Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 1 Thessalonians (English–Ukrainian)
This glossary supplements, and never contradicts, the baseline Romans/Galatians translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json. It is organized in two parts:
- Part A — Reused Baseline Terms: terms already fixed by the baseline Language Package that recur in 1 Thessalonians. These renderings must be reused exactly as recorded in the baseline; this table exists only to confirm coverage and flag any new nuance the term picks up in this letter.
- Part B — New Terms for 1 Thessalonians: terms not present in the baseline, newly assigned a risk tier and rendering per the same methodology as
bible_term_registry.json.
Citation convention for this curriculum: 1 Thessalonians = Перше послання до солунян (abbrev. 1 Сол.), following the Ohienko translation’s traditional book-title form; Thessalonica = Солунь; its residents = солуняни.
Part A — Reused Baseline Terms (confirm exact reuse; no new renderings)
| English term | Ukrainian term (reuse exactly) | Baseline risk | 1 Thessalonians occurrences | New nuance in this letter, if any |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gospel | Євангеліє | High | 1:5; 2:2, 4, 8, 9; 3:2 | None beyond baseline. |
| grace | благодать | Critical | 1:1; 5:28 | Greeting-formula use only; no new risk. |
| faith | віра | High | 1:3, 8; 3:2, 5-7, 10; 5:8 | 5:8’s “breastplate of faith” combines віра with wartime-resonant armor imagery — see Part B, armor_of_faith_love_hope. |
| church | церква | Critical | 1:1; 2:14 | 2:14 compares the Thessalonian church’s suffering to “the churches of God in Judea” — a cross-regional church-unity statement; keep церква jurisdiction-neutral per baseline instruction. |
| apostle | апостол | Medium | 2:6 (implied, ἀπόστολοι Χριστοῦ) | None beyond baseline. |
| called / calling | покликаний / покликання | Medium/High | 2:12; 4:7; 5:24 | 4:7’s “God has not called us to impurity but to holiness” ties calling directly to ἁγιασμός — reinforce cross-reference. |
| holy | святий | Medium/High | throughout (Святий Дух, святі, ἅγιωσύνη-adjacent) | See Part B for ἁγιωσύνη’s distinct treatment. |
| saints | святі | High | 3:13 | Baseline’s “corporate, not canonized-elite” caution applies with special force given the “holy ones at the parousia” interpretive question — see semantic analysis. |
| sanctification | освячення | Critical | 3:13 (verb related); 4:3, 4, 7; 5:23 | Densest concentration of this term in either curriculum to date (5 occurrences in one short letter); reinforced Critical status. |
| resurrection | воскресіння | Medium (Critical in this letter’s central doctrine) | 4:14, 16 | Elevate to Critical within this curriculum given “Resurrection of Believers” is a named core doctrine, not a supporting theme as in Romans. |
| lord | Господь | High | throughout (over 20 occurrences) | 4:15-17’s dense concentration in the core passage; see semantic analysis for κέλευσμα/ἀπάντησις collocations. |
| son_of_god | Син Божий (cf. “his Son,” 1:10) | Medium | 1:10 | Standard usage. |
| peace | мир | High | 1:1; 5:3; 5:23 | 5:3’s “peace and security” is a new, sharply elevated Critical-level risk within this letter — see Part B, peace_and_security. Do not assume the greeting-formula (1:1) risk level applies to 5:3; they must be handled separately. |
| thanksgiving | подяка | Low | 1:2; 2:13; 3:9; 5:18 | None beyond baseline. |
| fellowship | спілкування | Low | (implicit in congregational address) | None beyond baseline. |
| kingdom_of_god | Царство Боже | High | 2:12 | None beyond baseline. |
| glory | слава | Medium | 2:12, 20 | None beyond baseline. |
| love | любов | High | 1:3; 3:6, 12; 4:9-10; 5:8, 13 | 4:9-10’s φιλαδελφία is a related but distinct new term — see Part B. |
| election | обрання | High | 1:4 | None beyond baseline. |
| god | Бог | Critical | throughout | None beyond baseline. |
| holy_spirit | Святий Дух | Critical | 1:5, 6; 4:8 | 5:19’s bare πνεῦμα is a distinct, elevated risk — see Part B, quench_the_spirit. |
| father | Отець | High | 1:1, 3; 3:11, 13 | None beyond baseline. |
| exhort | закликати (context-sensitive; see baseline note) | Low (context-sensitive) | 2:12; 4:1, 10, 18; 5:11, 14 | 4:18’s use requires the comfort/console sense (утішайте), not закликати’s edification sense — flag explicitly per semantic analysis. |
| prophecy | пророцтво | Low | 5:20 | None beyond baseline. |
| gentiles | погани / народи (context-sensitive; see baseline note) | Medium | 4:5 | Elevated caution required — 4:5 describes genuinely negative pagan conduct, precisely the context where погани’s derogatory drift is easiest to reinforce inadvertently. Use народи, що не знають Бога. |
| jesus | Ісус | Medium (Critical script rule) | throughout | None beyond baseline. |
Part B — New Terms for 1 Thessalonians
| Term key | Category | Risk | Original (Greek) | Transliteration | Definition | Ukrainian term | Translation notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| parousia_return_of_christ | Eschatology | Critical | παρουσία | parousia | Christ’s future, visible, bodily return; also carries a Hellenistic civic-royal “arrival of a sovereign” connotation. | прихід (Господній) [exposition]; парусія [technical gloss only] | New central term for the doctrine “The Return of Christ.” Never conflate with any specific date-setting or popular apocalyptic speculation, which Paul himself opposes (5:1-3). Human theologian review mandatory for every occurrence (2:19; 3:13; 4:15; 5:23). |
| asleep_in_death | Eschatology | High | κοιμᾶσθαι (κοιμωμένων / κοιμηθέντας) | koimasthai | Euphemism for the death of believers, chosen to frame death as temporary in light of the resurrection. | заснулі (померлі) — gloss required on first use | Must not flatten into плain “померлі” without preserving Paul’s deliberate comfort-bearing euphemism; must not be over-literalized into a “soul sleep” doctrine either. Render consistently across 4:13, 14, 15 for internal passage cohesion. |
| caught_up_rapture | Eschatology | Critical | ἁρπάζω (ἁρπαγησόμεθα) | harpazō | The sudden, forcible gathering of living believers to meet the returning Christ. | піднесені (підхоплені) [в повітря] | NEVER use восхищення as the primary rendering — its dominant modern meaning (“admiration, delight”) is a false friend fully comparable to гріх/погани’s already-flagged drift. Do not import the full popular-culture “Rapture” systematic framework (multiple raptures, “left behind” tropes, tribulation timelines) as though self-evidently Paul’s own scheme; render his plain words and let doctrine teaching supply the larger framework explicitly. Human theologian review mandatory for every occurrence (4:17). |
| day_of_the_lord | Eschatology | High | ἡμέρα κυρίου | hēmera kyriou | The singular, future, decisive day of God’s eschatological judgment and salvation. | день Господній | Homograph risk with the ordinary Ukrainian ecclesial designation of Sunday as “the Lord’s day” in some usage; must be disambiguated on first occurrence. Human theologian review required (5:2, 4). |
| peace_and_security | Eschatology / Political Sensitivity | Critical | εἰρήνη καὶ ἀσφάλεια | eirēnē kai asphaleia | The complacent, self-assured claim of safety that precedes sudden divine judgment; echoes and subverts a Roman imperial slogan. | мир та безпека | The single highest-stakes term collision in this letter: directly invokes Ukraine’s own live, urgent political discourse on ceasefire and security guarantees. Must be framed so readers do not conclude that seeking a genuine, justly-sought peace is itself spiritually suspect — Paul’s target is complacent unpreparedness, not the legitimate hope for an end to an unjust war. Human theologian review mandatory for every occurrence (5:3); do not translate or teach 5:1-3 without this framing in place. |
| hope | Eschatology / Pastoral Care | Critical | ἐλπίς | elpis | Confident expectation grounded in Christ’s resurrection and promised return, not generalized optimism. | надія | Central term for the doctrine “Hope in Grief.” Must always be anchored explicitly to its object (Christ’s death/resurrection and future coming, 4:14-17), distinct from — though not dismissive of — the intense, immediate wartime register in which надія circulates in ordinary Ukrainian usage. Human theologian review required for every occurrence in ch. 4-5 (4:13; 5:8). |
| grief_grieve | Pastoral Care | High | λυπέομαι (λυπῆσθε) | lypeomai | Sorrow/mourning; explicitly permitted by Paul, but qualified — not forbidden — in light of resurrection hope. | сумувати / журитися | Must not be rendered or taught so as to forbid grief itself; Paul distinguishes hopeless grief from hope-qualified grief, not grief from stoic non-grief. Central to “Hope in Grief” (4:13). |
| affliction_tribulation | Suffering | High | θλῖψις | thlipsis | Distress, pressure, or persecution faced by believers, individually or corporately, for the faith. | скорбота (or переслідування in persecution-specific contexts) | Must retain its full range (social exclusion, persecution, general hardship) rather than narrowing exclusively to combat/military suffering, while acknowledging the term’s unusually immediate resonance in current wartime Ukraine (1:6; 2:14; 3:3-4, 7). |
| wrath | Eschatology | High | ὀργή | orgē | God’s settled, righteous, judicial response to sin, contrasted with salvation as one of two final destinies. | гнів (Божий) | Must read as ordered judicial justice, not capricious rage nor an impersonal cosmic force; must not be co-opted to validate a reader’s own side in a wartime moral dispute — the referent is universal final judgment (1:10; 2:16; 5:9). |
| holiness_state | Sanctification | High | ἁγιωσύνη | hagiōsynē | The state/quality of holiness, as the goal toward which ἁγιασμός (the process) moves. | святість | Keep lexically distinct from освячення (ἁγιασμός, the process-word) so Paul’s own process/state distinction is not collapsed; distinguish from secular мораль (“good character”) (3:13). |
| sexual_immorality | Ethics | Medium | πορνεία | porneia | Sexual immorality in general (broader than its etymological root in commercial prostitution). | розпуста (Ohienko: блуд) | Standard vocabulary, no live sectarian collision; keep tied positively to ἁγιασμός as God’s will rather than a bare prohibition (4:3). |
| vessel_body_disputed | Ethics | High | σκεῦος | skeuos | Disputed referent: either “one’s own body” or “one’s own wife” — a genuine exegetical ambiguity in the source text. | своє тіло [primary]; свою дружину [minority reading, flag in note] | Source-text ambiguity, not a translation-only problem; recommend “своє тіло” as primary per majority evangelical rendering, with the alternative explicitly noted rather than silently suppressed. Human theologian review required (4:4). |
| brotherly_love | Ethics | Medium | φιλαδελφία | philadelphia | Love among the spiritual family of believers. | братолюбство | Positive resonance with Ukraine’s wartime “брати по зброї” solidarity discourse; distinguish spiritual family-love from wartime comradeship as a bridge illustration, not an equivalence (4:9-10). |
| taught_by_god | Revelation | Medium | θεοδίδακτος | theodidaktos | Directly, divinely instructed (a rare NT coinage). | богонавчені | Must not be framed as bypassing the church’s teaching role/Tradition (Передання) for Orthodox/Greek Catholic readers; present as compatible with, not opposed to, being taught through the church (4:9). |
| quiet_life_manual_work | Ethics | Medium | ἡσυχάζειν / ἐργάζεσθαι ταῖς χερσίν | hēsychazein / ergazesthai tais chersin | A settled, orderly, self-supporting life. | жити тихо; працювати своїми руками | Do not apply as an implicit rebuke to displaced persons or war-affected readers unable to work or live settled lives through no fault of their own (4:11). |
| sons_of_light | Ethics / Eschatology | Medium | υἱοὶ φωτός / υἱοὶ ἡμέρας | huioi phōtos / huioi hēmeras | Moral-relational belonging to light/day rather than darkness/night. | сини світла / сини дня | Standard dualism, no live syncretistic collision; clarify moral-relational sense, not Gnostic ontological dualism (5:5). |
| thief_in_the_night | Eschatology | High | κλέπτης ἐν νυκτί | kleptēs en nykti | Image of the Day of the Lord’s sudden, unannounced arrival. | злодій уночі | Risk of being heard as literal commentary on wartime night attacks (missile/drone strikes) rather than Paul’s intended eschatological metaphor; must be explicitly redirected in exposition (5:2). |
| be_sober | Ethics | Medium | νήφω | nēphō | Clear-minded alertness and self-control (literal root: sobriety from intoxication). | бути тверезими | Foreground the figurative alertness sense; literal sense not wrong but insufficient alone (5:6, 8). |
| armor_of_faith_love_hope | Ethics / Eschatology | High | θώραξ πίστεως καὶ ἀγάπης / περικεφαλαία ἐλπίδος σωτηρίας | thōrax pisteōs kai agapēs / perikephalaia elpidos sōtērias | Protective spiritual “armor” of faith, love, and hope, worn in anticipation of the Day of the Lord. | нагрудник (панцир) віри й любові; шолом надії спасіння | Powerful potential pastoral resonance for a wartime readership including servicemembers and veterans; must not be flattened into literal endorsement of, or casual comparison with, actual combat, nor trivialize real armor (5:8). |
| quench_the_spirit | Pneumatology | Critical | τὸ πνεῦμα μὴ σβέννυτε (bare πνεῦμα) | to pneuma mē sbennyte | Do not extinguish/suppress the Holy Spirit’s work — using bare πνεῦμα, unqualified by ἅγιον. | не вгашайте Духа [Святого] | Inherits the Galatians extension’s Critical spirit_bare_pneuma pattern exactly: capitalize Дух and gloss as the Holy Spirit on first occurrence; never render or leave as lowercase “дух,” given wartime idioms like “бойовий дух.” Human theologian review mandatory (5:19). |
| examine_all_things | Discernment | Medium | δοκιμάζω (πάντα δοκιμάζετε) | dokimazō | Testing/discerning claims of prophecy or spiritual gifting. | усе випробовуйте (перевіряйте) | Must not be confused with the wholly different cultural category of testing a fortune-teller’s or psychic’s claims (post-Soviet folk-psychic culture, per baseline spiritual_gifts caution) (5:21). |
| congregational_leaders | Church / Authority | High | προΐστημι (τοὺς προϊσταμένους) | proistēmi | Those who labor among and lead/care for the local congregation. | ті, хто трудиться і піклується про вас | Touches the same acutely live church-jurisdiction and authority sensitivity already Critical/High in the baseline (OCU/UOC/UGCC legitimacy; Romans 13 authority caution); frame strictly as local congregational care, using громada-style jurisdiction-neutral language (5:12). |
| holy_kiss | Church Custom | Medium | φίλημα ἅγιον | philēma hagion | The customary greeting-kiss among believers, sanctified by Paul’s qualifier. | святий поцілунок | Likely a cultural asset given Orthodox/Greek Catholic ritual-kiss familiarity (e.g. Easter greeting); clarify as a general era-appropriate congregational custom, not a specific liturgical rite (5:26). |
| imitators | Discipleship | Medium | μιμηταί | mimētai | Believers who pattern their conduct after apostolic and dominical example. | наслідувачі | Distinguish from the historically significant Orthodox/Greek Catholic ascetic tradition of imitating canonized saints specifically — here it is ordinary, universal congregational imitation (1:6). |
| full_assurance | Faith | Medium | πληροφορία | plērophoria | Complete, Spirit-given conviction in receiving the gospel. | повна впевненість | Connects to the baseline’s Critical “Assurance of Salvation” doctrine caution against overstating assurance beyond final judgment for Orthodox/Greek Catholic readers (1:5). |
| tempter_satan | Spiritual Warfare | Medium | σατανᾶς / ὁ πειράζων | satanas / ho peirazōn | The personal spiritual adversary. | сатана / спокусник | Established transliterated loanword shared across all traditions; avoid folk-superstition framing distinct from the biblical adversary (2:18; 3:5). |
| birth_pains | Eschatology | Medium | ὠδίν | ōdin | Labor-pains image for the sudden, intensifying, inescapable onset of judgment. | родові болі (муки породільні) | Universal, non-controversial imagery; low collision risk (5:3). |
| walk_worthy | Ethics | Medium | περιπατεῖν ἀξίως τοῦ θεοῦ | peripatein axiōs tou theou | Living in a manner consistent with one’s calling. | жити достойно Бога | Ensure grace-enabled response, not works-based merit — parallels baseline’s obedience_of_faith caution (2:12). |
| blameless_in_holiness | Sanctification | Medium | ἀμέμπτως (ἐν ἁγιωσύνῃ) | amemptōs | Blameless conduct, as a marker of the sanctification goal-state, recurring at 2:10, 3:13, 5:23. | непорочно / безвинно | Render consistently across all three occurrences in the letter for thematic cohesion. |
| whole_person_complete | Anthropology | Medium | ὁλόκληρον…πνεῦμα καὶ ψυχὴ καὶ σῶμα | holoklēron…pneuma kai psychē kai sōma | The entirety of a person — spirit, soul, and body — kept complete for the parousia. | дух, душа, і тіло, у повній цілісності | Present the plain pastoral sense (the whole person) without committing translation to either side of the trichotomist/dichotomist systematic debate; note τὸ σῶμα here is the neutral body-term, distinct from the Critical ethical σάρξ/тіло risk already flagged in the Galatians extension (5:23). |
Cross-Reference Notes for Phase 2
- Densest term convergence: 4:3-7 concentrates ἁγιασμός (x3, Critical), πορνεία (Medium), σκεῦος (High, disputed), ἐπιθυμία (Medium), and τὰ ἔθνη (Medium/reused) in five verses — flag this span as a single high-priority review unit.
- Core-passage convergence: 4:13-18 concentrates κοιμᾶσθαι (High), ἐλπίς (Critical), παρουσία (Critical), ἁρπάζω (Critical) — the highest Critical-term density of any passage in either curriculum to date; mandatory theologian review for the entire unit, not merely term-by-term.
- 5:1-3 political sensitivity unit: ἡμέρα κυρίου (High) and εἰρήνη καὶ ἀσφάλεια (Critical) must be reviewed together as a single unit given their combined proximity to Ukraine’s live wartime peace/security discourse.
- Cross-curriculum consistency: ἐλπίς (hope), θλῖψις (affliction), and ὀργή (wrath) do not appear as standalone entries in the Romans/Galatians baseline TM and are being fixed here for the first time; once approved, these renderings become binding for any future curriculum in this Language Package that touches these terms, per the baseline’s cross-document consistency rule.
Critical Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: благодать
Transliteration: blahodat’
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: милість, талан, щастя
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs only in the greeting/benediction formula (1:1; 5:28) in this letter; no new doctrinal development, but Critical status is retained since благодать frames the entire letter’s opening and closing.
Church
Approved rendering: церква
Transliteration: tserkva
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: храм, громада (acceptable for local congregation emphasis)
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. 1:1 addresses the local congregation at Thessalonica; 2:14 extends the term cross-regionally (‘the churches of God in Judea’), a church-unity statement. Frame церква as the universal people of God, never any one Ukrainian jurisdiction (OCU/UOC/UGCC); громада remains the recommended jurisdiction-neutral clarifying synonym.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: освячення
Transliteration: osvyachennya
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: обоження (reserve for explicit theosis discussion only), очищення
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. This letter contains the densest concentration of ἁγιασμός in either curriculum to date (3:13 verb-related; 4:3, 4, 7; 5:23 — five occurrences in one short letter). Reinforces, and sharpens, the baseline’s Critical caution that освячення risks collapsing into the everyday sense of ritual object-blessing (свячення паски); here it must additionally be anchored concretely to bodily/ethical conduct (sexual purity, 4:3-5), not left as an abstract spiritual state. Must remain lexically distinct from святість (see holiness_state), the state-word ἁγιωσύνη, so Paul’s own process/goal-state distinction is not collapsed.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: воскресіння
Transliteration: voskresinnya
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Rejected alternatives: оживлення, реінкарнація, ожити / оживання (generic ‘came back to life’ — would lose Paul’s deliberate died-rose / fell-asleep-will-be-raised parallel structure)
Original: ἀνάστασις / ἀνίστημι
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package; risk ELEVATED within this curriculum from the baseline’s Medium (supporting theme) to Critical, because ‘Resurrection of Believers’ is one of five named core doctrines here. Must render ἀνέστη (4:14) and ἀναστήσονται (4:16) with identical воскресіння-family vocabulary — never a generic ‘ожити’ — to preserve Paul’s died-rose/fell-asleep-will-be-raised parallel. Pair consistently with заснулі (see asleep_in_death) rather than a bare померлі.
Salvation
Approved rendering: спасіння
Transliteration: spasinnya
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: визволення, рятування (too generic, ‘rescue’)
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. 5:8’s ‘helmet of the hope of salvation’ and 5:9’s ‘obtaining salvation’ (contrasted with ὀργή/wrath as one of two final destinies) both require спасіння to be anchored explicitly to Christ’s death/resurrection rather than defaulting into any one Ukrainian tradition’s fuller theological system.
God
Approved rendering: Бог
Transliteration: Boh
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Всевишній (acceptable poetic synonym only)
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs throughout. No new risk.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Святий Дух
Transliteration: Svyatyy Dukh
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: дух (never use alone), енергія
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs qualified (Святий Дух) at 1:5, 6; 4:8. 5:19’s BARE, unqualified πνεῦμα is a distinct, separately-tracked Critical risk (see quench_the_spirit) — do not conflate the two entries’ review requirements or renderings.
Parousia Return Of Christ
Approved rendering: прихід (Господній) [exposition]; парусія [technical gloss only]
Transliteration: prykhid (Hospodniy) / parusiya
Doctrine: The Return of Christ (Parousia)
Rejected alternatives: парусія (as primary/exclusive rendering — reserve for one-time technical gloss only, never substitute for прихід in running text), прибуття (too generic/secular, lacks the Hellenistic civic-royal ‘arrival of a sovereign’ overtone)
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology
New central term for this Language Package, naming the core doctrine ‘The Return of Christ’ (occurs 1:10 anticipatory; 2:19; 3:13; 4:15; 5:23). Render прихід (Господній) in exposition/running text per the Ohienko translation tradition, with an explicit first-occurrence gloss recovering the civic-royal ‘arrival of a ruling king to be formally welcomed’ image. Never conflate with date-setting or popular apocalyptic speculation, which Paul himself explicitly opposes (5:1-3) — a live risk given wartime-intensified folk end-times rumor. Human theologian review mandatory for every occurrence.
Caught Up Rapture
Approved rendering: піднесені (підхоплені) [в повітря]
Transliteration: pidneseni (pidkhopleni) [v povitrya]
Doctrine: Being Caught Up to Meet the Lord (Rapture)
Rejected alternatives: восхищення (etymologically exact calque but its dominant modern meaning is ‘admiration, delight, being thrilled’ — a false friend fully comparable to гріх’s drift toward ‘atrocity’ or погани’s drift toward ‘wicked people’; NEVER use as the primary rendering)
Original: ἁρπάζω (ἁρπαγησόμεθα)
Category: Eschatology
The single highest-risk lexical choice in the core passage (ἁρπαγησόμεθα, 4:17). No native Ukrainian theological term exists for this specific action; a multi-word descriptive paraphrase is a structural necessity, not a stylistic shortcut. Do not import the full modern popular ‘Rapture’ systematic framework (multiple raptures, ‘left behind’ tropes, tribulation timelines) as though self-evidently Paul’s own scheme — this is a distinctly Protestant/dispensational category absent from Orthodox and Greek Catholic eschatology. Human theologian review mandatory for every occurrence.
Peace And Security
Approved rendering: мир та безпека
Transliteration: myr ta bezpeka
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: εἰρήνη καὶ ἀσφάλεια
Category: Eschatology
The single highest-stakes lexical collision in this letter for a Ukrainian readership (εἰρήνη καὶ ἀσφάλεια, 5:3): мир та безпека directly and unavoidably invokes the exact vocabulary of Ukraine’s own current, urgent, daily political discourse (ceasefire negotiations, security guarantees). Paul’s target is specifically complacent unpreparedness for divine judgment dressed in political self-assurance, NOT a claim that a genuine, justly-sought peace (such as Ukraine’s own hope for an end to an unjust war) is itself spiritually suspect. This distinction must be explicit before this passage is translated or taught. Human theologian review mandatory for every occurrence — do not translate or teach 5:1-3 without this framing in place.
Hope
Approved rendering: надія
Transliteration: nadiya
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Original: ἐλπίς
Category: Eschatology
Central term for the core doctrine ‘Hope in Grief’ (ἐλπίς, 4:13; 5:8). Надія must always be anchored explicitly to its object (Christ’s death/resurrection and future coming, 4:14-17) in the same clause or sentence — never left bare — distinct from, though not dismissive of, the intense, immediate wartime register in which надія circulates in ordinary Ukrainian usage (‘hope our soldiers come home,’ ‘hope for peace’). Human theologian review required for every occurrence in ch. 4-5.
Quench The Spirit
Approved rendering: не вгашайте Духа [Святого]
Transliteration: ne vhashayte Dukha [Svyatoho]
Doctrine: Spirit-Filled Discernment and Prophecy in the Congregation
Rejected alternatives: дух (lowercase/unqualified — never use for the Holy Spirit)
Original: τὸ πνεῦμα μὴ σβέννυτε (bare πνεῦμα)
Category: Pneumatology
Inherits the Galatians extension’s Critical spirit_bare_pneuma pattern exactly (τὸ πνεῦμα μὴ σβέννυτε, bare πνεῦμα, 5:19). Capitalize Дух and gloss as the Holy Spirit on first occurrence; never render or leave as lowercase ‘дух,’ given secular wartime idioms like ‘бойовий дух’ (fighting spirit/morale) and ‘дух часу’ (zeitgeist). This is the highest-density bare-pneuma risk pattern outside the Galatians 5:16-25 passage. Human theologian review mandatory.
High Risk Terms
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. Occurs 1 Thess 1:5; 2:2, 4, 8, 9; 3:2. The letter’s repeated emphasis on the gospel arriving ‘not in word only but also in power and in the Holy Spirit’ (1:5) reinforces, rather than alters, the baseline’s caution against a flattened, book-title-only reading; the current wartime religious revival is again an asset here as in the baseline.
Faith
Approved rendering: віра
Transliteration: vira
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: довіра, переконання
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 1:3, 8; 3:2, 5-7, 10; 5:8. New nuance: 5:8’s ‘breastplate of faith and love’ combines віра with wartime-resonant armor imagery (see armor_of_faith_love_hope); 3:2-10’s concern for whether faith ‘survived’ affliction ties directly to the suffering_affliction_perseverance doctrine below.
Called
Approved rendering: покликаний
Transliteration: poklykanyy
Doctrine: Election and Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: запрошений
Original: κλητός
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 2:12; 4:7; 5:24. New nuance specific to this letter: 4:7 explicitly ties calling to holiness (‘God has not called us to impurity but to holiness’) — reinforce this cross-reference to the sanctification doctrine in exposition rather than treating them as unrelated.
Calling
Approved rendering: покликання
Transliteration: poklykannya
Doctrine: Election and Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: призначення
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. 2:12’s calling ‘into his own kingdom and glory’ converges three separately-flagged High-risk baseline terms (покликання, Царство Боже, слава) in a single clause — flag as a single review unit, not term-by-term.
Holy
Approved rendering: святий
Transliteration: svyatyy
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: чистий, непорочний
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package. Underlies Святий Дух and святі throughout the letter as well as the related but lexically distinct ἁγιωσύνη/ἁγιασμός word-group (see holiness_state and sanctification below). No new lexical risk beyond the baseline’s caution about canonized-elite/ritual-object associations requiring inclusive framing for ordinary believers.
Saints
Approved rendering: святі
Transliteration: svyati
Doctrine: The Return of Christ (Parousia)
Rejected alternatives: праведники
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. 3:13’s ‘with all his saints/holy ones’ is exegetically debated (departed ordinary believers vs. a separate angelic category, vs. both); the baseline’s caution against a canonized-elite default reading applies with special force here, since the interpretive ambiguity itself could be inadvertently resolved toward that reading in translation if not handled carefully. Flag for theologian review.
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. Occurs over 20 times in this short letter, densely concentrated in 4:15-17’s core passage alongside κέλευσμα (command-cry) and ἀπάντησις (ceremonial meeting) imagery. Господь’s heavy liturgical association must not flatten the personal force of the passage’s climactic promise, ‘always with the Lord’ (4:17) — render with the pastoral warmth the AI requirements document mandates for Romans 8/12-style passages.
Peace
Approved rendering: мир
Transliteration: myr
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: спокій, затишшя
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package for its greeting-formula (1:1) and benediction (5:23) occurrences ONLY. Do NOT conflate this entry’s risk profile with 5:3’s ‘peace and security’ collocation, which is tracked as a distinct, separately-elevated Critical term (see peace_and_security) given its direct collision with Ukraine’s live wartime political discourse. These must be treated as two separate risk entries in Phase 2, never merged under one review note.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: Царство Боже
Transliteration: Tsarstvo Bozhe
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Rejected alternatives: держава Божа
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 2:12, converging with покликання and слава in one clause (see calling above). No new risk beyond baseline’s caution about ‘царство’ evoking Russian imperial resonance.
Love
Approved rendering: любов
Transliteration: lyubov
Doctrine: Brotherly Love and Congregational Life
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package (established in the Galatians extension). Occurs 1:3; 3:6, 12; 4:9-10; 5:8, 13. 4:9-10’s φιλαδελφία is a related but lexically distinct new term (see brotherly_love); 5:8 combines любов with the armor image (see armor_of_faith_love_hope).
Election
Approved rendering: обрання
Transliteration: obrannya
Doctrine: Election and Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: доля, фатум, приречення (use only with careful qualification)
Original: ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 1:4, ‘knowing your election’ — evidenced by the Thessalonians’ Spirit-empowered reception of the gospel, not an abstract decree. Reinforces baseline’s caution against доля/фатум/приречення substitutions, especially salient given current wartime discourse on fate and survival.
Father
Approved rendering: Отець
Transliteration: Otets’
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Rejected alternatives: батюшка (reserve exclusively for addressing an Orthodox priest, itself an increasingly avoided Russicism)
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 1:1, 3; 3:11, 13. No new risk.
Asleep In Death
Approved rendering: заснулі (померлі)
Transliteration: zasnuli (pomerli)
Doctrine: Resurrection of Believers
Rejected alternatives: померлі (used alone, without the sleep-image — loses Paul’s deliberate comfort-bearing euphemism and its rhetorical force)
Original: κοιμᾶσθαι (κοιμωμένων / κοιμηθέντας)
Category: Eschatology
New term. Euphemism for the death of believers, deliberately chosen by Paul to frame death as temporary and reversible in light of the resurrection (κοιμωμένων 4:13; κοιμηθέντας 4:14, 15). Must not be over-literalized into a soul-sleep doctrine. Render consistently across 4:13, 14, 15 for internal passage cohesion; v.16’s deliberate shift to the blunt νεκρός (‘мертві в Христі’) must be preserved as a register variation, not harmonized away. Gloss on first use.
Day Of The Lord
Approved rendering: день Господній
Transliteration: den’ Hospodniy
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: ἡμέρα κυρίου
Category: Eschatology
New central term naming the core doctrine ‘The Day of the Lord’ (ἡμέρα κυρίου, 5:2, 4). Genuine homograph with the ordinary ecclesial designation of Sunday as ‘the Lord’s day’ in some Ukrainian usage — structurally parallel to the baseline’s мир/‘the world’ homograph caution. Must be disambiguated on first occurrence with an explicit modifying clause (e.g. ‘остаточний, вирішальний день Господнього суду’), never left as a bare unqualified phrase. Human theologian review required.
Grief Grieve
Approved rendering: сумувати / журитися
Transliteration: sumuvaty / zhurytysya
Doctrine: Hope in Grief
Original: λυπέομαι (λυπῆσθε)
Category: Pastoral Care
New term (λυπέομαι, λυπῆσθε, 4:13). Must not be rendered or taught so as to forbid grief itself — Paul distinguishes hopeless grief from hope-qualified grief, not grief from stoic non-grief. Pastorally dangerous over-correction risk given the current context of mass wartime bereavement and displacement in Ukraine.
Affliction Tribulation
Approved rendering: скорбота (переслідування in persecution-specific contexts)
Transliteration: skorbota (peresliduvannya)
Doctrine: Suffering, Affliction, and Perseverance in Faith
Original: θλῖψις
Category: Suffering
New term (θλῖψις; 1:6; 2:14; 3:3-4, 7). Must retain its full range (social exclusion, persecution, general hardship) rather than narrowing exclusively to combat/military suffering, while acknowledging the term’s unusually immediate resonance for a current wartime Ukrainian readership.
Wrath
Approved rendering: гнів (Божий)
Transliteration: hniv (Bozhyy)
Doctrine: Divine Wrath and Judgment
Rejected alternatives: лють (rage — too emotional/capricious, lacks ordered judicial character), кара (punishment alone — too narrow, misses the ongoing judicial/relational sense)
Original: ὀργή
Category: Eschatology
New central term (ὀργή; 1:10; 2:16; 5:9). Must read as ordered judicial justice, not capricious rage or an impersonal cosmic force. Given intense current wartime moral discourse distinguishing a just defender from an unjust aggressor, care is needed that ‘God’s wrath’ is not read as automatically validating the reader’s own side in the conflict; the referent is universal final judgment on unrepentant sin, applicable to every person including the reader.
Holiness State
Approved rendering: святість
Transliteration: svyatist’
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: мораль (secular ‘good character’ — misses the God-oriented, relational sense)
Original: ἁγιωσύνη
Category: Sanctification
New term (ἁγιωσύνη, 3:13). Keep lexically distinct from освячення (the process-word, ἁγιασμός) so that Ukrainian readers can track Paul’s own process/state distinction rather than collapsing both into one term. 3:13 ties this term directly to the parousia in the same verse.
Vessel Body Disputed
Approved rendering: своє тіло [primary]; свою дружину [minority reading, flagged]
Transliteration: svoye tilo / svoyu druzhynu
Doctrine: Sexual Purity as God’s Positive Will
Original: σκεῦος
Category: Ethics
New term (σκεῦος, 4:4). A rare case where the SOURCE TEXT itself is exegetically disputed (either ‘own body’ or ‘own wife’), not merely its rendering. Recommend своє тіло as the primary rendering, consistent with most modern evangelical translations, while explicitly flagging the alternative reading (свою дружину) in a translator’s note rather than silently suppressing it. Human theologian review required for every occurrence.
Thief In The Night
Approved rendering: злодій уночі
Transliteration: zlodiy unochi
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: κλέπτης ἐν νυκτί
Category: Eschatology
New term (κλέπτης ἐν νυκτί, 5:2). Given the lived, literal reality of sudden nighttime missile and drone strikes in the current war, this metaphor risks being heard as commentary on the war itself rather than Paul’s intended eschatological metaphor. Exposition must explicitly redirect the image toward Christ’s return in judgment.
Armor Of Faith Love Hope
Approved rendering: нагрудник (панцир) віри й любові; шолом надії спасіння
Transliteration: nahrudnyk (pantsyr) viry y lyubovi; sholom nadiyi spasinnya
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: θώραξ πίστεως καὶ ἀγάπης / περικεφαλαία ἐλπίδος σωτηρίας
Category: Ethics
New compound term (θώραξ πίστεως καὶ ἀγάπης / περικεφαλαία ἐλπίδος σωτηρίας, 5:8), combining already-flagged High-risk віра and любов with this letter’s Critical надія. Literal military armor is an immediate, lived reality for a wartime Ukrainian readership including active servicemembers, veterans, and their families; a powerful potential pastoral resonance (an asset) that must not be flattened into an endorsement of, or casual comparison with, actual combat, nor trivialize real combat armor. Human theologian review recommended.
Congregational Leaders
Approved rendering: ті, хто трудиться і піклується про вас
Transliteration: ti, khto trudytsya i pikluyetsya pro vas
Doctrine: Congregational Leadership and Mutual Care
Rejected alternatives: language implying commentary on OCU/UOC/UGCC denominational or national church-authority structures — must never be used
Original: προΐστημι (τοὺς προϊσταμένους)
Category: Church
New term (προΐστημι, 5:12). Touches the same acutely live church-jurisdiction and authority sensitivity already Critical/High in the baseline (OCU/UOC/UGCC legitimacy; Romans 13 government-authority caution). Frame strictly as local congregational care, using громада-style jurisdiction-neutral language.
Medium Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: апостол
Transliteration: apostol
Doctrine: Apostolic Ministry and Integrity
Rejected alternatives: посланець, проповідник
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package. Implied at 2:6 (ἀπόστολοι Χριστοῦ), where Paul’s team identifies with, yet deliberately restrains, apostolic authority. See the doctrine-level Critical flag on the surrounding context (Paul’s autobiographical defense of ministry integrity, 2:1-12), not on the lexical term itself.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: Син Божий
Transliteration: Syn Bozhyy
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: божественний посланець
Original: υἱὸς θεοῦ / υἱὸς αὐτοῦ
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. 1:10, ‘to wait for his Son from heaven,’ is the letter’s first anticipation of the parousia doctrine developed fully in ch. 4-5; cross-reference to parousia_return_of_christ below.
Glory
Approved rendering: слава
Transliteration: slava
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: шана, велич
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 2:12, 20. No new risk beyond baseline’s caution about слава’s patriotic ‘Слава Україні’ resonance since 2014/2022.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: погани / народи, що не знають Бога
Transliteration: pohany / narody, shcho ne znayut’ Boha
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: чужинці
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, context-sensitive. 4:5 describes genuinely negative pagan sexual conduct — precisely the context where погани’s modern derogatory drift (‘bad/wicked people’) is easiest to reinforce inadvertently. Use народи, що не знають Бога to keep the description behavior-focused, not ethnicity-focused.
Jesus
Approved rendering: Ісус
Transliteration: Isus
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Иисус (Russian spelling, never use)
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs throughout. NEVER use the Russian spelling Иисус — always Ісус.
Sexual Immorality
Approved rendering: розпуста (Ohienko tradition: блуд)
Transliteration: rozpusta (blud)
Doctrine: Sexual Purity as God’s Positive Will
Original: πορνεία
Category: Ethics
New term (πορνεία, 4:3). Standard vocabulary across all Ukrainian Christian traditions with no live sectarian collision. Must be kept tied positively to ἁγιασμός as God’s positive will (4:3), not left as a bare moralizing prohibition.
Brotherly Love
Approved rendering: братолюбство
Transliteration: bratolyubstvo
Doctrine: Brotherly Love and Congregational Life
Original: φιλαδελφία
Category: Ethics
New term (φιλαδελφία, 4:9-10). Positive resonance with Ukraine’s wartime ‘брати по зброї’ (brothers-in-arms) solidarity discourse; exposition should distinguish spiritual family-love from wartime comradeship as an illustrative bridge, not an equivalence.
Taught By God
Approved rendering: богонавчені
Transliteration: bohonavcheni
Doctrine: Brotherly Love and Congregational Life
Original: θεοδίδακτος
Category: Revelation
New compound coinage (θεοδίδακτος, 4:9), a rare NT coinage even in Greek. Must not be framed as bypassing the church’s teaching role/Holy Tradition (Передання) for Orthodox/Greek Catholic readers — present as compatible with, not opposed to, being taught through the church, which the passage itself does not claim to exclude.
Quiet Life Manual Work
Approved rendering: жити тихо; працювати своїми руками
Transliteration: zhyty tykho; pratsyuvaty svoyimy rukamy
Doctrine: The Quiet, Orderly, Self-Supporting Life
Original: ἡσυχάζειν / ἐργάζεσθαι ταῖς χερσίν
Category: Ethics
New term (ἡσυχάζειν / ἐργάζεσθαι ταῖς χερσίν, 4:11). Must not be applied as an implicit rebuke to displaced persons, refugees, or war-affected readers unable to maintain settled work or life through no fault of their own.
Sons Of Light
Approved rendering: сини світла / сини дня
Transliteration: syny svitla / syny dnya
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: υἱοὶ φωτός / υἱοὶ ἡμέρας
Category: Ethics
New term (υἱοὶ φωτός / υἱοὶ ἡμέρας, 5:5). Standard light/darkness dualism shared across all Ukrainian Christian traditions with no live syncretistic collision; clarify moral-relational sense, not a Gnostic ontological dualism.
Be Sober
Approved rendering: бути тверезими
Transliteration: buty tverezymy
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: νήφω
Category: Ethics
New term (νήφω, 5:6, 8). Foreground the figurative alertness sense over a narrowly literal anti-intoxication reading, though the latter is not wrong, only insufficient alone.
Examine All Things
Approved rendering: усе випробовуйте (перевіряйте)
Transliteration: use vyprobovuyte (pereviryayte)
Doctrine: Spirit-Filled Discernment and Prophecy in the Congregation
Rejected alternatives: testing via fortune-teller/psychic frameworks (ворожіння-adjacent) — must never be conflated with this verse’s discernment of Spirit-given prophecy
Original: δοκιμάζω (πάντα δοκιμάζετε)
Category: Discernment
New term (δοκιμάζω, 5:21). Must not be confused with the wholly different cultural category of testing a fortune-teller’s or psychic’s claims, a persistent post-Soviet folk-psychic category already flagged under the baseline’s spiritual_gifts caution.
Holy Kiss
Approved rendering: святий поцілунок
Transliteration: svyatyy potsilunok
Doctrine: Christian Greeting Customs (the Holy Kiss)
Original: φίλημα ἅγιον
Category: Church Custom
New term (φίλημα ἅγιον, 5:26). Likely a cultural asset given Orthodox/Greek Catholic ritual-kiss familiarity (e.g. the Easter greeting); clarify as a general era-appropriate congregational custom, not a specific liturgical rite prescribed for today.
Imitators
Approved rendering: наслідувачі
Transliteration: naslidyvachi
Doctrine: Apostolic Ministry and Integrity
Original: μιμηταί
Category: Discipleship
New term (μιμηταί, 1:6). Distinguish from the historically significant Orthodox/Greek Catholic ascetic tradition of imitating canonized saints specifically — here it is ordinary, universal congregational imitation open to all believers.
Full Assurance
Approved rendering: повна впевненість
Transliteration: povna vpevnenist’
Doctrine: Gospel Received in Power and the Holy Spirit
Original: πληροφορία
Category: Faith
New term (πληροφορία, 1:5). Connects to the baseline’s Critical ‘Assurance of Salvation’ doctrine caution against overstating assurance beyond final judgment for Orthodox/Greek Catholic readers.
Tempter Satan
Approved rendering: сатана / спокусник
Transliteration: satana / spokusnyk
Doctrine: Apostolic Ministry and Integrity
Original: σατανᾶς / ὁ πειράζων
Category: Spiritual Warfare
New term (σατανᾶς / ὁ πειράζων; 2:18; 3:5). Established transliterated loanword shared uncontested across all Ukrainian Christian traditions; avoid folk-superstition framing distinct from the biblical adversary, paralleling the baseline’s caution about post-Soviet folk-psychic vocabulary elsewhere.
Birth Pains
Approved rendering: родові болі (муки породільні)
Transliteration: rodovi boli (muky porodil’ni)
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord
Original: ὠδίν
Category: Eschatology
New term (ὠδίν, 5:3). Universal, non-controversial imagery shared across cultures; low collision risk.
Walk Worthy
Approved rendering: жити достойно Бога
Transliteration: zhyty dostoyno Boha
Doctrine: Election and Effectual Calling
Original: περιπατεῖν ἀξίως τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Ethics
New term (περιπατεῖν ἀξίως τοῦ θεοῦ, 2:12). Ensure this ‘worthy walk’ is understood as a grace-enabled response to calling, not works-based merit, paralleling the baseline’s obedience_of_faith caution.
Blameless In Holiness
Approved rendering: непорочно / безвинно
Transliteration: neporochno / bezvynno
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἀμέμπτως (ἐν ἁγιωσύνῃ)
Category: Sanctification
New term (ἀμέμπτως, recurring at 2:10, 3:13, 5:23). Render consistently across all three occurrences in the letter for thematic cohesion with the sanctification doctrine.
Whole Person Complete
Approved rendering: дух, душа, і тіло, у повній цілісності
Transliteration: dukh, dusha, i tilo, u povniy tsilisnosti
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ὁλόκληρον…πνεῦμα καὶ ψυχὴ καὶ σῶμα
Category: Anthropology
New term (ὁλόκληρον…πνεῦμα καὶ ψυχὴ καὶ σῶμα, 5:23). Present the plain pastoral sense (the whole person, in every dimension) without committing the translation itself to either side of the trichotomist/dichotomist systematic-theology debate. τὸ σῶμα here is the neutral, dignified body-term, distinct from the Critical ethical σάρξ/тіло risk already flagged in the Galatians extension.
Low Risk Terms
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: подяка
Transliteration: podyaka
Doctrine: Thanksgiving, Joy, and Unceasing Prayer
Original: εὐχαριστία / εὐχαριστέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 1:2; 2:13; 3:9; 5:18. 5:18’s ‘in everything give thanks’ (not ‘for everything’) must not be rendered so as to imply thanksgiving for suffering/war/loss itself, but a posture of gratitude maintained within every circumstance — directly relevant to the Hope in Grief doctrine.
Fellowship
Approved rendering: спілкування
Transliteration: spilkuvannya
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: дружба, колектив (avoid Soviet-collective connotation)
Original: κοινωνία (implicit)
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package; implicit throughout the letter’s congregational address rather than a distinct lexical occurrence. No new risk.
Exhort
Approved rendering: закликати (context-sensitive; утішайте for the comfort sense at 4:18)
Transliteration: zaklykaty / utishayte
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, context-sensitive per the baseline’s own rule. Occurs 2:12; 4:1, 10, 18; 5:11, 14. CRITICAL FOR THE CORE PASSAGE: 4:18 requires the COMFORT/CONSOLE sense (утішайте), not закликати’s edification sense — this verse’s context (comforting bereaved believers) is precisely the case the baseline’s context-sensitivity rule anticipates. Flag for native speaker review to confirm register at 4:18 specifically.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: пророцтво
Transliteration: prorotstvo
Doctrine: Spirit-Filled Discernment and Prophecy in the Congregation
Rejected alternatives: ворожіння, гороскоп
Original: προφητεία
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package. Occurs 5:20, paired with the quench_the_spirit and examine_all_things instructions. Baseline’s caution against confusion with ворожіння/гороскоп applies as-is.
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