeling toward Christ” (rejected as primary sense here) | Christ’s own prior, historical, sacrificial love that compels the believer — not primarily the believer’s felt devotion toward Christ, which would invert the doctrine toward a bhakti/prema-shaped category. |
| Imputation / reckon (logizomai) | শীংথোকপা | shingthokpa | Critical | Reconciliation with God; Justification by Faith | 5:19 (cf. Romans 4:3-6) | — | Deliberately shares its root with the baseline’s imputed_righteousness term so learners recognize the single forensic-accounting logic operating in both directions (crediting righteousness / not debiting sin); no ready equivalent exists in a bhakti framework of cumulatively built devotional standing. |
| Ambassador | মখাদা লেপ্লিবা থাবিরকপা | makhada leplibaa thabirakpa | High | Reconciliation with God; Sincerity and Apostolic Authority | 5:20 | — | Authorized representative transmitting a fixed, completed message — distinct from a maibi/maiba’s ongoing oracular intermediary role between a community and the Umang Lai. |
| Ministry / Minister (diakonia/diakonos) | সেবা / সেবক | seba / sebok | Medium | Sincerity and Apostolic Authority; Reconciliation with God | 3:6, 4:1, 5:18, 6:3-4, 11:8,15,23 | — | Authorized, Christ-commissioned service/proclamation — distinguish from সেবা as ritual devotional service rendered to build bhakti standing in Vaishnava practice. |
| Judgment Seat (of Christ) | ক্রিস্তোগী ৱাফম | Christogi wapham | High | Suffering and Comfort in Ministry; Assurance of Salvation | 5:10 | — | Personal accountability to the risen, exalted Christ — not impersonal karmic reckoning nor ancestral-spirit (Apokpa) judgment. |
| Sincerity | অচুম্বা পুক্নিং | achumba pukning | High | Sincerity and Apostolic Authority | 1:12, 2:17, 4:2 | rhetorical polish/persuasive showmanship (implicitly rejected) | Paul’s authority rests on transparent, God-verified sincerity of motive, not persuasive religious performance or ritual-office credentials. |
| Conscience | পুক্নিংগী খংবা | pukninggi khangba | Medium | Sincerity and Apostolic Authority | 1:12, 4:2, 5:11 | — | An individual’s inward moral faculty answerable to God — distinct from communal shame/honor judgment. |
| False Apostles | তুরান্বা তবিদগী থাবিরকপা | turamba tabidagi thabirakpa | High | Genuine versus False Apostleship | 11:13 | — | Names a specific historical polemic against rival Christian teachers, not a generic dismissal of other traditions’ religious specialists (maiba, maibi, Vaishnava guru), whose authority claims rest on entirely different grounds. |
| Super-Apostles | য়াম্না চাওবা তবিদগী থাবিরকপা | yamna chauba tabidagi thabirakpa | Medium | Genuine versus False Apostleship | 11:5, 12:11 | — | Ironic label; preserve Paul’s sarcastic tone. |
| Satan | সাতান | Satan | High | Genuine versus False Apostleship; general | 2:11, 11:14, 12:7 | — | A real, personal, malevolent being opposed to God — not one spirit among the generally more ambivalent Umang Lai categories of Sanamahi belief. |
| Beliar / Belial | বেলিয়ার | Beliar | High | Genuine versus False Apostleship | 6:15 | — | Same referent as Satan; must not be taught as a distinct lesser spirit within a populated hierarchy. |
| Angel | তেংবাং মপুগী দূত | Tengban Mapugi doot | Medium | Genuine versus False Apostleship | 11:14 | — | — |
| Angel of Light | মঙাল্গী দূত | mangalgi doot | High | Genuine versus False Apostleship | 11:14 | — | Deliberate satanic deception dressed as legitimate spiritual authority — narrower than, and not a verdict on, the whole Umang Lai category of Sanamahi belief. |
| ”God of this age” (title for Satan) | মলেম অসিগী মপু ৱারিবা | malem asigi mapu wariba | Critical | Genuine versus False Apostleship; Deity of Christ | 4:4 | — | Polemical/ironic, NOT an acknowledgment of a legitimate second deity; acute risk of being misheard as naming a real rival god within a populated spirit-and-deity landscape. |
| Boasting | চাউথোকপা | chauthokpa | Medium | Sincerity and Apostolic Authority; Power in Weakness | 10:8,13-17; 11:16-30; 12:1,5,9 | — | Contrast with royal-lineage and Ras-Lila-performance prestige-display culture; legitimate boasting locates all glory in God, not self, lineage, or ritual status. |
| Weapons (of spiritual warfare) | লান্থাবগী পোৎলোন | lanthabagi potlon | Medium | Sincerity and Apostolic Authority | 10:4 | — | Metaphorical; handle with pastoral sensitivity given real armed ethnic conflict in Manipur — never applied to legitimize actual violence. |
| Strongholds | থিংনবা য়ুম | thingnaba yum | Medium | Sincerity and Apostolic Authority | 10:4 | — | Same pastoral-sensitivity caution as “weapons.” |
| Jealousy (godly) | কল্লকপা | kalakpa | Medium | Genuine versus False Apostleship | 11:2 | — | Protective divine jealousy for the church’s exclusive devotion to Christ, distinct from possessive human jealousy. |
| Weakness | পাংথোক-থেংনবা লৈতবা | pangthok-thengnaba leitaba | Critical | Power in Weakness | 11:30; 12:5,9-10; 13:4,9 | — | Deliberately built as the negation of the baseline’s power_of_god compound so the 12:9 paradox is visible in Manipuri. Sharply countercultural against royal-divine-lineage strength claims, maibi trance-power (শক্তি) display, and Ras Lila divine splendor. |
| Grace is Sufficient | মথৌ তাদনা পীবা তেংবাং মপুং ফাবি | mathou tadana piba tengbang mapung phabi | Critical | Power in Weakness | 12:9 | — | Grace not conditioned on removal of hardship; must resist any framing (bhakti or otherwise) where divine favor is expected to correlate with visible blessing. |
| Sufficient/Sufficiency (hikanotēs, general) | মপুং ফাবা | mapung phaba | Medium | Sincerity and Apostolic Authority; Power in Weakness | 3:5, 12:9 | — | — |
| Thorn in the Flesh | হাক্চাংদা তোনবা খোইসু-গুম্না ওইবা আওবা | hakchangda tonba khoisu-gumna oiba awaba | Medium | Power in Weakness | 12:7 | — | Idiom; render as simile with brief gloss. |
| Visions and Revelations | উত্লিবা অমসুং ফোংদোকপিবা | utliba amasung phongdokpiba | Medium | Power in Weakness | 12:1,7 | — | Genuine, exceptional, God-given experience explicitly NOT the ground of apostolic authority (Paul boasts in weakness instead) — distinct from a maibi’s community-oracular trance-vision. |
| Heaven | স্বর্গ | swarga | High | Power in Weakness | 12:2 | — | Broadly shared Indic-vocabulary term (parallel to পাপ for “sin” in the baseline); must be explicitly distinguished from Vaikuntha/Goloka, Krishna’s heavenly abode in Vaishnava cosmology. |
| Paradise | পারাদিস | Paradis | Medium | Power in Weakness | 12:4 | — | Transliterated as a proper place-name to avoid importing unwanted associations. |
| Generosity / Grace in Giving | পীবগী মথৌ তাদনা পীবা তেংবাং | pibagi mathou tadana piba tengbang | High | Generosity and Grace in Giving | 8:1-9:15 | dāna-as-seva merit framing (rejected) | Giving is a grace-response, never a grace-generating work; must not be reframed as devotional merit-accumulation. |
| Equality (isotēs) | মান্নবা | mannaba | Medium | Generosity and Grace in Giving | 8:13-14 | — | Principle of mutual sufficiency through generosity, not enforced economic leveling. |
| Cheerful Giver | হরাউবা পীবা মী | haraouba piba mi | Low/Medium | Generosity and Grace in Giving | 9:7 | — | Free, glad giving — distinct from giving performed under social/ritual/festival obligation. |
| Sowing and Reaping | হুনবা / লোকপা | hunba / lokpa | Low | Generosity and Grace in Giving | 9:6 | — | Naturally resonant agrarian metaphor in Manipur’s wet-rice-cultivation context; avoid a mechanical prosperity-guarantee reading. |
| Mercy (oiktirmos) | নিংতমবা | ningtamba | Medium | Suffering and Comfort in Ministry | 1:3 | — | — |
| Forgiveness (charizomai, interpersonal) | ময়ামদা কোকপা | mayamda kokpa | Medium/High | (supporting: Reconciliation with God) | 2:7,10 | — | Previously flagged in the baseline as too narrow a substitute for “justification”; now adopted as the correct narrower term for interpersonal forgiveness proper — the two senses must be kept distinct. |
| Fragrance / Aroma of Christ | ক্রিস্তোগী মনম নুংশিত্না | Christogi manam nungshitna | Medium | Sincerity and Apostolic Authority | 2:14-16 | — | Metaphorical; not to be confused with literal incense/fragrant cultic offerings at a Vaishnava temple or Lai Haraoba. |
| Triumphal Procession | ক্রিস্তোগী ঙাক্লবা লান্থাবগী থৌরাং | Christogi ngaklaba lanthabagi thourang | Medium | Sincerity and Apostolic Authority | 2:14 | Lai Haraoba festival-procession imagery (rejected as false equivalent) | Roman military-triumph imagery unfamiliar in Manipur; render with explanatory note, not forced local equivalence. |
| Seal (of the Spirit) | চাপ | chap | High | (supporting: Assurance of Salvation) | 1:22 | — | The Spirit’s own indwelling mark; not a physical amulet/talisman. |
| Guarantee / Down Payment (arrabōn) | মখাদা পীবগী ৱারেপ্পা | makhada pibagi wareppa | High | (supporting: Assurance of Salvation) | 1:22, 5:5 | — | Not a ritual pledge-object (e.g., tilak-marking); the Spirit himself as the pledge of a certain future inheritance. |
| Workers Together (with God) | তেংবাং মপুগা লোয়ননা থবক তৌবা | Tengban Mapuga loinana thabak touba | Medium | Sincerity and Apostolic Authority | 6:1 | — | Collaboration in proclamation/outworking, not in accomplishing reconciliation (already complete). |
| Temple of the Living God | হিংলিবা তেংবাং মপুগী লৈফম | hingliba Tengban Mapugi leipham | Critical | Church as God’s People | 6:16 | মন্দির (Vaishnava temple, forbidden); উমাং লাই থাবা (Umang Lai sacred grove, forbidden) | The corporate church as God’s own dwelling place; both rejected alternatives are already-forbidden terms in the Romans baseline for “church” and must remain forbidden here. |
| Unequally Yoked | মান্নদবাগা পুথোকপা | mannadabaga puthokpa | Medium | Church as God’s People | 6:14 | — | Teach the principle without implying blanket condemnation of interfaith family relationships across Manipur’s Sanamahi/Vaishnava/Christian lines. |
| Holiness (hagiōsynē, perfecting) | অসেংবা ওইহনবা | asengba oihanba | High | Sanctification | 7:1 | — | Reuses baseline sanctification term. |
| Godly Grief | তেংবাং মপুগী মতুংইন্না ৱাশোকপা | Tengban Mapugi matungina wasokpa | High | (supporting: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority) | 7:9-10 | — | Leads to repentance and life; distinguish from ritual guilt-purification (Lai Haraoba cleansing rites, Vaishnava prayaschitta). |
| Worldly Grief | মলেম্গী ৱাশোকপা | malemgi wasokpa | High | (supporting) | 7:9-10 | — | Leads to death; the sharp contrast with godly grief must survive translation. |
| Repentance | ৱাখল্লোন হোংদোকপা | wakhallon hongdokpa | High | (supporting: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority) | 7:9-10 | — | Genuine inward, God-ward change producing lasting fruit — not a ritual atonement act. |
| Examine/Test Yourselves | মশা মশাবু য়েংশিনবা | masha mashabu yengshinba | Medium | Genuine versus False Apostleship | 13:5 | — | — |
| Holy Kiss | অসেংবা ৱারু | asengba waru | Low | Church as God’s People | 13:12 | — | Cultural-greeting idiom; kissing is not the standard Meitei greeting gesture — preserve the doctrinal point (warm holy affection) over the literal gesture. |
| Trinitarian Benediction (grace, love, fellowship) | মথৌ তাদনা পীবা তেংবাং, নুংশিবা, লোইনবা (full formula per 07, Ch.13 entry) | — | Critical | (cross-doctrine, liturgical) | 13:13-14 | — | Fixed liturgical formula; must be rendered identically every time it recurs across all curriculum documents, per the baseline’s cross-document consistency rule. |
Risk Summary for New 2 Corinthians Terms
| Risk Tier | Count (new terms) | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 9 | Human theologian review |
| High | 20 | Human theologian review |
| Medium | 20 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 5 | Automated review |
| Total new terms | 54 |
Combined with the ~40 reused Romans-baseline terms (Part A), this glossary provides full-book coverage of 2 Corinthians 1–13 for Phase 2 translation processing.
Critical Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: মথৌ তাদনা পীবা তেংবাং
Transliteration: mathou tadana piba tengbang
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: কৃপা (bhakti-responsive favor), পুণ্য (seva-accumulated merit)
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from the Romans package. Also grounds this curriculum’s Generosity and Grace in Giving doctrine (8:1,9; 9:8,14) and Power in Weakness (12:9, ‘my grace is sufficient’). Must never collapse into কৃপা or dāna-as-seva merit-giving logic.
Righteousness
Approved rendering: অচুম্বা চৎনবিরাক
Transliteration: achumba chatnabirak
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: ধর্ম
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from the Romans package. Central to 5:21’s climactic exchange formula and 9:9-10’s citation of Psalm 112.
Justification
Approved rendering: অচুম্বা ওইহনবা
Transliteration: achumba oihanba
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: ময়ামদা কোকপা (too narrow)
Original: δικαίωσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from the Romans package. Implicit ground of 5:21; must never be abbreviated to ময়ামদা কোকপা, which this curriculum now separately defines as the narrower interpersonal-forgiveness term for 2:7,10.
Salvation
Approved rendering: অহানবা
Transliteration: ahanba
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: মোক্ষ, লাইনিং
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from the Romans package. Occurs at 1:6, 6:2, 7:10.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: সিবদগী হিংজত-লকপা
Transliteration: sibadagi hingjat-lakpa
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: পুনর্জন্ম
Original: ἀνάστασις / ἐγείρω
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from the Romans package. Occurs at 4:14 and within 5:15’s combined death-and-resurrection formula. Never পুনর্জন্ম.
Lord
Approved rendering: মপু ইবুংগো
Transliteration: Mapu Ibungo
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ঠাকুর
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from the Romans package. Occurs at 1:2-3, 4:5, 5:11, 10:17-18, 13:14.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী মচানুপা
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi machanupa
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: অবতার
Original: υἱὸς θεοῦ
Category: Christology
Inherited from the Romans package. Occurs at 1:19.
Incarnation
Approved rendering: মীওইগী মহৈ লৌবা
Transliteration: miwoigi mahai louba
Doctrine: Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: অবতার
Original: ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο
Category: Christology
Inherited from the Romans package. Must be kept sharply distinct from this curriculum’s new flesh_evaluative term at 5:16, which names a fallen way of judging people, not Christ’s good human nature.
Messiah
Approved rendering: ক্রিস্তো
Transliteration: Christo
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
Inherited from the Romans package. Used throughout as part of ক্রিস্তো.
Jesus
Approved rendering: জিসু
Transliteration: Jisu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from the Romans package. Used throughout.
God
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপু
Transliteration: Tengban Mapu
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ঠাকুর, সানামাহি
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from the Romans package. Note the sharply contrasting polemical phrase ‘the god of this age’ (4:4), which names Satan ironically and must never be confused with this term’s referent.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: থাওয়াই অসেংবা
Transliteration: Thawai Asengba
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: থাওয়াই alone, শক্তি
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from the Romans package. Central to 3:3-18’s new covenant contrast and 13:13-14’s benediction. Never bare থাওয়াই.
Father
Approved rendering: ইপা
Transliteration: Ipa
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from the Romans package. Occurs at 1:2-3, 6:18.
Imputed Righteousness
Approved rendering: পীথোকপা অচুম্বা চৎনবিরাক
Transliteration: pithokpa achumba chatnabirak
Doctrine: Justification by Faith
Rejected alternatives: ফংলকপা অচুম্বা চৎনবিরাক
Original: ἐλογίσθη εἰς δικαιοσύνην (cf. γενώμεθα δικαιοσύνη Θεοῦ, 2 Cor 5:21)
Category: Salvation
Inherited from the Romans package. 2 Corinthians 5:21 is this curriculum’s own climactic occurrence: believers ‘become the righteousness of God,’ the positive mirror of Christ ‘becoming sin.’ Cross-check against Romans 4 for full internal consistency.
Reconciliation
Approved rendering: ইনহনবা (verb) / ইনহনবগী থৌদাং (noun)
Transliteration: inhanba / inhanbagi thoudang
Doctrine: Reconciliation with God
Rejected alternatives: ritual-appeasement borrowing, কৃপা-framework devotional closeness to Krishna, prayaschitta-style ritual atonement
Original: καταλλαγή / καταλλάσσω
Category: Reconciliation
The named doctrine’s core verb (5:18-20). Must be God’s own initiative restoring a broken relationship through Christ’s finished work — never ritual appeasement of an offended Umang Lai deity/ancestral spirit at Lai Haraoba, never Vaishnava prayaschitta, never a bhakti-devotee’s gradually cultivated closeness to Krishna. The imperative ‘be reconciled’ (তেংবাং মপুগা ইনহনবিয়ু, 5:20) is received, not produced through devotional effort.
New Creation
Approved rendering: অনৌবা শেম্বা
Transliteration: anouba shemba
Doctrine: New Creation in Christ
Rejected alternatives: পুনর্জন্ম (rebirth/reincarnation, forbidden)
Original: καινὴ κτίσις
Category: Salvation
5:17. FORBIDDEN: পুনর্জন্ম is the single most available wrong-word temptation. Must also not be misheard as invoking Sanamahi cosmology’s Sanamahi/Pakhangba origin narrative; this is a decisive, one-time re-creation of the individual believer in Christ.
Imputation Reckon
Approved rendering: শীংথোকপা
Transliteration: shingthokpa
Doctrine: Justification and Imputed Righteousness
5:19, logizomai. Shares its root with imputed_righteousness so learners recognize a single forensic-accounting concept operating in both directions (crediting righteousness / not debiting sin); no ready equivalent in a bhakti framework of cumulatively built devotional standing.
God Of This Age
Approved rendering: মলেম অসিগী মপু ৱারিবা
Transliteration: malem asigi mapu wariba
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: ὁ θεὸς τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου
Category: Spiritual Warfare
4:4. Paul’s ironic/polemical title for Satan, NOT an acknowledgment of a legitimate second deity. Acute risk of being misheard as naming a real, competing deity in a populated spirit-and-deity landscape. Requires a mandatory translator’s teaching note every occurrence.
Weakness
Approved rendering: পাংথোক-থেংনবা লৈতবা
Transliteration: pangthok-thengnaba leitaba
Doctrine: Power in Weakness
Rejected alternatives: শক্তি (forbidden)
Original: ἀσθένεια
Category: Power in Weakness
11:30; 12:5,9-10; 13:4,9. Deliberately built as the negation of the power_of_god compound so the 12:9 paradox is visible in the Manipuri wording. Countercultural against Pakhangba-lineage strength claims, maibi trance-power (শক্তি), and Ras Lila divine-splendor display.
Grace Is Sufficient
Approved rendering: ঐগী মথৌ তাদনা পীবা তেংবাং মপুং ফাবি
Transliteration: eigi mathou tadana piba tengbang mapung phabi
Doctrine: Power in Weakness
Original: ἀρκεῖ ἡ χάρις μου
Category: Power in Weakness
12:9. Grace is not conditioned on removal of hardship; must be preserved against any framing where divine favor is expected to correlate with visible blessing or relief.
Temple Of The Living God
Approved rendering: হিংলিবা তেংবাং মপুগী লৈফম
Transliteration: hingliba Tengban Mapugi leipham
Doctrine: Church as God’s Dwelling Place
Rejected alternatives: মন্দির (forbidden), উমাং লাই থাবা (forbidden)
Original: ναὸς Θεοῦ ζῶντος
Category: Church
6:16. Same acute pressure as the baseline’s church entry: must NEVER use মন্দির or any term evoking the Umang Lai sacred grove. Confirm with a native speaker that লৈফম carries no unwanted association of its own.
Trinitarian Benediction
Approved rendering: মপু ইবুংগো জিসু ক্রিস্তোগী মথৌ তাদনা পীবা তেংবাং, তেংবাং মপুগী নুংশিবা, অমসুং থাওয়াই অসেংবাগী লোইনবা
Transliteration: Mapu Ibungo Jisu Christogi mathou tadana piba tengbang, Tengban Mapugi nungshiba, amasung Thawai Asengbagi loinaba
Doctrine: Trinitarian Benediction
Original: ἡ χάρις τοῦ Κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ ἡ κοινωνία τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος
Category: Liturgical
13:13-14. Fixed liturgical formula combining grace, love, fellowship, and Holy Spirit. Must be rendered identically every time it recurs across all curriculum documents, per the baseline’s cross-document consistency rule.
God Was In Christ
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুনা ক্রিস্তোদা লৈরম্মি
Transliteration: Tengban Mapuna Christoda leirammi
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ‘God worked through Christ’ (avatar/intermediary-adjacent softening)
Original: Θεὸς ἦν ἐν Χριστῷ
Category: Christology
5:19. Must not be softened into ‘God worked through Christ’ in a way readable as God acting through a highly favored intermediary or avatar figure rather than being personally present in the Son.
Non Imputation Of Sin
Approved rendering: মখোয়গী অশোকপাশিং মখোয়গী মথক্তা শীংথোক্তে
Transliteration: makhoigi ashokpashing makhoigi mathakta shingthokte
Doctrine: Reconciliation with God
Original: μὴ λογιζόμενος αὐτοῖς τὰ παραπτώματα
Category: Salvation
5:19. Uses the same root verb (শীংথোকপা) as imputed_righteousness so learners recognize a single underlying legal-accounting concept operating in both directions; no bhakti-framework equivalent exists.
Did Not Know Sin
Approved rendering: পাপ খংদবা মহাক্না
Transliteration: pap khangdaba mahakna
Doctrine: Substitutionary Atonement
Original: τὸν μὴ γνόντα ἁμαρτίαν
Category: Christology
5:21a. Christ’s absolute sinlessness, the necessary qualification for his substitutionary role. Must be affirmed absolutely and without qualification.
Substitutionary Atonement
Approved rendering: অমাকীদমক্তা পুম্নমক্কীদমক্তা সিখি; মহাক্না ঐখোয়গীদমক্তা পাপ ওইখি
Transliteration: amakidamakta pumnamakkidamakta sikhi; mahakna eikhoigidamakta pap oikhi
Doctrine: Substitutionary Atonement
Rejected alternatives: ‘he merely suffered for sin’ (flattening rejected)
Original: εἷς ὑπὲρ πάντων ἀπέθανεν / ἁμαρτίαν ἐποίησεν
Category: Salvation
5:14-15,21. Retain both singularity (‘one’) and universality (‘all’) without softening either; 5:21’s ‘became sin for us’ must not be diluted nor read as Christ’s moral character being compromised. Requires a mandatory translator’s teaching note distinguishing judicial imputation from moral corruption.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: নুংঙাইবগী পাউ
Transliteration: nungngaibagi pao
Doctrine: Gospel
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from the Romans package. In 2 Corinthians underlies the ‘ministry of reconciliation’ (5:18-20) and the veiled-gospel warning of 4:3-4; must be distinguished from festive announcements paralleling the Vaishnava devotional calendar.
Faith
Approved rendering: থাজবা
Transliteration: thajaba
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: ভক্তি
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from the Romans package. Occurs at 1:24, 4:13, 5:7, 8:7, 10:15, 13:5. The object of faith must always remain recoverable from context.
Called
Approved rendering: কৌখিবা
Transliteration: koukhiba
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλητός
Category: Salvation
Inherited from the Romans package. Occurs at 1:1.
Calling
Approved rendering: কৌবগী থৌদাং
Transliteration: koubagi thoudang
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from the Romans package, kept structurally parallel to called.
Holy
Approved rendering: অসেংবা
Transliteration: asengba
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: শেংবা (ritual-purity sense only)
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from the Romans package. Occurs at 1:12, 6:6, 7:1.
Saints
Approved rendering: অসেংবা মীওই
Transliteration: asengba miwoi
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: গোসাঞি/বৈষ্ণব
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from the Romans package. Occurs at 1:1, 8:4, 9:1,12, 13:12.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: অসেংবা ওইহনবা
Transliteration: asengba oihanba
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἁγιασμός / ἁγιωσύνη
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from the Romans package. Covers both ἁγιασμός and 7:1’s ἁγιωσύνη (‘perfecting holiness’).
Adoption
Approved rendering: মচা ওইনা লৌবা
Transliteration: macha oina louba
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: υἱοθεσία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from the Romans package. Underlies 6:18’s father-son covenant language.
Law
Approved rendering: য়াথাং
Transliteration: yathang
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Rejected alternatives: ধর্ম
Original: νόμος
Category: Covenant
Inherited from the Romans package. In 3:6-15 contrasted with γράμμα (‘letter’); see the new letter_of_the_law entry, which is narrower and must not be collapsed into this general term.
Sin
Approved rendering: পাপ
Transliteration: pap
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Inherited from the Romans package. Central to 5:19,21’s forensic exchange language; also occurs at 11:7.
Glory
Approved rendering: মতিক চাউবা
Transliteration: matik chauba
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from the Romans package. Heavily used in 3:7-11,18 and 4:4,6,17. Avoid metaphors conflating with Ras Lila’s staged visual radiance.
Obedience Of Faith
Approved rendering: থাজবগী ইনবা
Transliteration: thajabagi inba
Doctrine: Obedience of Faith
Rejected alternatives: ভক্তিগী সেবা
Original: ὑπακοὴ πίστεως
Category: Faith
Inherited from the Romans package. Underlies 10:5-6’s ‘obedience of Christ’ language.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী পাংথোক-থেংনবা
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi pangthok-thengnaba
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Rejected alternatives: শক্তি
Original: δύναμις θεοῦ
Category: God
Inherited from the Romans package. Occurs at 4:7, 13:4; extended in this curriculum’s weakness and grace_is_sufficient entries (12:9) to form the Power in Weakness doctrine. Never শক্তি.
Covenant
Approved rendering: ৱারেপ্পা
Transliteration: wareppa
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: διαθήκη
Category: Covenant
Inherited from the Romans package. Central to ch.3’s New Covenant versus Old Covenant doctrine; see the new new_covenant and old_covenant entries.
Election
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী খনবা
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi khanba
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: ৱাইফম
Original: ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation
Inherited from the Romans package. Thematically implicit in 5:14’s representative-death logic.
Providence
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী থৌরাং
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi thourang
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: ৱাইফম
Original: πρόνοια
Category: God
Inherited from the Romans package. Thematic background in 1:3-11’s suffering-and-deliverance narrative.
In Christ
Approved rendering: ক্রিস্তোদা
Transliteration: Christoda
Doctrine: Christian Identity in Christ
Original: ἐν Χριστῷ
Category: Salvation
Inherited from the Romans package’s christian_identity_in_christ doctrine language (ক্রিস্তোদা ক্রিস্তান খংনবা). Central to 5:17 (new creation is ‘in Christ’), 5:19,21, and 13:5.
Comfort
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী ঙাইহনবা
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi ngaihanba
Doctrine: Suffering and Comfort in Ministry
Rejected alternatives: ৱাইফম (fate), private bhakti-devotional consolation
Original: παράκλησις / παρακαλέω
Category: Suffering
1:3-7, 7:6. Active, personal, purposive divine care, given so the comforted can comfort others — never impersonal fate, never a private devotional consolation sought through individual bhakti practice.
Affliction
Approved rendering: আওবা
Transliteration: awaba
Doctrine: Suffering and Comfort in Ministry
Original: θλῖψις
Category: Suffering
1:4,8; 4:17; 6:4; 11:23-28. Suffering endured specifically for the gospel, distinct from karmic consequence or ritual impurity requiring purification.
New Covenant
Approved rendering: অনৌবা ৱারেপ্পা
Transliteration: anouba wareppa
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Original: καινὴ διαθήκη
Category: Covenant
3:6,14. Requires explicit Old Testament background teaching; no Sanamahi covenant-theology analogue exists, though Pakhangba-descent lineage-thinking offers a distinct, non-equivalent point of resonance.
Letter Of The Law
Approved rendering: ইরিবা ৱারোল
Transliteration: iriba warol
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Rejected alternatives: য়াথাং alone (too broad)
Original: γράμμα
Category: Covenant
3:6. Narrower than general law; names the written-letter administration contrasted with the Spirit’s life-giving ministry. Must not be collapsed into য়াথাং.
Transformed
Approved rendering: হোংদোকপা
Transliteration: hongdokpa
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: অবতার (forbidden), পুনর্জন্ম (forbidden)
Original: μεταμορφούμεθα
Category: Sanctification
3:18, ‘transformed from glory to glory.’ Progressive Spirit-wrought Christlikeness; must not be conflated with avatar-style appearance-change or cyclical rebirth.
Flesh Evaluative
Approved rendering: হাক্চাংগী মতুংইন্না
Transliteration: hakchanggi matungina
Doctrine: Christian Identity in Christ
Original: κατὰ σάρκα
Category: Christology
5:16, kata sarka. A fallen, external evaluative viewpoint, sharply distinct from the incarnation term (Christ’s real assumption of human nature) — collapsing the two risks an avatar-descent-style misreading of Christ’s identity.
Love
Approved rendering: নুংশিবা
Transliteration: nungshiba
Doctrine: Reconciliation with God
Rejected alternatives: prema-bhakti-shaped devotee’s own devotional feeling toward Christ
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Faith
5:14, 13:11,13-14. Christ’s own prior, historical, sacrificial love that compels the believer — not the believer’s cultivated devotional feeling toward Christ, which would invert the doctrine’s direction into a bhakti-shaped category.
Ambassador
Approved rendering: ক্রিস্তোগীদমক্তা মখাদা লেপ্লি
Transliteration: Christogidamakta makhada lepli
Doctrine: Reconciliation with God
Original: πρεσβεύω
Category: Church
5:20, presbeuō. Authorized transmission of a fixed, completed message — distinct from a maibi/maiba’s ongoing oracular intermediary role between a community and the Umang Lai during Lai Haraoba trance.
Judgment Seat Of Christ
Approved rendering: ক্রিস্তোগী ৱাফম
Transliteration: Christogi wapham
Doctrine: Judgment and Accountability before Christ
Rejected alternatives: ঠাকুর-titled judgment framing
Original: βῆμα τοῦ Χριστοῦ
Category: Eschatology
5:10. Personal accountability to the risen, exalted Christ specifically — not impersonal karmic reckoning nor ancestral-spirit (Apokpa) judgment.
Sincerity
Approved rendering: অচুম্বা পুক্নিং
Transliteration: achumba pukning
Doctrine: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
Rejected alternatives: rhetorical polish/persuasive performance
Original: ἁπλότης / εἰλικρίνεια
Category: Apostleship
1:12, 2:17, 4:2. Paul’s authority rests on transparent, God-verified sincerity of motive, not persuasive religious performance or ritual-office credentials paralleling a maiba/maibi’s specialist role.
False Apostles
Approved rendering: তুরান্বা তবিদগী থাবিরকপা
Transliteration: turamba tabidagi thabirakpa
Doctrine: Genuine versus False Apostleship
Original: ψευδαπόστολοι
Category: Apostleship
11:13. A specific historical polemic against rival Christian teachers claiming apostolic authority without genuine commission — not a generic dismissal of other traditions’ religious specialists (maiba, maibi, Vaishnava guru).
Satan
Approved rendering: সাতান
Transliteration: Satan
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and Satanic Deception
Original: Σατανᾶς
Category: Spiritual Warfare
2:11, 11:14, 12:7. A real, personal, malevolent being opposed to God — not one hostile spirit among the generally more ambivalent Umang Lai categories of Sanamahi belief.
Beliar
Approved rendering: বেলিয়ার
Transliteration: Beliar
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and Satanic Deception
Original: Βελίαρ
Category: Spiritual Warfare
6:15. Same referent as Satan; must not be taught as a distinct lesser spirit within a populated hierarchy.
Angel Of Light
Approved rendering: মঙাল্গী দূত
Transliteration: mangalgi doot
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and Satanic Deception
Original: ἄγγελος φωτός
Category: Spiritual Warfare
11:14. Deliberate deception by a single personal evil being; must not be read as a verdict on the whole Umang Lai category of generally protective forest/guardian deities.
Heaven
Approved rendering: স্বর্গ
Transliteration: swarga
Doctrine: Power in Weakness
Original: οὐρανός
Category: Eschatology
12:2, ‘third heaven.’ A term broadly shared across regional Indic vocabulary; requires an explicit distinguishing note at every occurrence so it is never conflated with Vaikuntha/Goloka, Krishna’s heavenly abode in Vaishnava cosmology.
Grace In Giving
Approved rendering: পীবগী মথৌ তাদনা পীবা তেংবাং
Transliteration: pibagi mathou tadana piba tengbang
Doctrine: Generosity and Grace in Giving
Rejected alternatives: dāna-as-seva merit framing
Original: χάρις (in the giving context)
Category: Giving
8:1-9:15, esp. 8:9. Giving is a grace-response, never a grace-generating work; must not be reframed as devotional merit-accumulation.
Seal Of The Spirit
Approved rendering: চাপ
Transliteration: chap
Doctrine: Assurance of Salvation
Rejected alternatives: Sanamahi household protective amulet/mark, Vaishnava tilak-marking
Original: σφραγίς
Category: Assurance
1:22. The Spirit’s own indwelling mark, not a physical talisman.
Guarantee Down Payment
Approved rendering: মখাদা পীবগী ৱারেপ্পা
Transliteration: makhada pibagi wareppa
Doctrine: Assurance of Salvation
Original: ἀρραβών
Category: Assurance
1:22, 5:5. The Spirit himself as the pledge of a certain future inheritance, not a ritual pledge-object.
Godly Grief
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী মতুংইন্না ৱাশোকপা
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi matungina wasokpa
Doctrine: Repentance and Godly Grief
Original: λύπη κατὰ Θεόν
Category: Repentance
7:9-10. Leads to repentance and life; distinguish from shame/guilt resolved through ritual purification (Lai Haraoba cleansing rites, Vaishnava prayaschitta).
Worldly Grief
Approved rendering: মলেম্গী ৱাশোকপা
Transliteration: malemgi wasokpa
Doctrine: Repentance and Godly Grief
Original: λύπη τοῦ κόσμου
Category: Repentance
7:9-10. Leads to death; the sharp contrast with godly grief must survive translation without softening.
Repentance
Approved rendering: ৱাখল্লোন হোংদোকপা
Transliteration: wakhallon hongdokpa
Doctrine: Repentance and Godly Grief
Original: μετάνοια
Category: Repentance
7:9-11. A genuine, God-ward inward change producing lasting fruit, not a ritual atonement act performed to satisfy an offended party.
Medium Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: তবিদগী থাবিরকপা
Transliteration: tabidagi thabirakpa
Doctrine: Apostleship
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from the Romans package. This curriculum builds two new ironic/polemical compounds on this root: false_apostles and super_apostles (see below); preserve Paul’s tone in each.
Peace
Approved rendering: ইনগবা
Transliteration: ingba
Doctrine: Peace with God
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from the Romans package. Occurs at 13:11.
Spiritual Gifts
Approved rendering: থাওয়াইগী খুদোল
Transliteration: thawaigi khudol
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts
Rejected alternatives: শক্তি
Original: χαρίσματα
Category: Church
Inherited from the Romans package. Implicit in ch.1’s comfort-to-comfort-others logic.
Church
Approved rendering: কলিসিয়া
Transliteration: kalisiya
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: মন্দির, উমাং লাই থাবা
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from the Romans package. Occurs at 1:1, 8:1,18-24, 11:8, 12:13. See also the new temple_of_the_living_god entry for 6:16’s dwelling-place metaphor, elevated to Critical risk in this curriculum.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী লৈপাক
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi leipak
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from the Romans package. Implicit background term in 2 Corinthians.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: অতোপ্পা ফুরুপ
Transliteration: atoppa phurup
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church
Inherited from the Romans package. Implicit background term.
Intercession
Approved rendering: মখোয়গী মফমদা হায়জবা
Transliteration: makhoigi mafamda haijaba
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession
Original: ἔντευξις / δέομαι
Category: Faith
Inherited from the Romans package. Occurs at 1:11, 9:14, 13:7,9.
Mission
Approved rendering: পাউ সন্দোকপগী থৌদাং
Transliteration: pao sandokpagi thoudang
Doctrine: Mission to the Nations
Original: ἀποστολή / πέμπω
Category: Church
Inherited from the Romans package. Underlies the diakonia tēs katallagēs (ministry of reconciliation, 5:18-20).
Israel
Approved rendering: ইস্রায়েল
Transliteration: Israel
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: Ἰσραήλ
Category: Covenant
Inherited from the Romans package. Appears at 3:7,13 and 11:22.
Old Covenant
Approved rendering: মমাংগী ৱারেপ্পা
Transliteration: mamangi wareppa
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Original: παλαιὰ διαθήκη (implied, 3:14)
Category: Covenant
3:14. Paired term with new_covenant.
Veil
Approved rendering: মায় কুপ্পা
Transliteration: mai kuppa
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Original: κάλυμμα
Category: Covenant
3:13-16, Moses’ veil. Strictly metaphorical (spiritual blindness lifted in Christ); must be explicitly distinguished from literal Meitei women’s face/head-covering (phanek/innaphi) customs.
Image Eikon
Approved rendering: মশক
Transliteration: mashak
Doctrine: The New Covenant versus the Old
Original: εἰκών
Category: Christology
3:18 (Christ’s image believers are transformed into); also 4:4 (image of God). Keep consistent across occurrences.
Boldness
Approved rendering: কীবা য়াওদনা ফোংদোকপা
Transliteration: kiba yaodana phongdokpa
Doctrine: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
Original: παρρησία
Category: Apostleship
3:12. Confident, open gospel speech grounded in hope, not concealment of a fading glory.
Constrains
Approved rendering: পুন্সিহনবা / থিংজিনবা
Transliteration: punsihanba / thingjinba
Doctrine: Reconciliation with God
Original: συνέχει
Category: Faith
5:14, synechei. Christ’s love as a driving, restraining force over the believer’s whole life-orientation, not a passive feeling.
Ministry
Approved rendering: সেবা / সেবক
Transliteration: seba / sebok
Doctrine: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
Original: διακονία / διάκονος
Category: Church
3:6, 4:1, 5:18, 6:3-4, 11:8,15,23. Retained but requires a mandatory distinguishing note at every occurrence: Christ-commissioned proclamation, not merit-building devotional service (seva) as practiced in Vaishnava bhakti.
Conscience
Approved rendering: পুক্নিংগী খংবা
Transliteration: pukninggi khangba
Doctrine: Conscience and Sincerity in Ministry
Original: συνείδησις
Category: Faith
1:12, 4:2, 5:11. An individual’s inward moral faculty answerable to God, distinct from communal shame/honor judgment.
Manifest
Approved rendering: ফোংদোকপি
Transliteration: phongdokpi
Doctrine: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
Original: φανερούμεθα
Category: Apostleship
5:11, phaneroumetha. Openness before God, not concealment behind ritual mystique paralleling private maibi/maiba specialist knowledge.
Sound Mind And Ecstasy
Approved rendering: ৱাখল্লোন মায়োক্না লৈবা (ecstasy) / ৱাখল্লোন সেংনা লৈবা (sound mind)
Transliteration: wakhallon mayokna leiba / wakhallon sengna leiba
Doctrine: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
Rejected alternatives: maibi trance-possession vocabulary
Original: ἐξέστημεν / σωφρονοῦμεν
Category: Apostleship
5:13. Must not be rendered with vocabulary evoking maibi ritual trance-possession at Lai Haraoba; Paul’s ‘ecstasy’ is answerable to God alone, not a community-oracular trance state.
Super Apostles
Approved rendering: য়াম্না চাওবা তবিদগী থাবিরকপা
Transliteration: yamna chauba tabidagi thabirakpa
Doctrine: Genuine versus False Apostleship
Original: ὑπερλίαν ἀπόστολοι
Category: Apostleship
11:5, 12:11. Paul’s ironic label for self-promoting rivals; tone must be preserved, not flattened into a sincere honorific.
Angel
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগী দূত
Transliteration: Tengban Mapugi doot
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and Satanic Deception
Original: ἄγγελος
Category: Spiritual Warfare
New base term for this curriculum, underlying 11:14.
Boasting
Approved rendering: চাউথোকপা
Transliteration: chauthokpa
Doctrine: Boasting Rightly Directed
Original: καύχημα / καύχησις
Category: Apostleship
10:8,13-17; 11:16-30; 12:1,5,9. Contrast with royal-lineage boasting (Pakhangba descent) and Ras Lila performance-splendor prestige-display culture; legitimate boasting locates all glory in God.
Weapons Of Spiritual Warfare
Approved rendering: লান্থাবগী পোৎলোন
Transliteration: lanthabagi potlon
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and Satanic Deception
Original: ὅπλα
Category: Church
10:4. Given ongoing armed ethnic conflict in Manipur, teach with pastoral sensitivity; never applied to legitimize actual violence against persons or communities.
Strongholds
Approved rendering: থিংনবা য়ুম
Transliteration: thingnaba yum
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and Satanic Deception
Original: ὀχυρώματα
Category: Church
10:4-5. Same pastoral-sensitivity caution as weapons_of_spiritual_warfare.
Thorn In The Flesh
Approved rendering: হাক্চাংদা তোনবা খোইসু-গুম্না ওইবা আওবা
Transliteration: hakchangda tonba khoisu-gumna oiba awaba
Doctrine: Power in Weakness
Original: σκόλοψ τῇ σαρκί
Category: Power in Weakness
12:7. Render as idiom/simile with a brief gloss; a literal ‘thorn’ idiom does not carry equivalent resonance in Manipuri.
Visions And Revelations
Approved rendering: উত্লিবা অমসুং ফোংদোকপিবা
Transliteration: utliba amasung phongdokpiba
Doctrine: Power in Weakness
Rejected alternatives: maibi community-oracular trance-vision
Original: ὀπτασίαι καὶ ἀποκαλύψεις
Category: Power in Weakness
12:1,7. Genuine, exceptional, God-given experience, explicitly not the ground of Paul’s authority — distinct from a maibi’s trance-vision during Lai Haraoba, which functions within a different community-oracular system.
Paradise
Approved rendering: পারাদিস
Transliteration: Paradis
Doctrine: Power in Weakness
Original: παράδεισος
Category: Eschatology
12:4. Transliterated as a proper place-name to avoid importing unwanted associations from স্বর্গ’s cosmological competitors.
Equality
Approved rendering: মান্নবা
Transliteration: mannaba
Doctrine: Generosity and Grace in Giving
Original: ἰσότης
Category: Giving
8:13-14. Mutual sufficiency among churches through generosity, not enforced economic leveling; note care given real economic disparities within Manipur’s communities.
Cheerful Giver
Approved rendering: হরাউবা পীবা মী
Transliteration: haraouba piba mi
Doctrine: Generosity and Grace in Giving
Original: ἱλαρὸς δότης
Category: Giving
9:7. Free, glad giving, distinct from giving performed under social/ritual/festival obligation.
Mercy
Approved rendering: নিংতমবা
Transliteration: ningtamba
Doctrine: Suffering and Comfort in Ministry
Original: οἰκτιρμός
Category: God
1:3, ‘Father of mercies.’ Grounds the comfort doctrine alongside oiktirmos.
Forgiveness
Approved rendering: ময়ামদা কোকপা
Transliteration: mayamda kokpa
Doctrine: Forgiveness in Church Discipline
Original: χαρίζομαι
Category: Sin
2:7,10, charizomai. The Romans baseline explicitly rejected this exact phrase as too narrow a substitute for justification; this curriculum now adopts it correctly as the narrower interpersonal-forgiveness term. Keep distinct from অচুম্বা ওইহনবা (justification).
Fragrance Of Christ
Approved rendering: ক্রিস্তোগী মনম নুংশিত্না
Transliteration: Christogi manam nungshitna
Doctrine: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
Original: ὀσμή / εὐωδία Χριστοῦ
Category: Ministry
2:14-16. Metaphorical; not to be confused with literal incense/fragrant offerings at a Vaishnava temple or Lai Haraoba.
Triumphal Procession
Approved rendering: ক্রিস্তোগী ঙাক্লবা লান্থাবগী থৌরাং
Transliteration: Christogi ngaklaba lanthabagi thourang
Doctrine: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
Rejected alternatives: Lai Haraoba festival-procession imagery
Original: θριαμβεύω
Category: Ministry
2:14. Roman military-triumph imagery unfamiliar in Manipur; render with an explanatory note rather than substituting Lai Haraoba procession imagery, which carries distinct ritual meaning.
Workers Together With God
Approved rendering: তেংবাং মপুগা লোয়ননা থবক তৌবা
Transliteration: Tengban Mapuga loinana thabak touba
Doctrine: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
Original: συνεργοῦντες
Category: Ministry
6:1. Collaboration in proclamation/outworking, not in accomplishing reconciliation, which is already complete (ch.5).
Unequally Yoked
Approved rendering: মান্নদবাগা পুথোকপা
Transliteration: mannadabaga puthokpa
Doctrine: Church as God’s Dwelling Place
Original: ἑτεροζυγέω
Category: Church
6:14. Carries real pastoral weight regarding marriage and business partnership across Manipur’s Sanamahi/Vaishnava/Christian lines; teach the principle without implying blanket condemnation of interfaith family relationships.
Fear Of The Lord
Approved rendering: মপু ইবুংগোবু কীবা
Transliteration: Mapu Ibungobu kiba
Doctrine: Judgment and Accountability before Christ
Original: φόβος τοῦ Κυρίου / φόβος Θεοῦ
Category: God
5:11, 7:1. Reverent accountability to a personal Lord, not the propitiatory dread of appeasing an offended Umang Lai deity or incurring ritual displeasure.
Examine Yourselves
Approved rendering: মশা মশাবু য়েংশিনবা
Transliteration: masha mashabu yengshinba
Doctrine: Genuine versus False Apostleship
Original: δοκιμάζετε ἑαυτούς
Category: Apostleship
13:5. Reuses the christian_identity_in_christ doctrine language (‘Christ is in you’).
Trespasses
Approved rendering: অশোকপা
Transliteration: ashokpa
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: παραπτώματα
Category: Sin
5:19, paraptōmata. May alternate with the established পাপ depending on register; keep distinct from the forensic-accounting emphasis of non_imputation_of_sin.
Low Risk Terms
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: থাগৎচরি
Transliteration: thagatchari
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία
Category: Faith
Inherited from the Romans package. Occurs at 1:11, 2:14, 4:15, 9:11-12.
Fellowship
Approved rendering: লোইনবা
Transliteration: loinaba
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Original: κοινωνία
Category: Church
Inherited from the Romans package. Names shared material participation in the Jerusalem collection at 8:4 and closes the letter within the 13:13-14 benediction.
Prophet
Approved rendering: তোঙান তোঙানবা ফোংদোকপা
Transliteration: tongan tonganba phongdokpa
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: মৈবা
Original: προφήτης
Category: Covenant
Inherited from the Romans package. Background term for Old Testament citations, e.g. 6:16-18.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: ফোংদোকপা ৱারোল
Transliteration: phongdokpa warol
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Original: προφητεία
Category: Covenant
Inherited from the Romans package. Background term.
Exhort
Approved rendering: থাওয়াই পীবা / হায়জবা
Transliteration: thawai piba / haijaba
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from the Romans package. Occurs at 5:20, 6:1, 10:1, 13:11. Note: the noun form παράκλησις carries the distinct, higher-risk sense of ‘comfort’ in ch.1 — do not conflate with the new comfort entry.
Persuade
Approved rendering: থাজহনবা
Transliteration: thajahanba
Doctrine: Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
Original: πείθομεν
Category: Apostleship
5:11, peithomen. Causative form built on the established faith root (থাজবা); low risk.
Sowing And Reaping
Approved rendering: হুনবা / লোকপা
Transliteration: hunba / lokpa
Doctrine: Generosity and Grace in Giving
Original: σπείρων / θερίζων
Category: Giving
9:6. Naturally resonant agrarian metaphor in Manipur’s wet-rice-cultivation context; avoid implying a mechanical prosperity-guarantee reading.
Holy Kiss
Approved rendering: অসেংবা ৱারু
Transliteration: asengba waru
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Original: ἅγιον φίλημα
Category: Church
13:12. Kissing is not the standard Meitei greeting gesture; requires a translator’s cultural note. The doctrinal point (warm holy affection) matters more than the specific gesture.
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