Passage

Romans 6

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not clan (yumnak) lineage, ethnic-community belonging, or Vaishnava devotional-community status.

  ROM.6.1-11

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Unmerited favor must be distinguished from Vaishnava bhakti's কৃপা (Krishna's favor, typically understood as responsive to a devotee's devoted service), a live and well-developed devotional framework, not a distant abstraction.

  ROM.6.1, ROM.6.14-15

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  CRITICAL: a descriptive compound ('favor given without needing to be earned') is required.

  ROM.6.1, ROM.6.14-15

• Glossary Term

  Holy

  অসেংবা conveys moral purity and being set apart for God.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Holy Spirit

  CRITICAL: থাওয়াই অসেংবা must always be used in full.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

  CRITICAL: a descriptive phrase ('coming back to life from death') avoids পুনর্জন্ম, the rebirth/reincarnation vocabulary that entered Meitei religious discourse through the Hindu Vaishnava tradition.

  ROM.6.4-5

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

  CRITICAL: bodily, once-for-all resurrection, not পুনর্জন্ম (rebirth), a concept absorbed into Meitei religious discourse through Vaishnavization.

  ROM.6.4-5

• Doctrine

  Sanctification

  The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy; not ritual purification before Lai Haraoba or Vaishnava temple worship.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Sanctification

  The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy, distinct from ritual purification before Lai Haraoba or Vaishnava temple worship.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be confused with the ritual preparations undertaken before Lai Haraoba or Vaishnava temple worship.

  ROM.6.22