Passage
Romans 3
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Doctrine
Faith
Personal trust in Christ; well-established in Telugu church tradition, with residual risk mainly around distinguishing విశ్వాసం from generic devotional భక్తి in first-generation-convert contexts.
ROM.3.22-28
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Glossary Term
Faith
Personal trust in Christ; భక్తి carries devotional-reverence connotations from regional Vaishnava bhakti practice that do not require a specific, exclusive object of trust.
ROM.3.22-28
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear, one-time historical fulfillment; established in Telugu Bible teaching tradition with comparatively low syncretism risk.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Non-Jewish peoples; విదేశీయులు (foreigners) is too narrowly national.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Grace
Unmerited favor apart from human merit; Telugu's deep hymnody and preaching tradition already carries strong grace vocabulary, though care is still needed for readers whose extended families remain in Vaishnava/Shaiva devotional practice.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Grace
Unmerited favor apart from human merit.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; established form.
ROM.3.29-30
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Glossary Term
Law
Unlike several other Language Packages in this pipeline, Telugu's own established Bible tradition already renders 'the Law' (Torah) as ధర్మశాస్త్రము without significant syncretism alarm — Telugu ధర్మం carries less caste-cosmic-duty weight in everyday register than the corresponding word does further north, and the rendering is over a century old and deeply settled.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration, distinct from astrological forecasting.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Sin
Moral transgression before a personal God who judges and forgives.
ROM.3.23
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Directly challenges caste-based spiritual hierarchy; must be translated with full theological clarity, not softened, and resonates with this community's own historical experience.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Universal Human Accountability
All humanity equally guilty and equally invited, regardless of caste; resonates directly with the historical experience of this region's largest Christian communities.
ROM.3.23