Passage

Romans 5

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Unmerited favor, not a blessing earned through correct ritual observance toward Mwari or the ancestors.

  ROM.5.2, ROM.5.20-21

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  Well-established Shona Bible term for unmerited favor.

  ROM.5.2, ROM.5.20-21

• Doctrine

  Grace and Peace

  Relational peace with God through justification, not merely a settled household or the absence of ancestral displeasure.

  ROM.5.1

• Doctrine

  Humanity's Sinfulness

  Moral transgression before a personal God; distinguish from ritual impurity or an offense against ancestral spirits requiring appeasement.

  ROM.5.12

• Glossary Term

  Imputed Righteousness

  Righteousness credited by faith (Romans 4:3), not earned; must not be rendered as moral achievement or ritual merit accumulated toward Mwari or the ancestors.

  ROM.5.1

• Glossary Term

  Justification

  Literally 'to be declared righteous.' Must be kept distinct from a general sense of moral improvement; this is a forensic, declared status.

  ROM.5.1

• Doctrine

  Justification by Faith

  A forensic declaration of right standing, credited by faith, not earned through moral conduct or ritual correctness.

  ROM.5.1

• Glossary Term

  Peace

  Relational peace with God through justification, not merely a settled household or the absence of ancestral displeasure.

  ROM.5.1

• Glossary Term

  Sin

  Moral transgression before a personal God; distinguish from ritual impurity or an offense against ancestral spirits requiring appeasement rites.

  ROM.5.12