Core Glossary
Core Glossary — Titus (English → Portuguese)
This glossary consolidates every load-bearing theological term identified in analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md, spanning all three chapters of Titus. Terms already established in the baseline Romans Language Package must reuse the exact recorded Portuguese rendering from translation_memory.json/bible_term_registry.json — these are marked REUSE below and are not open for revision. Terms new to this curriculum are marked NEW and require the risk tier, doctrine linkage, and rejected alternatives recorded here to be added to translation_memory.json at Phase 2 Step 16 per the enforcement instructions in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.
Risk tiers follow the baseline’s doctrine_risk_registry.json definitions exactly: Critical (destroys essential doctrine, mandatory theologian review), High (significant confusion/syncretism risk, mandatory theologian review), Medium (reduces clarity, native speaker review), Low (minor imprecision, automated review).
Part 1 — Reused Terms from the Baseline Romans Language Package
These terms occur in Titus and MUST use the identical Portuguese rendering already recorded in the baseline. No new decision is required; listed here only to confirm full-book coverage.
| English Term | Greek | Portuguese (REUSE) | Risk | Titus Occurrences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grace | χάρις | graça | High | 1:4; 2:11; 3:7, 15 |
| Faith | πίστις | fé | High | 1:1, 4, 13; 2:2, 10; 3:15 |
| Salvation / to save | σωτηρία / σῴζω | salvação / salvar | Critical | 2:11; 3:5 |
| Justification / justified | δικαίωσις / δικαιόω | justificação / justificado | Critical | 3:7 |
| Righteousness | δικαιοσύνη | justiça | Critical | 2:12; 3:5 |
| Apostle | ἀπόστολος | apóstolo | Low | 1:1 |
| Election / elect | ἐκλογή / ἐκλεκτός | eleição / eleitos | High | 1:1 |
| Holy Spirit | πνεῦμα ἅγιον | Espírito Santo | Critical | 3:5 |
| God | θεός | Deus | Critical | throughout |
| Jesus / Jesus Christ | Ἰησοῦς / Ἰησοῦς Χριστός | Jesus / Jesus Cristo | Critical | 1:1, 4; 2:13; 3:6 |
| Peace | εἰρήνη | paz | Medium | 1:4 |
| Glory | δόξα | glória | Medium | 2:13 |
| Law | νόμος (νομικός) | lei | High | 3:9 |
| Sin / to sin | ἁμαρτία / ἁμαρτάνω | pecado / pecar | Medium | 3:11 |
| Prophet | προφήτης | profeta | Low | 1:12 |
| Exhort | παρακαλέω | exortar | Low | 1:9; 2:15 |
| Sanctification (concept) | ἁγιασμός-adjacent | santificação | High | conceptual link at 3:5 (ἀνακαίνωσις) |
| Adoption (concept) | υἱοθεσία-adjacent | adoção | High | conceptual link at 3:7 (κληρονόμος) |
Part 2 — New Terms Introduced by Titus, by Chapter
Chapter 1
| # | English Gloss | Greek / Transliteration | Portuguese Rendering | Risk | Doctrine Linkage | Notes / Rejected Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Savior (divine title) | σωτήρ / sōtēr | Salvador | Critical | Deity of Christ; Salvation | Applied to both God the Father (1:3) and Jesus Christ (1:4; 2:13; 3:6). Titus 2:13’s grammar makes Jesus Christ “our great God and Savior” one referent — must not be rendered in a way that separates two figures. Rejected: any framing implying “um salvador entre outros” or “o espírito mais evoluído” (Kardecist Christology). |
| 2 | Godliness / piety | εὐσέβεια / eusebeia | piedade | High | Grace That Trains for Godly Living | ”Piedade” commonly means “pity/compassion” in everyday Portuguese; risk of inverted meaning. Recommend supplementing with “vida piedosa e devota a Deus” on first occurrence per document. |
| 3 | Servant/bondservant of God | δοῦλος θεοῦ / doulos theou | servo de Deus | Low | Apostleship (adjacent) | Term of honor, not degradation. |
| 4 | Full/exact knowledge of truth | ἐπίγνωσις ἀληθείας / epignōsis alētheias | pleno conhecimento da verdade | Medium | Sound Doctrine | — |
| 5 | God who cannot lie | ἀψευδὴς θεός / apseudēs theos | Deus, que não mente | Low | Inspiration of Scripture (adjacent) | Useful contrast to ongoing mediumistic “revelation” claims. |
| 6 | Manifested/appeared | ἐφανέρωσεν / ephanerōsen | manifestou | Medium | Grace That Trains; Salvation | Same root family as ἐπιφάνεια; must convey a decisive, historical, once-for-all disclosure, not gradual unveiling. |
| 7 | Elders (church office) | πρεσβύτεροι / presbyteroi | presbíteros | High | Qualifications for Elders | Collides with Roman Catholic “presbítero” = ordained sacramental priest. Requires explicit clarifying note distinguishing NT congregational elder from Catholic sacerdotal priesthood, parallel to baseline’s “santos” note. |
| 8 | Overseer/bishop (church office) | ἐπίσκοπος / episkopos | bispo | High | Qualifications for Elders | Collides with (a) Catholic/Anglican diocesan bishop (higher, multi-congregation office) and (b) Brazilian neo-Pentecostal “bispo” titles with prosperity-gospel/scandal associations. Requires clarifying note that this is a local, plural, character-qualified congregational office. |
| 9 | Blameless | ἀνέγκλητος / anegklētos | irrepreensível | Medium | Qualifications for Elders | — |
| 10 | Husband of one wife | μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρα / mias gynaikos andra | marido de uma só mulher | Medium | Qualifications for Elders | Two live interpretive options (no polygamy vs. no serial remarriage); pastoral sensitivity required. |
| 11 | Believing/well-behaved children | τέκνα πιστά / tekna pista | filhos crentes | Medium | Qualifications for Elders | Genuine ambiguity; note both readings for reviewers. |
| 12 | Elder-qualification vice list | αὐθάδης, ὀργίλος, πάροινος, πλήκτης, αἰσχροκερδής / authadēs, orgilos, paroinos, plēktēs, aischrokerdēs | soberbo, irascível, dado ao vinho, violento, ávido de lucro desonesto | Low (individually); Medium (collectively) | Qualifications for Elders | — |
| 13 | Elder-qualification virtue list | φιλόξενος, φιλάγαθος, σώφρων, δίκαιος, ὅσιος, ἐγκρατής / philoxenos, philagathos, sōphrōn, dikaios, hosios, egkratēs | hospitaleiro, amigo do bem, moderado, justo, piedoso, disciplinado | Medium | Qualifications for Elders | ὅσιος/“piedoso” shares the piedade ambiguity flagged for εὐσέβεια. |
| 14 | Sound/healthy doctrine | ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία / hygiainousa didaskalia | sã doutrina | High | Sound Doctrine and Good Works | Medical metaphor (teaching that produces spiritual health). Contrast with Kardecist psicografia as a rival “teaching” source (per baseline inspiration_of_scripture doctrine). Recurs 1:9; 2:1; conceptually 1:13; 2:8. |
| 15 | False-teacher vocabulary cluster | ἀνυπότακτοι, ματαιολόγοι, φρεναπάται / anypotaktoi, mataiologoi, phrenapatai | insubordinados, palradores vãos, enganadores da mente | Low | Sound Doctrine and Good Works | — |
| 16 | The circumcision party | οἱ ἐκ περιτομῆς / hoi ek peritomēs | os da circuncisão | Medium | Sound Doctrine; Unity of Jews and Gentiles (baseline) | Targets a legalistic faction, not Jewish people generally; clarify to avoid antisemitic misreading. |
| 17 | Jewish myths / commandments of men | μῦθοι Ἰουδαϊκοί, ἐντολαὶ ἀνθρώπων / mythoi Ioudaikoi, entolai anthrōpōn | fábulas judaicas, mandamentos de homens | Medium | Sound Doctrine and Good Works | Bridge point contrasting revealed truth with both Catholic extra-biblical tradition and Kardecist mediumistic revelation — teach evenhandedly. |
| 18 | Disqualified for good work | ἀδόκιμοι πρὸς πᾶν ἔργον ἀγαθόν / adokimoi pros pan ergon agathon | reprovados para toda boa obra | High | Sound Doctrine and Good Works | Negative counterpart to “boas obras” (see Ch.2 entry); false profession without fruit. |
Chapter 2
| # | English Gloss | Greek / Transliteration | Portuguese Rendering | Risk | Doctrine Linkage | Notes / Rejected Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | Good works | καλὰ / ἀγαθὰ ἔργα / kala / agatha erga | boas obras | High | Sound Doctrine and Good Works; Salvation by Grace not Works | Central term of the letter (2:7,14; 3:1,8,14). Must be taught as fruit of grace, never the means of earning or completing salvation. Rejected: any phrasing implying merit accumulation, echoing either Tridentine merit categories or Kardecist karma-reducing “boas ações” across reincarnations. |
| 20 | Submission/subjection | ὑποτάσσομαι / hypotassomai | sujeitar-se / submeter-se | High | Submission to Authority | Applies to wives (2:5), servants (2:9), and citizens (3:1). Voluntary, gospel-motivated posture — must not be taught as unconditional or as warrant for abuse. |
| 21 | Older men (age-based) | πρεσβύτης / presbytēs | homem idoso | Medium | (household instruction) | Do not conflate with the church office πρεσβύτερος (Ch.1), despite shared root. |
| 22 | Older women (age-based) | πρεσβῦτις / presbytis | mulher idosa | Medium | (household instruction) | Same conflation caution as above. |
| 23 | Reverent/befitting sacred function | ἱεροπρεπής / hieroprepēs | reverente / digna de reverência | Medium | (household instruction) | Do not render with a term implying literal priestly office. |
| 24 | Sound in faith, love, endurance | ὑγιαίνοντες τῇ πίστει τῇ ἀγάπῃ τῇ ὑπομονῇ | sãos na fé, no amor, na perseverança | High | Sound Doctrine (via πίστις) | Combines “sã doutrina” cluster with REUSE “fé.” |
| 25 | Household virtue list (women) | φίλανδρος, φιλότεκνος, ἁγνός, οἰκουρός, ἀγαθός | amar o marido, amar os filhos, pura, cuidadosa do lar, boa | Medium | Grace That Trains for Godly Living | Apply with pastoral nuance in contemporary application; doctrinal core not in doubt. |
| 26 | So the word of God is not reviled | ἵνα μὴ ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ βλασφημῆται | para que a palavra de Deus não seja difamada | Medium | Sound Doctrine and Good Works | Missional motivation behind all household instruction; preserve so codes are not taught as ends in themselves. |
| 27 | Example/pattern | τύπος / typos | exemplo | Low | Grace That Trains for Godly Living | — |
| 28 | Sound speech beyond reproach | λόγος ὑγιὴς ἀκατάγνωστος | palavra sã e irrepreensível | High | Sound Doctrine and Good Works | — |
| 29 | Master (human) | δεσπότης / despotēs | senhor (minúsculo) | Medium | Submission to Authority | Capitalization discipline required: lower-case “senhor” for a human master vs. capitalized REUSE “Senhor” for Christ’s exclusive lordship — must not be confused typographically. |
| 30 | Showing all good faith/fidelity | πίστιν πᾶσαν ἐνδεικνυμένους ἀγαθήν | mostrando toda boa fidelidade | Medium | Submission to Authority (via πίστις) | Semantic-range note: “fidelity/trustworthiness” sense of πίστις here, distinct from saving faith. |
| 31 | Adorn the doctrine | κοσμῶσιν τὴν διδασκαλίαν | honrem/adornem a doutrina | High | Sound Doctrine and Good Works | Conduct either adorns or discredits doctrine before outsiders. |
Chapter 3
| # | English Gloss | Greek / Transliteration | Portuguese Rendering | Risk | Doctrine Linkage | Notes / Rejected Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | Rulers and authorities (civil) | ἀρχαί, ἐξουσίαι / archai, exousiai | governantes e autoridades | High | Submission to Authority | Culturally live given Brazil’s military-rule history and political polarization; must not endorse unconditional obedience to any specific regime, nor foreclose legitimate prophetic critique. |
| 33 | Obey | πειθαρχέω / peitharcheō | obedecer | Medium | Submission to Authority | — |
| 34 | Loving kindness / love for mankind | φιλανθρωπία / philanthrōpia | amor de Deus para com os homens / benevolência de Deus | High | Salvation by Grace not Works | FALSE-COGNATE TRAP: never render as “filantropia,” which in modern Portuguese means secular charitable/NGO work, stripping the term of its divine-attribute sense. |
| 35 | Kindness/goodness | χρηστότης / chrēstotēs | bondade | Medium | Salvation by Grace not Works | — |
| 36 | Mercy | ἔλεος / eleos | misericórdia | Medium | Salvation by Grace not Works | Conceptually adjacent to REUSE “graça.” |
| 37 | Works (in a soteriological negation) | ἔργα / erga | obras | Critical | Salvation by Grace not Works | Titus 3:5’s “not by works… but according to mercy” is the letter’s sharpest anti-works-righteousness statement; negation must never be softened. |
| 38 | Washing | λουτρόν / loutron | lavagem / lavar | Critical | Regeneration by the Holy Spirit | Paired inseparably with παλιγγενεσία below; secondary risk of collapsing into Catholic ex opere operato baptismal sacramentalism if taught without clarifying the Spirit’s inward agency. |
| 39 | Regeneration | παλιγγενεσία / palingenesia | regeneração | CRITICAL | Regeneration by the Holy Spirit | HIGHEST NEW RISK IN THIS BOOK. Literally “again-birth.” Never render as “renascimento” or unqualified “novo nascimento” — both sit dangerously close to Kardecist “reencarnação”/“renascimento espírita” (a spirit’s repeated re-embodiment across many lives), Brazil’s most consequential religious rival concept per the baseline package. Must be taught as a single, non-repeating, Spirit-wrought inward transformation at conversion. This risk exceeds even the baseline’s resurrection warning because the Greek etymology itself (“again-birth”) is closer in surface form to reincarnation language than “resurrection” (rising again from death) is. |
| 40 | Renewal | ἀνακαίνωσις / anakainōsis | renovação | Medium | Regeneration by the Holy Spirit | Conceptually adjacent to REUSE “santificação.” |
| 41 | Poured out | ἐξέχεεν / exécheen | derramou | Medium | Regeneration by the Holy Spirit | Echoes Pentecost (Acts 2/Joel 2); reinforces the Spirit’s personal, purposive self-giving — must not read as an impersonal force diffusing through the cosmos. |
| 42 | Heir | κληρονόμος / klēronomos | herdeiro | Medium | Regeneration by the Holy Spirit (adjacent to Adoption) | Pair with baseline adoption doctrine note on full, non-provisional inheritance rights. |
| 43 | Trustworthy saying (formula) | πιστὸς ὁ λόγος / pistos ho logos | Fiel é esta palavra | Medium | Sound Doctrine and Good Works | Fixed Pastoral-Epistle formula; must render identically at every occurrence across documents for cross-curriculum consistency. |
| 44 | Foolish controversies | μωραὶ ζητήσεις / mōrai zētēseis | questões tolas | Medium | Avoiding Divisive Controversies | — |
| 45 | Genealogies | γενεαλογίαι / genealogiai | genealogias | Low | Avoiding Divisive Controversies | Refers to speculative genealogical disputes, not biblical genealogies themselves; clarify to prevent confusion. |
| 46 | Quarrels about the law | μάχαι νομικαί / machai nomikai | contendas acerca da lei | Medium | Avoiding Divisive Controversies | Shares root with REUSE baseline “lei.” |
| 47 | Divisive person | αἱρετικὸς ἄνθρωπος / hairetikos anthrōpos | o que causa divisões / o faccioso | High | Avoiding Divisive Controversies | NEVER render as “herege”/“herético” — imports the full weight of the Portuguese/Brazilian Inquisition-era heresy-condemnation category onto a pastoral instruction about handling persistent quarrelsomeness through graduated warning, not doctrinal inquisition. |
| 48 | Admonition | νουθεσία / nouthesia | admoestação | Low | Avoiding Divisive Controversies | — |
| 49 | Self-condemned | αὐτοκατάκριτος / autokatakritos | autocondenado | Low | Avoiding Divisive Controversies | — |
| 50 | Grace benediction (closing) | ἡ χάρις μετὰ πάντων ὑμῶν | a graça seja com todos vós | High | (baseline grace) | Must read consistently with 1:4 and with every other grace-benediction across this Language Package’s curricula. |
Risk Summary for Titus New Terms
| Risk Tier | Count (new terms) | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 4 (Savior title, works-negation in 3:5, washing, regeneration) | Human theologian, absolute enforcement |
| High | 17 | Human theologian |
| Medium | 22 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 7 | Automated review |
Highest-priority new-term additions for translation_memory.json at Phase 2 Step 16, in order of urgency:
- παλιγγενεσία → regeneração (Critical — reincarnation collision, sharpest new risk in the book)
- σωτήρ → Salvador (Critical — deity of Christ, Titus 2:13)
- ἔργα (soteriological negation) → obras (Critical — Titus 3:5, salvation by grace not works)
- πρεσβύτεροι → presbíteros and ἐπίσκοπος → bispo (High — Catholic clergy/sacerdotal collision, curriculum’s “Qualifications for Elders” doctrine)
- ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία → sã doutrina (High — “Sound Doctrine and Good Works” anchor term)
- καλὰ/ἀγαθὰ ἔργα → boas obras (High — merit-collision risk, two curriculum doctrines)
- φιλανθρωπία → amor de Deus para com os homens (High — “filantropia” false-cognate trap)
- αἱρετικὸς ἄνθρωπος → o que causa divisões (High — “herege” anachronism trap)
- εὐσέβεια → piedade (High — pity/godliness ambiguity)
- ὑποτάσσομαι → sujeitar-se/submeter-se (High — “Submission to Authority” doctrine, abuse-safeguard teaching required)
Critical Risk Terms
Salvation
Approved rendering: salvação / salvar
Transliteration: sōtēria / sōzō
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: evolução espiritual através de reencarnações sucessivas
Original: σωτηρία / σῴζω
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Titus 2:11 and 3:5 anchor salvation as a decisive, once-for-all act of grace received by faith, never the Kardecist ‘evolução espiritual’ achieved gradually across reincarnations. Titus 3:5’s negation of works as the basis of salvation is the letter’s sharpest statement of this doctrine.
Justification
Approved rendering: justificação / justificado
Transliteration: dikaiōsis / dikaioō
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: progresso espiritual gradual
Original: δικαίωσις / δικαιόω
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Titus 3:7 (‘tendo sido justificados pela sua graça’) must render as a completed forensic status received by grace, not a gradual moral improvement. New pairing not present in Romans: justification directly precedes ‘herdeiros’ (heir) language, requiring the adoption doctrine link to be made explicit in teaching material.
Righteousness
Approved rendering: justiça
Transliteration: dikaiosynē
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: mérito conquistado por esforço moral próprio
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Titus 3:5’s negated ‘obras… em justiça’ is structurally close to Romans 3:20’s ‘obras da lei,’ reinforcing the baseline term with no new decision required. Also appears at 2:12 in the ordinary-virtue sense (justly/uprightly), a lower-risk secondary usage to flag for translators.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Espírito Santo
Transliteration: pneuma hagion
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: espíritos guias ou mentores espirituais (espiritismo), orixás e guias (Candomblé/Umbanda)
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Titus 3:5-6 is this letter’s only occurrence but carries the highest concentration of Critical-risk material (regeneration, washing, outpouring) in a single sentence anywhere in this curriculum. The Spirit’s ‘pouring out’ (ἐξέχεεν) must reinforce personal, purposive self-giving, never an impersonal force diffusing through the cosmos.
God
Approved rendering: Deus
Transliteration: theos
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Titus repeatedly applies the Savior title jointly to God the Father (1:3) and Jesus Christ (1:4; 2:13; 3:4-6); Titus 2:13’s grammar makes ‘Deus’ and ‘Salvador’ describe one referent, Jesus Christ. Exclusive monotheism must remain unambiguous throughout.
Jesus
Approved rendering: Jesus / Jesus Cristo
Transliteration: Iēsous / Iēsous Christos
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς Χριστός
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Titus 2:13’s grammar is a primary single-referent deity-of-Christ text (‘nosso grande Deus e Salvador, Jesus Cristo’); the risk resides in the doctrinal content and syntax around the name (see ‘savior’ entry below), not the name itself.
Savior
Approved rendering: Salvador
Transliteration: sōtēr
Doctrine: Deity of Christ and the Savior Title
Rejected alternatives: um salvador entre outros, o espírito mais evoluído (Kardecist Christology)
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Christology
NEW term for this Language Package. Applied to God the Father (1:3) and Jesus Christ (1:4; 2:13; 3:6). Titus 2:13’s grammar identifies Jesus Christ as ‘nosso grande Deus e Salvador’ in a single referent — must never be rendered in a way that visually or grammatically separates ‘Deus’ and ‘Salvador’ into two figures. Must never be softened toward Kardecist Christology’s framing of Jesus as the most evolved spirit.
Works Negation
Approved rendering: obras
Transliteration: erga (ex ergōn tōn en dikaiosynē)
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace not Works
Rejected alternatives: não somente pelas obras, não apenas pelas obras (implicariam contribuição parcial das obras)
Original: ἔργα (ἐξ ἔργων τῶν ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ)
Category: Salvation
NEW term. The negation (‘não por obras de justiça que nós tivéssemos feito’) must be rendered fully intact and never softened toward any formulation implying partial human contribution — a distortion that would independently align with both Tridentine merit categories and Kardecist gradual moral-merit accumulation across reincarnations. Titus 3:5, the sharpest anti-works-righteousness statement in this Language Package.
Washing
Approved rendering: lavagem / lavar
Transliteration: loutron
Doctrine: Regeneration by the Holy Spirit
Original: λουτρόν
Category: Regeneration
NEW term, paired inseparably with ‘regeneração.’ Secondary risk of collapsing into Catholic ex opere operato baptismal sacramentalism if taught without clarifying that the washing signifies, rather than mechanically causes, the Spirit’s regenerating work. Titus 3:5.
Regeneration
Approved rendering: regeneração
Transliteration: palingenesia
Doctrine: Regeneration by the Holy Spirit
Rejected alternatives: renascimento (PROIBIDO — colide com ‘renascer’ espírita), novo nascimento sem qualificação (PROIBIDO sem a cláusula ‘uma única vez’), nova-geração / outra-vez-nascimento (calque literal, ainda mais próximo da linguagem de reencarnação)
Original: παλιγγενεσία
Category: Regeneration
NEW term. THE HIGHEST NEW RISK IN THIS BOOK, and arguably in this Language Package to date. Lit. ‘again-birth.’ In a Brazilian context where Kardecist Spiritism teaches ‘reencarnação’ as a spirit’s repeated re-embodiment, and where the everyday word ‘renascimento’ is used colloquially and religiously for exactly that repeated process, this term sits at the most acute lexical collision point in the entire book — sharper than the baseline’s ressurreição-versus-reencarnação warning, since the Greek etymology itself is closer in surface form to reincarnation language than ‘ressurreição’ (rising again from death) is. NEVER render as ‘renascimento’ or unqualified ‘novo nascimento.’ Must always be taught as a single, non-repeating, Spirit-wrought inward transformation at conversion, entirely the possession of the person who trusts Christ once. Titus 3:5. Absolute enforcement, no exceptions.
High Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: graça
Transliteration: charis
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: mérito espiritual acumulado ao longo de vidas sucessivas
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Titus 2:11 and 3:7 additionally make grace the active saving AND training agent (παιδεύουσα, 2:12); render the training sense with an active verb phrase (‘a graça nos ensina/educa a…’), never a static noun implying a status already fully possessed apart from ongoing formation. Must be distinguished from Kardecist merit accumulated across reincarnations exactly as in the baseline.
Faith
Approved rendering: fé
Transliteration: pistis
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: convicção espírita, fé genérica em forças espirituais
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Titus 1:1, 1:4, 3:15 use πίστις in the saving-faith sense; Titus 2:2 and 2:10 use it in the secondary sense of fidelity/trustworthiness (human faithfulness), a genuine semantic-range distinction to flag per occurrence though the same Portuguese word is used for both.
Election
Approved rendering: eleição / eleitos
Transliteration: eklogē / eklektos
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: mérito conquistado ao longo de reencarnações
Original: ἐκλεκτός / ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Titus 1:1’s compact ‘fé dos eleitos de Deus’ offers less contextual disambiguation than Romans 9-11’s extended treatment; must not be read as a merit-status earned through accumulated moral effort across lifetimes, the Kardecist framing the baseline explicitly rejects.
Law
Approved rendering: lei
Transliteration: nomos / nomikos
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Original: νόμος / νομικός
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Titus 3:9 ‘contendas acerca da lei’ must not be rendered with a term suggesting a general cosmic moral order or dharma-like/karmic principle, exactly as the baseline warns for the Kardecist ‘lei de causa e efeito.‘
Sanctification
Approved rendering: santificação
Transliteration: hagiasmos
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: purificação cármica ao longo de reencarnações (leitura espírita)
Original: ἁγιασμός-adjacent (ἀνακαίνωσις in context)
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. No direct lexical occurrence in Titus; conceptually linked to ἀνακαίνωσις/‘renovação’ at 3:5. The doctrinal bridge from ‘renovação’ back to this baseline term must be made explicitly in teaching material, not assumed from the text alone.
Godliness
Approved rendering: piedade
Transliteration: eusebeia
Doctrine: Godliness and Piety
Rejected alternatives: vida devota a Deus (usado isoladamente, quebra continuidade com o uso bíblico padrão)
Original: εὐσέβεια
Category: Sanctification
NEW term. In everyday Brazilian Portuguese, ‘piedade’ most commonly means pity/compassion (‘ter piedade de alguém’), risking an inverted reading of a call to godly reverence. Retain the standard term (continuity with 1 Timothy/2 Peter usage) but supplement with ‘vida piedosa e devota a Deus’ at first occurrence per lesson unit. Occurs 1:1; 2:12; conceptually 1:8 (ὅσιος).
Elders
Approved rendering: presbíteros
Transliteration: presbyteroi
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders
Rejected alternatives: supervisor da congregação (neologismo que quebra a tradição de tradução bíblica em português)
Original: πρεσβύτεροι
Category: Church Office
NEW term. Collides with Roman Catholic ‘presbítero,’ the standard canonical term for an ordained sacramental priest believed to confer grace through ordination. Requires an explicit clarifying note at first occurrence distinguishing the NT congregational elder from Catholic sacerdotal priesthood, parallel to the baseline’s mandatory note for ‘santos.’ Titus 1:5.
Overseer Bishop
Approved rendering: bispo
Transliteration: episkopos
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders
Rejected alternatives: supervisor da congregação (neologismo)
Original: ἐπίσκοπος
Category: Church Office
NEW term. Same office as πρεσβύτερος (1:5-7). Collides with (a) the Catholic/Anglican diocesan bishop, a higher multi-congregation office, and (b) Brazilian neo-Pentecostal ‘bispo’ titles carrying prosperity-gospel and financial-scandal associations. Requires a clarifying note that this is a local, plural, character-qualified office. Titus 1:7.
Sound Doctrine
Approved rendering: sã doutrina
Transliteration: hygiainousa didaskalia
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
Rejected alternatives: ensino saudável (menos consagrado na tradição de tradução bíblica)
Original: ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία
Category: Sound Doctrine
NEW term, anchor for ‘Sound Doctrine and Good Works.’ A medical metaphor (teaching that produces spiritual health) that survives well in Portuguese (‘são/saúde’). Must be distinguished from Kardecism’s own claimed source of authoritative teaching via psicografia (mediumistic transcription), already flagged for human-theologian review under the baseline’s inspiration_of_scripture doctrine. Recurs 1:9, 1:13, 2:1, 2:8.
Disqualified Good Work
Approved rendering: reprovados para toda boa obra
Transliteration: adokimoi pros pan ergon agathon
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
Original: ἀδόκιμοι πρὸς πᾶν ἔργον ἀγαθόν
Category: Good Works
NEW term. Negative counterpart to ‘boas obras’; shows false profession without accompanying fruit, not a separate legalistic checklist. Titus 1:16.
Good Works
Approved rendering: boas obras
Transliteration: kala erga / agatha erga
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
Rejected alternatives: obras que contribuem para a salvação, boas ações que reduzem o carma (leitura espírita)
Original: καλὰ ἔργα / ἀγαθὰ ἔργα
Category: Good Works
NEW term, central to the letter (2:7, 14; 3:1, 8, 14). Must be taught strictly as the fruit of grace already given, never the means of earning or completing salvation. Rejected: any phrasing echoing Tridentine merit categories or Kardecism’s karma-reducing ‘boas ações’ accumulated across successive reincarnations. Anchor clause structure with temporal/causal markers (‘fruto da graça,’ ‘porque fomos salvos’) since the noun alone cannot carry the fruit-not-root distinction.
Submission
Approved rendering: sujeitar-se / submeter-se
Transliteration: hypotassomai
Doctrine: Submission to Authority
Rejected alternatives: obediência incondicional
Original: ὑποτάσσομαι
Category: Submission to Authority
NEW term, anchor for ‘Submission to Authority.’ A voluntary, gospel-motivated posture (middle voice), never doctrinal warrant for abuse and never obedience extending to sin (cf. Acts 5:29). Applies to wives (2:5), servants (2:9), citizens (3:1). Sensitive given documented domestic and institutional abuse concerns in Brazilian pastoral contexts.
Sound In Faith Love Endurance
Approved rendering: sãos na fé, no amor, na perseverança
Transliteration: hygiainontas tē pistei tē agapē tē hypomonē
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
Original: ὑγιαίνοντας τῇ πίστει τῇ ἀγάπῃ τῇ ὑπομονῇ
Category: Sound Doctrine
NEW term combining the ‘sã doutrina’ health-metaphor cluster with the baseline’s ‘fé.’ Applied to older men. Titus 2:2.
Sound Speech Beyond Reproach
Approved rendering: palavra sã e irrepreensível
Transliteration: logos hygiēs akatagnōstos
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
Original: λόγος ὑγιὴς ἀκατάγνωστος
Category: Sound Doctrine
NEW term, part of the ‘sã doutrina’ cluster applied to Titus’s own personal speech, not only doctrine in the abstract. Titus 2:8.
Adorn The Doctrine
Approved rendering: honrem / adornem a doutrina
Transliteration: kosmōsin tēn didaskalian
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
Original: κοσμῶσιν τὴν διδασκαλίαν
Category: Sound Doctrine
NEW term, part of the ‘sã doutrina’ cluster: every believer’s conduct, said of servants but applicable to all, either adorns or discredits sound doctrine before outsiders. Titus 2:10.
Rulers And Authorities
Approved rendering: governantes e autoridades
Transliteration: archai, exousiai
Doctrine: Submission to Authority
Original: ἀρχαί, ἐξουσίαι
Category: Submission to Authority
NEW term. Culturally live given Brazil’s 1964-1985 military-rule history and ongoing political polarization; must not endorse unconditional obedience to any specific regime nor foreclose legitimate prophetic critique of unjust authority. Titus 3:1.
Philanthropia
Approved rendering: amor de Deus para com os homens / benevolência de Deus
Transliteration: philanthrōpia
Doctrine: Mercy and Kindness of God
Rejected alternatives: a filantropia de Deus (FALSO COGNATO — PROIBIDO)
Original: φιλανθρωπία
Category: Salvation
NEW term. FALSE-COGNATE TRAP: the obvious cognate ‘filantropia’ in contemporary Portuguese denotes secular charitable/NGO activity, entirely stripped of the divine-attribute sense. Must NEVER render as ‘a filantropia de Deus.’ Titus 3:4.
Divisive Person
Approved rendering: o que causa divisões / o faccioso
Transliteration: hairetikos anthrōpos
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
Rejected alternatives: herege / herético (PROIBIDO — importa o peso histórico da Inquisição luso-brasileira, 1536-1821)
Original: αἱρετικὸς ἄνθρωπος
Category: Church Discipline
NEW term, anchor for ‘Avoiding Divisive Controversies.’ Must NEVER be rendered ‘herege’/‘herético,’ which imports the full historical weight of the Portuguese/Brazilian Inquisition and later Catholic-Protestant polemics onto what is a pastoral instruction about handling a quarrelsome individual through graduated warning, not doctrinal condemnation. Titus 3:10-11.
Grace Benediction
Approved rendering: a graça seja com todos vós
Transliteration: hē charis meta pantōn hymōn
Doctrine: Salvation by Grace not Works
Original: ἡ χάρις μετὰ πάντων ὑμῶν
Category: Grace
NEW term using the baseline’s ‘graça.’ The letter’s closing benediction; must read consistently with the opening greeting (1:4) and with every other grace-benediction across this Language Package’s curricula per the baseline’s cross-document consistency rules. Titus 3:15.
Medium Risk Terms
Peace
Approved rendering: paz
Transliteration: eirēnē
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: tranquilidade emocional
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Titus 1:4 opening greeting; standard usage, no new decision required.
Glory
Approved rendering: glória
Transliteration: doxa
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Titus 2:13, ‘a manifestação da glória do nosso grande Deus e Salvador’; standard usage.
Sin
Approved rendering: pecado / pecar
Transliteration: hamartia / hamartanō
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: erro a ser corrigido em vidas futuras (leitura espírita)
Original: ἁμαρτία / ἁμαρτάνω
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package. Titus 3:11 describes the self-condemned divisive person as one who ‘peca’ (ἁμαρτάνει); distinguish from a correctable ‘erro’ worked off across future incarnations.
Adoption
Approved rendering: adoção
Transliteration: huiothesia
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: υἱοθεσία-adjacent (κληρονόμος in context)
Category: Adoption
Inherited from Romans package. No direct lexical occurrence in Titus; conceptually linked to κληρονόμος/‘herdeiro’ at 3:7 and the inheritance language of 1:2. The doctrinal bridge must be made explicit in teaching material.
Full Knowledge Of Truth
Approved rendering: pleno conhecimento da verdade
Transliteration: epignōsis alētheias
Doctrine: Godliness and Piety
Original: ἐπίγνωσις ἀληθείας
Category: Sound Doctrine
NEW term. Compound phrase required; no single Portuguese noun distinguishes ‘exact/full knowledge’ from ordinary ‘conhecimento.’ Titus 1:1.
Manifested
Approved rendering: manifestou / apareceu / manifestação
Transliteration: epephanē / ephanerōsen / epiphaneia
Doctrine: Grace That Trains for Godly Living
Rejected alternatives: epifania (transliteração)
Original: ἐπεφάνη / ἐφανέρωσεν / ἐπιφάνεια
Category: Salvation
NEW term. A decisive, visible, historical breaking-in, not a gradual or repeatable unveiling. Never transliterate ‘epiphaneia’ as ‘epifania’ at 2:13, which in Luso-Brazilian Catholic usage names the January 6 liturgical feast of the Magi, an unrelated distraction from Christ’s future appearing. Occurs 1:3; 2:11, 13; 3:4.
Blameless
Approved rendering: irrepreensível
Transliteration: anegklētos
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders
Original: ἀνέγκλητος
Category: Church Office
NEW term. Above legal/reputational reproach; recurs with a different application to children in 1:6.
Husband Of One Wife
Approved rendering: marido de uma só mulher
Transliteration: mias gynaikos andra
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders
Original: μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρα
Category: Church Office
NEW term. Genuine interpretive ambiguity (no polygamy vs. no serial remarriage vs. faithful devotion to one wife); pastoral sensitivity required given diverse marital histories in Brazilian congregations. Titus 1:6.
Believing Children
Approved rendering: filhos crentes
Transliteration: tekna pista
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders
Original: τέκνα πιστά
Category: Church Office
NEW term. Genuine translation ambiguity between ‘believing children’ and ‘well-behaved children’; note both readings for reviewers. Titus 1:6.
Elder Vice List
Approved rendering: soberbo, irascível, dado ao vinho, violento, ávido de lucro desonesto
Transliteration: authadēs, orgilos, paroinos, plēktēs, aischrokerdēs
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders
Original: αὐθάδης, ὀργίλος, πάροινος, πλήκτης, αἰσχροκερδής
Category: Church Office
NEW term cluster. Individually low risk; collectively the negative-qualification checklist central to the elders doctrine. Titus 1:7.
Elder Virtue List
Approved rendering: hospitaleiro, amigo do bem, moderado, justo, piedoso, disciplinado
Transliteration: philoxenos, philagathos, sōphrōn, dikaios, hosios, egkratēs
Doctrine: Qualifications for Elders
Original: φιλόξενος, φιλάγαθος, σώφρων, δίκαιος, ὅσιος, ἐγκρατής
Category: Church Office
NEW term cluster. ὅσιος/‘piedoso’ shares the pity/godliness ambiguity flagged for εὐσέβεια. Titus 1:8.
Circumcision Party
Approved rendering: os da circuncisão
Transliteration: hoi ek peritomēs
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
Rejected alternatives: judeus (uso genérico, risco de antissemitismo)
Original: οἱ ἐκ περιτομῆς
Category: Sound Doctrine
NEW term. Targets a specific Judaizing legalistic faction, not Jewish people generally; teaching material must clarify this to avoid antisemitic misreading, consistent with the baseline’s unity_of_jews_and_gentiles doctrine. Titus 1:10.
Jewish Myths Commandments Of Men
Approved rendering: fábulas judaicas, mandamentos de homens
Transliteration: mythoi Ioudaikoi, entolai anthrōpōn
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
Original: μῦθοι Ἰουδαϊκοί, ἐντολαὶ ἀνθρώπων
Category: Sound Doctrine
NEW term. Useful teaching bridge contrasting revealed truth with both Catholic extra-biblical tradition and Kardecist mediumistic revelation; treat both evenhandedly and without disrespect. Titus 1:14.
Older Men
Approved rendering: homem idoso
Transliteration: presbytēs
Doctrine: Household Ethics and Family Relationships
Original: πρεσβύτης
Category: Household Ethics
NEW term. Age-based household instruction, not the church office ‘presbítero’ (1:5) despite the shared Greek root — must not be conflated. Titus 2:2.
Older Women
Approved rendering: mulher idosa
Transliteration: presbytis
Doctrine: Household Ethics and Family Relationships
Original: πρεσβῦτις
Category: Household Ethics
NEW term. Same conflation caution as ‘homem idoso.’ Titus 2:3.
Reverent
Approved rendering: reverente / digna de reverência
Transliteration: hieroprepēs
Doctrine: Household Ethics and Family Relationships
Rejected alternatives: sacerdotal (risco de implicar ofício clerical literal)
Original: ἱεροπρεπής
Category: Household Ethics
NEW term. Lit. ‘befitting a sacred function.’ Do not render with a root shared with ‘sacerdote/sacerdotal,’ which would blur the letter’s clear distinction between the qualified male elder-overseer office (1:5-9) and general mature-believer conduct. Titus 2:3.
Household Virtue List Women
Approved rendering: amar o marido, amar os filhos, pura, cuidadosa do lar, boa
Transliteration: philandros, philoteknos, hagnos, oikouros, agathos
Doctrine: Household Ethics and Family Relationships
Original: φίλανδρος, φιλότεκνος, ἁγνός, οἰκουρός, ἀγαθός
Category: Household Ethics
NEW term cluster. Doctrinal core (purity, love, diligence) is stable; contemporary Brazilian family diversity (divorce, common-law unions, working mothers) requires pastoral nuance in application without altering the text’s plain sense. Titus 2:4-5.
Word Of God Not Reviled
Approved rendering: para que a palavra de Deus não seja difamada
Transliteration: hina mē ho logos tou theou blasphēmētai
Doctrine: Christian Witness Before Outsiders
Original: ἵνα μὴ ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ βλασφημῆται
Category: Christian Witness
NEW term. The missional motivation undergirding all household instruction in Titus 2; must be preserved so household codes are not taught as ends in themselves. Titus 2:5.
Master Human
Approved rendering: senhor (minúsculo)
Transliteration: despotēs
Doctrine: Submission to Authority
Original: δεσπότης
Category: Submission to Authority
NEW term. Lower-case ‘senhor’ MANDATORY for a human master, distinct from the capitalized baseline ‘Senhor’ reserved exclusively for Christ’s exclusive lordship (Romans 10:9). Capitalization discipline flagged as an automated Phase 2 QA rule. Titus 2:9.
Good Faith Fidelity
Approved rendering: mostrando toda boa fidelidade
Transliteration: pistin pasan endeiknymenous agathēn
Doctrine: Submission to Authority
Original: πίστιν πᾶσαν ἐνδεικνυμένους ἀγαθήν
Category: Submission to Authority
NEW term using πίστις in the sense of trustworthiness/fidelity rather than saving faith — a genuine semantic-range distinction to flag for reviewers. Titus 2:10.
Obey
Approved rendering: obedecer
Transliteration: peitharcheō
Doctrine: Submission to Authority
Original: πειθαρχέω
Category: Submission to Authority
NEW term. Standard rendering; risk inherited primarily from the surrounding submission doctrine cluster. Titus 3:1.
Kindness
Approved rendering: bondade
Transliteration: chrēstotēs
Doctrine: Mercy and Kindness of God
Original: χρηστότης
Category: Salvation
NEW term. Standard rendering, paired closely with φιλανθρωπία in the same verse. Titus 3:4.
Mercy
Approved rendering: misericórdia
Transliteration: eleos
Doctrine: Mercy and Kindness of God
Original: ἔλεος
Category: Salvation
NEW term. Conceptually adjacent to the baseline’s ‘graça’; keep the two terms distinguishable where both occur in the same passage (3:5-7). Titus 3:5.
Renewal
Approved rendering: renovação
Transliteration: anakainōsis
Doctrine: Regeneration by the Holy Spirit
Original: ἀνακαίνωσις
Category: Regeneration
NEW term. Conceptually adjacent to the baseline’s ‘santificação’; the Spirit’s ongoing renewing work following the once-for-all regenerating work. Titus 3:5.
Poured Out
Approved rendering: derramou
Transliteration: exécheen
Doctrine: Regeneration by the Holy Spirit
Original: ἐξέχεεν
Category: God
NEW term. Echoes Joel 2/Acts 2 Pentecost language; reinforces the Spirit’s personal, purposive self-giving, must not be flattened into an impersonal force diffusing through the cosmos. Titus 3:6.
Heir
Approved rendering: herdeiro
Transliteration: klēronomos
Doctrine: Adoption and Inheritance
Original: κληρονόμος
Category: Adoption
NEW term. Should be taught alongside the baseline’s adoption doctrine note on full, non-provisional inheritance rights. Titus 3:7; also 1:2 conceptually via ‘esperança da vida eterna.‘
Trustworthy Saying
Approved rendering: Fiel é esta palavra
Transliteration: pistos ho logos
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
Original: πιστὸς ὁ λόγος
Category: Sound Doctrine
NEW fixed formula for this Language Package (no pre-existing Portuguese liturgical equivalent). A repeated Pastoral-Epistle marker of an authoritative, memorable doctrinal summary. Must render identically at every occurrence across Pastoral Epistle documents in this Language Package for cross-curriculum consistency, parallel to the baseline’s Romans 1:16-17 rule. Titus 3:8.
Foolish Controversies
Approved rendering: questões tolas
Transliteration: mōrai zētēseis
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
Original: μωραὶ ζητήσεις
Category: Church Discipline
NEW term. Titus 3:9.
Quarrels About Law
Approved rendering: contendas acerca da lei
Transliteration: machai nomikai
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
Original: μάχαι νομικαί
Category: Church Discipline
NEW term sharing its root with the baseline’s ‘lei.’ Titus 3:9.
Low Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: apóstolo
Transliteration: apostolos
Doctrine: Apostleship
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Ministry/Apostleship
Inherited from Romans package. Titus 1:1 opening self-designation; stable, unambiguous.
Prophet
Approved rendering: profeta
Transliteration: prophētēs
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: médium (channeler of spirit messages)
Original: προφήτης
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Titus 1:12 uses the term loosely of the Cretan poet Epimenides, a distinct non-biblical usage; do not confuse with a Kardecist medium in either usage.
Exhort
Approved rendering: exortar
Transliteration: parakaleō
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Titus 1:9, 2:15.
Servant Of God
Approved rendering: servo de Deus
Transliteration: doulos theou
Doctrine: Apostleship
Original: δοῦλος θεοῦ
Category: Ministry/Apostleship
NEW term. Term of honor denoting complete ownership and obligation to God, not degradation. Titus 1:1.
God Who Cannot Lie
Approved rendering: Deus, que não mente
Transliteration: apseudēs theos
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Original: ἀψευδὴς θεός
Category: God
NEW term. Grounds the certainty of God’s promise (1:2). Useful contrast point against Kardecist and Umbanda claims of ongoing, sometimes contradictory revelation through mediums.
False Teachers Vocabulary
Approved rendering: insubordinados, palradores vãos, enganadores da mente
Transliteration: anypotaktoi, mataiologoi, phrenapatai
Doctrine: Sound Doctrine and Good Works
Original: ἀνυπότακτοι, ματαιολόγοι, φρεναπάται
Category: Sound Doctrine
NEW term cluster. Standard descriptive vocabulary, low ambiguity. Titus 1:10.
Example Pattern
Approved rendering: exemplo
Transliteration: typos
Doctrine: Grace That Trains for Godly Living
Original: τύπος
Category: Sanctification
NEW term. Applied to Titus himself as a pattern of godly conduct. Titus 2:7.
Genealogies
Approved rendering: genealogias
Transliteration: genealogiai
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
Original: γενεαλογίαι
Category: Church Discipline
NEW term. Refers to speculative genealogical disputes, not the biblical genealogies of Scripture itself; teaching note recommended to prevent confusion. Titus 3:9.
Admonition
Approved rendering: admoestação
Transliteration: nouthesia
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
Original: νουθεσία
Category: Church Discipline
NEW term. The graduated first step before separating from a divisive person. Titus 3:10.
Self Condemned
Approved rendering: autocondenado
Transliteration: autokatakritos
Doctrine: Avoiding Divisive Controversies
Original: αὐτοκατάκριτος
Category: Church Discipline
NEW term. Shares root with the baseline’s ‘pecado’ cluster via ἁμαρτάνει in the same verse. Titus 3:11.
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