Passage

Romans 15

• Doctrine

  Christ-Centered Ministry

  Ministry done in Christ's name, by his power, for his glory; not generic humanitarian relief divorced from the gospel, a live risk given how much visible Nepali Christian activity is expressed through NGO-style development and disaster-relief work.

  ROM.15.17-21

• Doctrine

  Christian Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ.

  ROM.15.24

• Glossary Term

  Church

  मण्डली (assembly/congregation) is the established term for the doctrinal Church.

  ROM.15.26

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  New covenant community, not a caste-segregated assembly or ritual institution.

  ROM.15.26

• Glossary Term

  Covenant

  Established Nepali Bible term (नयाँ करार = New Testament/New Covenant), distinct from Hindi's वाचा.

  ROM.15.12

• Glossary Term

  David

  Established Nepali Bible proper-name form.

  ROM.15.12

• Doctrine

  Davidic Covenant

  Requires Old Testament background explanation; no analogous covenantal-promise concept exists in Hindu or Buddhist tradition.

  ROM.15.12

• Doctrine

  Evangelism

  Raised above Medium risk for Nepali specifically: Nepal's 2017 Muluki Criminal Code contains provisions restricting religious conversion and proselytizing, a live, current legal risk distinct from the more purely social sensitivity this doctrine carries in other languages in this pipeline.

  ROM.15.20

• Glossary Term

  Exhort

  Context-sensitive: बिन्ती गर्नु (entreaty) for beseeching; उत्साहित पार्नु (encourage) for building up.

  ROM.15.2

• Glossary Term

  Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ.

  ROM.15.24

• Doctrine

  Fulfillment of Prophecy

  Linear historical fulfillment (Old Testament to New Testament), not the cyclical cosmic frame shared by Hindu yuga cosmology and Buddhist cycles of rebirth.

  ROM.15.8-12

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  Non-Jewish peoples generally; established Nepali Bible term.

  ROM.15.7-12

• Doctrine

  Gospel

  Must be distinguished from a generic positive announcement.

  ROM.15.19-20

• Glossary Term

  Gospel

  Established Nepali Christian term.

  ROM.15.19-20

• Glossary Term

  Holy

  Set apart for God and morally pure.

  ROM.15.16

• Glossary Term

  Holy Spirit

  CRITICAL: never ब्रह्म (the impersonal Hindu Absolute) or परमात्मा alone (the universal Self).

  ROM.15.16

• Doctrine

  Inspiration of Scripture

  Distinguish God-breathed Scripture from the Hindu concept of shruti (heard by sages) and from Buddhist sutra tradition, both understood very differently from divine authorship through human writers.

  ROM.15.4

• Glossary Term

  Intercession

  Prayer on behalf of others before God.

  ROM.15.30-32

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Established proper-name form.

  ROM.15.7-12

• Doctrine

  Kingdom Mission

  God's reign advancing through the gospel, not a political or dynastic kingdom.

  ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21

• Glossary Term

  Kingdom Of God

  God's sovereign reign, not a territorial or political kingdom — a distinction worth making explicit in a country whose head of state was, until recently, a divinely-legitimated monarch.

  ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21

• Glossary Term

  Law

  The Mosaic law.

  ROM.15.8-12

• Glossary Term

  Messiah

  Transliterated term, established across Nepali Bible tradition.

  ROM.15.8-12

• Doctrine

  Messianic Promise

  CRITICAL: a specific Jewish Old Testament promise fulfilled exclusively in Jesus, not one of several avatars or enlightened teachers.

  ROM.15.8-12

• Glossary Term

  Mission

  Distinct from other languages in this pipeline: open evangelism in Nepal carries concrete, current legal risk under provisions of the 2017 Muluki Criminal Code restricting religious conversion, not merely social or cultural sensitivity.

  ROM.15.15-24

• Doctrine

  Mission to the Nations

  Frame mission as witness and proclamation; open recruitment-style language carries real social sensitivity given Nepal's history as a declared Hindu Kingdom.

  ROM.15.15-24

• Doctrine

  Mutual Edification

  Building one another up in faith; no significant doctrinal risk.

  ROM.15.2

• Doctrine

  Prayer and Intercession

  Direct access to God in Christ's name, distinct from ritual puja worship or intercessory offerings made through a priest at a shrine.

  ROM.15.30-32

• Glossary Term

  Prophecy

  God-inspired declaration, distinct from astrological prediction.

  ROM.15.8-12

• Glossary Term

  Prophet

  God's spokesperson; established Nepali Christian term.

  ROM.15.4

• Doctrine

  Sanctification

  The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy; not Hindu ritual purification nor Buddhist meditative self-purification through disciplined practice.

  ROM.15.16

• Glossary Term

  Sanctification

  The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy; distinct from ritual purification.

  ROM.15.16

• Glossary Term

  Seed Of David

  Romans 1:3; conveys physical lineage and fulfillment of the Old Testament covenant promise to David.

  ROM.15.12

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be confused with the sadhu/renunciate ideal still visibly honored at national shrines such as Pashupatinath, nor with Buddhist monastic withdrawal.

  ROM.15.16

• Doctrine

  Unity of Jews and Gentiles

  Directly challenges caste-based spiritual hierarchy, a legally enforced structure in Nepal within living memory.

  ROM.15.7-12