Passage
Romans 6
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Doctrine
Christian Identity in Christ
Identity located in union with Christ, not in tribal genealogy (qawm/khel) or the honor-code standing that otherwise anchors Pashtun social identity.
ROM.6.1-11
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Doctrine
Grace
Pashtunwali's hospitality code (melmastia) treats gifts as reciprocity-creating; grace must be taught as a one-directional gift creating no repayment obligation.
ROM.6.1, ROM.6.14-15
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Glossary Term
Grace
Pashtunwali's hospitality code (melmastia) treats gift-giving as reciprocity-creating - a gift typically obligates the receiver to repay in honor.
ROM.6.1, ROM.6.14-15
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Glossary Term
Holy
Shared vocabulary across the region; needs the relational, Spirit-wrought sense reinforced over ritual-observance holiness.
ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22
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Glossary Term
Holy Spirit
CRITICAL: identical Quranic phrase and identical mainstream tafsir identification with the angel Jibril (Gabriel) as in Arabic and Persian - the created-being-versus-divine-Person distinction must be made explicit at every occurrence.
ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22
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Glossary Term
Resurrection
CRITICAL: shares the Quran's crucifixion-denial (4:157) with Arabic and Persian.
ROM.6.4-5
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Doctrine
Resurrection of Christ
CRITICAL: shares the Quran's crucifixion-denial (4:157) with Arabic and Persian; oral, narrative apologetic explanation is especially important given lower baseline literacy in many Pashto-speaking regions.
ROM.6.4-5
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Doctrine
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy, not ritual purification.
ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22
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Glossary Term
Sanctification
پاکوالی (pakawali, plain 'cleanliness/purity') risks reading as ritual purification (wudu-style cleanliness) rather than the Spirit's ongoing moral transformation; تقدیس keeps the specific theological sense.
ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22
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Doctrine
Separation unto God's Service
Must not be confused with Sufi withdrawal-from-the-world practices found in regional mystical tradition; biblical separation is devoted engagement with the world, not withdrawal from it.
ROM.6.22