Linguistic Gap Analysis

Spanish has settled, single-word or short-phrase equivalents for nearly every Romans concept, which is unusual for this pipeline. The gaps that remain are doctrinal-clarity gaps rather than vocabulary gaps.

Terms requiring compound phrases or explicit qualification

• Imputed righteousness (justicia imputada — “credited righteousness”): must be distinguished from justicia infundida (“infused righteousness”), a distinction with no single-word solution; the compound phrase plus a teaching note is required every time.
• Called to be saints (llamados a ser santos): “santos” alone risks the canonized-saint reading; the full phrase with an explanatory note is required in Romans 1:7 rather than the bare noun.
• Obedience of faith (obediencia de la fe): must resist collapsing into “obediencia religiosa” (compliance with ecclesial precepts), which is the default sense of religious obedience in Catholic-majority culture.

Terms where Spanish’s existing vocabulary is an asset, not a gap

• Evangelio, salvación, gracia, resurrección: all have long-established, doctrinally serviceable Spanish renderings shared across Catholic and Protestant Bibles — unlike Hindi or Romanian, this Language Package is not inventing terminology, only clarifying it.
• Mesías, Cristo: transliterated/established terms with no live rival rendering.

Gap-filling strategy

Where Spanish vocabulary is already settled, this Language Package’s role is to attach doctrinal notes that disambiguate historically contested terms (justification, salvation, sainthood, intercession) rather than to propose new wording. Consistency of the accompanying note matters as much as consistency of the term itself.