Core Glossary

Core Glossary — 1 Peter

This glossary extends translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json from the Romans/Galatians baseline. Terms already recorded in the baseline are reused exactly as established and are marked “(baseline)” below; no alternative renderings are permitted for these. New terms introduced by 1 Peter are assigned risk tiers using the identical Critical/High/Medium/Low framework, grounded in Ukraine’s three-tradition religious landscape and wartime context. All Critical and High risk terms require human theologian review before Phase 2 translation of any segment containing them (per the baseline’s established escalation rule).

Section 1 — Baseline Terms Reused Without Modification

Term (EN)	Greek	Ukrainian (baseline)	Risk (baseline)	1 Peter occurrences	Note
God	θεός	Бог	Critical	throughout	No deviation
Lord	κύριος	Господь	High	1:3, 1:25, 2:3, 2:13, 3:15	3:15’s “sanctify Christ as Lord” reactivates the personal-vs-liturgical caution
Jesus	Ἰησοῦς	Ісус	Critical	throughout	Never Иисус
Christ	Χριστός	Христос	(Medium, Messiah entry)	throughout	Reuse Месія background only where messianic-fulfillment sense is explicit
Holy Spirit	πνεῦμα ἅγιον / bare πνεῦμα (Spirit sense)	Святий Дух / Дух (capitalized)	Critical	1:2, 1:11, 1:12, 4:14	Never lowercase/unqualified for the Spirit sense; but see 3:18’s genuinely contested πνεῦμα, flagged separately below — do not mechanically apply this rule there
Father	πατήρ	Отець	Medium/High	1:2, 1:3, 1:17	No deviation
grace	χάρις	благодать	Critical	1:2, 1:10, 1:13, 2:19-20 (idiomatic use), 3:7, 4:10, 5:5, 5:10, 5:12	See glossary note below on idiomatic 2:19-20 usage
faith	πίστις	віра	High	1:5, 1:7, 1:9, 1:21, 5:9	No deviation
salvation	σωτηρία	спасіння	Critical	1:5, 1:9, 1:10	Must anchor to 1:3’s resurrection statement
resurrection	ἀνάστασις	воскресіння	Medium/Critical	1:3, 1:21, 3:21	No deviation; core-passage term
righteousness	δικαιοσύνη	праведність	Critical	2:24, 3:14	Never справедливість
holy	ἅγιος	святий	High	1:15-16, 2:5, 2:9, 3:5	Corporate-inclusive caution applies at 2:9
sanctification	ἁγιασμός / ἁγιάζω	освячення	Critical	1:2, 3:15	Never collapse into ritual-object-blessing sense
obedience of faith (word-family)	ὑπακοή	послух (віри)	High	1:2, 1:14, 1:22	Obedience as faith’s fruit, not separate merit
calling / called	κλῆσις / κλητός	покликання / покликаний	High	1:15, 2:9, 2:21, 3:9, 5:10	Context-sensitive per baseline’s three-sense rule
election	ἐκλογή / ἐκλεκτός	обрання / обраний	High	1:1, 1:2, 2:4, 2:6, 2:9, 5:13	Never доля/фатум/карма
providence	— (thematic)	провидіння Боже	High	1:2 (πρόγνωσις), 4:19 (πιστὸς κτίστης), 5:7 (μέλει)	Never доля/випадок/карма
love	ἀγάπη	любов	High	1:8, 1:22, 2:17, 3:8, 4:8, 4:19	Faith’s fruit, not a competing merit or atonement mechanism (see 4:8 glossary note)
fellowship / shared participation	κοινωνία / κοινωνέω	спілкування / (тут: κоінωνεῖτε — “приобщатися,” share in)	Low/Medium	4:13	New application (sharing sufferings) of an established low-risk baseline term
glory	δόξα	слава	Medium/High	1:7, 1:8, 1:11, 1:21, 1:24, 2:9(implied), 4:11, 4:13-14, 5:1, 5:4, 5:10	Very high-frequency term in this letter; patriotic-idiom caution applies at every occurrence
peace	εἰρήνη	мир	High	1:2, 5:14	Acute wartime “opposite of war” resonance at both occurrences
David / Abraham / Sarah (proper names, pattern reference)	—	—	Low	3:6 (Sarah/Abraham reference)	Ohienko-standard proper name forms apply
gospel	εὐαγγέλιον	Євангеліє	High	1:12, 1:25 (implied), 4:6, 4:17	No deviation
spiritual gifts	χάρισμα	духовні дари / дар	Medium	4:10	Singular application per individual; never екстрасенсорні здібності

Section 2 — New Terms Specific to 1 Peter

Term (EN)	Greek	Transliteration	Ukrainian rendering	Risk	Doctrine	Key occurrences	Grounded Ukrainian risk note
living hope	ἐλπὶς ζῶσα	elpis zōsa	жива надія	High	The Living Hope of the Resurrection	1:3	”Hope” is saturated in current wartime public discourse; must remain anchored to Christ’s resurrection (1:3, 1:21), not generalized morale language
born again / regeneration	ἀναγεννάω / ἀναγεγεννημένος	anagennaō	народжений знову / відроджений	Critical	The Living Hope of the Resurrection	1:3, 1:23	Confessionally identifying phrase (Evangelical “born again” identity marker) vs. Orthodox/Greek Catholic sacramental-baptism regeneration; must be taught explicitly, grounded in the resurrection, not resolved toward either tradition by default
mercy	ἔλεος	eleos	милосердя / милість	Medium	The Living Hope of the Resurrection	1:3	Must be kept lexically distinct from благодать (grace) despite baseline listing милість as a rejected grace-alternative; милість/милосердя is the correct, standard term for mercy specifically
inheritance	κληρονομία	klēronomia	спадщина / спадок	Medium	The Living Hope of the Resurrection	1:4	Connects to baseline’s adoption/inheritance-rights caution (wartime orphaned-children resonance); must be explicitly “kept in heaven,” not read as ordinary estate/property inheritance
imperishable	ἄφθαρτος	aphthartos	нетлінний	High	The Living Hope of the Resurrection; Holiness in Conduct	1:4, 1:18, 1:23, 3:4	Collides with the specific Orthodox/Greek Catholic category of incorrupt saintly relics (нетлінні мощі); must be disambiguated on first occurrence
guarded (military)	φρουρέω	phroureō	оберігатися / охоронятися	Medium (positive asset)	The Living Hope of the Resurrection; Assurance	1:5	Military garrison metaphor resonates powerfully but must not overclaim physical wartime safety
trial(s)	πειρασμός	peirasmos	випробування (not спокуса)	Medium	Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake	1:6, 4:12	Disambiguate from moral “temptation”; render consistently as hardship/testing throughout the letter
proven genuineness (of faith)	δοκίμιον	dokimion	випробувана щирість (віри)	Medium	Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake	1:7	Refining-fire metaphor has painful literal resonance given actual wartime destruction; keep figurative
sojourners / resident aliens	παρεπίδημος / πάροικος	parepidēmos / paroikos	приходьки / переселенці / чужинці	High	(cross-doctrinal, structural motif)	1:1, 1:17, 2:11	Direct resonance with Ukraine’s literal wartime mass displacement and refugee diaspora; must not be simply collapsed into, nor detached from, readers’ literal experience
diaspora	διασπορά	diaspora	розсіяння / діаспора	High	(structural motif)	1:1	”Діаспора” is a live, everyday term for Ukraine’s current wartime emigration; theological and geopolitical senses must be distinguished
redeemed / ransomed	λυτρόω	lytroō	викуплені	High	Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering	1:18	Resonates with current POW-exchange/ransom discourse; Christ’s ransom must remain a complete, once-for-all spiritual redemption, not a political-negotiation analogy
precious blood	τίμιον αἷμα	timion haima	дорогоцінна кров (avoid чесна кров in this context)	High	Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering	1:19	Collides with liturgical “Чесна Кров” Eucharistic language; prefer дорогоцінна to avoid unintended sacramental resonance
Lamb without blemish	ἀμνὸς ἄμωμος καὶ ἄσπιλος	amnos amōmos kai aspilos	непорочний і чистий Агнець	Medium (positive asset)	Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering	1:19	Established, positive liturgical resonance (“Ось Агнець Божий”)
imperishable seed	σπορὰ ἄφθαρτος	spora aphthartos	нетлінне насіння	High	The Living Hope of the Resurrection	1:23	Same нетлінний relic-collision caution as above, applied to the word of God
living stone	λίθος ζῶν	lithos zōn	живий камінь	Medium	The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood	2:4	Christological title continuous with the letter’s “living” vocabulary thread
spiritual house	οἶκος πνευματικός	oikos pneumatikos	духовний дім	Medium	The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood	2:5	Must not be silently harmonized into церква; 1 Peter’s own distinct corporate metaphor
holy/royal priesthood	ἱεράτευμα ἅγιον / βασίλειον ἱεράτευμα	hierateuma hagion / basileion hierateuma	святе священство / царське священство	CRITICAL	The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood	2:5, 2:9	Collides directly with the ordained clerical office (сан священства) in Orthodox/Greek Catholic ecclesiology; single highest-stakes term in the book; mandatory theologian review every occurrence
spiritual sacrifices	θυσίαι πνευματικαί	thysiai pneumatikai	духовні жертви	High	The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood	2:5	Collides with the Eucharist’s liturgical title “Безкровна Жертва” (Bloodless Sacrifice); must be framed as the whole congregation’s lives/praise/good deeds
cornerstone	λίθος ἀκρογωνιαῖος	lithos akrogōniaios	наріжний камінь	Low	The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood	2:6	Established architectural-Christological image
stone of stumbling	λίθος προσκόμματος	lithos proskommatos	камінь спотикання	Medium	The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood	2:7-8	Requires explicit framing: unbelief’s own responsibility, not divine caprice
chosen race / holy nation / people for God’s own possession	γένος ἐκλεκτόν, ἔθνος ἅγιον, λαὸς εἰς περιποίησιν	genos eklekton, ethnos hagion, laos eis peripoiēsin	обраний рід, святий народ, народ, здобутий Богом	High	The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood; (Unity of Jews and Gentiles, baseline)	2:9	OT covenant-people titles applied to the church; must avoid supersessionist erasure of Israel’s ongoing significance, per baseline discipline
submission / subjection	ὑποτάσσω	hypotassō	підкорятися / бути покірним	CRITICAL	Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance	2:13, 2:18, 3:1, 3:5, 5:5	Collides acutely with wartime authority/occupying-power sensitivity (extends baseline’s Romans 13 caution) and with gendered household-submission sensitivity given wartime women’s roles; every occurrence flagged for mandatory theologian review
human institution	ἀνθρωπίνη κτίσις	anthrōpinē ktisis	людське встановлення	Medium	Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance	2:13	Requires framing as instituted civil order generally, not endorsement of any specific regime
suffer unjustly	πάσχω ἀδίκως	paschō adikōs	страждати несправедливо	Medium	Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake	2:19	Plain “unjust” sense; not a substitute-usage collision with праведність
example / pattern	ὑπογραμμός	hypogrammos	приклад / зразок	Medium	Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance	2:21	”Copybook” tracing-image; active imitation, not mere admiration
bore our sins in his body on the tree	ἀναφέρω…ἐπὶ τὸ ξύλον	anapherō…epi to xylon	поніс наші гріхи в тілі на дерево/древо	CRITICAL	Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering	2:24	Sharpest substitutionary-atonement statement in the letter; a distinctively Reformation-emphasized frame not automatically shared by Orthodox/Greek Catholic Christus-Victor/healing categories; must be taught explicitly
by his wound you were healed	τῷ μώλωπι ἰάθητε	tō mōlōpi iathēte	Його ранами ви зцілилися	High	Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering	2:24	Must be taught as spiritual healing from sin, not a guarantee of physical healing (prosperity-teaching and literal-war-wound risk)
Shepherd and Overseer (Bishop) of souls	ποιμὴν καὶ ἐπίσκοπος τῶν ψυχῶν	poimēn kai episkopos tōn psychōn	Пастир і Наглядач (Єпископ) душ	CRITICAL	Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance	2:25	ἐπίσκοπος is the literal source of “єпископ,” the technical episcopal office; Christ’s title must not be heard as commentary on human ecclesiastical hierarchy
weaker vessel	ἀσθενέστερον σκεῦος	asthenesteron skeuos	слабша посудина	High	(household code, cross-referenced to Submission doctrine)	3:7	Requires explicit pastoral qualification given wartime women’s disproportionate household/leadership burden; balanced immediately by “joint heirs”
joint/fellow heirs of the grace of life	συγκληρονόμοι χάριτος ζωῆς	synklēronomoi charitos zōēs	співспадкоємці благодаті життя	Medium	(household code)	3:7	Positive equal-standing counterweight to “weaker vessel”; must receive full pastoral emphasis
suffering for righteousness’ sake	πάσχω διὰ δικαιοσύνην	paschō dia dikaiosynēn	страждати за праведність	High	Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake	3:14	Reuse баseline праведність exactly; suffering does not earn righteousness but may follow from it
sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts	Κύριον τὸν Χριστὸν ἁγιάσατε ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις	Kyrion ton Christon hagiasate en tais kardiais	освятіть Христа Господом у серцях	CRITICAL	Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance	3:15	Compounds the освячення and Господь baseline cautions; must be personal heart-level enthronement, not ritual-blessing or mere creedal recitation
defense / answer	ἀπολογία	apologia	відповідь / оборона	Medium	Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake	3:15	Root of “apologetics”; φόβος (respect) here must be disambiguated from “fear” two verses earlier
Christ suffered once for sins, righteous for unrighteous	Χριστὸς ἅπαξ…δίκαιος ὑπὲρ ἀδίκων	Christos hapax…dikaios hyper adikōn	Христос один раз постраждав, праведний за неправедних	CRITICAL	Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering	3:18	Once-for-all substitutionary statement; requires explicit doctrinal teaching, not assumed shared ground
put to death in the flesh, made alive in the spirit	θανατωθεὶς σαρκί, ζωοποιηθεὶς πνεύματι	thanatōtheis sarki, zōopoiētheis pneumati	приречений на смерть тілом, оживлений духом	CRITICAL	Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits	3:18	Genuinely exegetically contested πνεῦμα reference; do NOT mechanically apply the Galatians capitalized-Дух rule here without dedicated theologian ruling
spirits in prison / proclaimed	πνεύματα ἐν φυλακῇ / ἐκήρυξεν	pneumata en phylakē / ekēryxen	духи у в’язниці / проповідував	CRITICAL	Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits	3:19	Most exegetically difficult NT passage; intersects with Orthodox Descent-into-Hades iconography as both asset and risk; no default rendering pre-approved, mandatory dedicated theologian review
days of Noah / ark	ἡμέραι Νῶε / κιβωτός	hēmerai Nōe / kibōtos	дні Ноя / ковчег	High (structural)	Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits	3:20	Requires supplied Genesis 6 narrative background
baptism now saves you	βάπτισμα…νῦν σῴζει	baptisma…nyn sōzei	хрещення нині спасає	CRITICAL	Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits	3:21	Sharpest sacramental-vs-symbolic baptism collision in the whole curriculum; Peter’s own qualifying clause (pledge of good conscience) must be given full expository weight; highest-priority escalation flag in the book
angels, authorities, powers subjected	ἄγγελοι, ἐξουσίαι, δυνάμεις	angeloi, exousiai, dynameis	ангели, влади, сили	Medium	Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits	3:22	Cosmic/angelic sense; disambiguate from human-government ἐξουσία of 2:13
gospel preached to the dead	εὐηγγελίσθη…νεκροῖς	euēngelisthē…nekrois	благовістя проповідане мертвим	CRITICAL	Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits	4:6	Cross-reference to 3:19-20 cluster; must not resolve into general post-mortem-salvation doctrine without extensive qualification
the end of all things has drawn near	τέλος πάντων ἤγγικεν	telos pantōn ēngiken	кінець усього наблизився	High	(eschatological framing)	4:7	Requires careful framing against wartime apocalyptic anxiety/speculation
love covers a multitude of sins	ἀγάπη καλύπτει πλῆθος ἁμαρτιῶν	agapē kalyptei plēthos hamartiōn	любов покриває багато гріхів	High	Holiness in Conduct	4:8	Must not be misheard as an alternative atonement mechanism; relational forbearance, not competing forgiveness-means
good stewards of God’s varied grace	καλοὶ οἰκονόμοι ποικίλης χάριτος Θεοῦ	kaloi oikonomoi poikilēs charitos Theou	добрі управителі різноманітної благодаті Божої	Medium	Holiness in Conduct	4:10	Reuse баseline благодать; standard stewardship vocabulary
fiery trial	πύρωσις	pyrōsis	огненне випробування	High	Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake	4:12	Painfully literal resonance given actual wartime fire/destruction; keep the persecution-specific referent clear
sharing Christ’s sufferings	κοινωνέω τοῖς παθήμασιν	koinōneō tois pathēmasin	приобщатися стражданням Христовим	Medium	Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake	4:13	Cross-reference to 1:11 and 3:18
Spirit of glory rests on you	τὸ τῆς δόξης Πνεῦμα ἀναπαύεται	to tēs doxēs Pneuma anapauetai	Дух слави спочиває на вас	Medium	Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake	4:14	Capitalize Дух (Holy Spirit, unambiguous here); reuse слава patriotic-idiom caution
Christian (name/identity)	Χριστιανός	Christianos	християнин	Medium	Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake	4:16	One of only 3 NT occurrences; public identity-bearing under suffering, resonates with wartime chaplaincy/public-witness context
judgment begins at the household of God	κρίμα ἀπὸ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ Θεοῦ	krima apo tou oikou tou Theou	суд починається з дому Божого	Medium	(church-as-family, extends baseline church caution)	4:17	God’s people/family, not a building
entrust souls to a faithful Creator	παρατίθημι…πιστῷ κτίστῃ	paratithēmi…pistō ktistē	доручати душі вірному Творцеві	Medium (positive asset)	(Providence, extends baseline)	4:19	Warm pastoral trust-in-danger resonance; reuse провидіння Боже caution
elders / fellow elder	πρεσβύτεροι / συμπρεσβύτερος	presbyteroi / sympresbyteros	пресвітери (старші) / співпресвітер	CRITICAL	Elders and Humility	5:1	Double-loaded: Orthodox/Greek Catholic clergy rank AND contemporary Evangelical/Baptist pastoral title; старші preferred in exposition
shepherd the flock…not domineering	ποιμαίνω τὸ ποίμνιον…μὴ κατακυριεύοντες	poimainō to poimnion…mē katakyrieuontes	пасіть стадо…не пануючи	High	Elders and Humility	5:2-3	Contemporary relevance to real clergy-conduct controversies; present as timeless apostolic instruction, not editorial commentary
chief Shepherd / unfading crown of glory	ἀρχιποίμην / ἀμαράντινος τῆς δόξης στέφανος	archipoimēn / amarantinos tēs doxēs stephanos	Архипастир (найвищий Пастир) / неpв’янучий вінець слави	CRITICAL	Elders and Humility	5:4	”Архипастир” is a real contemporary honorific for living bishops; must not blend the wartime commemorative “crown/honor” idiom with Peter’s eschatological reward-crown
younger, be subject to elders	νεώτεροι, ὑποτάγητε πρεσβυτέροις	neōteroi, hypotagēte presbyterois	молодші, будьте покірні старшим	High	Elders and Humility	5:5	Same ὑποτάσσω-family caution; balance with the immediately following universal-humility instruction
clothe yourselves with humility / God gives grace to the humble	ταπεινοφροσύνην ἐγκομβώσασθε / ταπεινοῖς δίδωσιν χάριν	tapeinophrosynēn enkombōsasthe / tapeinois didōsin charin	одягніться смиренністю / смиренним дає благодать	Medium	Elders and Humility	5:5-6	Reuse баseline благодать; смиренність has strong positive monastic-heritage resonance across traditions
casting your anxiety on him	πᾶσαν τὴν μέριμναν ἐπιρίψαντες	pasan tēn merimnan epiripsantes	покладіть усю тривогу на Нього	High (positive asset)	(pastoral care, cross-doctrinal)	5:7	Exceptional wartime pastoral resonance; warm relational register required, parallel to Romans 8:38-39
adversary the devil, roaring lion	ἀντίδικος διάβολος, λέων ὠρυόμενος	antidikos diabolos, leōn ōryomenos	супротивник диявол, лев, що ридає	Medium	(spiritual warfare)	5:8	Must not blend with post-Soviet folk-occult demonology
resist him, firm in the faith	ἀντίστητε στερεοὶ τῇ πίστει	antistēte stereoi tē pistei	противтесь, стійкі у вірі	Medium (positive asset)	(spiritual warfare)	5:9	”Stand firm” resonance with wartime resistance vocabulary; reuse віра baseline
brotherhood	ἀδελφότης	adelphotēs	братство	Medium (strong positive asset)	(church community, extends baseline church caution)	5:9	Rich historic Ukrainian confraternity resonance (Kyiv братства, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy); clarify Peter’s worldwide-fellowship sense to avoid anachronistic conflation
God of all grace…restore, confirm, strengthen, establish	Θεὸς πάσης χάριτος…καταρτίσει, στηρίξει, σθενώσει, θεμελιώσει	Theos pasēs charitos…katartisei, stērixei, sthenōsei, themeliōsei	Бог усякої благодаті…вдосконалить, утвердить, укріпить, поставить на основу	Medium (positive asset)	(closing benediction)	5:10	θεμελιόω resonates with post-war rebuilding/reconstruction discourse; keep eternal referent primary
the true grace of God; stand firm in it	ἀληθῆ χάριν τοῦ Θεοῦ…εἰς ἣν στῆτε	alēthē charin tou Theou…eis hēn stēte	істинна благодать Божа; стійте в ній	Critical	(closing summary)	5:12	Reuse баseline благодать exactly; Peter’s own characterization of the entire letter
Babylon (coded reference)	Βαβυλών	Babylōn	Вавилон	Medium (historical note required)	(closing greeting)	5:13	First-century code for Rome; requires explicit historical framing, distinct from any contemporary rhetorical application
kiss of love	φίλημα ἀγάπης	philēma agapēs	поцілунок любові	Low (positive asset)	(closing greeting)	5:14	Connects positively to living liturgical “kiss of peace” practice

Section 3 — Structural/Cross-Cutting Notes for Phase 2

Highest-priority escalation terms (mandatory theologian review, no default rendering pre-approved without review): royal priesthood (2:5, 2:9); submission/ὑποτάσσω in every context (2:13, 2:18, 3:1, 5:5); Shepherd/Overseer-Bishop of souls (2:25); sanctify Christ as Lord (3:15); the entire 3:18-22 cluster (substitutionary suffering, put to death in flesh/made alive in spirit, spirits in prison, baptism saves you); gospel preached to the dead (4:6); elders/fellow elder (5:1); chief Shepherd/unfading crown (5:4).
Terms carrying acute, current wartime resonance requiring pastoral sensitivity (native speaker plus theologian review): sojourners/diaspora (1:1, 1:17, 2:11); redeemed/ransomed (1:18); fiery trial (4:12); the end of all things (4:7); casting your anxiety (5:7); weaker vessel (3:7); submission to human authority/emperor (2:13-17).
Positive cultural assets to be leveraged, not merely defended against risk: living/guarded imagery (1:3-5, 5:9) for a readership familiar with literal vigilance and defense; братство’s historic Ukrainian resonance (5:9); Агнець Божий’s established liturgical rooting (1:19); the kiss of love’s connection to living liturgical practice (5:14).
Terms requiring explicit disambiguation from a structurally similar but doctrinally distinct baseline term: νетлінний (relic-veneration collision, 1:4/1:18/1:23/3:4) vs. its use for inheritance/seed/character; πνεῦμα at 3:18 (contested exegetically) vs. the mandatory-capitalization bare-πνεῦμα rule inherited from Galatians (which does NOT automatically apply here); ἐπίσκοπος/Архипастир (2:25, 5:4) as applied uniquely to Christ vs. the same words’ current use for living bishops.

Critical Risk Terms

God

Approved rendering: Бог
Transliteration: Boh
Doctrine: God the Father
Rejected alternatives: Всевишній (acceptable poetic synonym only)
Original: θεός
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package, no deviation. 1 Peter names God as Father throughout (1:2, 1:3, 1:17, 4:19 ‘faithful Creator’, 5:10); 4:19’s πιστὸς κτίστης (‘faithful Creator’) is a distinct emphasis on God’s steady, original faithfulness, to be taught as continuous with, not separate from, this entry.

Jesus

Approved rendering: Ісус
Transliteration: Isus
Doctrine: Christology
Rejected alternatives: Иисус (Russian spelling, never use)
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package, no deviation. Occurs throughout 1 Peter (1:1, 1:3, 1:7, 2:5, 3:21, 4:11). Never the Russian spelling Иисус, a live concern given post-2022 Ukrainian-vs-Russian usage distinctions.

Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: Святий Дух
Transliteration: Svyatyy Dukh
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: дух (never use alone/lowercase for the Holy Spirit), енергія
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον / bare πνεῦμα
Category: God

Inherited from Romans/Galatians package. Never lowercase/unqualified. IMPORTANT EXCEPTION specific to 1 Peter: at 3:18 (‘made alive in/by the spirit’), πνεῦμα is genuinely exegetically contested (Christ’s own risen mode of existence vs. the Holy Spirit’s agency); the Galatians-derived mandatory-capitalization rule must NOT be mechanically applied there without a dedicated theologian ruling (see put_to_death_in_flesh_made_alive_in_spirit below). Likewise at 3:4 (‘a gentle and quiet spirit’) πνεῦμα is the human disposition, not the Holy Spirit, and must render lowercase дух. Unambiguous Holy Spirit occurrences: 1:2, 1:11, 1:12, 4:14 (Дух слави).

Grace

Approved rendering: благодать
Transliteration: blahodat’
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: милість, талан, щастя
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. 1 Peter’s own summary-characterization of its entire content (5:12, ‘this is the true grace of God’); also used of Spirit-given ministry gifts (4:10, ‘good stewards of God’s varied grace’) and, idiomatically at 2:19-20, in a colloquial ‘this finds favor/credit with God’ sense — render 2:19-20 contextually (e.g. ‘це угодне Богу’) rather than mechanically inserting благодать, so the full Critical doctrinal weight is not misapplied to a colloquial usage. All other occurrences (1:2, 1:10, 1:13, 3:7, 4:10, 5:5, 5:10, 5:12) carry the full doctrinal sense.

Salvation

Approved rendering: спасіння
Transliteration: spasinnya
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: визволення, рятування (too generic, ‘rescue’)
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. 1 Peter describes salvation as already secured yet still to be fully revealed (1:5, 1:9, 1:10). Must be anchored explicitly to Christ’s resurrection, already named in 1:3, not left to default into any one Ukrainian tradition’s fuller soteriological system.

Resurrection

Approved rendering: воскресіння
Transliteration: voskresinnya
Doctrine: The Living Hope of the Resurrection
Rejected alternatives: реінкарнація, оживлення
Original: ἀνάστασις
Category: Eschatology

Inherited from Romans package. Core-passage term (1:3); must render identically at every occurrence (1:3, 1:21, 3:21) for cross-document consistency, per the baseline’s consistency rule for high-use, thesis-defining terms. No native reincarnation concept competes with it, a cultural asset for teaching.

Righteousness

Approved rendering: праведність
Transliteration: pravednist’
Doctrine: Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake / Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering
Rejected alternatives: справедливість, чесність
Original: δικαιοσύνη / δίκαιος
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Never справедливість. Applied both to the believer suffering ‘for righteousness’ sake’ (3:14) and to Christ himself as ‘the righteous [one] for the unrighteous’ (3:18) and as one ‘who committed no sin’ (2:22-24); both require the baseline’s explicit ‘apart from achievement’ framing extended to suffering: suffering does not earn righteousness, but righteous conduct/status may occasion it.

Sanctification

Approved rendering: освячення
Transliteration: osvyachennya
Doctrine: New Birth and Regeneration / Lordship of Christ Sanctified in the Heart
Rejected alternatives: обоження (reserve for explicit theosis discussion only), очищення
Original: ἁγιασμός / ἁγιάζω
Category: Sanctification

Inherited from Romans package. Never collapse into the everyday ritual-object-blessing sense (свячення паски). Occurs at 1:2 (the Spirit’s setting-apart work realizing election) and, in its rare verb form with Christ as direct object, at 3:15 (‘sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts’) — the latter compounds this caution with the Lord entry above; see sanctify_christ_as_lord below for the combined treatment.

Church

Approved rendering: (не вживається у 1 Петра — див. духовний дім, народ Божий, братство)
Transliteration: ekklēsia (structurally absent)
Doctrine: Unity and Identity of God’s People
Rejected alternatives: церква (do not silently insert)
Original: ἐκκλησία (structurally absent)
Category: Church

STRUCTURAL NOTE, inherited caution from Romans package, applied in reverse here: 1 Peter never uses ἐκκλησία. церква remains Critical per the baseline given acute OCU/UOC/UGCC jurisdiction tension, but must NOT be inserted into 1 Peter’s own distinct vocabulary (οἶκος, λαός, γένος, ἀδελφότης, ποίμνιον). Render each of the letter’s own metaphors on its own terms (see spiritual_house, chosen_race_holy_nation, brotherhood, judgment_begins_household_of_god below).

Flesh Sarx Baseline

Approved rendering: тіло / плоть
Transliteration: tilo / plot’
Doctrine: Holiness in Conduct
Rejected alternatives: плоть as the default expository term (reserve for elevated/citation register)

Inherited from the Galatians package’s structural тіло/σῶμα homograph caution. See flesh_sarx below for 1 Peter’s specific occurrences and register-split strategy (плоть for the neutral ‘all flesh is like grass’ citation at 1:24 and 3:18/4:1’s ‘put to death/suffered in the flesh’; тіло for the ethical vice-list sense implicit in 4:2-3).

Born Again Regeneration

Approved rendering: народжений знову / відроджений
Transliteration: narodzhenyy znovu / vidrodzhenyy
Doctrine: New Birth and Regeneration
Original: ἀναγεννάω / ἀναγεγεννημένος
Category: Salvation

New term. GROUNDED: one of the most confessionally identifying phrases in the Ukrainian religious landscape, functioning colloquially as shorthand for Protestant/Evangelical conversion-experience piety, whereas Orthodox and Greek Catholic tradition locates regeneration principally in the sacrament of baptism (хрещення). Must be taught as Peter’s own apostolic claim, grounded explicitly in Christ’s resurrection (1:3) and God’s living word (1:23), without resolving by default toward either framework. Mandatory theologian review at every occurrence (1:3, 1:23).

Royal Priesthood

Approved rendering: святе священство / царське священство
Transliteration: svyate svyashchenstvo / tsarske svyashchenstvo
Doctrine: The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood
Original: ἱεράτευμα ἅγιον / βασίλειον ἱεράτευμα
Category: Church

New term (ἱεράτευμα ἅγιον / βασίλειον ἱεράτευμα, 2:5, 2:9). GROUNDED: ‘священство’ is the standard term for the ordained clerical office/rank (сан священства) in both Orthodox and Greek Catholic polity, not a neutral metaphor-word. Risks being heard either as advocating universal ordination to the clerical office or as a decorative metaphor stripped of intended force. Single highest-stakes lexical decision in the entire letter for Ukraine; requires sustained expository scaffolding, not a one-time gloss. Mandatory human theologian review for every occurrence.

Submission

Approved rendering: підкорятися / бути покірним
Transliteration: pidkoryatysya / buty pokirnym
Doctrine: Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance
Original: ὑποτάσσω
Category: Authority

New term (ὑποτάσσω, 2:13, 2:18, 3:1, 3:5, 5:5). GROUNDED: extends the baseline’s Romans 13:1-7 caution into a context (Roman imperial rule) structurally analogous to occupying power. Must not be read as endorsing submission to an occupying or aggressor power, nor as incompatible with legitimate resistance to unjust authority — a live, serious question under active invasion. The passage’s own qualifiers (2:16 ‘as free people,’ gospel-witness purpose of 2:12/2:15) must be stated explicitly. Mandatory theologian review at every occurrence.

Bore Sins In Body On Tree

Approved rendering: поніс наші гріхи в Своєму тілі на дерево / древо
Transliteration: ponis nashi hrikhy v Svoyemu tili na derevo
Doctrine: Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering
Original: ὃς τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν αὐτὸς ἀνήνεγκεν ἐν τῷ σώματι αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὸ ξύλον
Category: Salvation

New term (2:24, citing/echoing Isaiah 53:4-6, 12). GROUNDED: parallel to the baseline’s imputed_righteousness caution — this specific forensic/substitutionary framing is a distinctively Western/Reformation-emphasized category. Orthodox/Greek Catholic tradition more often frames Christ’s death within Christus Victor or healing/therapeutic categories, echoed in the very next clause (‘by his wound you were healed’). Must be taught explicitly as this curriculum’s chosen frame, not assumed shared ground. Древо (elevated, liturgically resonant) may be used in Scripture-citation register in place of plain дерево.

Shepherd Overseer Of Souls

Approved rendering: Пастир і Наглядач (Єпископ) душ
Transliteration: Pastyr i Nahlyadach dush
Doctrine: Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance
Rejected alternatives: єпископ as the primary rendering (use only as a bracketed etymological note)
Original: ποιμὴν καὶ ἐπίσκοπος τῶν ψυχῶν
Category: Christology

New term (ποιμὴν καὶ ἐπίσκοπος τῶν ψυχῶν, 2:25). GROUNDED: ἐπίσκοπος is the literal source of ‘єпископ,’ the technical episcopal office in both Orthodox and Greek Catholic church governance. Applying it directly to Christ risks sounding like commentary on ecclesiastical hierarchy. Retain Пастир as primary with Наглядач glossed as Christ’s unique, ultimate pastoral authority over souls, not a statement about the human episcopal office. Completed at 5:2-4 (elders shepherd under the ‘chief Shepherd’). Mandatory theologian review.

Sanctify Christ As Lord

Approved rendering: освятіть Христа Господом у ваших серцях
Transliteration: osvyatit’ Khrysta Hospodom u vashykh sertsyakh
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ Sanctified in the Heart
Original: Κύριον δὲ τὸν Χριστὸν ἁγιάσατε ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ὑμῶν
Category: Christology

New term (Κύριον δὲ τὸν Χριστὸν ἁγιάσατε ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ὑμῶν, 3:15). Compounds the baseline’s Critical освячення caution (ritual-object-blessing collision, e.g. свячення паски) and High Господь caution (liturgical-recitation-vs-personal-confession risk from Romans 10:9). Must be taught as personal, heart-level enthronement, echoing the personal-confession force the baseline insists on for ‘Jesus is Lord.’ Mandatory theologian review.

Christ Suffered Once For Sins

Approved rendering: Христос один раз постраждав за грехи, праведний за неправедних
Transliteration: Khrystos odyn raz postrazhdav za hrikhy, pravednyy za nepravednykh
Doctrine: Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering
Original: Χριστὸς ἅπαξ περὶ ἁμαρτιῶν ἔπαθεν, δίκαιος ὑπὲρ ἀδίκων
Category: Salvation

New term (Χριστὸς ἅπαξ περὶ ἁμαρτιῶν ἔπαθεν, δίκαιος ὑπὲρ ἀδίκων, 3:18). The letter’s clearest substitutionary/vicarious atonement statement, intensified by ἅπαξ’s technical once-for-all sufficiency sense (consider раз і назавжди in exposition alongside the Scripture-citation phrasing to carry this force). Must be taught explicitly as this curriculum’s chosen atonement frame, not assumed shared ground. Mandatory theologian review.

Put To Death In Flesh Made Alive In Spirit

Approved rendering: приречений на смерть тілом, оживлений духом
Transliteration: pryrechenyy na smert’ tilom, ozhyvlenyy dukhom
Doctrine: Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits
Original: θανατωθεὶς μὲν σαρκί, ζωοποιηθεὶς δὲ πνεύματι
Category: Christology

New term (θανατωθεὶς μὲν σαρκί, ζωοποιηθεὶς δὲ πνεύματι, 3:18). CRITICAL EXCEPTION to the standard bare-πνεῦμα rule inherited from Galatians: this occurrence is genuinely exegetically contested among reputable interpreters (Christ’s own resurrected mode of existence vs. the Holy Spirit’s agency). Do NOT mechanically apply the mandatory capitalized-Дух rule here without a dedicated theologian ruling. No default rendering pre-approved.

Spirits In Prison

Approved rendering: духи у в’язниці / темниці
Transliteration: dukhy u v’yaznytsi
Doctrine: Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits
Original: τοῖς ἐν φυλακῇ πνεύμασιν πορευθεὶς ἐκήρυξεν
Category: Cosmology

New term (τοῖς ἐν φυλακῇ πνεύμασιν πορευθεὶς ἐκήρυξεν, 3:19). GROUNDED, two-sided: intersects powerfully with the Orthodox/Greek Catholic Descent-into-Hades tradition central to the Anastasis icon of Ukrainian Easter piety, whose content (liberating the righteous dead) is not identical to Peter’s stated content (proclaiming to disobedient spirits from Noah’s generation). Must not silently conflate these two distinct theological pictures. Mandatory dedicated theologian review; no default rendering pre-approved for any element of this cluster.

Baptism Now Saves

Approved rendering: хрещення нині спасає
Transliteration: khreshchennya nyni spasaye
Doctrine: Baptism and Salvation
Original: ὃ καὶ ὑμᾶς ἀντίτυπον νῦν σῴζει βάπτισμα…συνειδήσεως ἀγαθῆς ἐπερώτημα εἰς Θεόν
Category: Sacrament

New term (ὃ καὶ ὑμᾶς ἀντίτυπον νῦν σῴζει βάπτισμα…συνειδήσεως ἀγαθῆς ἐπερώτημα εἰς Θεόν, 3:21). GROUNDED: the sharpest possible collision point between the region’s sacramental traditions (Orthodox/Greek Catholic: baptism objectively regenerative by sacramental grace) and Ukraine’s growing Protestant minority (Baptist/Pentecostal: believer’s baptism as symbolic, not the means of salvation). Peter’s own qualifying clause (‘not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal of a good conscience toward God’) must be given full expository weight rather than resolving the sacramental-efficacy question in either direction. Highest-priority escalation flag in the book.

Gospel Preached To The Dead

Approved rendering: благовістя проповідане мертвим
Transliteration: blahovistya propovidane mertvym
Doctrine: The Gospel Preached to the Dead
Original: εὐηγγελίσθη καὶ νεκροῖς
Category: Salvation

New term (εὐηγγελίσθη καὶ νεκροῖς, 4:6). Closely related to, and must be cross-referenced with, the 3:18-22 crux cluster. Must not resolve into a doctrine of general post-mortem salvation opportunity for the unevangelized dead — a position none of Ukraine’s major traditions historically holds in this form — without extensive, explicit qualification and theologian sign-off.

Elders

Approved rendering: старші (пресвітери)
Transliteration: starshi (presvytery)
Doctrine: Elders and Humility
Original: πρεσβύτεροι / συμπρεσβύτερος
Category: Church

New term (πρεσβύτεροι / συμπρεσβύτερος, 5:1). GROUNDED, double-loaded: (1) in Orthodox/Greek Catholic ecclesiology ‘пресвітер’ is the technical term for the second of three historic ordained ranks; (2) among Ukraine’s Baptist, Pentecostal, and other Evangelical congregations, ‘пресвітер’ is the standard current title for a senior pastoral leader. старші preferred in expository text (denominationally unmarked); reserve пресвітери for direct Scripture-citation register only. Must not appear to adjudicate contemporary Ukrainian denominational polity questions. Mandatory theologian review.

Chief Shepherd Unfading Crown

Approved rendering: Архипастир (найвищий Пастир); неpв’янучий вінець слави
Transliteration: Arkhypastyr (nayvyshchyy Pastyr); nepv’yanuchyy vinets’ slavy
Doctrine: Elders and Humility
Original: φανερωθέντος τοῦ ἀρχιποίμενος κομιεῖσθε τὸν ἀμαράντινον τῆς δόξης στέφανον
Category: Christology

New term (φανερωθέντος τοῦ ἀρχιποίμενος κομιεῖσθε τὸν ἀμαράντινον τῆς δόξης στέφανον, 5:4). GROUNDED: ‘Архипастир’ is a real, currently used honorific for a bishop/hierarch. Prefer найвищий/головний Пастир in exposition, reserving Архипастир only for an established Scripture-citation convention. Also keep the eschatological reward-crown (echoing 1:4’s нетлінний imagery) distinct from contemporary Ukrainian wartime commemorative crown/honor language for fallen soldiers. Mandatory theologian review.

True Grace Of God

Approved rendering: істинна благодать Божа; стійте в ній
Transliteration: istynna blahodat’ Bozha; stiyte v niy
Doctrine: Grace
Original: ταύτην εἶναι ἀληθῆ χάριν τοῦ Θεοῦ, εἰς ἣν στῆτε
Category: Salvation

New term (ταύτην εἶναι ἀληθῆ χάριν τοῦ Θεοῦ, εἰς ἣν στῆτε, 5:12). Peter’s own summary-characterization of the entire letter’s content; reuse baseline благодать exactly (Critical), requiring the full weight of the baseline’s grace discipline.

Flesh Sarx

Approved rendering: тіло / плоть
Transliteration: tilo / plot’
Doctrine: Holiness in Conduct
Original: σάρξ
Category: Sin

New occurrences of the Galatians-established σάρξ/σῶμα homograph risk (1:24 ‘all flesh is like grass,’ citation register — прefer плоть; 3:18/4:1 ‘suffered in the flesh’ — плоть; 4:2-3’s vice-list ethical sense — тіло). Disambiguate explicitly on first occurrence per chapter; do not assume the Galatians-material disambiguation transfers automatically to a reader encountering only 1 Peter.

High Risk Terms

Lord

Approved rendering: Господь
Transliteration: Hospod’
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: хазяїн, владика (reserve for liturgical/poetic register only)
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package, no deviation. 1 Peter 3:15 (‘sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts’) reactivates the exact Romans 10:9 caution: Господь’s heavy liturgical association risks sounding like a recited creed line rather than a personal, decisive confession under pressure to deny Christ publicly. Mandatory theologian review at 3:15 given the additional compounding with освячення (see sanctify_christ_as_lord below).

Christ Messiah

Approved rendering: Христос
Transliteration: Christos
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Rejected alternatives: рятівник світу (as a stand-alone substitute)
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package. Used throughout 1 Peter as Jesus’ effective title/surname, but explicitly re-surfaced in its messianic-fulfillment sense at 1:11 (‘the Spirit of Christ’ foretelling Christ’s sufferings) and 1:19-20; re-surface the Jewish messianic-fulfillment sense per baseline instruction rather than assuming readers still hear it in everyday usage.

Faith

Approved rendering: віра
Transliteration: vira
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: довіра, переконання
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package. Faith tested through trials (1:7), the means by which believers are guarded (1:5), and the ground of resistance to the devil (5:9, ‘firm in the faith’) — this last occurrence should be allowed to resonate with wartime standing-firm vocabulary as a pastoral asset without diluting the personal-trust sense.

Holy

Approved rendering: святий
Transliteration: svyatyy
Doctrine: Holiness in Conduct
Rejected alternatives: чистий, непорочний
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification

Inherited from Romans package. 1:15-16’s direct citation of Leviticus 19:2 (‘be holy, because I am holy’) must retain God’s own holiness as the explicit ground and measure of the command, not self-generated moral achievement (per the baseline’s caution against праведник’s achieved-virtue connotation). Corporate-inclusive at 2:5, 2:9, 3:5.

Obedience Of Faith

Approved rendering: послух віри / послух
Transliteration: poslukh viry
Doctrine: Holiness in Conduct
Rejected alternatives: релігійний обов’язок, дотримання обрядів
Original: ὑπακοή
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package. Named as one basis of election in the letter’s opening (1:2), as the mark of the readers’ new identity (‘children of obedience,’ 1:14; ‘having purified yourselves by obedience to the truth,’ 1:22). Obedience as faith’s fruit, never a separate meritorious duty; must not collapse into a praxis-only reading of Christian life given both majority liturgical traditions’ обряд-positive piety.

Called Calling

Approved rendering: покликаний / покликання
Transliteration: poklykanyy / poklykannya
Doctrine: Divine Election and Foreknowledge
Rejected alternatives: запрошений
Original: κλῆσις / κλητός
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans/Galatians package. Applied to holiness (1:15), corporate identity as God’s people (2:9), enduring unjust suffering (2:21, a new sense specific to 1 Peter — being ‘called to’ suffering well, requiring careful pastoral framing so suffering itself is not heard as the goal), blessing instead of retaliation (3:9), and eternal glory (5:10).

Election

Approved rendering: обрання / обраний
Transliteration: obrannya / obranyy
Doctrine: Divine Election and Foreknowledge
Rejected alternatives: доля, фатум, приречення (use only with careful qualification)
Original: ἐκλογή / ἐκλεκτός
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Never доля/фатум/карма, a caution of particular weight given widespread wartime public reflection on fate, survival, and chance. Applied to the letter’s recipients corporately (1:1), Christ as the ‘chosen and precious’ cornerstone (2:4, 2:6), the church as a ‘chosen race’ (2:9, additionally activating the baseline’s supersessionism caution), and the co-elect church in ‘Babylon’ (5:13).

Providence

Approved rendering: провидіння Боже
Transliteration: providinnya Bozhe
Doctrine: God’s Faithful Care Amid Suffering
Rejected alternatives: доля, випадок, карма (never use)
Original: πρόγνωσις / πιστὸς κτίστης / μέλει
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Named through ‘foreknowledge’ (1:2, πρόγνωσις), the description of God as ‘faithful Creator’ to whom souls are entrusted amid suffering (4:19), and the assurance that ‘he cares for you’ (5:7). Never доля/випадок/карма. 4:19 and 5:7 are strong positive pastoral assets and should be rendered with the same warmth the baseline requires for Romans 8:38-39.

Love

Approved rendering: любов
Transliteration: lyubov
Doctrine: Mutual Love and Spiritual Gifts / Holiness in Conduct
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans/Galatians package. Commanded as sincere brotherly love (1:22), toward Christ personally though unseen (1:8), toward all people (2:17), fervently within community (4:8), and as the reason believers need not fear (3:8-9). 4:8’s ‘love covers a multitude of sins’ requires the same discipline the baseline applies to Galatians 5:6/5:13-14: love is faith’s fruit and relational forbearance, never a competing means of securing forgiveness from God, which the letter grounds exclusively in Christ’s substitutionary suffering (2:24, 3:18).

Glory

Approved rendering: слава
Transliteration: slava
Doctrine: Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake / Elders and Humility
Rejected alternatives: шана, велич
Original: δόξα
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Very high-frequency term in this letter (1:7, 1:8, 1:11, 1:21, 1:24, 2:9 implied, 4:11, 4:13-14, 5:1, 5:4, 5:10); the baseline’s patriotic-idiom caution (‘Слава Україні’) applies at every single occurrence without exception. The divine referent must remain undiluted throughout the letter.

Peace

Approved rendering: мир
Transliteration: myr
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: спокій, затишшя
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Invoked in the opening greeting (1:2) and closing benediction (5:14). Acute wartime ‘opposite of war’ resonance applies at both occurrences; must be distinguished from readers’ urgent longing for the political peace of an end to the war without dismissing that longing’s legitimacy.

Gospel

Approved rendering: Євангеліє
Transliteration: Yevanheliye
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: добра звістка (acceptable as an explanatory gloss only)
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Referenced at 1:12, 1:25 (implied), 4:6, and 4:17. 4:17’s ‘those who do not obey the gospel of God’ should be read alongside the baseline’s obedience-of-faith discipline, not as introducing a separate merit category.

Sin

Approved rendering: гріх
Transliteration: hrikh
Doctrine: Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering
Rejected alternatives: помилка, провина

Inherited from Romans package. Central to 2:22 (‘committed no sin’), 2:24 (‘bore our sins’), 3:18 (‘suffered once for sins’), 4:6/4:1-3. Retains fuller devotional weight amid Ukraine’s wartime religious revival; care needed that гріх is not narrowed in wartime moral discourse to mean only an aggressor’s atrocities rather than the letter’s universal category.

Living Hope

Approved rendering: жива надія
Transliteration: zhyva nadiya
Doctrine: The Living Hope of the Resurrection
Rejected alternatives: генералізована надія (never leave надія un-anchored to the resurrection)
Original: ἐλπὶς ζῶσα
Category: Salvation

New term, core-passage doctrine (1:3, echoed 1:21). GROUNDED: ‘hope’ (надія) is saturated in current wartime public discourse (hope for victory, for the missing, for restoration) and risks flattening into generic morale language. Must be anchored to Christ’s bodily resurrection every single time it appears, per the baseline’s consistency rule for thesis-defining terms. Human theologian review recommended.

Imperishable

Approved rendering: нетлінний
Transliteration: netlinnyy
Doctrine: The Imperishable Inheritance / Holiness in Conduct
Original: ἄφθαρτος
Category: Salvation

New term. Applied to the inheritance (1:4), the regenerating ‘seed’ of God’s word (1:23), and the ‘imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit’ (3:4). GROUNDED: this is the specific Ukrainian term for the physically preserved ‘incorrupt’ relics of saints (нетлінні мощі), a highly visible feature of Orthodox/Greek Catholic piety, especially at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. Must be explicitly distinguished from that relic-veneration sense at each of its four occurrences (1:4, 1:18 implied, 1:23, 3:4) — do not assume a single early gloss covers all instances.

Guarded By Gods Power

Approved rendering: оберігатися / охоронятися
Transliteration: oberihatysya / okhoronyatysya
Doctrine: Assurance: Guarded by God’s Power
Original: φρουρέω
Category: Salvation

New term (φρουρέω, 1:5). GROUNDED, positive-asset caution: a genuine military garrison metaphor. For a readership with direct daily experience of literal guard duty and fortified positions during the ongoing war, this image lands with unusual immediacy — a powerful, faithful pastoral bridge — provided the text is explicit that the guarding secures eternal salvation by God’s power, not physical safety in the present war. Native speaker and theologian review recommended.

Sojourners Resident Aliens

Approved rendering: приходьки / переселенці / чужинці
Transliteration: prykhod’ky / pereselentsi / chuzhyntsi
Doctrine: Sojourner and Exile Identity
Original: παρεπίδημος / πάροικος
Category: Church

New term (παρεπίδημος / πάροικος, 1:1, 1:17, 2:11). GROUNDED: millions of Ukrainians are, in the most literal contemporary sense, sojourners because of mass internal displacement and refugee flight since 2014 and especially 2022. Peter’s spiritual exile-status claim (all believers await their true homeland regardless of geography) must not be simply collapsed into, nor detached from, readers’ literal displaced experience. Must render identically across all three occurrences. Human theologian and native-speaker review recommended.

Diaspora

Approved rendering: розсіяння / діаспора
Transliteration: rozsiyannya / diaspora
Doctrine: Sojourner and Exile Identity
Original: διασπορά
Category: Church

New term (διασπορά, 1:1). GROUNDED: ‘діаспора’ is a live, everyday word in current Ukrainian public discourse for the enormous community now living abroad because of the war. Creates a direct, moving bridge to readers’ actual experience, but Peter’s theological status (all believers scattered as sojourners in the world) must not simply validate or spiritualize the current geopolitical diaspora as such.

Redeemed Ransomed

Approved rendering: викуплені
Transliteration: vykupleni
Doctrine: Redemption through Christ’s Blood
Original: λυτρόω
Category: Salvation

New term (λυτρόω, 1:18). GROUNDED: ‘викуп’ carries unusually direct, current resonance in Ukraine because of the live reality of POW exchanges and hostage negotiations during the war. Requires explicit qualification that Christ’s ransom is a once-for-all, complete, spiritual redemption from sin’s bondage — not a literal parallel to ongoing wartime negotiations.

Precious Blood

Approved rendering: дорогоцінна кров
Transliteration: dorohotsinna krov
Doctrine: Redemption through Christ’s Blood
Rejected alternatives: чесна кров (avoid in this expository context — reserved for Eucharistic liturgical usage)
Original: τίμιον αἷμα
Category: Christology

New term (τίμιον αἷμα, 1:19). GROUNDED: ‘Чесна Кров’ (Precious/Venerable Blood) is standing liturgical language for the Eucharistic elements in Orthodox/Greek Catholic Divine Liturgy. Дорогоцінна кров is the safer choice for this expository context, keeping Peter’s historical, once-for-all referent clear of unintended sacramental resonance.

Spiritual Sacrifices

Approved rendering: духовні жертви
Transliteration: dukhovni zhertvy
Doctrine: The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood
Original: θυσίαι πνευματικαί
Category: Church

New term (θυσίαι πνευματικαί, 2:5). GROUNDED: collides with ‘Безкровна Жертва’ (Bloodless Sacrifice), the Eucharistic offering’s formal liturgical title. Must be explicitly framed as the whole congregation’s lives, praise, and good deeds — continuous with, but not identical to, sacramental liturgical practice.

Chosen Race Holy Nation

Approved rendering: обраний рід, святий народ, народ, здобутий Богом
Transliteration: obranyy rid, svyatyy narod, narod, zdobutyy Bohom
Doctrine: Unity and Identity of God’s People / Divine Election and Foreknowledge
Original: γένος ἐκλεκτόν, ἔθνος ἅγιον, λαὸς εἰς περιποίησιν
Category: Church

New term-cluster (γένος ἐκλεκτόν, ἔθνος ἅγιον, λαὸς εἰς περιποίησιν, citing Exodus 19:6/Isaiah 43:20-21, 2:9). OT covenant-people titles now applied to a mixed Jewish-Gentile church; must avoid a supersessionist reading that appears to erase ethnic Israel’s own ongoing significance, per the baseline’s Unity-of-Jews-and-Gentiles discipline (grounded in Ukraine’s history of antisemitic violence, including Babyn Yar). Requires the fullest available exposition of any single verse-cluster in the letter.

By His Wound Healed

Approved rendering: Його ранами ви зцілилися
Transliteration: Yoho ranamy vy ztsililysya
Doctrine: Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering
Original: οὗ τῷ μώλωπι ἰάθητε
Category: Salvation

New term (οὗ τῷ μώλωπι ἰάθητε, citing Isaiah 53:5, 2:24). Must be clearly taught as spiritual healing/restoration from sin’s effects, never a promise of physical healing — a real pastoral risk given prosperity-gospel-adjacent teaching in parts of the region’s Protestant landscape and the acute, current presence of literal war wounds among readers.

Weaker Vessel

Approved rendering: слабша посудина
Transliteration: slabsha posudyna
Doctrine: Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance
Original: ἀσθενέστερον σκεῦος
Category: Household

New term (ἀσθενέστερον σκεῦος, 3:7). Requires careful pastoral framing as a qualified, physical-strength observation historically embedded in ancient household structures, not a statement of lesser spiritual worth, intelligence, or capability — a distinction of particular importance given the enormous burdens borne by women functioning as sole heads of household in wartime Ukraine. Must be paired with joint_heirs_grace_of_life immediately.

Suffering For Righteousness Sake

Approved rendering: страждати за праведність
Transliteration: strazhdaty za pravednist’
Doctrine: Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake
Original: πάσχω διὰ δικαιοσύνην, μακάριοι
Category: Suffering

New term (πάσχω διὰ δικαιοσύνην, μακάριοι, 3:14, echoing the Beatitudes). Names the letter’s most distinctive doctrine; requires the same explicit ‘apart from works/achievement’ framing the baseline requires for righteousness generally, applied specifically to suffering.

Days Of Noah Ark

Approved rendering: дні Ноя / ковчег
Transliteration: dni Noya / kovcheh
Doctrine: Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits
Original: ἡμέραι Νῶε / κιβωτός
Category: Covenant

New term (ἡμέραι Νῶε / κιβωτός, 3:20). Requires the Genesis 6 narrative background to be explicitly supplied, paralleling the baseline’s existing requirement for Davidic/Abrahamic covenant background for readers whose Scripture exposure is primarily liturgical excerpts. Low lexical risk; high structural background-gap risk.

End Of All Things

Approved rendering: кінець усього наблизився
Transliteration: kinets’ usoho nablyzyvsya
Doctrine: Eschatological Hope and the End of All Things
Original: πάντων δὲ τὸ τέλος ἤγγικεν
Category: Eschatology

New term (πάντων δὲ τὸ τέλος ἤγγικεν, 4:7). GROUNDED: given heightened apocalyptic speculation in parts of Ukrainian public and church discourse tied to the ongoing war, requires careful pastoral framing — Peter’s point is sober watchfulness and intensified love, not date-setting or sensationalized end-times prediction.

Love Covers Sins

Approved rendering: любов покриває багато гріхів
Transliteration: lyubov pokryvaye bahato hrikhiv
Doctrine: Mutual Love and Spiritual Gifts
Original: ἀγάπη καλύπτει πλῆθος ἁμαρτιῶν
Category: Ethics

New term (ἀγάπη καλύπτει πλῆθος ἁμαρτιῶν, citing Proverbs 10:12, 4:8). Must not be misheard as an alternative atonement mechanism reintroducing works-based forgiveness; Peter’s sense is relational forbearance within community, not a competing means of securing forgiveness already grounded exclusively in Christ’s substitutionary suffering (2:24, 3:18).

Fiery Trial

Approved rendering: огненне випробування
Transliteration: ohnenne vyprobuvannya
Doctrine: Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake
Original: πύρωσις
Category: Suffering

New term (πύρωσις, 4:12). GROUNDED: lands with unusually painful literalness for readers whose towns, homes, and lives have been struck by literal fire and explosive munitions. Peter’s specific referent (persecution/suffering for the faith) must remain distinguished from a general theology of wartime suffering as such, though the two overlap in application.

Shepherd Flock Not Domineering

Approved rendering: пасіть Боже стадо, не пануючи над ним
Transliteration: pasit’ Bozhe stado, ne panuyuchy nad nym
Doctrine: Elders and Humility
Original: ποιμάνατε τὸ ποίμνιον…μηδὲ αἰσχροκερδῶς…μηδ’ ὡς κατακυριεύοντες
Category: Church

New term (ποιμάνατε τὸ ποίμνιον…μηδὲ αἰσχροκερδῶς…μηδ’ ὡς κατακυριεύοντες, 5:2-3). GROUNDED: given real, documented public concern in Ukraine about clergy financial impropriety and authoritarian leadership styles across multiple traditions, this passage will inevitably be heard as relevant to contemporary controversies. Present as Peter’s own timeless apostolic instruction, not veiled commentary on any specific current Ukrainian church body.

Younger Subject To Elders

Approved rendering: молодші, будьте покірні старшим
Transliteration: molodshi, but’te pokirni starshym
Doctrine: Elders and Humility
Original: νεώτεροι, ὑποτάγητε πρεσβυτέροις
Category: Authority

New term (νεώτεροι, ὑποτάγητε πρεσβυτέροις, 5:5). Same ὑποτάσσω-family caution as submission above, generational register; must be read together with the immediately following universal-humility instruction so it is not heard as a one-directional power structure.

Casting Anxiety

Approved rendering: покладіть усю вашу тривогу на Нього
Transliteration: pokladit’ usyu vashu tryvohu na Noho
Doctrine: God’s Faithful Care Amid Suffering
Original: πᾶσαν τὴν μέριμναν ὑμῶν ἐπιρίψαντες ἐπ’ αὐτόν
Category: Faith

New term (πᾶσαν τὴν μέριμναν ὑμῶν ἐπιρίψαντες ἐπ’ αὐτόν, ὅτι αὐτῷ μέλει περὶ ὑμῶν, 5:7). GROUNDED, positive asset: given the acute, widespread anxiety, grief, and trauma across Ukrainian society during the war, this verse carries exceptional pastoral weight and should be rendered with the same warm, relational, hope-affirming register the baseline requires for Romans 8:38-39 and Galatians 4:6’s ‘Abba, Father.‘

Foreknowledge

Approved rendering: передбачення / провидіння Отця
Transliteration: peredbachennya
Doctrine: Divine Election and Foreknowledge
Rejected alternatives: доля, фатум, карма

New term (πρόγνωσιν Θεοῦ Πατρός, 1:2). Adjacent to the baseline’s Critical election and High providence entries; must not be rendered with доля/фатум/карма and should be distinguished from the separate providence term used at 5:7, though both concern God’s purposive care.

Sufferings And Glories Of Christ

Approved rendering: страждання, призначені Христові, і слава після них
Transliteration: strazhdannya, pryznacheni Khrystovi, i slava pislya nykh
Doctrine: Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake / Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering

New term (τὰ εἰς Χριστὸν παθήματα…καὶ τὰς μετὰ ταῦτα δόξας, 1:11). The letter’s structural key — the suffering-then-glory pattern; must render consistently every time it recurs (4:13, 5:1, 5:10).

Household Slaves Masters

Approved rendering: слуги (раби)…панам (господарям)
Transliteration: sluhy (raby)…panam (hospodaryam)
Doctrine: Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance

New term (δοῦλοι…δεσπόταις, 2:18-25). Requires explicit historical framing (first-century household slavery, not a timeless endorsement of the institution); must not be read as counsel applicable to any contemporary situation of forced labor or human trafficking, a live concern given documented wartime abuses.

Medium Risk Terms

Father

Approved rendering: Отець
Transliteration: Otets’
Doctrine: Adoption/Family of God
Rejected alternatives: батюшка (never use for God the Father; Russicism reserved, if at all, for addressing an Orthodox priest)
Original: πατήρ
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. 1:17’s ‘if you call on him as Father’ who judges impartially pairs with παρεπίδημοι (‘sojourners’) in the same verse — the Father to whom the displaced/exiled believer belongs; a pastoral pairing worth preserving in exposition.

Spiritual Gifts

Approved rendering: духовні дари
Transliteration: dukhovni dary
Doctrine: Mutual Love and Spiritual Gifts
Rejected alternatives: екстрасенсорні здібності (never use), таланти
Original: χάρισμα
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package. Named individually at 4:10 (‘each, as he has received a gift’); render singular per individual (χάρισμα). Never екстрасенсорні здібності, given persistent post-Soviet folk-psychic culture.

Apostle

Approved rendering: апостол
Transliteration: apostol
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: посланець, проповідник

Inherited from Romans package. 1 Peter 1:1: ‘Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ.’ Transliterated loanword, uncontested across all Ukrainian Christian traditions.

Power Of God

Approved rendering: сила Божа
Transliteration: syla Bozha
Doctrine: Assurance: Guarded by God’s Power
Rejected alternatives: енергія

Inherited from Romans package. 1 Peter 1:5: believers ‘guarded (φρουρέω) by the power of God through faith.’ Avoid енергія per the baseline’s existing Palamite-theology caution; God’s active power, not the believer’s own strength, upholds the believer’s security.

Abraham

Approved rendering: Авраам
Transliteration: Avraam
Doctrine: Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance

Inherited from Galatians package, standard proper name form. Referenced at 1 Peter 3:6 alongside Sarah, in the pattern of wifely conduct (‘as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord’); requires supplied Genesis narrative background per the baseline’s existing OT-background requirement.

Soul Psyche

Approved rendering: душа
Transliteration: dusha
Doctrine: The Living Hope of the Resurrection
Original: ψυχή
Category: Salvation

New term. ψυχή denotes the whole person, not merely an immaterial component distinct from the body — ‘the salvation of your souls’ (1:9), ‘entrust their souls to a faithful Creator’ (4:19), ‘eight souls were saved through water’ (3:20). Must not be taught as excluding the body; 1 Peter’s hope is bodily-resurrection-grounded (1:3). Gloss ‘soul’ as ‘the whole person’ to avoid an unintended body/soul salvation dualism.

Mercy

Approved rendering: милосердя / милість
Transliteration: myloserdya / mylist’
Doctrine: God’s Mercy in the New Birth
Rejected alternatives: благодать (never conflate mercy with grace despite overlap)
Original: ἔλεος
Category: Salvation

New term. 1 Peter 1:3: ‘according to his great mercy he has caused us to be born again.’ GROUNDED: милість is listed in the baseline as a rejected alternative specifically for благодать (‘grace’), yet милість/милосердя is the correct, standard term for ἔλεος throughout the Psalter and liturgy. Must be kept lexically and conceptually distinct from благодать even though the two overlap theologically, or the baseline’s grace discipline is undermined.

Inheritance

Approved rendering: спадщина / спадок
Transliteration: spadshchyna / spadok
Doctrine: The Imperishable Inheritance
Original: κληρονομία
Category: Salvation

New term. 1 Peter 1:4 (kept in heaven); 3:7 (joint heirs of the grace of life). Connects to the baseline’s High-risk adoption/inheritance-rights caution (Romans 8:17), given wartime resonance with displaced Ukrainian families who have lost homes and property documents. Must state clearly this inheritance is kept ‘in heaven,’ not read only in its ordinary legal/estate sense.

Trial Peirasmos

Approved rendering: випробування
Transliteration: vyprobuvannya
Doctrine: Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake
Rejected alternatives: спокуса (never use in suffering/hardship contexts — reserve strictly for moral temptation)
Original: πειρασμός
Category: Suffering

New term (πειρασμός, 1:6; 4:12 as πύρωσις/fiery trial). Ukrainian usefully has two words where Greek has one; consistently choose випробування (hardship/testing) throughout 1 Peter’s suffering contexts. Given the acute reality of wartime hardship, this term lands with unusual immediacy and must be handled with pastoral seriousness.

Proven Genuineness Of Faith

Approved rendering: випробувана щирість (віри)
Transliteration: vyprobuvana shchyrist’ (viry)
Doctrine: Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake
Original: δοκίμιον
Category: Suffering

New term (δοκίμιον, 1:7). Refining-fire metaphor carries painful literal resonance for readers whose homes/cities have been struck by actual fire and explosives. The metaphor’s power should register pastorally but must remain clearly figurative for faith’s proven quality, not read as commentary on literal wartime destruction.

Lamb Without Blemish

Approved rendering: непорочний і чистий Агнець
Transliteration: neporochnyy i chystyy Ahnets’
Doctrine: Redemption through Christ’s Blood
Original: ἀμνὸς ἄμωμος καὶ ἄσπιλος
Category: Christology

New term (ἀμνὸς ἄμωμος καὶ ἄσπιλος, 1:19). Positive asset: Агнець is already firmly established in Ukrainian liturgical usage (‘Ось Агнець Божий’) and may be used with confidence; непорочний overlaps lightly with Marian devotional vocabulary (Непорочне Зачаття), requiring only a light gloss since the referent here (the lamb, not a person’s conception) is clear.

Living Stone

Approved rendering: живий камінь
Transliteration: zhyvyy kamin’
Doctrine: The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood
Original: λίθος ζῶν
Category: Christology

New term (λίθος ζῶν, 2:4). Continues the letter’s deliberate ‘living’ vocabulary thread (жива надія 1:3, живого слова 1:23); Phase 2 material should surface this thread explicitly, even though Ukrainian grammatical gender agreement partially obscures the Greek repetition.

Spiritual House

Approved rendering: духовний дім
Transliteration: dukhovnyy dim
Doctrine: Unity and Identity of God’s People
Rejected alternatives: церква (do not silently harmonize)
Original: οἶκος πνευματικός
Category: Church

New term (οἶκος πνευματικός, 2:5). Must not be silently harmonized into церква (see church entry above); this is 1 Peter’s own distinct temple-community metaphor and should be taught on its own terms.

Stone Of Stumbling

Approved rendering: камінь спотикання
Transliteration: kamin’ spotykannya
Doctrine: The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood
Original: λίθος προσκόμματος / πέτρα σκανδάλου
Category: Christology

New term (λίθος προσκόμματος / πέτρα σκανδάλου, citing Isaiah 8:14, 2:7-8). Requires careful framing so the ‘stumbling’ is understood as unbelief’s own responsibility (‘because they disobey the word,’ 2:8), not divine caprice — ties to the baseline’s caution requiring explicit theological framing for election-adjacent language.

Human Institution

Approved rendering: людське встановлення
Transliteration: lyudske vstanovlennya
Doctrine: Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance
Original: ἀνθρωπίνη κτίσις
Category: Authority

New term (ἀνθρωπίνη κτίσις, 2:13). Requires framing as instituted civil order generally, not endorsement of any specific regime or occupying power.

Suffer Unjustly

Approved rendering: страждати несправедливо
Transliteration: strazhdaty nespravedlyvo
Doctrine: Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake
Original: πάσχω ἀδίκως
Category: Suffering

New term (πάσχω ἀδίκως, 2:19). справедливість here is used in its ordinary ‘just/unjust’ sense, a different, unproblematic usage that should not trigger the baseline’s existing caution against справедливість as a false-friend substitute for праведність.

Example Pattern

Approved rendering: приклад / зразок
Transliteration: pryklad / zrazok
Doctrine: Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance
Original: ὑπογραμμός
Category: Suffering

New term (ὑπογραμμός, 2:21). The specific ‘copybook-tracing’ image is lost in translation, but the sense of active imitation, not mere admiration, must be preserved expositorily.

Joint Heirs Grace Of Life

Approved rendering: співспадкоємці благодаті життя
Transliteration: spivspadkoyemtsi blahodati zhyttya
Doctrine: Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance
Original: συγκληρονόμοι χάριτος ζωῆς
Category: Household

New term (συγκληρονόμοι χάριτος ζωῆς, 3:7). Positive doctrinal counterweight to weaker_vessel; must receive full pastoral emphasis, not be overshadowed by the preceding phrase. Reuses baseline благодать and connects to κληρονομία (inheritance, 1:4).

Defense Answer

Approved rendering: відповідь / оборона
Transliteration: vidpovid’ / oborona
Doctrine: Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake
Original: ἀπολογία
Category: Faith

New term (ἀπολογία, 3:15). Root of ‘apologetics,’ a useful teaching asset. φόβος here (3:15’s ‘with gentleness and respect’) means respectful reverence, not terror — must be disambiguated from the ‘do not fear’ usage two verses earlier (3:14), a deliberate Petrine wordplay.

Angels Authorities Powers

Approved rendering: ангели, влади, сили
Transliteration: anhely, vlady, syly
Doctrine: Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits
Original: ἄγγελοι, ἐξουσίαι, δυνάμεις
Category: Cosmology

New term (ἄγγελοι, ἐξουσίαι, δυνάμεις, 3:22). Cosmic/angelic sense; must disambiguate clearly from the human-political ἐξουσία of 2:13, so this cosmic-victory statement is not confused with the letter’s separate, sensitive teaching on submission to human government.

Good Stewards Of Grace

Approved rendering: добрі управителі різноманітної благодаті Божої
Transliteration: dobri upravyteli riznomanitnoyi blahodati Bozhoyi
Doctrine: Mutual Love and Spiritual Gifts
Original: καλοὶ οἰκονόμοι ποικίλης χάριτος Θεοῦ
Category: Church

New term (καλοὶ οἰκονόμοι ποικίλης χάριτος Θεοῦ, 4:10). Standard stewardship vocabulary; reuses baseline благодать in its grace-gift sense.

Approved rendering: приобщатися стражданням Христовим
Transliteration: pryobshchatysya strazhdannyam Khrystovym
Doctrine: Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake
Original: κοινωνέω τοῖς τοῦ Χριστοῦ παθήμασιν
Category: Suffering

New term (κοινωνέω τοῖς τοῦ Χριστοῦ παθήμασιν, 4:13). Directly names the Suffering-for-Righteousness’-Sake doctrine’s christological ground; cross-reference explicitly to 1:11 and 3:18’s suffering-then-glory pattern.

Spirit Of Glory

Approved rendering: Дух слави
Transliteration: Dukh slavy
Doctrine: Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake
Original: τὸ τῆς δόξης Πνεῦμα
Category: God

New term (τὸ τῆς δόξης Πνεῦμα ἀναπαύεται, 4:14). Capitalize Дух per the mandatory baseline rule — unambiguous by context here, unlike 3:18. Reuse baseline слава caution: the divine referent must remain undiluted and distinct from the patriotic idiom.

Christian Name

Approved rendering: християнин
Transliteration: khrystyanyn
Doctrine: Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake
Original: Χριστιανός
Category: Church

New term (Χριστιανός, 4:16, one of only three NT occurrences). Standard, uncontested word; resonates with the letter’s concern for visible, public witness and has particular current relevance for chaplaincy and public faith-identification in wartime contexts.

Judgment Begins Household Of God

Approved rendering: суд починається з дому Божого
Transliteration: sud pochynayetsya z domu Bozhoho
Doctrine: Unity and Identity of God’s People
Original: ὁ καιρὸς τοῦ ἄρξασθαι τὸ κρίμα ἀπὸ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ Θεοῦ
Category: Church

New term (ὁ καιρὸς τοῦ ἄρξασθαι τὸ κρίμα ἀπὸ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ Θεοῦ, 4:17). οἶκος τοῦ Θεοῦ must be taught as God’s people/family (continuous with 2:5’s духовний дім), not a physical building (a храм/church-building misreading), per the baseline’s parallel caution for church-as-people generally.

Entrust Souls To Faithful Creator

Approved rendering: доручати душі вірному Творцеві
Transliteration: doruchaty dushi virnomu Tvortsevi
Doctrine: God’s Faithful Care Amid Suffering
Original: πιστῷ κτίστῃ παρατιθέσθωσαν τὰς ψυχὰς αὐτῶν
Category: God

New term (πιστῷ κτίστῃ παρατιθέσθωσαν τὰς ψυχὰς αὐτῶν, 4:19). Positive pastoral asset: grounds trust in God’s steady, original faithfulness, apt for readers entrusting their safety and loved ones’ safety to God amid ongoing danger. Reuse провидіння Боже caution (never доля/фатум/карма) while allowing genuine comfort to register warmly.

Humility

Approved rendering: смиренність / упокоритися
Transliteration: smyrennist’ / upokorytysya
Doctrine: Elders and Humility
Original: ταπεινοφροσύνη / ταπεινόω
Category: Ethics

New term (ταπεινοφροσύνη / ταπεινόω, citing Proverbs 3:34, 5:5-6). Positively valued virtue across all Ukrainian Christian traditions, including strong monastic-heritage resonance. Reuse baseline благодать for χάρις here. Should be taught as the corrective balance to the preceding submission-language verses so the whole cluster (5:1-6) reads as mutual, not one-directional.

Adversary Devil

Approved rendering: супротивник диявол
Transliteration: suprotyvnyk dyyavol
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and Perseverance
Original: ὁ ἀντίδικος ὑμῶν διάβολος ὡς λέων ὠρυόμενος
Category: Spiritual Warfare

New term (ὁ ἀντίδικος ὑμῶν διάβολος ὡς λέων ὠρυόμενος, 5:8). Standard, uncontested terms across all traditions; caution is contextual — given persistent post-Soviet folk-occult culture (екстрасенси, ворожки), this image must describe real, personal spiritual opposition, not folk-superstitious demonology or fear-driven spiritual paranoia.

Resist Devil Firm In Faith

Approved rendering: противтесь йому, стійкі у вірі
Transliteration: protyvtes’ yomu, stiyki u viri
Doctrine: Spiritual Warfare and Perseverance
Original: ἀντίστητε στερεοὶ τῇ πίστει
Category: Faith

New term (ἀντίστητε στερεοὶ τῇ πίστει, 5:9). Positive asset: ‘stand firm’ military-resistance language resonates naturally for a wartime readership already primed by 1:5’s guarded imagery, a coherent thematic thread worth surfacing explicitly.

Brotherhood

Approved rendering: братство
Transliteration: bratstvo
Doctrine: Brotherhood and Christian Community
Original: ἡ ἐν κόσμῳ ἀδελφότης
Category: Church

New term (ἡ ἐν κόσμῳ ἀδελφότης, 5:9). GROUNDED, strong positive asset: carries deep, specifically Ukrainian historical resonance — the historic Orthodox lay-religious братства (confraternities) of the 16th-17th centuries, centered in Kyiv, tied to the founding of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. The curriculum must clarify Peter’s ἀδελφότης names the worldwide fellowship of all suffering believers, avoiding anachronistic conflation with the specific historic institutions.

Babylon

Approved rendering: Вавилон
Transliteration: Vavylon
Doctrine: Brotherhood and Christian Community
Original: ἡ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι συνεκλεκτή
Category: Church

New term (ἡ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι συνεκλεκτή, 5:13). Requires explicit historical framing (a first-century code name for Rome, not a literal geographic reference), parallel to the baseline’s Israel/Israel-of-God historical-clarity requirement. Contemporary Ukrainian discourse sometimes uses ‘Babylon’ imagery rhetorically for an imperial aggressor power; supply the historical explanation plainly without inviting or foreclosing that contemporary application.

Conduct Anastrophe

Approved rendering: поводження / спосіб життя
Transliteration: povodzhennya / sposib zhyttya
Doctrine: Holiness in Conduct

New term (ἀναστροφή, 1:15, 1:18, 2:12, 3:1-2, 3:16). The letter’s dominant ethical-vocabulary term, denoting everyday behavior taken as a whole, observed by outsiders (2:12); must render consistently across all occurrences to preserve the letter’s coherence around visible conduct, not private piety alone.

Sprinkling Of Blood

Approved rendering: покроплення кров’ю Ісуса Христа
Transliteration: pokroplennya krov’yu Isusa Khrysta
Doctrine: Redemption through Christ’s Blood

New term (ῥαντισμὸν αἵματος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, 1:2, alluding to the Sinai covenant ceremony of Exodus 24:3-8). Requires explicit OT covenant-ceremony background; borders the liturgical register of ‘Чесна Кров’ used of the Eucharistic elements — see precious_blood above for the fuller treatment.

Children Of Obedience

Approved rendering: діти послуху
Transliteration: dity poslukhu
Doctrine: Holiness in Conduct

New term (τέκνα ὑπακοῆς, 1:14). Hebraic idiom for people characterized by obedience; ties to the послух віри baseline discipline — obedience as identity, not earned merit.

Spirit Of Christ

Approved rendering: Дух Христовий
Transliteration: Dukh Khrystovyy
Doctrine: Inspiration and Fulfillment of Prophecy

New term (τὸ ἐν αὐτοῖς Πνεῦμα Χριστοῦ, 1:11). Identifies the OT prophetic Spirit with Christ’s own Spirit — a strong pre-existence/deity-of-Christ claim. Capitalize Дух per the mandatory baseline rule.

Do Not Fear Their Fear

Approved rendering: не бійтеся їхнього страху
Transliteration: ne biytesya yikhn’oho strakhu
Doctrine: Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake

New term (τὸν δὲ φόβον αὐτῶν μὴ φοβηθῆτε, citing Isaiah 8:12-13, 3:14). Especially weighty for readers living under real, current physical danger; must be handled with the same pastoral warmth the baseline requires for Romans 8’s ‘nothing can separate us,’ not a denial of legitimate fear but an exhortation not to be governed by it.

Low Risk Terms

Fellowship

Approved rendering: спілкування
Transliteration: spilkuvannya
Doctrine: Joy Amid Suffering
Rejected alternatives: дружба, колектив (avoid Soviet-collective connotation)
Original: κοινωνέω
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package. Applied specifically to sharing in Christ’s sufferings (4:13, κοινωνέω, rendered contextually as ‘приобщатися стражданням Христовим’); do not shorten to спілкування alone, which loses the participatory ‘sharing in’ force. Cross-reference to 1:11 and 3:18’s suffering-then-glory pattern.

Prophet

Approved rendering: пророк
Transliteration: prorok
Doctrine: Inspiration and Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: ворожбит, екстрасенс

Inherited from Romans package. 1 Peter 1:10: OT prophets who ‘searched and inquired carefully’ about this salvation. Never ворожбит/екстрасенс, given the same post-Soviet folk-psychic culture flagged under spiritual gifts.

Prophecy

Approved rendering: пророцтво
Transliteration: prorotstvo
Doctrine: Inspiration and Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: ворожіння, гороскоп

Inherited from Romans package. Distinguish from horoscope/fortune-telling (ворожіння, гороскоп), still a widespread cultural practice in secular Ukrainian media.

Cornerstone

Approved rendering: наріжний камінь
Transliteration: narizhnyy kamin’
Doctrine: The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood
Original: λίθος ἀκρογωνιαῖος ἐκλεκτὸς ἔντιμος
Category: Christology

New term (λίθος ἀκρογωνιαῖος ἐκλεκτὸς ἔντιμος, citing Isaiah 28:16, 2:6). Established, uncontested architectural-Christological image.

Kiss Of Love

Approved rendering: поцілунок любові
Transliteration: potsilunok lyubovi
Doctrine: Brotherhood and Christian Community
Original: φίλημα ἀγάπης
Category: Church

New term (φίλημα ἀγάπης, 5:14). Positive asset: connects naturally to the ‘kiss of peace’ (лобизання миру) still practiced liturgically in Orthodox and Greek Catholic worship.

Sober Minded

Approved rendering: будучи тверезими
Transliteration: buduchy tverezymy
Doctrine: Eschatological Hope and the End of All Things

New term (νήφω, 1:13, 4:7, 5:8). Freedom from intoxication/distraction, applied spiritually; keep rendering consistent across all three occurrences.

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