Passage
Romans 15
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Doctrine
Christ-Centered Ministry
Ministry done in Christ's name and power, for his glory, not generic humanitarian relief work divorced from the gospel, in a context where international aid work is common and could otherwise be conflated with gospel ministry.
ROM.15.17-21
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Doctrine
Christian Fellowship
Shared participation in Christ, not clan-bounded brotherhood (walaaltinimo) that would otherwise implicitly exclude believers from other clans.
ROM.15.24
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Glossary Term
Church
Kiniisadda is the established, unambiguous Somali word for the Christian church, distinct from masjid (mosque) and its associated congregational structures.
ROM.15.26
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Doctrine
Church as God's People
New covenant community that gathers believers across clan lines, a genuinely countercultural model in a society organized so thoroughly around qabiil.
ROM.15.26
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Glossary Term
Covenant
Axdiga (also used for Axdiga Hore/Axdiga Cusub, Old/New Testament) is the established relational-covenant term.
ROM.15.12
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Glossary Term
David
Established Somali Bible proper name, recognizable from the Qur'anic Daa'uud, though the Qur'an presents him as a prophet-king without the messianic covenant content Romans assumes.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
The Qur'anic Daa'uud is a prophet-king without the specific covenant content Romans assumes.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Evangelism
CRITICAL: Open evangelism and conversion from Islam carry extreme, sometimes lethal, risk in large parts of Somalia, particularly areas under armed extremist control; this is among the most physically dangerous doctrines in this entire pipeline to handle carelessly.
ROM.15.20
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Glossary Term
Exhort
Context-sensitive: use baryid (entreat/beseech) for pleading; dhiirigelin (embolden/encourage) for building up.
ROM.15.2
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Glossary Term
Fellowship
Shared participation in Christ.
ROM.15.24
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear historical fulfillment culminating in Christ contrasts with a pattern of successive, largely self-contained prophets each restating the same core message; Romans' cumulative, converging OT argument needs explicit unpacking.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Quruumaha ('the nations,' i.e.
ROM.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Gospel
Must be distinguished from Injiilka treated purely as a disputed, allegedly corrupted book.
ROM.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Gospel
Injiilka is the established Somali term, shared with the Qur'anic name for the revelation given to Ciise, which Islamic doctrine treats as historically altered (tahriif).
ROM.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Holy
Quduus = set apart for God, morally pure; shared with the Arabic-loan divine attribute Al-Quddus.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Holy Spirit
CRITICAL: 'Ruh al-Qudus,' the same phrase, is widely explained in Islamic commentary as referring to the archangel Jibriil aiding Jesus, not a co-equal divine Person.
ROM.15.16
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Doctrine
Inspiration of Scripture
Tahriif (belief that the Bible has been textually corrupted) is widely taught.
ROM.15.4
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Prayer on behalf of others, or Christ's/the Spirit's mediating work.
ROM.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; established Somali Bible form.
ROM.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Kingdom Mission
God's reign advancing through the gospel, not a literal government (dawladda) — a fraught category in a country that has lacked a fully functioning central state for decades.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Kingdom Of God
God's sovereign reign, not a literal government.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Law
HIGH: Somali lacks a clean separate word the way some languages distinguish civil/secular law from Islamic law; sharci is used for both.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Messiah
CRITICAL: Masiixa is shared with the Qur'anic al-Masih title given to Ciise, but the Qur'an empties it of Old Testament content.
ROM.15.8-12
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
CRITICAL: The Qur'an grants Ciise the al-Masih title but strips it of the OT king-priest-savior content Paul assumes.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Mission
CRITICAL: Open evangelism and conversion from Islam carry extreme, sometimes lethal, risk in Somalia, particularly in areas under armed extremist control.
ROM.15.15-24
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Doctrine
Mission to the Nations
Framed here as the broader theme of God's plan for all nations, distinct from the specific, more acutely dangerous evangelism/proclamation activity addressed separately below.
ROM.15.15-24
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Doctrine
Mutual Edification
Building one another up in faith; no significant doctrinal risk.
ROM.15.2
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
Sufi-influenced Somali Islam practices shafeeco (intercession sought through a sheekh or wali, often at a grave during siyaaro), while a vocal Salafi-influenced current within contemporary Somali Islam rejects the same practice as shirk.
ROM.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration pointing to Christ.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Prophet
Nabi is the standard shared Islamic-Somali term, and precisely the (exclusive) category Islamic theology places Jesus into.
ROM.15.4
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Doctrine
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy, distinguished from ritual cleaning (nadiifin) and from Sufi ascetic self-purification practices.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3; conveys physical lineage and fulfillment of the Davidic covenant promise.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Separation unto God's Service
Must not be confused with Sufi ascetic withdrawal or with the ritual status of a wadaad (religious specialist) set apart by training rather than by God's direct call.
ROM.15.16
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Elevated above Medium in this Language Package because clan (qabiil) division, not ethnicity in the abstract, is the primary social fault line Somali readers will map this doctrine onto; a soft or vague rendering risks being heard as an abstract theological point rather than the direct challenge to clan hierarchy Paul intends.
ROM.15.7-12