Passage
Romans 15
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Doctrine
Christ-Centered Ministry
Ministry done in Christ's name and power, not humanitarian service divorced from the gospel.
ROM.15.17-21
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Doctrine
Christian Fellowship
Shared participation in Christ; 'gemenskap' also plainly means secular community, requiring context to keep the koinonia sense specific.
ROM.15.24
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Glossary Term
Church
HIGH RISK: Svenska kyrkan (the historic state/folk church) uses 'kyrka' institutionally; Free churches (Frikyrkor — Pentecostal, Baptist, and Missionsförbundet-descended traditions, historically important minority movements that broke from the state church over exactly this ecclesiology in the 19th-century väckelserörelsen) prefer 'församling' to signal a gathered-believers ecclesiology distinct from Svenska kyrkan's territorial parish model.
ROM.15.26
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Doctrine
Church as God's People
New covenant community, not the institutional 'kyrka' or default folkkyrka membership alone; Free church tradition's 'församling' vocabulary better captures the NT sense.
ROM.15.26
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Glossary Term
Covenant
Relational covenant bond, established biblical Swedish usage.
ROM.15.12
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Glossary Term
David
Standard proper name form across all Swedish traditions.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires OT background explanation; 'av Davids säd' is archaic and should be rendered 'ättling till David'.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Evangelism
In one of the world's most secular societies, evangelism language must be framed as respectful proclamation and witness rather than pressure.
ROM.15.20
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Glossary Term
Exhort
Context-sensitive: 'förmana' leans toward admonish/warn; use 'uppmuntra' (encourage) for the building-up sense.
ROM.15.2
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Glossary Term
Fellowship
'De heligas gemenskap' (communion of saints, from the Apostles' Creed/trosbekännelsen) is the classic phrase; 'gemenskap' is also the ordinary secular word for community, requiring context to keep the koinonia sense specific.
ROM.15.24
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear historical fulfillment (OT to NT); low OT literacy among secular readers requires explicit cross-referencing.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Carries a pejorative 'uncivilized/irreligious' secular connotation, similar to German 'Heiden' and Dutch 'heidenen'.
ROM.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Gospel
Stable term; not disputed, though Sweden's high secularization means content can no longer be assumed as common knowledge even among nominal Svenska kyrkan members.
ROM.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Gospel
Shared, stable term across Bibel 2000 and Svenska Folkbibeln.
ROM.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Holy
Set apart for God and morally pure; 'ren' alone loses the set-apart sense.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Holy Spirit
The personal third Person of the Trinity; no competing deity-concept risk in Swedish culture.
ROM.15.16
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Doctrine
Inspiration of Scripture
Distinguish God-breathed Scripture from a purely historical-critical academic reading common in Swedish university theology faculties.
ROM.15.4
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Standard liturgical term used broadly across Svenska kyrkan and Free church worship alike.
ROM.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Israel
Swedish mainstream media and public discourse have historically leaned more critical of Israeli state policy than some other Western countries; reviewers should keep biblical Israel distinct from either direction of contemporary political framing.
ROM.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Kingdom Mission
God's reign advancing through the gospel, not a political or national project.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Kingdom Of God
God's sovereign reign; distinguish from any political kingdom association.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Law
'Lag och evangelium' (law and gospel) is a cornerstone Lutheran homiletic dialectic, central to Swedish Lutheran preaching tradition just as in German.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Messiah
The Anointed One fulfilling OT promise.
ROM.15.8-12
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
The specific Jewish OT concept fulfilled exclusively in Jesus must not be flattened into a generic moral teacher, a real drift risk given widespread biblical illiteracy.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Mission
Sweden has a substantial historical missionary-sending tradition (Svenska Missionsförbundet, missionaries to Congo, China) still culturally remembered, alongside some contemporary theological self-reflection on this history.
ROM.15.15-24
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Doctrine
Mission to the Nations
Sweden's substantial historical missionary-sending tradition (Svenska Missionsförbundet) is still culturally remembered, with some contemporary theological self-reflection on this history.
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
Direct access to God in Christ's name; 'förbön' is a shared liturgical term across Svenska kyrkan and Free churches, lowering conflation risk relative to Catholic-majority countries.
ROM.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Prophet
God's spokesperson.
ROM.15.4
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Doctrine
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy; low risk of ritual-purification confusion in Swedish culture.
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
The 1917 translation's literal 'av Davids säd' is now archaic; modern 'säd' primarily denotes grain/crop or clinical seed.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Separation unto God's Service
Must not collapse into monastic withdrawal; biblical separation is devotion to God while remaining engaged in ordinary life.
ROM.15.16
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Requires careful handling given contemporary Swedish public discourse's own particular political sensitivities around Israel/Palestine, distinct in direction from Germany's but equally requiring reviewers to keep biblical categories separate from present-day political framing.
ROM.15.7-12