Core Glossary

Core Glossary — 2 Timothy (English ↔ Nepali)

This glossary consolidates every load-bearing theological term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, across all four chapters of 2 Timothy. Terms already present in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json are marked REUSED and restate the exact established rendering — they are not to be re-derived or altered. Terms new to the 2 Timothy curriculum are marked NEW and are proposed for addition to translation memory in Phase 2, pending theologian/native-speaker review per risk tier.

Risk tiers follow the baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json definitions: Critical (theologian review, every occurrence), High (theologian review), Medium (native speaker review), Low (automated review sufficient).

Section 1 — Reused Baseline Terms (Exact Reuse Required)

#	English Term	Greek	Nepali Rendering	Risk	2 Timothy Reference(s)	Status
1	Gospel	εὐαγγέλιον	सुसमाचार	High	1:8, 1:10, 2:8, 4:5	REUSED
2	Grace	χάρις	अनुग्रह	High	1:2, 1:9, 2:1	REUSED
3	Faith	πίστις	विश्वास	High	1:5, 1:13, 2:18, 2:22, 3:8, 3:10, 3:15, 4:7	REUSED
4	Righteousness	δικαιοσύνη	धार्मिकता	Critical	2:22, 3:16, 4:8	REUSED
5	Salvation	σωτηρία	उद्धार	Critical	2:10, 3:15	REUSED
6	Resurrection	ἀνάστασις	पुनरुत्थान	Critical	2:8, 2:18	REUSED
7	Lord	κύριος	प्रभु	Critical	throughout (1:2, 2:19, 2:22, 4:8, 4:14, 4:17, 4:18, 4:22)	REUSED
8	Seed of David	σπέρμα Δαυίδ	दाऊदको वंश	High	2:8	REUSED
9	Holy Spirit	πνεῦμα ἅγιον	पवित्र आत्मा	Critical	1:14	REUSED
10	Called/Calling (holy calling)	κλῆσις ἁγία	बोलावट (पवित्र बोलावट)	High	1:9	REUSED
11	Apostle	ἀπόστολος	प्रेरित	Medium	1:1, 1:11	REUSED
12	Power of God	δύναμις (θεοῦ)	सामर्थ्य	High	1:7, 1:8, 3:5	REUSED
13	Kingdom of God (his kingdom)	βασιλεία	राज्य	Medium	4:1, 4:18	REUSED
14	Sin	ἁμαρτία	पाप	High	3:6	REUSED
15	Glory	δόξα	महिमा	High	4:18	REUSED
16	God	θεός	परमेश्वर	Critical	throughout	REUSED
17	Jesus	Ἰησοῦς	येशू	Critical	throughout	REUSED
18	Christ	Χριστός	ख्रीष्ट	Critical	throughout	REUSED
19	Father	πατήρ	पिता	Critical	1:2	REUSED
20	Exhort	παρακαλέω	उत्साहित पार्नु	Low	4:2	REUSED
21	Thanksgiving	εὐχαριστία / εὐχαριστῶ	धन्यवाद	Low	1:3	REUSED
22	Election / Elect (root)	ἐκλεκτός	परमेश्वरको छनोट (चुनिएका जन)	High	2:10	REUSED (adjectival extension)
23	Mission / gospel proclamation	—	सुसमाचार प्रचार	Medium	4:5 (εὐαγγελιστής root)	REUSED
24	David	Δαυίδ	दाऊद	Low	2:8	REUSED

Section 2 — New Terms: Inspiration and Sufficiency of Scripture

#	English Term	Greek	Transliteration	Nepali Rendering	Risk	Reference	Notes / Alternatives Rejected
25	Scripture	γραφή	graphē	पवित्रशास्त्र	Critical	3:16	Rejected: शास्त्र alone (shared with Hindu/Buddhist treatise literature), धर्मशास्त्र (धर्म root forbidden).
26	Sacred writings	ἱερὰ γράμματα	hiera grammata	पवित्र लेखहरू	High	3:15	Distinct phrase from γραφή; refers to OT corpus known from childhood.
27	God-breathed	θεόπνευστος	theopneustos	परमेश्वर-प्रेरित	Critical	3:16	Must not be reduced to Hindu śruti (sage-heard revelation) or Buddhist sutra oral-transmission framing; asserts direct divine authorship of the text.
28	Profitable	ὠφέλιμος	ōphelimos	लाभदायक	Low	3:16	Standard.
29	Teaching / doctrine	διδασκαλία	didaskalia	शिक्षा	Medium	3:16, 4:3	Base term; see #46 for the “sound doctrine” compound.
30	Reproof	ἔλεγχος / ἐλέγχω	elegchos / elegchō	दोष देखाउने / हप्काउनु	Low-Medium	3:16, 4:2
31	Correction	ἐπανόρθωσις	epanorthōsis	सुधार	Low	3:16
32	Training	παιδεία	paideia	तालिम / अनुशासन	Medium	3:16	Formative discipline toward righteousness.
33	Complete / proficient	ἄρτιος	artios	पूर्ण	High	3:17	Rejected: सिद्ध (evokes Hindu/Tantric/Buddhist सिद्ध पुरुष, a yogically “perfected” adept with supernatural attainment).
34	Equipped	ἐξαρτίζω	exartizō	सुसज्जित	Low-Medium	3:17
35	Man of God	ἄνθρωπος τοῦ θεοῦ	anthrōpos tou theou	परमेश्वरका जन	Medium-High	3:17	Must not evoke the sadhu/lama “holy man” ideal; refers to any Scripture-equipped believer/minister.

Section 3 — New Terms: Perseverance under Suffering

#	English Term	Greek	Transliteration	Nepali Rendering	Risk	Reference	Notes / Alternatives Rejected
36	Share in suffering (for the gospel)	συγκακοπαθέω	sygkakopatheō	सुसमाचारको निम्ति कष्ट सहभागी हुनु	High	1:8
37	Endure suffering / hardship	κακοπαθέω	kakopatheō	कष्ट सहनु	High	2:3, 4:5	Rejected: दुःख भोग्नु as the primary rendering — दुःख is also the Nepali term for Buddhist dukkha (the First Noble Truth, suffering inherent to all conditioned existence); कष्ट better isolates ministry/persecution-specific hardship from that doctrinal frame.
38	Persecution	διωγμός	diōgmos	सतावट	High	3:11, 3:12	Must denote suffering for righteousness’/gospel’s sake, not generic misfortune or karmic retribution.
39	Be sober-minded	νήφω	nēphō	सचेत रहनु	Low-Medium	4:5
40	Fought the good fight / good contest	ἀγών	agōn	असल लडाइँ	Low-Medium	4:7
41	Finished the race	δρόμος	dromos	दौड (पूरा गरेको)	Low	4:7
42	Poured out as a libation	σπένδομαι	spendomai	बलिस्वरूप खनिनु	High	4:6	Must read as Paul’s personal sacrificial metaphor, not a literal ritual libation offering (a live practice in Nepali Hindu yajña and Vajrayana Buddhist tantric ritual).
43	Time of departure	ἀνάλυσις	analysis	प्रस्थानको समय / मेरो जाने बेला	Medium	4:6	Must not read as impersonal moksha-style “release” of the soul; frames death as personal departure to Christ.

Section 4 — New Terms: Guarding Sound Doctrine

#	English Term	Greek	Transliteration	Nepali Rendering	Risk	Reference	Notes / Alternatives Rejected
44	Guard the good deposit	παραθήκη (φύλαξον)	parathēkē (phylaxon)	असल थाती जोगाउनु	High	1:14	Deposit as a treasure entrusted for safekeeping and transmission, not a private, revisable possession.
45	Rightly handle the word of truth	ὀρθοτομέω	orthotomeō	सत्यको वचनलाई ठीकसाथ व्याख्या गर्नु	High	2:15	Must retain sense of precision/straightness against distortion; not generic “good teaching.”
46	Sound doctrine / sound teaching	ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία	hygiainousa didaskalia	खरो शिक्षा	High	4:3	Must consistently describe apostolic, Scripture-grounded teaching only.
47	Irreverent, empty chatter	βέβηλοι κενοφωνίαι	bēbēloi kenophōniai	अपवित्र बकबक	Medium	2:16
48	Spreads like gangrene	γάγγραινα	gangraina	गलनरोगझैं फैलिने	Low	2:17	Figurative; preserve contagious-corruption image.
49	Word battles / disputes about words	λογομαχία	logomachia	वादविवाद	Low	2:14

Section 5 — New Terms: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel

#	English Term	Greek	Transliteration	Nepali Rendering	Risk	Reference	Notes / Alternatives Rejected
50	Entrust to faithful men	παράθου πιστοῖς ἀνθρώποις	parathou pistois anthrōpois	विश्वासी मानिसहरूलाई जिम्मा दिनु	High	2:2	Multi-generational transmission chain; built on TM विश्वास.
51	The word of God is not bound	ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ οὐ δέδεται	ho logos tou theou ou dedetai	परमेश्वरको वचन बाँधिएको छैन	High	2:9
52	I have kept the faith	τὴν πίστιν τετήρηκα	tēn pistin tetērēka	विश्वास जोगाएको/पालन गरेको छु	High	4:7	Echoes the guard-the-deposit theme of 1:14; built on TM विश्वास.
53	Unfeigned/sincere faith	ἀνυπόκριτος πίστις	anypokritos pistis	निष्कपट विश्वास	Medium	1:5	Modeled family transmission (Lois → Eunice → Timothy).
54	Convinced / assured	πιστόω (ἐπιστώθης)	epistōthēs	पक्का विश्वास गरेको	Medium	3:14	Cognate of πίστις; settled conviction from a reliable, transmitted source.

Section 6 — New Terms: The Charge to Preach the Word

#	English Term	Greek	Transliteration	Nepali Rendering	Risk	Reference	Notes / Alternatives Rejected
55	I solemnly charge	διαμαρτύρομαι	diamartyromai	गम्भीरतापूर्वक आज्ञा दिनु / शपथसाथ जिम्मा दिनु	High	4:1	Formal, witnessed commissioning; not casual advice.
56	Preach (the word)	κηρύσσω	kēryssō	प्रचार गर्नु	High	4:2	Sensitive to Nepal’s 2017 Muluki Criminal Code proselytizing restrictions; keep register pastoral/discipleship-internal per the letter’s actual addressee (a fellow minister), not public-recruitment framing.
57	The word (gospel message)	λόγος	logos	वचन	High	2:9, 4:2	Denotes the specific authoritative gospel message, echoing the established वचन (Word) pattern already implicit in the baseline देहधारण entry.
58	In season, out of season	εὐκαίρως ἀκαίρως	eukairōs akairōs	बेलामौकामा र नबेलामा	Low-Medium	4:2	Idiom; render meaning, not literal words.
59	Rebuke	ἐπιτιμάω	epitimaō	गाली गर्नु / कडा हप्काइ	Medium	4:2
60	Patience	μακροθυμία	makrothymia	सहनशीलता	Low	4:2
61	Teaching (paired with reproof/rebuke)	διδαχή	didachē	शिक्षा	Medium	4:2
62	Evangelist	εὐαγγελιστής	euangelistēs	सुसमाचार प्रचारक	Medium	4:5	Built safely on established TM सुसमाचार.
63	Ministry	διακονία	diakonia	सेवा / सेवकाई	Medium-High	4:5	Timothy’s specific pastoral office/task.
64	Herald / preacher	κῆρυξ	kēryx	प्रचारक	Medium	1:11	Cognate of κηρύσσω.
65	Teacher	διδάσκαλος	didaskalos	शिक्षक	High	1:11, 4:3	Never गुरु — avoid guru/lama-style spiritual-master framing (parallels baseline’s apostleship caution).

Section 7 — New Terms: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days

#	English Term	Greek	Transliteration	Nepali Rendering	Risk	Reference	Notes / Alternatives Rejected
66	Last days	ἔσχαται ἡμέραι	eschatai hēmerai	अन्तिम दिनहरू	Critical	3:1	Must be distinguished from the cyclical Hindu Kali Yuga (a degenerate age within a repeating four-yuga cycle) and the Buddhist doctrine of the Dharma’s gradual decline before renewal by a future Buddha (Maitreya). Biblical “last days” is linear and terminal.
67	Form of godliness (denying its power)	μόρφωσις εὐσεβείας	morphōsis eusebeias	ईश्वरभक्तिको बाहिरी रूप	Critical	3:5	The letter’s diagnostic verse for empty religiosity.
68	Godliness	εὐσέβεια	eusebeia	ईश्वरभक्ति	Critical/High	3:5, 3:12	Caution parallel to baseline’s rejection of भक्ति for “faith”: भक्ति is the term for Hindu bhakti-mārga devotional worship, one of the classical paths to liberation. ईश्वरभक्ति must always be taught as reverent obedience to the one true God through Christ, never assimilated to bhakti-yoga soteriology.
69	Deceivers / impostors	γόης	goēs	ठग	Medium	3:13
70	Deceive / lead astray	πλανάω	planaō	बहकाउनु / भड्काउनु	High	3:13	Must retain the weight of leading astray from apostolic truth.
71	Disqualified/rejected concerning the faith	ἀδόκιμος (περὶ τὴν πίστιν)	adokimos	विश्वासको सम्बन्धमा अस्वीकृत	High	3:8	Built on TM विश्वास; strong, final-sounding verdict.
72	Myths	μῦθος	mythos	गप्प कथा	High	4:4	Must clearly signal invented, doctrinally false fabrication, without disparaging Nepal’s culturally prestigious Puranic or Jataka narrative traditions in a way that reads as a general insult rather than a specific doctrinal warning.
73	Itching ears	κνήθω τὴν ἀκοήν	knēthō tēn akoēn	कान चिलाउने	Medium	4:3	Idiom for craving novel, self-flattering teaching; may need brief explanatory gloss.
74	Turn away (from the truth)	ἀποστρέφω	apostrephō	तर्किनु / पन्छिनु	Medium	4:4
75	Progress from bad to worse	προκόπτω ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον	prokoptō epi to cheiron	झन्झन् नराम्रो हुँदै जानु	Low-Medium	3:13	Confirms linear (non-cyclical) decline.
76	Truth	ἀλήθεια	alētheia	सत्यता	High	2:15, 2:18, 2:25, 3:7-8, 4:4	Fixed, objective apostolic truth opposed to myth/deception.

Section 8 — New Terms: Assurance of Reward

#	English Term	Greek	Transliteration	Nepali Rendering	Risk	Reference	Notes / Alternatives Rejected
77	Crown of righteousness	στέφανος τῆς δικαιοσύνης	stephanos tēs dikaiosynēs	धार्मिकताको मुकुट	Critical	4:8	मुकुट strongly evokes the Shah-dynasty royal crown (abolished 2008; kings venerated as living Vishnu avatars per baseline). Must be taught as a heavenly victor’s-wreath reward, not a symbol of earthly/political/avatar-linked kingship. Built on TM धार्मिकता.
78	Righteous Judge	δίκαιος κριτής	dikaios kritēs	धर्मी न्यायकर्ता	Medium-High	4:8	धर्मी reuses the adjective already established in TM’s justification entry.
79	Loved his appearing	ἠγαπηκόσι τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν αὐτοῦ	ēgapēkosi tēn epiphaneian autou	उहाँको प्रकटनलाई प्रेम गरेका	High	4:8	See #80 for ἐπιφάνεια core entry.
80	Appearing	ἐπιφάνεια	epiphaneia	प्रकटन	High	1:10, 4:1, 4:8	Must read as Christ’s singular, final, personal appearing/return — not a cyclically repeatable divine descent akin to the historically state-sanctioned royal avatāra ideology in Nepal.
81	Will rescue / deliver	ῥύομαι	rhyomai	बचाउनुहुनेछ	High	4:18	Built on उद्धार family.
82	Heavenly kingdom	βασιλεία ἐπουράνιος	basileia epouranios	स्वर्गीय राज्य	High	4:18	Must be the believer’s final, eternal dwelling with a personal God — not a temporary merit-based heavenly realm (swarga) eventually exited for further rebirth, per Hindu/Buddhist cosmology.
83	Repay according to deeds	ἀποδίδωμι κατὰ τὰ ἔργα	apodidōmi kata ta erga	कामअनुसार फर्काउनुहुनेछ	Medium	4:14	Divine accounting, applied here as warning (negative counterpart of reward).
84	Deny	ἀρνέομαι	arneomai	इन्कार गर्नु	High	2:12	Covenant betrayal weight must be retained, not mere forgetfulness.
85	Faithless / unfaithful (of humans)	ἀπιστέω	apisteō	अविश्वासी हुनु	High	2:13	Contrasted with God’s own abiding faithfulness.

Section 9 — Other New Terms of Note (Christian Character / Household Vocabulary)

#	English Term	Greek	Transliteration	Nepali Rendering	Risk	Reference	Notes / Alternatives Rejected
86	Mercy	ἔλεος	eleos	दया	Medium	1:2	Distinct from अनुग्रह (grace); compassion toward the afflicted, not primarily unmerited-favor-toward-the-guilty.
87	Conscience	συνείδησις	syneidēsis	विवेक	High	1:3	Established Bible term, but flagged: विवेक is a major Advaita Vedanta technical term for the discriminative faculty distinguishing the true Self from illusion — a soteriological faculty in that system. Here it denotes ordinary moral self-awareness before a personal God.
88	Gift of God (ordination gift)	χάρισμα θεοῦ	charisma theou	परमेश्वरको वरदान / आत्मिक वरदान	High	1:6	Never वरदान alone (per baseline rule against the Hindu deity-grants-a-boon narrative association).
89	Spirit of timidity / of power, love, self-control	πνεῦμα δειλίας / δυνάμεως, ἀγάπης, σωφρονισμοῦ	pneuma deilias / dynameōs, agapēs, sōphronismou	डरपोकपनको आत्मा / सामर्थ्य, प्रेम र सुबुद्धिको आत्मा	Low-Medium	1:7	δύναμις reuses TM सामर्थ्य (never शक्ति).
90	Testimony	μαρτύριον	martyrion	गवाही / साक्षी	Medium	1:8
91	Abolished death	καταργέω τὸν θάνατον	katargeō ton thanaton	मृत्युलाई निष्क्रिय पार्नुभयो	High	1:10	Once-for-all historical defeat, not release from a repeating death-rebirth cycle.
92	Life and immortality	ζωὴ καὶ ἀφθαρσία	zōē kai aphtharsia	जीवन र अमरता	High	1:10	अमरता/amrita carries Hindu associations with the nectar of immortality and moksha; here it is a gift disclosed through the gospel, received by faith.
93	Savior	σωτήρ	sōtēr	उद्धारकर्ता	Critical	1:9, [1:10 implied of Christ]	Built directly on TM उद्धार. Never मुक्तिदाता.
94	Elect / chosen ones	ἐκλεκτοί	eklektoi	चुनिएका जन	High	2:10	Adjectival extension of TM’s परमेश्वरको छनोट (election).
95	Repentance	μετάνοια	metanoia	पश्चाताप	Medium-High	2:25	Never प्रायश्चित्त (Hindu ritual-penance/karma-atonement term); this is Spirit-enabled turning toward God, not ritual compensation.
96	Snare of the devil	παγὶς τοῦ διαβόλου	pagis tou diabolou	शैतानको जाल	Medium	2:26	शैतान is the established Nepali Christian term.
97	Unrighteousness/iniquity	ἀδικία	adikia	अधार्मिकता	High	2:19	Negated derivative of TM धार्मिकता; avoids the forbidden धर्म noun while remaining terminologically consistent.
98	Cleanse oneself	ἐκκαθαίρω (ἑαυτόν)	ekkathairō (heauton)	आफूलाई शुद्ध पार्नु	Medium	2:21	Moral/behavioral self-separation from corrupting association; distinct sense from the “holy” caution on शुद्ध, but must not read as ritual purification.
99	Gentleness	πραΰτης	prautēs	नम्रता	Low	2:25
100	Foolish controversies	μωραὶ ζητήσεις	mōrai zētēseis	मूर्ख विवाद	Low	2:23

Cross-Reference Note

Terms #25–100 above are proposed additions to translation_memory.json for the 2 Timothy curriculum layer. Per the Language Package’s version-increment rule, each new entry must be recorded with its assigned risk tier before Phase 2 segment translation begins, and Critical/High entries must be routed to human theologian review before first use, consistent with doctrine_risk_registry.json routing conventions established in the Romans baseline.

Critical Risk Terms

Righteousness

Approved rendering: धार्मिकता
Transliteration: dharmikata
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: धर्म, पुण्य
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. NEVER धर्म. Underlies 2 Timothy 3:16’s ‘training in righteousness’ and 4:8’s ‘crown of righteousness.‘

Salvation

Approved rendering: उद्धार
Transliteration: uddhar
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: मुक्ति, मोक्ष, निर्वाण
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. NEVER मुक्ति/मोक्ष/निर्वाण. Occurs at 2:10 and 3:15, where Scripture’s sufficiency leads to salvation only through faith in Christ Jesus, not through mere possession of sacred texts.

Resurrection

Approved rendering: पुनरुत्थान
Transliteration: punarutthan
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: पुनर्जन्म
Original: ἀνάστασις
Category: Eschatology

Inherited from Romans package. NEVER पुनर्जन्म. 2:18 records Hymenaeus and Philetus falsely teaching ‘the resurrection has already happened’ — must be clearly marked as condemned error, not endorsed teaching.

Lord

Approved rendering: प्रभु
Transliteration: prabhu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: मालिक, ईश्वर
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package. Used throughout 2 Timothy (1:2, 2:19, 2:22, 4:1, 4:8, 4:14, 4:17, 4:18, 4:22) with exclusive, supreme force.

Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: पवित्र आत्मा
Transliteration: Pavitra Atma
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: ब्रह्म, परमात्मा
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Guards and empowers the good deposit at 1:14.

God

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर
Transliteration: Parameshwar
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: भगवान
Original: θεός
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. NEVER भगवान, given Nepal’s constitutional history as a declared Hindu Kingdom until 2007.

Jesus

Approved rendering: येशू
Transliteration: Yeshu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package. Established Nepali Christian standard form used throughout.

Father

Approved rendering: पिता
Transliteration: Pita
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: πατήρ
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs in the 1:2 greeting.

Christ

Approved rendering: ख्रीष्ट
Transliteration: Khrist
Doctrine: Lordship and Deity of Christ
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology

Established transliterated proper-name form per baseline transliteration standards, now formally keyed for this package. Distinct from मसीह (the title-sense used for the Messianic-promise doctrine); ख्रीष्ट functions as the fixed personal-name element of ‘Christ Jesus,’ used throughout 2 Timothy.

Scripture

Approved rendering: पवित्रशास्त्र
Transliteration: pavitrashastra
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: शास्त्र, धर्मशास्त्र
Original: γραφή (πᾶσα γραφή)
Category: Scripture

The doctrinal anchor noun for 3:16. NEVER शास्त्र alone (shared vocabulary with Hindu dharmashastra and Buddhist shastra literature) and NEVER धर्मशास्त्र (forbidden धर्म root).

God Breathed

Approved rendering: परमेश्वर-प्रेरित
Transliteration: Parameshwar-prerit
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: श्रुति-derived phrasing
Original: θεόπνευστος
Category: Scripture

The single most doctrinally load-bearing word of the core passage (3:16). Must be clearly distinguished from Hindu śruti (sacred utterance ‘heard’ by ancient sages through meditative attainment) and the Buddhist sutra tradition of orally transmitted, memorized teaching — neither frames divine authorship of a fixed text as θεόπνευστος does.

Last Days

Approved rendering: अन्तिम दिनहरू
Transliteration: antim dinaharu
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Rejected alternatives: कलियुग, प्रलय
Original: ἐν ἐσχάταις ἡμέραις
Category: Apostasy

Occurs at 3:1, the temporal frame for the entire Apostasy doctrine. Must be clearly distinguished from the Hindu Kali Yuga (a degenerate age within an endlessly repeating four-yuga cycle) and from the Buddhist doctrine of the Dharma’s gradual decline before Maitreya’s renewal; biblical ‘last days’ moves toward one final, unrepeated consummation.

Form Of Godliness

Approved rendering: ईश्वरभक्तिको बाहिरी रूप
Transliteration: Ishwarbhaktiko bahiri rup
Doctrine: Form of Godliness Without Its Power
Original: μόρφωσιν εὐσεβείας ἔχοντες, τὴν δὲ δύναμιν αὐτῆς ἠρνημένοι
Category: Apostasy

Occurs at 3:5, the diagnostic verse for Apostasy: religiosity without transforming सामर्थ्य (never शक्ति).

Godliness

Approved rendering: ईश्वरभक्ति
Transliteration: Ishwarbhakti
Doctrine: Godliness
Rejected alternatives: भक्ति
Original: εὐσέβεια
Category: Apostasy

Occurs at 3:5, 3:12. Parallel caution to the baseline’s rejection of भक्ति for ‘faith’: भक्ति names the Hindu bhakti-mārga devotional path, one of the classical routes to liberation. ईश्वरभक्ति must always denote reverent obedience to the one true God through Christ, never assimilated to bhakti-yoga soteriology.

Crown Of Righteousness

Approved rendering: धार्मिकताको मुकुट
Transliteration: dharmikatako mukut
Doctrine: The Crown of Righteousness
Original: ὁ τῆς δικαιοσύνης στέφανος
Category: Reward

Occurs at 4:8, the central image of Assurance of Reward. मुकुट overwhelmingly evokes the Shah-dynasty royal crown, whose kings were venerated as living avatars of Vishnu until the monarchy’s 2008 abolition. Must be taught, with standing homiletic gloss, as Christ’s own heavenly victor’s-wreath reward (στέφανος, not διάδημα), never a symbol of earthly/political/avatar-linked kingship.

Savior

Approved rendering: उद्धारकर्ता
Transliteration: uddharkarta
Doctrine: Savior and Salvation
Rejected alternatives: मुक्तिदाता
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Character

Occurs at 1:9-10, applied to both God and Christ Jesus. Agent-noun of σωτηρία (TM उद्धार); built directly on the established root. NEVER मुक्तिदाता (forbidden मुक्ति root).

High Risk Terms

Gospel

Approved rendering: सुसमाचार
Transliteration: susamachar
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: खुशखबरी
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Reused exactly. In 2 Timothy anchors Faithful Transmission of the Gospel and The Charge to Preach the Word (1:8, 1:10, 2:8, 4:5); must convey an authoritative announcement, not generic good news.

Grace

Approved rendering: अनुग्रह
Transliteration: anugraha
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: कृपा, पुण्य, भाग्य
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Grounds Timothy’s calling and ministry-strength (1:9, 2:1) apart from the karma-merit accounting shared by Nepali Hindu and Buddhist ethical frameworks.

Faith

Approved rendering: विश्वास
Transliteration: vishwas
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: श्रद्धा, भक्ति
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package. Root underlies several 2 Timothy compounds (unfeigned faith, kept the faith, convinced/assured) that must all visibly share this root for doctrinal traceability.

Seed Of David

Approved rendering: दाऊदको वंश
Transliteration: Daudko vansha
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: σπέρμα Δαυίδ
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 2:8 alongside the resurrection as a twin confession Timothy must ‘remember.‘

Called

Approved rendering: बोलाइएका
Transliteration: bolaieka
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: निमन्त्रित

Inherited from Romans package. Context-sensitive; underlies the ‘holy calling’ compound at 1:9.

Calling

Approved rendering: बोलावट
Transliteration: bolawat
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλῆσις (ἁγία)
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. 2 Timothy 1:9’s ‘holy calling’ (पवित्र बोलावट) is grounded in grace, unrelated to human works.

Power Of God

Approved rendering: सामर्थ्य
Transliteration: samarthya
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Rejected alternatives: शक्ति
Original: δύναμις (θεοῦ)
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. NEVER शक्ति, given the Newar Tantric Shakta tradition centered in the Kathmandu Valley. Occurs at 1:7-8 (spirit of power) and 3:5 (denying its power) — the diagnostic mark of false godliness.

Sin

Approved rendering: पाप
Transliteration: paap
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: अकुशल कर्म
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 3:6 within the last-days vice catalogue.

Glory

Approved rendering: महिमा
Transliteration: mahima
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: तेज
Original: δόξα
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Closes the letter’s doxology at 4:18. NEVER तेज.

Election

Approved rendering: परमेश्वरको छनोट
Transliteration: Parameshwarko chhanot
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: भाग्य, किस्मत
Original: ἐκλογή (root ἐκλεκτός)
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Grounds the adjectival ‘elect’ (चुनिएका जन) at 2:10; never karma-determined destiny.

Sacred Writings

Approved rendering: पवित्र लेखहरू
Transliteration: pavitra lekhaharu
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Original: τὰ ἱερὰ γράμματα
Category: Scripture

Distinct Greek phrase (ἱερὰ γράμματα) from γραφή at 3:16; refers to the OT canon Timothy was raised on (3:15). Must mark this as uniquely set-apart divine writing, not generic religious literature.

Complete Proficient

Approved rendering: पूर्ण
Transliteration: purna
Doctrine: Sufficiency of Scripture for Ministry
Rejected alternatives: सिद्ध
Original: ἄρτιος
Category: Scripture

Occurs at 3:17. NEVER सिद्ध, which evokes the Hindu/Tantric/Buddhist सिद्ध पुरुष, a yogically ‘perfected’ adept with attained supernatural powers — the opposite of Scripture-given sufficiency.

Man Of God

Approved rendering: परमेश्वरका जन
Transliteration: Parameshwarka jan
Doctrine: Sufficiency of Scripture for Ministry
Rejected alternatives: साधु, सन्त, लामा, गुरु
Original: ὁ τοῦ θεοῦ ἄνθρωπος
Category: Scripture

Occurs at 3:17. Must not evoke the sadhu/lama ‘holy man’ ideal still visibly honored at Nepal’s major shrines; designates any Scripture-equipped believer/minister, on the pattern of the baseline’s पवित्र जन caution.

Approved rendering: सुसमाचारको निम्ति कष्ट सहभागी हुनु
Transliteration: susamacharko nimti kashta sahabhagi hunu
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: συγκακοπαθέω
Category: Perseverance

Occurs at 1:8; first occurrence of the κακοπαθέω word-family running through the whole letter (cf. 2:3, 4:5).

Endure Suffering

Approved rendering: कष्ट सहनु
Transliteration: kashta sahnu
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Rejected alternatives: दुःख भोग्नु
Original: κακοπαθέω
Category: Perseverance

Occurs at 2:3 and 4:5. Rendered कष्ट, not दुःख: दुःख is the fixed Nepali rendering of the Buddhist First Noble Truth (dukkha), suffering inherent to all conditioned existence. कष्ट isolates purposeful, ministry/persecution-specific hardship endured for Christ.

Persecution

Approved rendering: सतावट
Transliteration: satawat
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: διωγμός
Category: Perseverance

Occurs at 3:11-12. Must denote suffering for righteousness’/the gospel’s sake, not generic misfortune or karmic retribution.

Poured Out As Libation

Approved rendering: बलिस्वरूप खनिनु
Transliteration: balisvarup khaninu
Doctrine: Self-Sacrificial Ministry
Original: ἐγὼ σπένδομαι
Category: Perseverance

Occurs at 4:6. Must read clearly as Paul’s personal metaphor for self-sacrificial gospel service, not a literal ritual offering, given the ongoing cultural currency of literal libation/offering rituals in Nepali Hindu yajña and Vajrayana Buddhist tantric ritual.

Guard The Deposit

Approved rendering: असल थाती जोगाउनु
Transliteration: asal thati jogaunu
Doctrine: Guarding the Entrusted Deposit
Original: τὴν καλὴν παραθήκην φύλαξον
Category: Sound Doctrine

Central image for Guarding Sound Doctrine and Faithful Transmission (1:14, echoed 2:2). The gospel is a treasure held in trust to be preserved intact and passed on, not personal property to reinterpret freely.

Rightly Handle Word Of Truth

Approved rendering: सत्यको वचनलाई ठीकसाथ व्याख्या गर्नु
Transliteration: satyako vachanlai thiksath byakhya garnu
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: ὀρθοτομοῦντα τὸν λόγον τῆς ἀληθείας
Category: Sound Doctrine

Occurs at 2:15, the methodological center of Guarding Sound Doctrine. Must not be softened into generic ‘good teaching’; the image of precision against distortion must be retained.

Sound Doctrine

Approved rendering: खरो शिक्षा
Transliteration: khro shiksha
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: ὑγιαινούσης διδασκαλίας
Category: Sound Doctrine

Occurs at 4:3, the positive standard against which apostasy is measured. Must consistently and only ever describe apostolic, Scripture-grounded teaching, never any other tradition’s ‘authentic teaching’ claim.

Entrust To Faithful Men

Approved rendering: विश्वासी मानिसहरूलाई जिम्मा दिनु
Transliteration: vishwasi manisaharulai jimma dinu
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Rejected alternatives: गुरु-शिष्य परम्परा
Original: παράθου πιστοῖς ἀνθρώποις
Category: Transmission

Occurs at 2:2, cognate of παραθήκη (1:14); extends the deposit doctrine into a multi-generational chain. Deliberately plain civic-register phrasing, avoiding all guru-shishya lineage vocabulary.

Word Of God Not Bound

Approved rendering: परमेश्वरको वचन बाँधिएको छैन
Transliteration: Parameshwarko vachan bandhieko chhaina
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Original: ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ οὐ δέδεται
Category: Transmission

Occurs at 2:9. Key assurance verse linking Perseverance under Suffering to Faithful Transmission of the Gospel.

Kept The Faith

Approved rendering: विश्वास जोगाएको/पालन गरेको छु
Transliteration: vishwas jogaeko/palan gareko chhu
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Original: τὴν πίστιν τετήρηκα
Category: Transmission

Occurs at 4:7, echoing the guard-the-deposit theme of 1:14. Must convey guarding a fixed apostolic message, not merely personal sincerity.

Solemnly Charge

Approved rendering: गम्भीरतापूर्वक आज्ञा दिनु
Transliteration: gambhirtapurvak agya dinu
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: διαμαρτύρομαι
Category: Preaching

Occurs at 4:1, opening the formal, courtroom-toned commissioning. Must retain legal/covenantal solemnity, not read as casual advice.

Preach

Approved rendering: प्रचार गर्नु
Transliteration: prachar garnu
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Rejected alternatives: धर्म प्रचार
Original: κήρυξον (κηρύσσω)
Category: Preaching

Occurs at 4:2, the imperative center of the charge. Given Nepal’s 2017 Muluki Criminal Code restrictions on proselytizing, must communicate faithful proclamation within the pastoral/discipleship setting this letter addresses, without a public-recruitment register.

The Word

Approved rendering: वचन
Transliteration: vachan
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: τὸν λόγον
Category: Preaching

Occurs at 2:9 and 4:2. Must denote the specific, authoritative gospel message described in 3:15-17 as Scripture-grounded, not any generic utterance.

Teacher

Approved rendering: शिक्षक
Transliteration: shikshak
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Rejected alternatives: गुरु
Original: διδάσκαλος
Category: Preaching

Occurs at 1:11 (of Paul) and 4:3 (of the false teachers people accumulate). NEVER गुरु — avoid guru/lama-style spiritual-master framing.

Lead Astray

Approved rendering: बहकाउनु / भड्काउनु
Transliteration: bahakaunu / bhadkaunu
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Original: πλανῶντες καὶ πλανώμενοι
Category: Apostasy

Occurs at 3:13. Must retain the doctrinal weight of leading astray from apostolic truth, not merely ‘confusing.‘

Disqualified

Approved rendering: विश्वासको सम्बन्धमा अस्वीकृत
Transliteration: vishwasko sambandhama aswikrit
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Original: ἀδόκιμοι περὶ τὴν πίστιν
Category: Apostasy

Occurs at 3:8. The ultimate outcome-verdict on false teachers; built on TM विश्वास.

Myths

Approved rendering: गप्प कथा
Transliteration: gappa katha
Doctrine: Itching Ears and Myths
Original: τοὺς μύθους
Category: Apostasy

Occurs at 4:4. Must clearly signal invented, doctrinally false fabrication opposed to apostolic truth, without disparaging Nepal’s culturally prestigious Puranic or Jataka narrative traditions as if the term were a general insult rather than a specific doctrinal warning.

Truth

Approved rendering: सत्यता
Transliteration: satyata
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: ἀλήθεια
Category: Apostasy

Occurs at 2:15, 2:18, 2:25, 3:7-8, 4:4, opposed throughout to myth and deception.

Loved His Appearing

Approved rendering: उहाँको प्रकटनलाई प्रेम गरेका
Transliteration: uhanko prakatanlai prem gareka
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: πᾶσι τοῖς ἠγαπηκόσι τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν αὐτοῦ
Category: Reward

Occurs at 4:8. Reuses ἐπιφάνεια — the reward is specifically for those who eagerly anticipate Christ’s singular, final return.

Appearing

Approved rendering: प्रकटन
Transliteration: prakatan
Doctrine: Christ’s Appearing and Final Judgment
Rejected alternatives: अवतार
Original: ἐπιφάνεια
Category: Reward

Occurs at 1:10, 4:1, 4:8. Must read as Christ’s singular, final, personal return, not a cyclically repeatable divine descent akin to the historically state-sanctioned royal avatāra ideology once attached to Nepal’s monarchy.

Will Rescue

Approved rendering: बचाउनुहुनेछ
Transliteration: bachaunuhunechha
Doctrine: Heavenly Kingdom and Final Deliverance
Original: ῥύσεταί με ὁ Κύριος
Category: Reward

Occurs at 4:18. Built on the उद्धार family, denoting a personal Lord’s rescue, not an impersonal cosmic outcome.

Heavenly Kingdom

Approved rendering: स्वर्गीय राज्य
Transliteration: swargiya rajya
Doctrine: Heavenly Kingdom and Final Deliverance
Rejected alternatives: स्वर्ग unqualified, मोक्षधाम, वैकुण्ठ
Original: τὴν βασιλείαν αὐτοῦ τὴν ἐπουράνιον
Category: Reward

Occurs at 4:18. Must be the believer’s final, eternal dwelling with a personal God, not स्वर्ग as a temporary, merit-based heavenly realm eventually exited followed by further rebirth.

Deny

Approved rendering: इन्कार गर्नु
Transliteration: inkar garnu
Doctrine: Divine Faithfulness Amid Human Unfaithfulness
Original: ἀρνησόμεθα…ἀρνήσεται
Category: Reward

Occurs at 2:12. Must retain the weight of covenant betrayal, not mere forgetfulness.

Faithless Unfaithful

Approved rendering: अविश्वासी हुनु
Transliteration: avishwasi hunu
Doctrine: Divine Faithfulness Amid Human Unfaithfulness
Original: ἀπιστοῦμεν
Category: Reward

Occurs at 2:13, in the creedal formula ‘if we are faithless, he remains faithful.‘

Conscience

Approved rendering: विवेक
Transliteration: bibek
Doctrine: Conscience and Ministerial Integrity
Original: συνείδησις
Category: Character

Occurs at 1:3. Established Nepali Bible term but also a major Advaita Vedanta technical term for the discriminative faculty distinguishing the true Self from illusion, a soteriological faculty in that system. Here it must denote ordinary moral self-awareness before a personal God, not a discriminative path to liberation.

Gift Of God

Approved rendering: परमेश्वरको वरदान
Transliteration: Parameshwarko varadan
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and Ordination
Rejected alternatives: वरदान alone
Original: χάρισμα θεοῦ
Category: Character

Occurs at 1:6. NEVER वरदान alone (the Hindu deity-grants-a-boon narrative pattern); must be परमेश्वरको वरदान or आत्मिक वरदान.

Abolished Death

Approved rendering: मृत्युलाई निष्क्रिय पार्नुभयो
Transliteration: mrityulai nishkriya parnubhayo
Doctrine: Savior and Salvation
Original: καταργήσαντος τὸν θάνατον
Category: Character

Occurs at 1:10. Must be framed as a unique, once-for-all defeat of death through the risen Christ, not release from a repeating death-rebirth cycle.

Life And Immortality

Approved rendering: जीवन र अमरता
Transliteration: jiwan ra amarata
Doctrine: Savior and Salvation
Original: ζωὴν καὶ ἀφθαρσίαν
Category: Character

Occurs at 1:10. अमरता carries Hindu associations with the nectar of immortality (amrita) sought through yogic/ritual practice, and with moksha as escape from mortality via liberation from rebirth. Here it is a gift disclosed through Christ’s gospel, received by faith, not attained through practice.

Elect Ones

Approved rendering: चुनिएका जन
Transliteration: chunieka jan
Doctrine: Divine Calling and Election
Original: ἐκλεκτοί
Category: Character

Occurs at 2:10, an adjectival extension of the baseline election term (परमेश्वरको छनोट); must not be rendered with a term for karma-determined destiny.

Unrighteousness

Approved rendering: अधार्मिकता
Transliteration: adharmikata
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: ἀδικίας
Category: Character

Occurs at 2:19 (‘depart from iniquity’). Negated derivative of TM धार्मिकता, avoiding the forbidden धर्म noun while remaining terminologically consistent.

Medium Risk Terms

Apostle

Approved rendering: प्रेरित
Transliteration: prerit
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: दूत
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package. Grounds Paul’s authority to charge Timothy (1:1, 1:11) and the legitimate-transmission chain contrasted with false teachers in chs. 3-4.

Kingdom Of God

Approved rendering: राज्य
Transliteration: rajya
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία (αὐτοῦ)
Category: Kingdom

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 4:1 and 4:18 (heavenly kingdom); not a political/dynastic kingdom.

Mission

Approved rendering: सुसमाचार प्रचार
Transliteration: susamachar prachar
Doctrine: Mission to the Nations
Original: — (root εὐαγγελιστής / εὐαγγέλιον)
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package. Underlies the evangelist vocation at 4:5; carries live legal sensitivity under Nepal’s 2017 Muluki Criminal Code restricting proselytizing.

Teaching Didaskalia

Approved rendering: शिक्षा
Transliteration: shiksha
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: διδασκαλία
Category: Scripture

First of Scripture’s fourfold purposes at 3:16; also underlies ‘sound doctrine’ at 4:3. Central vocabulary for Guarding Sound Doctrine.

Training

Approved rendering: तालिम / अनुशासन
Transliteration: talim / anushasan
Doctrine: Sufficiency of Scripture for Ministry
Original: παιδεία
Category: Scripture

Fourth of Scripture’s fourfold purposes at 3:16, aimed ‘in righteousness’ (धार्मिकता); received and lived out, not a caste-linked social order.

Equipped

Approved rendering: सुसज्जित
Transliteration: susajjit
Doctrine: Sufficiency of Scripture for Ministry
Original: ἐξηρτισμένος (ἐξαρτίζω)
Category: Scripture

Occurs at 3:17, paired with ἄρτιος; emphasizes active ministry readiness, not passive knowledge.

Be Sober Minded

Approved rendering: सचेत रहनु
Transliteration: sachet rahnu
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: νήφω
Category: Perseverance

Occurs at 4:5, called-for stability precisely when others are swept into myth (v.4).

Fought The Good Fight

Approved rendering: असल लडाइँ लडेको छु
Transliteration: asal ladai ladeko chhu
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: τὸν καλὸν ἀγῶνα ἠγώνισμαι
Category: Perseverance

Occurs at 4:7 within Paul’s summary self-testimony anchoring Assurance of Reward.

Time Of Departure

Approved rendering: प्रस्थानको समय / मेरो जाने बेला
Transliteration: prasthanko samaya / mero jane bela
Doctrine: Self-Sacrificial Ministry
Original: ὁ καιρὸς τῆς ἀναλύσεώς μου
Category: Perseverance

Occurs at 4:6. Must not read as an impersonal ‘release’ of the soul akin to moksha-style liberation; framed by 4:8/4:18 as departure to a personal Lord and Judge.

Irreverent Empty Chatter

Approved rendering: अपवित्र बकबक
Transliteration: apavitra bakbak
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: βεβήλους κενοφωνίας
Category: Sound Doctrine

Occurs at 2:16, paired with the gangrene image.

Unfeigned Faith

Approved rendering: निष्कपट विश्वास
Transliteration: nishkapat vishwas
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Original: ἀνυπόκριτος πίστις
Category: Transmission

Occurs at 1:5, modeling family transmission (Lois → Eunice → Timothy).

Convinced Assured

Approved rendering: पक्का विश्वास गरेको
Transliteration: pakka vishwas gareko
Doctrine: Faithful Transmission of the Gospel
Original: ἐπιστώθης (πιστόω)
Category: Transmission

Occurs at 3:14; cognate of πίστις, denotes settled conviction resting on a reliable, transmitted deposit, not tentative opinion.

Rebuke

Approved rendering: गाली गर्नु / कडा हप्काइ
Transliteration: gali garnu / kada hapkai
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: ἐπιτίμησον (ἐπιτιμάω)
Category: Preaching

Occurs at 4:2, stronger than ἐλέγχω, used together for emphasis.

Teaching Didache

Approved rendering: शिक्षा
Transliteration: shiksha
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: διδαχή
Category: Preaching

Occurs at 4:2, grounding ministry correction in ongoing positive instruction.

Evangelist

Approved rendering: सुसमाचार प्रचारक
Transliteration: susamachar pracharak
Doctrine: Evangelistic Ministry
Original: εὐαγγελιστοῦ
Category: Preaching

Occurs at 4:5. Built safely on the established TM root सुसमाचार, naming an active proclamation vocation.

Ministry

Approved rendering: सेवा / सेवकाई
Transliteration: seva / sevakai
Doctrine: Evangelistic Ministry
Original: τὴν διακονίαν σου
Category: Preaching

Occurs at 4:5, Timothy’s specific pastoral office to be discharged fully; links Faithful Transmission to Assurance of Reward.

Herald

Approved rendering: प्रचारक
Transliteration: pracharak
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: κῆρυξ
Category: Preaching

Occurs at 1:11 as part of Paul’s threefold office (herald, apostle, teacher), the model of legitimate transmission the false teachers of chs. 3-4 counterfeit.

Deceivers Impostors

Approved rendering: ठग
Transliteration: thag
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Original: γόητες
Category: Apostasy

Occurs at 3:13, naming the false teachers directly.

Itching Ears

Approved rendering: कान चिलाउने
Transliteration: kaan chilaune
Doctrine: Itching Ears and Myths
Original: κνηθόμενοι τὴν ἀκοήν
Category: Apostasy

Occurs at 4:3. Vivid idiom for insatiable appetite for novel, self-flattering teaching; may need a brief explanatory gloss.

Turn Away

Approved rendering: तर्किनु / पन्छिनु
Transliteration: tarkinu / panchhinu
Doctrine: Itching Ears and Myths
Original: ἀποστρέψουσιν
Category: Apostasy

Occurs at 4:4, apostasy in action.

Righteous Judge

Approved rendering: धर्मी न्यायकर्ता
Transliteration: dharmi nyaykarta
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: ὁ δίκαιος κριτής
Category: Reward

Occurs at 4:8. धर्मी reuses the adjective already established in the baseline’s justification-adjacent vocabulary.

Repay According To Deeds

Approved rendering: कामअनुसार फर्काउनुहुनेछ
Transliteration: kaam anusar farkaunuhunechha
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Rejected alternatives: कर्मफल
Original: ἀποδώσει αὐτῷ ὁ Κύριος κατὰ τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ
Category: Reward

Occurs at 4:14, the negative counterpart of the reward logic. NEVER कर्मफल or any bare कर्म-accounting phrase; agent must remain explicitly the personal Lord.

Mercy

Approved rendering: दया
Transliteration: daya
Doctrine: Mercy and Compassion
Original: ἔλεος
Category: Character

Occurs at 1:2, 1:16, 1:18. Distinct from अनुग्रह (grace, unmerited favor toward the guilty); दया names compassion shown toward those in distress.

Spirit Of Power Love Self Control

Approved rendering: सामर्थ्य, प्रेम र सुबुद्धिको आत्मा
Transliteration: samarthya, prem ra subuddhiko atma
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and Ordination
Rejected alternatives: शक्ति
Original: πνεῦμα δυνάμεως καὶ ἀγάπης καὶ σωφρονισμοῦ
Category: Character

Occurs at 1:7, contrasted with a spirit of timidity/fear. δύναμις reuses TM सामर्थ्य, never शक्ति.

Testimony

Approved rendering: गवाही / साक्षी
Transliteration: gavahi / saakshi
Doctrine: Perseverance under Suffering
Original: μαρτύριον
Category: Character

Occurs at 1:8, the testimony to the Lord and the gospel Timothy must not be ashamed to be joined to.

Repentance

Approved rendering: पश्चाताप
Transliteration: pashchatap
Doctrine: Repentance and Restoration of the Erring
Rejected alternatives: प्रायश्चित्त
Original: μετάνοιαν
Category: Character

Occurs at 2:25. NEVER प्रायश्चित्त, which carries Hindu ritual-penance/karma-atonement connotations of expiatory acts offsetting accumulated karma; biblical repentance is a gift God himself grants, not a self-performed compensatory ritual.

Snare Of The Devil

Approved rendering: शैतानको जाल
Transliteration: shaitanko jaal
Doctrine: Repentance and Restoration of the Erring
Original: τοῦ διαβόλου παγίδος
Category: Character

Occurs at 2:26. शैतान is the established Nepali Christian term.

Cleanse Oneself

Approved rendering: आफूलाई शुद्ध पार्नु
Transliteration: afulai shuddha parnu
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: ἐκκαθάρῃ ἑαυτόν
Category: Character

Occurs at 2:21. Distinct sense from the standing caution on शुद्ध for ‘holy’; must not read as ritual purification but as moral/behavioral self-separation from corrupting association.

Low Risk Terms

Exhort

Approved rendering: उत्साहित पार्नु
Transliteration: utsahit parnu
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package. Encouragement sense active in the 4:2 charge sequence.

Thanksgiving

Approved rendering: धन्यवाद
Transliteration: dhanyavad
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία / εὐχαριστῶ
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at 1:3.

David

Approved rendering: दाऊद
Transliteration: Daud
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: Δαυίδ
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Established proper-name form. Occurs at 2:8.

Profitable

Approved rendering: लाभदायक
Transliteration: labhdayak
Doctrine: Sufficiency of Scripture for Ministry
Original: ὠφέλιμος
Category: Scripture

Standard vocabulary; occurs at 3:16.

Reproof

Approved rendering: दोष देखाउने / हप्काउनु
Transliteration: dosh dekhaune / hapkaunu
Doctrine: Sufficiency of Scripture for Ministry
Original: ἔλεγχος / ἐλέγχω
Category: Scripture

Occurs as a noun at 3:16 and as the imperative verb at 4:2, paired with rebuke.

Correction

Approved rendering: सुधार
Transliteration: sudhar
Doctrine: Sufficiency of Scripture for Ministry
Original: ἐπανόρθωσις
Category: Scripture

Third of Scripture’s fourfold purposes at 3:16.

Finished The Race

Approved rendering: दौड पूरा गरेको छु
Transliteration: dauda pura gareko chhu
Doctrine: Assurance of Reward
Original: τὸν δρόμον τετέλεκα
Category: Perseverance

Occurs at 4:7, paired with fought the good fight and kept the faith.

Spreads Like Gangrene

Approved rendering: गलनरोगझैं फैलिने
Transliteration: galanrogjhai phailine
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: ὡς γάγγραινα νομὴν ἕξει
Category: Sound Doctrine

Occurs at 2:17. Figurative; preserve the contagious-corruption image.

Word Battles

Approved rendering: वादविवाद
Transliteration: vaadvivaad
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: λογομαχία
Category: Sound Doctrine

Occurs at 2:14.

In Season Out Of Season

Approved rendering: बेलामौकामा र नबेलामा
Transliteration: belamaukama ra nabelama
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: εὐκαίρως ἀκαίρως
Category: Preaching

Occurs at 4:2. Idiom demanding constancy; render naturally, not word-for-word.

Patience

Approved rendering: सहनशीलता
Transliteration: sahanashilata
Doctrine: The Charge to Preach the Word
Original: μακροθυμία
Category: Preaching

Occurs at 4:2; correction must be paired with patience, not harshness.

Progress Bad To Worse

Approved rendering: झन्झन् नराम्रो हुँदै जानु
Transliteration: jhanjhan naramro hudai janu
Doctrine: Apostasy and False Teachers in the Last Days
Original: προκόψουσιν ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον
Category: Apostasy

Occurs at 3:13, confirming the linear, worsening trajectory of the last days, contra any cyclical renewal expectation.

Gentleness

Approved rendering: नम्रता
Transliteration: namrata
Doctrine: Repentance and Restoration of the Erring
Original: πραΰτητι
Category: Character

Occurs at 2:25, setting a pastoral tone for confronting error.

Foolish Controversies

Approved rendering: मूर्ख विवाद
Transliteration: murkha vivad
Doctrine: Guarding Sound Doctrine
Original: μωρὰς…ζητήσεις
Category: Character

Occurs at 2:23.

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