Linguistic Gap Analysis: 1 Corinthians — English → Telugu

Purpose

This document executes PRD Phase 1 Step 8 for the 1 Corinthians curriculum. It extends — and never contradicts — the baseline Romans Language Package (translation_memory.json, bible_term_registry.json, doctrine_risk_registry.json, 12_ai_translation_requirements.md) and consolidates the findings of analysis/08_core_glossary.md and assets/bible_term_registry.json (1 Corinthians extension) into the specific gap-analysis deliverables required at this step:

1. A doctrine vocabulary matrix (available Telugu terms, weaknesses, recommended strategy) for each of the ten curriculum doctrines.
2. A mapping of missing vocabulary (true gaps requiring compound/paraphrase construction) versus crowded semantic neighborhoods (existing Telugu words that collide with competing religious frameworks and require deliberate “fencing”).
3. Transliteration-vs-paraphrase decisions for terms without a clean single-word Telugu equivalent.
4. A ranked list of this letter’s highest-risk ambiguities for Phase 2 routing.
5. Full-book (ch. 1–16) coverage confirmation, per the PRD mandate, including explicit notation of chapters that are doctrinally quiet relative to the ten focus doctrines.

All Telugu renderings below either reuse the baseline exactly or match analysis/08_core_glossary.md / assets/bible_term_registry.json exactly. This document does not introduce any new renderings; it explains the linguistic reasoning behind the choices already recorded there and flags where that reasoning creates residual risk for Phase 2.

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1. Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix

For each of the ten curriculum doctrines: the Telugu terms available, their linguistic/cultural weaknesses, and the recommended handling strategy.

1.1 The Resurrection of Christ and Believers

Available Telugu terms	Weaknesses	Recommended strategy
పునరుత్థానం (resurrection, baseline Critical)	None as a word choice — settled, safe term. Risk is compositional: neighboring resurrection-body vocabulary (ఆత్మసంబంధమైన శరీరం/సహజ శరీరం, అమరత్వం) can be pulled toward a moksha-adjacent “escape from the body” reading even while పునరుత్థానం itself stays correct.	Lock పునరుత్థానం (never పునర్జన్మ) per baseline. Treat 15:35-54’s body vocabulary as a single interpretive unit requiring theologian review, not term-by-term automated pass-through — a wrong compositional impression can survive even when every individual word is “correct.”
ఆత్మసంబంధమైన శరీరం / సహజ శరీరం (spiritual/natural body)	Regional ఆత్మ/పరమాత్మ dualism (individual self dissolving into universal Self) offers a false parallel structure — “spiritual body” could be misheard as “the self freed from body.”	Fence with consistent explanatory apparatus (footnotes/teaching notes) affirming continuity, physicality, and individuality of the resurrection body; never let ఆత్మ-based vocabulary stand alone without the σῶμα (శరీరం, “body”) anchor.
అమరత్వం (immortality)	Collides with amṛta/moksha-attained deathlessness achieved by release from the body.	Always pair with బాహ్య రూపాంతరం-type resurrection-transformation framing (see 15:51-54 vocabulary) rather than letting అమరత్వం stand as a free-floating abstract state.

1.2 Christian Unity versus Factionalism

Available Telugu terms	Weaknesses	Recommended strategy
చీలికలు (divisions/schisms)	Adequate; risk is understatement, not syncretism — a translator could soften to భేదాలు (“differences”), which reads as neutral diversity rather than sinful rupture.	Lock చీలికలు; explicitly reject భేదాలు per glossary.
కలహములు (strife/quarreling)	Low risk; pairs naturally with చీలికలు.	Retain paired usage as in 1:11; 3:3.
ఒకే శరీరం, అనేక అవయవాలు (one body, many members) / క్రీస్తు శరీరం (body of Christ)	No true gap; risk is denominational-vocabulary fragmentation, same category as baseline’s సంఘము lock.	Hold ecclesiological body-vocabulary consistent with the baseline church/body lock; treat as extension of the “Church as God’s People” (High) doctrine tier.

1.3 The Cross as Wisdom and Power

Available Telugu terms	Weaknesses	Recommended strategy
సిలువ (cross)	Low risk; settled Telugu Christian term.	Retain; ensure “word of the cross” (1:18) carries full message-weight, not decorative symbolism.
జ్ఞానం (wisdom)	HIGH: identical term to the central category of Advaita Vedanta’s jñāna-mārga (path of knowledge/self-realization toward moksha) — a live philosophical framework in Telugu-speaking regions, distinct from but analogous in prestige to the Tirupati/avatar collision already documented in the baseline.	Never let జ్ఞానం stand doctrine-free; every occurrence in chs. 1-3, 12 must be anchored explicitly to “God’s wisdom revealed in the crucified Christ,” not a generic path to enlightenment. This is this curriculum’s closest structural parallel to the baseline’s శరీరధారణ/అవతారం fence.
మూఢత్వం (foolishness)	Risk of flattening Paul’s deliberate irony into a plain insult.	Preserve paradox: God’s మూఢత్వం surpasses human జ్ఞానం — the two terms must be translated as a matched ironic pair within the same passage.
దేవుని సామర్థ్యం (power of God)	Reused from baseline; already fenced against శక్తి.	Extend baseline fence into 1 Cor 1-2’s “power” language and ch.12’s “workings of powers,” where శక్తి is an even stronger pull given the miraculous subject matter.

1.4 Church Discipline and Holiness

Available Telugu terms	Weaknesses	Recommended strategy
జారత్వం / వ్యభిచారం (sexual immorality)	Risk of euphemistic softening rather than syncretism.	Name plainly; no vague “అనైతికత.”
సాతానుకు అప్పగించుట (hand over to Satan)	Risk of losing redemptive intent, reading as abandonment/curse.	Always frame with “that his spirit may be saved” (5:5) co-text; never isolate the phrase.
తీర్పు (judgment)	Regional కర్మఫలం (karmic-ledger) framework offers a competing impersonal-mechanism reading of “judgment happens.”	Anchor తీర్పు to a personal God’s verdict, distinct from self-executing karma; flag wherever judgment and consequence are discussed together (chs. 3-5).
పరిశుద్ధపరచడం / పరిశుద్ధ (sanctification/holy)	Baseline-locked; denominational fragmentation risk (పరిశుద్ధ vs పవిత్ర) carries over unchanged into 1 Corinthians’ “temple of God” material (3:16-17; 6:19).	Hold the baseline lock; extend it explicitly into దేవుని ఆలయము (temple of God), which is new to this letter and shares the same holiness register.

1.5 Marriage and Singleness

Available Telugu terms	Weaknesses	Recommended strategy
వివాహం (marriage), కన్య/అవివాహితులు (virgin/unmarried)	Low linguistic risk; Telugu has full vocabulary for marital states.	Ensure singleness (7:8, 25-38) is rendered as commended, not defective — a register risk more than a vocabulary gap, since Telugu extended-family culture places strong social value on marriage.
దాసుడు / స్వతంత్రుడు (slave/free, used in ch.7’s calling argument)	దాసుడు carries a positive cross-religious devotional sense (“God’s servant”) shared by Hindu bhakti vocabulary — this actually lowers risk of offense but requires context to keep the social-status argument (not marital) clear.	Keep contextual markers distinguishing the social-status discussion (7:20-24) from any devotional-service reading.
ఏక శరీరము (one flesh)	Low risk; established marital-union image from Genesis.	Retain; no gap.

1.6 Christian Liberty and Idol Meat

Available Telugu terms	Weaknesses	Recommended strategy
విగ్రహం (idol)	CRITICAL: names the exact object of daily, active mūrti-pūjā devotion across Andhra Pradesh/Telangana (Tirupati among the world’s most-visited pilgrimage sites). This is the single highest live syncretism risk in the entire 1 Corinthians curriculum — higher than any single term in the Romans baseline, because the referent itself (a devotional image) remains a currently practiced, honored object in the surrounding culture, unlike e.g. avatar theology which is a belief-framework rather than a daily concrete practice.	Human theologian review for every occurrence, no exceptions (chs. 8, 10, 12). Never soften Paul’s “an idol is nothing” (8:4) into an implied disrespect toward the people who worship there; the text’s own nuance (idols are nothing, but participation is spiritually dangerous) must be carried intact, neither trivialized nor weaponized.
విగ్రహాలకు అర్పించిన పదార్థములు (food offered to idols)	ప్రసాదం is the obvious short, natural-sounding Telugu word any first-draft translator or LLM would reach for — and it is FORBIDDEN, since ప్రసాదం (famously, Tirupati’s laddu prasadam) is a positively blessed, returned devotional gift, the semantic opposite of Paul’s cautionary category.	Absolute forbidden substitution, same severity tier as the baseline’s మోక్షం/ముక్తి rule. Validation pass must scan every ch. 8/10 segment for accidental ప్రసాదం insertion.
స్వాతంత్ర్యం / అధికారం (liberty/rights)	No syncretism risk; risk is under-translation — losing the voluntary self-limitation-for-love argument (8:9-13; 10:23-24) if rendered as unqualified freedom.	Always pair liberty vocabulary with its love-limited corollary within the same teaching unit.

1.7 The Lord’s Supper

Available Telugu terms	Weaknesses	Recommended strategy
ప్రభువు రాత్రి భోజనం (Lord’s Supper)	Denominational liturgical variance across Telugu Baptist, Lutheran, CSI, and Catholic traditions (parallel to the baseline’s holy/church locks) — some traditions use more formal or more literal-translation liturgical phrasing.	Lock ప్రభువు రాత్రి భోజనం throughout, per glossary; do not silently adopt a denomination-specific liturgical alternate.
శరీరం / రక్తం (body/blood)	CRITICAL: risk runs in two directions simultaneously — (a) collapse into a purely symbolic reading that would flatten the doctrine for traditions holding a stronger sacramental view, and (b) accidental drift toward ప్రసాదం-adjacent “consecrated-and-returned offering” framing given the general regional category of sanctified food.	Preserve sacrificial/covenantal weight without resolving the transubstantiation-vs-memorial debate through translation choice; flag every occurrence for theologian review.
శరీరాన్ని వివేచించుట (discerning the body, 11:29)	Genuine interpretive crux (elements vs. gathered church) — not a vocabulary gap but a scope-of-referent ambiguity.	Render so both valid readings remain available in the Telugu wording; do not disambiguate via translation.

1.8 Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ

Available Telugu terms	Weaknesses	Recommended strategy
ఆత్మీయ వరములు (spiritual gifts, baseline)	Reused cleanly.	No new risk.
సామర్థ్య కార్యములు (workings of miracles/powers)	HIGH: the single strongest pull toward the forbidden శక్తి substitution in the entire letter, since ch. 12’s subject matter (miracles, healings, powers) is exactly the register where శక్తి (associated with Andhra’s prominent Shakta tradition, e.g. Kanaka Durgamma at Vijayawada) would otherwise feel like the “natural” Telugu word.	Explicit automated + theologian double-check on every ch.12 segment for శక్తి leakage; this is a named escalation item, not a general reminder.
భాషలు / భాషాంతరీకరణ (tongues/interpretation)	Regional folk-religious ecstatic/possession speech (some village-goddess ritual contexts) provides a competing phenomenological category.	Frame tongues consistently as Spirit-given and orderly (per ch.14’s regulation), never as uncontrolled trance phenomenon.
ఆత్మల వివేచన (discerning of spirits)	Competing regional category: bhūta-vidya (folk spirit-testing/exorcism practice).	Anchor explicitly to Holy-Spirit-given discernment within the church, not folk exorcism technique.
క్రీస్తు శరీరం / ఒకే శరీరం, అనేక అవయవాలు (body of Christ / one body many members)	Same fragmentation risk noted under 1.2; no true gap.	Hold consistent with sanghamu/church lock.

1.9 Love as the Greater Way

Available Telugu terms	Weaknesses	Recommended strategy
ప్రేమ (agapē love)	HIGH: Telugu popular culture, above all cinema, overwhelmingly codes ప్రేమ as romantic love. This is the widest and most culturally loud “crowded neighborhood” collision in the entire letter — arguably louder than the idol-vocabulary collision because it operates through everyday secular media exposure rather than a specific religious practice.	Chapter 13 requires full-passage (not merely term-by-term) theologian review. Each of the fifteen descriptive clauses (13:4-7) should be checked individually to ensure none reads as romantic-relationship advice; framing language (“this is not that kind of love”) may be needed in learner-facing teaching notes even though it will not appear in the translated Scripture text itself.
అతిశయపడుట (boasting), tied to 13:3-4	Shares the baseline’s grace-vs-merit collision risk.	Keep consistent with baseline’s already-established handling of merit/boasting language.

1.10 Order in Worship

Available Telugu terms	Weaknesses	Recommended strategy
శిరస్సు (head/headship, 11:3)	Genuine semantic-range ambiguity in the source (authority-over vs. source-of) reproduced, not created, by the Telugu word — this is an interpretive-sensitivity risk, not a syncretism risk.	Render literally; do not resolve the debate through word choice; route to theologian review for framing guidance in surrounding teaching material.
ముసుగు (head covering/veil, 11:4-15)	Telugu culture’s own sari-pallu head-covering customs carry distinct, unrelated social meanings (modesty, marital status signaling) that could be imported onto Paul’s argument.	Keep the term but flag for a short cultural-context note distinguishing Corinthian custom from Telugu custom.
మౌనంగా ఉండవలెను (women keep silence, 14:34-35)	Same interpretive-sensitivity category as శిరస్సు; scope of the instruction (this local situation vs. universal norm) is contested.	Render literally without resolving scope; explicit theologian-review flag, same treatment as 11:2-16.
మర్యాదగా, క్రమముగా (decently and in order)	Low risk; clear governing principle.	No fencing needed.

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2. Missing Vocabulary vs. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods

2.1 True Gaps (no adequate single Telugu term; compound/paraphrase required)

These are concepts for which Telugu has no pre-existing single word carrying the needed sense, requiring the compound constructions already recorded in the glossary:

Concept	Gap	Compound solution
Justification (as distinct from mere forgiveness)	No single Telugu word separates “declared righteous” from “forgiven”	నీతిమంతులుగా తీర్చడం (baseline, reused)
Discerning the body	No single verb captures “recognize the sacred significance of”	శరీరాన్ని వివేచించుట (compound)
Last Adam / first Adam	No existing Telugu theological shorthand for representative headship	కడపటి ఆదాము / మొదటి మనుష్యుడైన ఆదాము (full descriptive phrase)
Spiritual body / natural body	No pre-existing Telugu pair distinguishing two modes of embodiment (rather than embodied-vs-disembodied)	ఆత్మసంబంధమైన శరీరం / సహజ శరీరం (compound, built to resist the disembodiment misreading)
Word of wisdom / word of knowledge	No existing single term for a specific enumerated Spirit-gift of speech	జ్ఞాన వాక్కు / విజ్ఞాన వాక్కు (compounds on the locked wisdom/knowledge pair)
Untimely born (15:8)	No existing theological idiom for Paul’s self-deprecating birth-metaphor	అకాలమున జన్మించినవానివలె (descriptive phrase)
Hand over to Satan (5:5)	No existing single verb for formal, redemptive church-discipline exclusion	సాతానుకు అప్పగించుట (compound)
Table of demons / Lord’s table (10:21)	No existing idiom contrasting two covenantal meal-loyalties	ప్రభువు బల్లపీట / దయ్యముల బల్లపీట (parallel compounds)

Strategy for all true gaps: compound Telugu phrases are preferred over inventing single neologisms, consistent with the baseline’s general preference (see Romans’ నీతిమంతులుగా తీర్చడం, దావీదు వంశములో పుట్టినవాడు). New coinages should be avoided even where they might seem more “precise” — established compounding patterns read as trustworthy to the target audience; novel single words would read as foreign or invented.

2.2 Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods (existing Telugu terms shared with competing frameworks; require deliberate fencing)

Ranked by cultural “liveness” (how actively and visibly the competing framework operates in contemporary Telugu-speaking society):

1. విగ్రహం family (idol/idolatry/idol-food) — collides with daily, active mūrti-pūjā practice (Tirupati and thousands of local temples). Highest-liveness collision in the letter.
2. ప్రేమ (love) — collides with the daily, active romantic-love register of Telugu cinema and popular media; arguably even more pervasive in everyday exposure than temple worship, though lower in specifically religious stakes.
3. జ్ఞానం (wisdom) — collides with the actively taught Advaita Vedanta jñāna-mārga framework in regional religious philosophy/education, though less part of daily lay practice than idol worship or cinema.
4. శక్తి (power, forbidden substitution) — collides with the actively worshipped Shakta goddess-power tradition (Kanaka Durgamma, Vijayawada); the risk is a wrong-word substitution rather than a wrong concept behind a shared word, since సామర్థ్యం is available and correct.
5. తీర్పు (judgment) / కర్మఫలం (karma) proximity — collides with widely-held folk karma-fatalism, a background assumption more than an active cultic practice.
6. అమరత్వం (immortality) / ఆత్మ-పరమాత్మ dissolution imagery — collides with a philosophical/eschatological framework taught and discussed, though rarely a matter of daily ritual practice for most speakers.
7. దయ్యములు (demons) / bhūta-vidya folk spirit-belief — a real but comparatively localized and less universally shared collision (regional/village-specific rather than pan-Telugu).
8. దాసుడు (slave/servant) — a mild, low-stakes collision; shared positive devotional sense actually reduces risk rather than increasing it, but still needs contextual disambiguation.

Fencing method used throughout: for every crowded-neighborhood term, the glossary and registry entries require the term to always appear co-located with an explicit doctrinal anchor (e.g., జ్ఞానం must always be tied textually to “God’s wisdom in the cross”; విగ్రహం must always sit within Paul’s own theological frame that “an idol is nothing” yet participation is dangerous). Fencing is achieved through required co-text, not through inventing a different, unfamiliar word — consistent with the baseline’s own approach to గ్రేస్/కృప and సిలువ.

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3. Transliteration vs. Paraphrase Decisions

Term	Decision	Rationale
Maranatha (16:22)	Transliterate: మరానాతా	Preserve the untranslated Aramaic liturgical formula, parallel to the baseline’s అబ్బా treatment; a Telugu paraphrase (“Our Lord, come”) would lose the recognized liturgical marker.
Passover (5:7, typological)	Transliterate: పస్కా	No local festival provides an equivalent without misleading cultural association (e.g., a regional harvest festival would import unrelated meaning); requires OT narrative background regardless, so transliteration plus teaching-note context is preferred over a descriptive paraphrase.
Anathema (16:22)	Retain descriptive Telugu rendering: శపింపబడును (rather than transliterating “అనాతెమా”)	Unlike Maranatha, this term is not primarily valued for its liturgical sound-form; its severity must be immediately intelligible to the reader, so the established descriptive Telugu verb form is preferred over a transliteration that would read as an unexplained loanword.
Cephas (1:12; 3:22; 9:5; 15:5)	Transliterate: కేఫా (keep distinct from పేతురు)	Paul’s own text deliberately alternates names; collapsing to one Telugu form would erase a textual feature and create false harmonization across passages.
Idol-related vocabulary (విగ్రహం, విగ్రహారాధన)	Paraphrase/existing-word, not transliteration	No Greek transliteration option exists or would help; the risk is cultural collision, not a lack of vocabulary, so fencing (see §2.2) is the correct tool, not transliteration.
Christ (Χριστός)	Established Telugu form: క్రీస్తు (transliteration, already fully naturalized)	Functionally distinct from మెస్సీయ (reserved for explicit OT-fulfillment sense); this is a settled naturalized transliteration, not a live decision point, but is recorded here for completeness given its Critical risk tier.
Word of wisdom / word of knowledge; workings of miracles/powers; discerning of spirits	Paraphrase (compound descriptive phrases), not transliteration	These are technical enumerated categories (12:8-10) best rendered by compounding already-locked Telugu roots (జ్ఞానం/విజ్ఞానం/సామర్థ్యం) rather than any Greek-derived loanword, which would be opaque to the target reading-level audience.
Holy kiss (16:20)	Paraphrase, not transliteration or literal gesture-substitution: పరిశుద్ధమైన అభివందనం	Kissing is not a customary Telugu greeting; a literal ముద్దు rendering would read as culturally jarring, while transliteration is meaningless for a common-noun greeting phrase. Retain literal text; supply cultural-adaptation teaching note only, not a substituted local gesture within the translated Scripture itself.

General rule applied: transliteration is reserved for (a) proper names with an established Telugu Bible form, and (b) fixed liturgical/creedal formulas whose sound-form itself carries recognized devotional weight (Abba, Maranatha, Hallelujah, Amen). All other technical theological vocabulary uses existing Telugu words or compounds, fenced against competing frameworks rather than escaped via transliteration — consistent with the baseline’s own pattern (e.g. రక్షణ, పునరుత్థానం, శరీరధారణ are all existing/compounded Telugu words, not transliterations).

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4. Ranked List of Highest-Risk Ambiguities

Ranked by combined severity (doctrinal centrality × collision liveness × likelihood of an LLM or inexperienced translator defaulting to the wrong choice):

1. విగ్రహాలకు అర్పించిన పదార్థములు vs. ప్రసాదం (food offered to idols, chs. 8, 10). Highest rank: a single wrong-word substitution would invert Paul’s meaning from warning to endorsement, and ప్రసాదం is the linguistically “obvious” first-draft word. Forbidden-substitution severity equal to the baseline’s మోక్షం/ముక్తి rule.
2. ప్రేమ in chapter 13 read as romantic love. Not a single wrong-word risk but a whole-register risk — every one of the fifteen descriptive clauses in 13:4-7 is independently vulnerable to a romantic-relationship-advice misreading given cinema-driven cultural association. Requires full-passage theologian review.
3. విగ్రహం/విగ్రహారాధన (idol/idolatry) trivialization or over-correction (chs. 8, 10, 12). Risk of either treating idols too lightly (undermining Paul’s warning) or treating idol-worshippers too disrespectfully (importing polemic tone not present in Paul’s own “an idol is nothing, but…” nuance).
4. సామర్థ్య కార్యములు vs. శక్తి leakage (ch. 12). The forbidden substitution most likely to slip through given the passage’s own miraculous subject matter actively inviting the word శక్తి.
5. ఆత్మసంబంధమైన శరీరం / సహజ శరీరం read as disembodiment (15:35-54). A subtly wrong compositional impression (even with each individual word “correct”) could quietly import a moksha-adjacent escape-from-body theology contrary to Paul’s explicit bodily-transformation argument.
6. జ్ఞానం read as jñāna-mārga self-realization (chs. 1-3, 12). Requires constant textual anchoring to the cross; the risk is cumulative erosion across many occurrences rather than one dramatic single-verse failure.
7. శిరస్సు (head/headship, 11:3) and మౌనంగా ఉండవలెను (14:34-35) resolving the interpretive debate via translation choice. Risk is pastoral/interpretive rather than syncretistic, but the consequence (silently taking an exegetical side) is high-stakes for a curriculum meant to remain usable across denominational traditions.
8. శరీరం / రక్తం and శరీరాన్ని వివేచించుట (11:23-29) flattening sacramental theology or drifting toward prasadam-adjacent framing. Two-directional risk requiring careful, non-resolving language.
9. అమరత్వం (immortality, 15:53-54) read through amṛta/moksha lens. Lower-frequency than #5 but same underlying collision family.
10. తీర్పు (judgment, chs. 3-5) read through కర్మఫలం (karma) lens. Background-assumption risk rather than an acute mistranslation risk; most dangerous in loosely-supervised paraphrase, not in careful direct rendering.
11. మెస్సీయ vs. క్రీస్తు functional-distinction drift. Lower risk given both terms are individually settled, but the curriculum’s functional distinction (OT-fulfillment sense vs. proper-name/title use) could blur without deliberate attention across 16 chapters of near-constant క్రీస్తు usage.
12. దాసుడు (slave/servant, 7:21-23; 9:19) social-status vs. devotional-service conflation. Lowest-ranked Critical/High item; mild risk, easily resolved by context, included for completeness.

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5. Full-Book Coverage Confirmation (Chapters 1–16)

Per the PRD’s full-book coverage mandate, every chapter of 1 Corinthians has been reviewed for load-bearing vocabulary and doctrinal risk. Chapters not carrying primary new terminology are explicitly confirmed as reviewed below rather than silently omitted.

• Ch. 1 — Load-bearing: గోస్పెల్/సువార్త, గ్రేస్/కృప, చీలికలు, జ్ఞానం, మూఢత్వం, సిలువ, సూచన, గ్రీకులు, అభ్యంతరం, దేవుని ఏర్పాటు, విమోచన, పరిశుద్ధులు. Anchors Christian Unity and Cross as Wisdom/Power doctrines.
• Ch. 2 — Load-bearing: రహస్యం, సహజ మనుష్యుడు, ఆత్మసంబంధి/ఆత్మీయ, క్రీస్తు మనస్సు, దేవుని సామర్థ్యం. Anchors Cross as Wisdom and Power.
• Ch. 3 — Load-bearing: శరీరసంబంధి, పునాది, దేవుని ఆలయము, తీర్పు, చీలికలు/కలహములు continued. Anchors Unity/Factionalism and Church Discipline/Holiness (temple imagery).
• Ch. 4 — Load-bearing: నిర్వాహకుడు, తీర్పు, దేవుని రాజ్యం, అతిశయపడుట. Reviewed; secondary contributor, no new Critical terms.
• Ch. 5 — Load-bearing: జారత్వం/వ్యభిచారం, సాతానుకు అప్పగించుట, సాతాను, పులిసిన పిండి, పస్కా, అతిశయపడుట. Core chapter for Church Discipline and Holiness.
• Ch. 6 — Load-bearing: నీతిమంతులుగా తీర్చడం, పరిశుద్ధపరచడం, ఏక శరీరము, దేవుని ఆలయము (body), విమోచన (bought with a price), దేవుని రాజ్యం. Reviewed; supports Discipline/Holiness and Marriage doctrines.
• Ch. 7 — Load-bearing: వివాహం, కన్య/అవివాహితులు, సున్నతి, దాసుడు/స్వతంత్రుడు, పిలుపు/పిలువబడిన (calling into existing state). Core chapter for Marriage and Singleness.
• Ch. 8 — Load-bearing: విగ్రహం, విగ్రహాలకు అర్పించిన పదార్థములు, మనస్సాక్షి, స్వాతంత్ర్యం/అధికారం, అభ్యంతరం, గ్రీకులు, అన్యజనులు. Core chapter for Christian Liberty and Idol Meat.
• Ch. 9 — Load-bearing: ఆత్మనిగ్రహం, అక్షయమైన కిరీటం, స్వాతంత్ర్యం/అధికారం, దాసుడు, అతిశయపడుట, ధర్మశాస్త్రము, సువార్త. Reviewed; supports Liberty doctrine and ministry-motive teaching.
• Ch. 10 — Load-bearing: దృష్టాంతం, బాప్తిస్మము, ఇశ్రాయేలు, విగ్రహారాధన, దయ్యములు, ప్రభువు బల్లపీట/దయ్యముల బల్లపీట, అభ్యంతరం, స్వాతంత్ర్యం. Core chapter for Christian Liberty and Idol Meat; sets up Lord’s Supper doctrine.
• Ch. 11 — Load-bearing: శిరస్సు, ముసుగు, ప్రభువు రాత్రి భోజనం, శరీరం/రక్తం, కొత్త నిబంధన, జ్ఞాపకార్థం, అయోగ్యంగా, శరీరాన్ని వివేచించుట, చీలికలు, మహిమ, గ్లోరీ (glory-headship). Core chapter for Lord’s Supper and Order in Worship.
• Ch. 12 — Load-bearing: ఆత్మీయ వరములు, జ్ఞాన వాక్కు/విజ్ఞాన వాక్కు, స్వస్థతల వరములు, సామర్థ్య కార్యములు, ఆత్మల వివేచన, భాషలు/భాషాంతరీకరణ, ఒకే శరీరం అనేక అవయవాలు, క్రీస్తు శరీరం, ప్రభువు (12:3 confession). Core chapter for Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ; contains the Romans-10:9-parity confession requirement.
• Ch. 13 — Load-bearing: ప్రేమ, అతిశయపడుట, విజ్ఞానం, ప్రవచనం (background). Core chapter for Love as the Greater Way — highest-priority full-passage review flag in this letter.
• Ch. 14 — Load-bearing: భాషలు/భాషాంతరీకరణ (regulated use), ప్రవచనం, మర్యాదగా క్రమముగా, మౌనంగా ఉండవలెను, శాంతి, కృతజ్ఞతాస్తుతి. Core chapter for Order in Worship.
• Ch. 15 — Load-bearing: full resurrection vocabulary set (పునరుత్థానం, అందుకొనుట/అప్పగించుట, కనబడెను, లేఖనములు, ప్రకటించుట, ప్రథమఫలం, కడపటి ఆదాము/మొదటి మనుష్యుడైన ఆదాము, ఆత్మసంబంధమైన శరీరం/సహజ శరీరం, అక్షయమైన/క్షయమైన, మర్త్యమైన/అమరత్వం, మరణపు కొండి, విజయం, బాకా, అకాలమున జన్మించినవానివలె, పండ్రెండుమంది, యాకోబు, కేఫా/పేతురు). This is the core passage chapter and the doctrinal anchor of the entire curriculum; every term above is treated at Critical/High tier as appropriate.
• Ch. 16 — Load-bearing: విరాళము సేకరణ, మరానాతా, పరిశుద్ధమైన అభివందనం, శపింపబడును, సహోదరులు. Reviewed; closing-chapter fellowship and warning vocabulary, lower doctrinal density than chs. 1, 5, 8-15 but explicitly checked, not omitted.

No chapter of 1 Corinthians has been silently skipped; chapters 4, 6, 9, and 16 carry comparatively lighter new-vocabulary loads relative to the ten focus doctrines but are confirmed reviewed above.

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6. Summary Recommendations for Phase 2

1. Treat the idol-vocabulary family (§2.2 #1) and the love-vocabulary collision (§2.2 #2) as the two highest-priority fencing operations in the entire curriculum — higher priority than any single item inherited from the Romans baseline, because both involve live, daily, non-religious-specialist cultural exposure (temple practice and cinema, respectively) rather than a background theological framework.
2. Apply the same “required co-text anchor” fencing method used for జ్ఞానం and విగ్రహం to every other crowded-neighborhood term identified in §2.2, rather than treating each as an isolated one-off.
3. Build automated validation checks specifically for the ప్రసాదం and శక్తి forbidden substitutions in chapters 8, 10, and 12, given these are the terms most likely to be introduced by a generically-trained translation process unaware of this Language Package’s constraints.
4. Route chapter 13 (love) and chapters 11:2-16 / 14:34-35 (gender-order passages) for full-passage, not merely term-level, theologian review — consistent with the treatment already flagged in analysis/08_core_glossary.md.
5. Carry all findings here forward unchanged into the doctrine risk registry extension (Step 2) and the AI translation requirements update (Step 12), preserving every baseline lock and forbidden substitution without exception.

This document feeds Phase 1 Step 2 (doctrine risk registry extension for 1 Corinthians) and must be read alongside analysis/08_core_glossary.md and the updated assets/bible_term_registry.json before Phase 2 translation of any 1 Corinthians material begins.