Passage

Romans 13

• Glossary Term

  Justification

  Compound phrase ('to be counted/reckoned as righteous') is the established Union Version rendering and required in full; no single Swahili word captures the forensic, declarative sense.

  ROM.13.11

• Glossary Term

  Righteousness

  haki is the established term but is also the everyday word for 'justice' and 'a right' (haki za binadamu, 'human rights'), a broader civic sense than Romans' theological sense of right standing before God received by faith.

  ROM.13.11

• Doctrine

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: Islamic soteriology has no atonement/substitutionary framework, understanding entry to paradise as Allah's mercy weighed against deeds; readers with Islamic exposure may default to a merit-weighing model unless Romans' basis for salvation in Christ's finished work (10:9-10) is stated explicitly.

  ROM.13.11

• Glossary Term

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: wokovu is the correct and only viable Union Version term.

  ROM.13.11