Passage

Romans 3

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ specifically; not generalized devotional reverence (ਸ਼ਰਧਾ) or Sufi-idiom steadfastness (ਸਿਦਕ).

  ROM.3.22-28

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  The Punjabi Bible Society's standard rendering: personal trust in Christ.

  ROM.3.22-28

• Doctrine

  Fulfillment of Prophecy

  Linear historical fulfillment (Old Testament to New Testament), not a cyclical cosmic frame drawn from either Hindu yuga cosmology or the cycle of ਆਵਾਗਵਣ.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  Non-Jewish peoples generally.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Sikh ਕਿਰਪਾ/ਨਦਰ theology is genuinely gift-oriented, unlike Hindu karma-merit, but is received through the Guru's mediation and Naam-simran rather than through faith in Christ alone; every occurrence must keep the source of grace explicitly Christ-centered.

  ROM.3.24

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  Sikh theology already has a developed grace vocabulary (ਕਿਰਪਾ/ਨਦਰ, God's gracious glance) that is genuinely gift-like, unlike Hindu karma-merit accounting — but Sikh kirpa is received through the Guru's mediation and a life of Naam-simran (meditation on the divine Name), not through faith in Christ's atoning work alone.

  ROM.3.24

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Established proper-name form.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Glossary Term

  Law

  The Mosaic law.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Prophecy

  God-inspired declaration.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Sin

  Moral transgression before a personal God, distinct from ritual impurity or accumulated bad karma.

  ROM.3.23

• Doctrine

  Unity of Jews and Gentiles

  Directly challenges caste and communal-identity hierarchy; must be translated with full theological clarity.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Doctrine

  Universal Human Accountability

  All humanity equally guilty before God undermines residual caste hierarchy and any sense that religious-community membership alone confers safety.

  ROM.3.23