Core Glossary
Core Glossary — 1 Corinthians (English → Urdu)
This glossary lists every load-bearing theological term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md, organized first by terms reused exactly from the Romans/Galatians baseline (no change; listed for completeness and cross-reference), then by terms newly introduced for 1 Corinthians, organized by chapter of first occurrence. All new entries follow the same risk-tier framework as doctrine_risk_registry.json (Critical/High/Medium/Low) and are candidates for promotion into a future consolidated translation_memory.json version.
Part A — Baseline Terms Reused Exactly (No Change)
| English | Urdu | Transliteration | Risk (baseline) | 1 Corinthians occurrences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gospel | خوش خبری | khush khabrī | High | 1:17-18; 9:12-18; 15:1 |
| grace | فضل | faz̤l | High | 1:4; 3:10; 15:10 |
| faith | ایمان | īmān | High | 2:5; 13:2, 13; 15:2, 11, 14, 17 |
| righteousness | راستبازی | rāstbāzī | Critical | 1:30 |
| justification | راستباز ٹھہرایا جانا | rāstbāz ṭhahrāyā jānā | Critical | 6:11 |
| salvation | نجات | najāt | Critical | 1:18, 21; 15:2 |
| apostle | رسول | rasūl | Medium | 1:1; 4:9; 9:1-5; 12:28-29; 15:5-9 |
| called / calling | بلایا گیا / بلاہٹ | bulāyā gayā / bulāhaṭ | High | 1:1-2, 9, 24, 26; 7:15-24 |
| holy | پاک | pāk | High | 3:17; 6:19; 7:14, 34 |
| saints | مقدس لوگ | muqaddas log | High | 1:2; 6:1-2; 16:1, 15 |
| sanctification | تقدیس | taqdīs | High | 1:2, 30; 6:11 |
| resurrection | قیامت | qiyāmat | Critical | 15:4, 12-23, 42 |
| lord | خداوند | k͟hudāvand | Critical | 1:2-3, 8-9; 8:6; 12:3 |
| son of god | خدا کا بیٹا | k͟hudā kā beṭā | Critical | 1:9 |
| glory | جلال | jalāl | High | 2:7-8; 10:31; 11:7; 15:40-43 |
| power of god | خدا کی قدرت | k͟hudā kī qudrat | High | 1:18, 24; 2:5 |
| messiah / christ | مسیح | masīḥ | Critical | throughout |
| jesus | یسوع | yasū’ | Critical | throughout (as یسوع مسیح) |
| god | خدا | k͟hudā | Critical | throughout |
| holy spirit | روح القدس | rūḥ al-qudus | Critical | 2:10-14; 3:16; 6:19; 12:3-13 |
| father | باپ | bāp | Critical | 1:3; 8:6 |
| fellowship | رفاقت | rifāqat | Low (escalates to High at 10:16-20; see 07) | 1:9; 10:16-20 |
| church | کلیسیا | kalīsiyā | Medium | 1:2; 4:17; 6:4; 11:18; 12:28; 14:4-5; 15:9; 16:1, 19 |
| kingdom of god | خدا کی بادشاہی | k͟hudā kī bādshāhī | Medium | 4:20; 6:9-10; 15:24, 50 |
| law | شریعت | sharī’at | High | 7:19; 9:8-9, 20; 14:34; 15:56 |
| sin | گناہ | gunāh | High | 15:3, 17, 56 |
| gentiles | غیر قوموں | g͟hair qaumõ | Medium | 5:1; 10:20, 32; 12:2 |
| freedom | آزادی | āzādī | Critical | 9:1, 19; 10:29 |
| flesh (σάρξ) | جسم | jism | High | 1:26, 29; 5:5; 6:16; 7:28; 15:39, 50 |
| cross / crucifixion | صلیب / مصلوب | ṣalīb / maṣlūb | Critical | 1:13, 17-18, 23; 2:2, 8 |
| idolatry | بت پرستی | but-parastī | High | 10:7, 14 |
| thanksgiving | شکرگزاری | shukr-guzārī | Low | 1:4, 14; 14:16-18; 15:57 |
| circumcision / uncircumcision | ختنہ / نامختون | k͟hatnah / nā-makhtūn | Critical | 7:18-19 |
| revelation | مکاشفہ | mukāshafah | Medium | 2:10; 14:6, 26, 30 |
| prophecy / prophet | پیشن گوئی / نبی | peshan go’ī / nabī | Low | 12:10, 28-29; 13:2, 8-9; 14:1-39 |
| covenant | عہد | ahd | High | 11:25 |
| abba (retained as model for retained transliterations) | ابّا | abbā | High | (pattern reused for مارانا تھا, 16:22) |
Part B — New Terms Introduced for 1 Corinthians (by Chapter of First Occurrence)
Chapter 1
| English | Urdu | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| divisions / factions | تفرقے | tafarqe | Medium | Christian Unity versus Factionalism | Standard term for schism; the occasion for the whole letter. |
| wisdom (of the world) | دنیا کی حکمت | dunyā kī hikmat | High | The Cross as Wisdom and Power | حکمت is a major positive Islamic theological category (Allah’s hikmah); must be anchored to “worldly” wisdom specifically. |
| wisdom of God | خدا کی حکمت | k͟hudā kī hikmat | Critical | The Cross as Wisdom and Power | Same term, positive pole; must always be tied to the cross to avoid a generic hikmah reading. |
| foolishness | بیوقوفی / حماقت | bewuqoofī / ḥamāqat | Medium | The Cross as Wisdom and Power | Retain Paul’s ironic force; do not neutralize. |
| boasting | فخر کرنا | fak͟hr karnā | Low-Medium | Christian Unity versus Factionalism | Object of boasting (self vs. Lord) carries the doctrinal weight. |
Chapter 2
| English | Urdu | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| spiritual person | روحانی انسان | rūḥānī insān | Medium | The Cross as Wisdom and Power | Anchor to Spirit-indwelling. |
| natural / soulish person | نفسانی انسان | nafsānī insān | High | The Cross as Wisdom and Power | Risk of importing the Sufi nafs-discipline framework; flag for clarifying note at first occurrence, parallel to the Galatians جسم/نفس caution. |
| mystery | راز | rāz | Medium | The Cross as Wisdom and Power | Distinguish from Sufi/esoteric “hidden knowledge” (kashf) categories. |
| mind of Christ | مسیح کا ذہن | masīḥ kā zehn | Medium | The Cross as Wisdom and Power | Union with Christ’s perspective, not mere imitation. |
Chapter 3
| English | Urdu | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| foundation | بنیاد | bunyād | Low | Church Discipline and Holiness | Christ alone as foundation. |
| temple of God | خدا کا ہیکل | k͟hudā kā haikal | High | Church Discipline and Holiness | ہیکل is the established Bible-Urdu term (Jerusalem temple); never مسجد. |
| wage / reward | اجر / انعام | ajr / in’ām | Medium | Church Discipline and Holiness | Keep distinct from نجات (salvation), which is never earned. |
Chapter 4
| English | Urdu | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| servant | خادم | k͟hādim | Low | Christian Unity versus Factionalism | Apostles as subordinate servants of Christ. |
| steward | مختار | muk͟htār | Medium | Christian Unity versus Factionalism | Keep distinct from Galatians’ نگہبان (paidagogos sense). |
Chapter 5
| English | Urdu | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sexual immorality | زنا / بدکاری | zinā / badkārī | High | Church Discipline and Holiness | زنا collides with Islamic hudud-law criminal category (four-witness rule, corporal punishment); distinguish church discipline (restorative) from criminal law (punitive). |
| leaven | خمیر | k͟hamīr | Low-Medium | Church Discipline and Holiness | Purely metaphorical use; minimal collision risk. |
| expel / remove | خارج کر دینا | k͟hārij kar denā | Medium | Church Discipline and Holiness | Frame as restorative congregational discipline, not civil punishment. |
| hand over to Satan | شیطان کے حوالے کر دینا | shait̤ān ke ḥawāle kar denā | High | Church Discipline and Holiness | Not a magical curse-formula; removal of church’s protective covering, aimed at restoration. |
Chapter 6
| English | Urdu | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| body (σῶμα) | بدن | badan | High | Christian Unity versus Factionalism / Lord’s Supper / Spiritual Gifts | CRITICAL DISTINCTION: kept deliberately separate from جسم (σάρξ, “flesh,” per Galatians baseline). بدن is the dedicated term for the positive body-theology of this book (temple, member of Christ, resurrection body). Must never be conflated with جسم. |
| temple of the Holy Spirit | روح القدس کا ہیکل | rūḥ al-qudus kā haikal | Critical | Marriage and Singleness / Holiness | Compounds baseline روح القدس risk with ہیکل; affirms the Spirit’s bodily indwelling of individual believers. |
| joined to | جڑ جانا / ملنا | juṛ jānā / milnā | Medium | Marriage and Singleness | Real, not merely symbolic, union. |
| washed | دھوئے گئے | dhoye ga’e | High | Church Discipline and Holiness | Distinguish from Islamic ritual ablution (wudu/ghusl), per the baseline’s پاک/طاہر caution. |
| litigation / lawsuits | مقدمہ بازی | muqadma-bāzī | Medium | Church Discipline and Holiness | Disputes should be resolved within the church, not secular courts. |
Chapter 7
| English | Urdu | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| marriage | شادی | shādī | Medium | Marriage and Singleness | Distinguish from the Islamic nikah’s specific contractual-legal framework (mahr, witnessed contract). |
| virgin / unmarried | کنواری / کنوارا | kunwārī / kunwārā | Low | Marriage and Singleness | Paul’s own commended state; singleness as valid calling. |
| divorce / separate | جدا ہونا / طلاق | judā honā / t̤alāq | High | Marriage and Singleness | طلاق names a specific Islamic legal procedure (pronouncement, iddah); prefer جدا ہونا in doctrinal exposition. |
| unbelieving (spouse) | غیر ایمان دار | g͟hair īmān dār | High | Marriage and Singleness | Object of faith (Christ) must remain explicit even in the negative form. |
| gift (χάρισμα, as life-state) | خدا کی نعمت | k͟hudā kī ni’mat | Medium | Marriage and Singleness | Marriage and singleness are both grace-given states, not self-achieved. |
Chapter 8
| English | Urdu | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| food offered to idols | بتوں کو چڑھایا ہوا گوشت | butõ ko chaṛhāyā huā gosht | Critical | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | Structural (not just lexical) parallel to halal/haram classification; requires comparative-theology framing, not a word-substitute fix. |
| conscience | ضمیر | z̤amīr | Medium | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | Genuinely shared, low-syncretism vocabulary; risk is in application, not translation. |
| knowledge | علم | ’ilm | Medium | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | علم is a highly esteemed Islamic category; Paul contrasts knowledge-without-love, not knowledge as such. |
| right / authority (ἐξουσία) | اختیار / حق | ik͟htiyār / ḥaqq | Medium | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | Distinct from آزادی (freedom); a permitted right that may be voluntarily set aside. |
| ”one God… one Lord” (confession) | ایک ہی خدا… اور ایک ہی خداوند | ek hī k͟hudā… aur ek hī k͟hudāvand | Critical | The Cross as Wisdom and Power / Christian Liberty | New doctrinal flashpoint: echoes tawhid’s confessional form while asserting Trinitarian content; must be taught explicitly, not left to imply either simple tawhid-agreement or ditheism. Mandatory theologian review. |
Chapter 9
| English | Urdu | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| race / run | دوڑ | dauṛ | Low | (supporting: Christian Liberty) | Athletic metaphor for disciplined Christian living. |
| crown / prize | تاج | tāj | Low-Medium | (supporting) | Perishable athletic prize vs. imperishable reward. |
| discipline (the body) | اپنے بدن کو تابع کرنا | apne badan ko tābi’ karnā | Medium | Church Discipline and Holiness | Not merit-earning asceticism; not Sufi bodily-discipline for nearness to God. |
Chapter 10
| English | Urdu | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| temptation | آزمائش | āzmā’ish | Low-Medium | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | Standard shared term. |
| table of the Lord / table of demons | خداوند کی میز / بدروحوں کی میز | k͟hudāvand kī mez / badrūhõ kī mez | High | The Lord’s Supper / Idol Meat | New term بدروح (evil spirit) requires care against conflation with the Islamic jinn concept. |
| sacramental participation (κοινωνία) | رفاقت / شرکت | rifāqat / shirkat | High | The Lord’s Supper | Escalates baseline رفاقت (Low) when applied to participation in Christ’s body/blood specifically. |
Chapter 11
| English | Urdu | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| head covering | سر ڈھانپنا | sar ḍhānpnā | Critical | Order in Worship | Live parallel to contested contemporary hijab/purdah discourse; frame strictly as first-century worship-order instruction with a creation-theology rationale. Mandatory theologian review. |
| headship | سر / سربراہی | sar / sarbarāhī | High | Order in Worship / Marriage | Sensitive gender-authority theology; retain the passage’s own mutual-interdependence qualifications (11:11-12). |
| Lord’s Supper | خداوند کا کھانا / عشائے ربانی | k͟hudāvand kā khānā / ashā’-e-rabbānī | Critical | The Lord’s Supper | عشائے ربانی is the established Urdu Christian liturgical term. |
| bread | روٹی | roṭī | Medium | The Lord’s Supper | Symbol of Christ’s body. |
| cup | پیالہ | piyālah | Medium | The Lord’s Supper | Symbol/vessel for the covenant blood. |
| blood (sacramental) | خون | k͟hūn | Critical | The Lord’s Supper | Categorically prohibited as food/drink in Islamic law (Qur’an 2:173, 5:3, 6:145, 16:115); requires explicit memorial/symbolic framing at every occurrence. Mandatory theologian review — comparable severity to the crucifixion-denial risk. |
| wine | مے / شراب | mai / sharāb | High | The Lord’s Supper | Compounds the blood-collision; alcohol (khamr) is categorically prohibited; frame sacramental use as church-specific symbolic practice. |
| remembrance | یادگاری / یاد میں | yādgārī / yād mẽ | Medium | The Lord’s Supper | Supports “symbolic, not literal” framing for blood/wine risk. |
| discerning the body | بدن کو پہچاننا | badan ko pehchānnā | Medium | The Lord’s Supper | Reuses بدن (established for σῶμα). |
Chapter 12
| English | Urdu | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ”Jesus is Lord” (confession) | یسوع خداوند ہے | yasū’ k͟hudāvand hai | Critical | The Cross as Wisdom and Power / Spiritual Gifts | Direct recurrence of the baseline’s Romans 10:9 confession; render without qualification. |
| baptism | بپتسمہ | baptismah | High | Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ | Not present in Romans/Galatians baseline TM; new entry. Distinguish from repeated Islamic ritual ablution (wudu/ghusl); Christian baptism is once-for-all incorporation into Christ’s body. |
| body of Christ | مسیح کا بدن | masīḥ kā badan | High | Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ | Distinct doctrinal category from کلیسیا (institutional/congregational church); both terms needed. |
| member / limb | اعضاء | a’z̤ā’ | Low | Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ | Individual believers as differentiated, interdependent body parts. |
| distinguishing of spirits | روحوں کی تمیز | rūḥõ kī tamīz | Medium | Spiritual Gifts | Relevant to the بدروح caution in ch. 10. |
| healing(s) | شفا | shifā | Medium | Spiritual Gifts | Genuinely shared vocabulary (Quranic term); low syncretism risk, potential bridge point. |
Chapter 13
| English | Urdu | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| love (ἀγάπη) | محبت | muḥabbat | Critical | Love as the Greater Way | Single most important new non-collision term in the book. Broad, shared semantic field in Urdu (Sufi mystical ishq/mahabbat; romantic-poetic register; generic compassion). Must be anchored to self-sacrificial, Spirit-given, Christ-modeled love at every doctrinally weighted occurrence. |
| patient / kind (descriptive of love) | تحمل کرنا، مہربان ہونا | taḥammul karnā, mehrbān honā | Low | Love as the Greater Way | Concrete behavioral content of ἀγάπη. |
| envies / boasts / puffed up | حسد کرنا، شیخی بگھارنا، مغرور ہونا | ḥasad karnā, shek͟hī bag͟hārnā, mag͟hrūr honā | Low | Love as the Greater Way / Christian Unity | Negated qualities, echoing ch. 1’s factionalism. |
| the perfect / complete | کامل / تکمیل | kāmil / takmīl | Low-Medium | Love as the Greater Way | Eschatological completeness. |
Chapter 14
| English | Urdu | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tongues | زبانیں | zabānẽ | Medium | Order in Worship | Distinguish from ordinary multilingualism; a specific, regulated Spirit-gift. |
| interpretation | تفسیر / ترجمانی | tafsīr / tarjumānī | Low-Medium | Order in Worship | Companion gift making tongues intelligible. |
| building up / edification | تعمیر | ta’mīr | Low | Order in Worship | Controlling purpose of worship-gifts. |
| decently and in order | شائستگی اور ترتیب سے | shā’istagī aur tartīb se | Low | Order in Worship | Chapter’s closing governing principle. |
| ”let women be silent” | عورتیں خاموش رہیں | aurtẽ k͟hāmosh rahẽ | High | Order in Worship | Context-dependent instruction; cross-reference ch. 11 headship/veiling material. Flag for theologian review alongside ch. 11. |
Chapter 15 (Beyond the Core Passage, vv. 12–58)
| English | Urdu | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| firstfruits | پہلا پھل | pehlā phal | Medium-High | The Resurrection of Christ and Believers | Christ’s resurrection guarantees believers’ future resurrection; typological engine of the chapter. |
| last Adam | آخری آدم | āk͟hrī ādam | High | The Resurrection of Christ and Believers | Federal-headship typology; no ready Islamic-theological counterpart; must be explained. |
| imperishable / incorruption | لافانی / غیر فانی | lāfānī / g͟hair fānī | Medium | The Resurrection of Christ and Believers | Resurrection body’s decay-proof nature. |
| spiritual body | روحانی بدن | rūḥānī badan | High | The Resurrection of Christ and Believers | Real, transformed, still-bodily existence — not disembodied survival. Genuine partial bridge with Islamic qiyamat doctrine (bodily resurrection affirmed in both traditions), though mechanism/scope (in Christ, as firstfruits) must still be distinguished. |
| sting of death | موت کا ڈنک | maut kā ḍank | Low-Medium | The Resurrection of Christ and Believers | Death’s nullified power. |
| victory | فتح | fatḥ | Medium | The Resurrection of Christ and Believers | Frame as spiritual victory over death, not martial/triumphalist (avoid resonance with “Fatah Makkah”-type historical usage). |
Chapter 16
| English | Urdu | Transliteration | Risk | Doctrine | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| collection | چندہ | chandah | Low | (practical instruction) | Gathered offering for the Jerusalem church. |
| holy kiss | پاک بوسہ | pāk bosah | Medium | Christian Unity | Cultural-adaptation flag (practice, not translation) for the Cultural Context document. |
| Maranatha | مارانا تھا | mārānā thā | Medium | The Resurrection of Christ and Believers | Retain Aramaic transliteration per the باپ/ابّا precedent; gloss “ہمارے خداوند، آ!” at first occurrence. |
Cross-Cutting Risk Flags for Phase 2 Routing
The following categories require automatic human theologian review for every occurrence in 1 Corinthians, extending the existing baseline escalation rules:
- Resurrection/burial/appearance language in 15:1–58 (ἐτάφη, ἐγήγερται, ὤφθη, ἀπαρχή, ὁ ἔσχατος Ἀδάμ)
- The Lord’s Supper’s blood/wine content (11:23-29; 10:16, 21) — new highest-severity dietary-law collision in this Language Package
- Head covering and headship material (11:2-16) and the women’s-silence instruction (14:34-35) — new live gender-practice collision category
- The “one God… one Lord” confession (8:6) and the “Jesus is Lord” confession (12:3) — Trinitarian/tawhid-adjacent confessional risk
- Idol meat material (8:1-13; 10:14-33) — structural halal/haram-adjacent comparative-theology risk
- Circumcision (7:19) — per existing Galatians mandatory-review precedent
- Love (13:1-13) whenever doctrinally anchored to God’s/Christ’s self-giving love, to prevent silent assimilation to the Sufi mystical-love or secular-romantic registers
All other Medium-risk terms above are recommended for native speaker review; Low-risk terms may proceed with automated review, consistent with the baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json framework.
Critical Risk Terms
Righteousness
Approved rendering: راستبازی
Transliteration: rāstbāzī
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: نیکی, تقویٰ
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. 1:30: ‘Christ Jesus, who became… our righteousness’ — must not collapse into moral achievement.
Justification
Approved rendering: راستباز ٹھہرایا جانا
Transliteration: rāstbāz ṭhahrāyā jānā
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: معافی پانا
Original: δικαιόω
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. 6:11 forms a three-part conversion formula (washed, sanctified, justified) that must not be flattened into a single generic ‘forgiven’ idea.
Salvation
Approved rendering: نجات
Transliteration: najāt
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: مکتی
Original: σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. 15:2’s ‘you are being saved… if you hold fast’ must be taught as perseverance in a settled gospel content, never as reopening the deeds-at-judgment question of Islamic najat.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: قیامت
Transliteration: qiyāmat
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ and Believers
Rejected alternatives: پنر جنم
Original: ἀνάστασις / ἐγήγερται
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. This book is the single most concentrated Critical-risk resurrection material in the whole curriculum set (ch.15). The perfect ἐγήγερται (15:4, ‘he has been raised’) must retain its settled, abiding-result force (جی اٹھا ہے); the fivefold ὤφθη eyewitness chain (15:5-8) must be preserved as verifiable historical testimony, never vision-language, given Qur’an 4:157’s denial of the crucifixion this resurrection presupposes. Mandatory qualifying gloss (‘مُردوں میں سے جی اُٹھنا’) at every occurrence in ch.15 distinguishing Christ’s unique, already-accomplished resurrection from the still-future general qiyamat.
Lord
Approved rendering: خداوند
Transliteration: k͟hudāvand
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: مالک, آقا
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Confessional title reused at 8:6 and 12:3 (‘Jesus is Lord’ — Spirit-enabled per 12:3); render یسوع خداوند ہے without qualification, per the Romans 10:9 validation rule.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: خدا کا بیٹا
Transliteration: k͟hudā kā beṭā
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ابن اللہ
Original: υἱὸς θεοῦ
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Invoked incidentally at 1:9 (‘fellowship of his Son’); mandatory eternal-not-begotten annotation applies even to this incidental occurrence.
Messiah
Approved rendering: مسیح
Transliteration: masīḥ
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. 15:3’s ‘Christ died for our sins… according to the Scriptures’ presses the fuller content of Messiahship (atoning death, resurrection) directly against Quranic Isa al-Masih’s affirmed non-death.
Jesus
Approved rendering: یسوع
Transliteration: yasū’
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: عیسیٰ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Used throughout as یسوع مسیح; never bare عیسیٰ.
God
Approved rendering: خدا
Transliteration: k͟hudā
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: اللہ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. In 8:6 anchors one pole of a Trinitarian-in-tension confession that must not be read as a bare tawhid restatement.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: روح القدس
Transliteration: rūḥ al-qudus
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Source of spiritual discernment (2:10-14), indwelling presence in the individual believer’s body (6:19), and unifying agent of the one body (12:3-13); never identified with an impersonal life-force or the Quranic ruh al-qudus/Jibreel identification.
Freedom
Approved rendering: آزادی
Transliteration: āzādī
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Original: ἐλευθερία / ἐλεύθερος
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Galatians package, reused exactly. In 1 Corinthians 8-10 the political/apostasy-resonance caution applies with equal force; must be taught as voluntary self-limitation for others’ sake, never license, never apostasy-adjacent framing (9:1, 19; 10:29).
Cross Crucifixion
Approved rendering: صلیب / مصلوب
Transliteration: ṣalīb / maṣlūb
Doctrine: The Cross as Wisdom and Power
Original: σταυρός / σταυρωθέντα
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Galatians package, reused exactly. Chs.1-2’s entire wisdom-versus-foolishness argument depends on the crucifixion being a real, historical, scandalous event; never allegorize; mandatory theologian review given Qur’an 4:157’s direct denial.
Circumcision
Approved rendering: ختنہ
Transliteration: k͟hatnah
Doctrine: Marriage and Singleness
Original: περιτομή
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Galatians package, reused exactly. 7:19’s indifference statement (‘neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything’) must not be misheard as commentary on the practice’s propriety; khatna remains a currently, widely practiced Islamic sunnah. Mandatory theologian review continues from the Galatians precedent.
Wisdom Of God
Approved rendering: خدا کی حکمت
Transliteration: k͟hudā kī hikmat
Doctrine: The Cross as Wisdom and Power
Original: σοφία θεοῦ
Category: Wisdom
New for 1 Corinthians. Same root word as wisdom_of_the_world but the opposite theological pole; must be tied explicitly and repeatedly to صلیب (the cross, 1:24, 30; 2:7) so it is never heard as generic praise of divine hikmah in the Islamic sense, which contains no crucified Messiah. Mandatory theologian review whenever this phrase occurs unanchored.
Temple Of Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: روح القدس کا ہیکل
Transliteration: rūḥ al-qudus kā haikal
Doctrine: Sexual Ethics and the Body as the Spirit’s Temple
Original: ναὸς τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος
Category: Sanctification
New for 1 Corinthians. The individual believer’s بدن as the Holy Spirit’s dwelling place (6:19); compounds the baseline روح القدس risk with the ہیکل caution, affirming the Spirit’s full divine personhood indwelling believers bodily and individually — a claim with no Islamic theological counterpart. Mandatory theologian review.
Food Offered To Idols
Approved rendering: بتوں کو چڑھایا ہوا گوشت
Transliteration: butõ ko chaṛhāyā huā gosht
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Original: εἰδωλόθυτον
Category: Liberty
New for 1 Corinthians. A STRUCTURAL, not merely lexical, parallel to halal/haram dietary classification, where a food’s ritual status of origin determines its lawfulness. Paul’s actual argument concerns the meat’s association with idol worship and its effect on a weaker believer’s conscience, a categorically different mechanism from halal/haram slaughter-status law. Requires comparative-theology framing, not a word-substitute fix. Mandatory theologian review.
One God One Lord
Approved rendering: ایک ہی خدا… اور ایک ہی خداوند
Transliteration: ek hī k͟hudā… aur ek hī k͟hudāvand
Doctrine: The ‘One God… One Lord’ Confession
Original: εἷς θεός… καὶ εἷς κύριος
Category: God
New for 1 Corinthians; a new doctrinal flashpoint unique to this book (8:6). The confessional cadence (‘there is one…’) closely echoes the shahada’s tawhid structure; misread either as simple tawhid-agreement (eliding the Trinity) or as a two-gods claim. Must always be taught alongside explicit Trinitarian framing: one God in three Persons, Father and Son both fully within that one divine identity. Do not smooth the parallel structure into a single flowing sentence — the ‘one… one…’ cadence is exegetically significant. Mandatory theologian review.
Head Covering
Approved rendering: سر ڈھانپنا
Transliteration: sar ḍhānpnā
Doctrine: Order in Worship
Original: κατακαλύπτω
Category: Worship
New for 1 Corinthians; a NEW LIVE GENDER-PRACTICE COLLISION CATEGORY for this Language Package. Paul’s instruction (11:3-12) sits directly alongside, but is doctrinally distinct from, the contested contemporary Islamic hijab/purdah discourse (a legal-devotional obligation grounded in Qur’anic/hadith material, not Paul’s creation-order argument). Risk runs both directions: wrongly endorsing hijab as a Christian requirement, or wrongly dismissing the passage as culturally irrelevant. Frame strictly as first-century Corinthian worship-order instruction. Mandatory theologian review.
Lords Supper
Approved rendering: خداوند کا کھانا / عشائے ربانی
Transliteration: k͟hudāvand kā khānā / ashā’-e-rabbānī
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Original: κυριακὸν δεῖπνον
Category: Sacrament
New for 1 Corinthians. عشائے ربانی is the established Urdu Christian liturgical term (parallel to ‘Eucharist’); the church’s central sacramental meal, established in the tradition Paul ‘received’ and ‘delivered’ (11:23-26, same verbs as 15:3). Carries the Critical doctrinal weight of the blood/wine entries below.
Blood Sacramental
Approved rendering: خون
Transliteration: k͟hūn
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Original: αἷμα
Category: Sacrament
New for 1 Corinthians; a NEW HIGHEST-SEVERITY COLLISION CATEGORY comparable to the crucifixion-denial risk. Qur’an 2:173, 5:3, 6:145, 16:115 categorically prohibit the consumption of blood as unclean. Even understood symbolically/memorially, ‘drink of my blood’ language (11:25) will register as viscerally forbidden. Requires explicit sacramental/memorial framing (sign and remembrance, not literal ingestion) at EVERY occurrence. Mandatory theologian review for every occurrence.
Jesus Is Lord Confession
Approved rendering: یسوع خداوند ہے
Transliteration: yasū’ k͟hudāvand hai
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς Κύριος
Category: Christology
New for 1 Corinthians; direct recurrence of the Romans 10:9 salvation confession. 12:3: ‘no one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit’ — render without qualification, per the existing baseline validation rule, now doubling the Trinitarian/deity-of-Christ stakes by tying it explicitly to the Spirit’s enabling work. Mandatory theologian review.
Love
Approved rendering: محبت
Transliteration: muḥabbat
Doctrine: Love as the Greater Way
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Love
New for 1 Corinthians; the single most important new non-collision-category term in the book. محبت carries strong existing associations with Sufi devotional ishq/mahabbat (mystical love attained through spiritual discipline), the dominant romantic-poetic Urdu ghazal register, and generic compassion. Paul’s ἀγάπη (13:1-13) is none of these primarily: a specific, self-sacrificial, covenantal, other-directed love modeled on Christ (cf. 11:1), given as fruit of the Spirit. No safer alternative word exists in Urdu’s semantic field; EVERY doctrinally weighted occurrence requires contextual anchoring (God’s/Christ’s self-giving love; love’s superiority to gifts and knowledge), never left to stand alone. Mandatory theologian review.
Appeared Eyewitness
Approved rendering: دکھائی دیا / ظاہر ہوا
Transliteration: dikhā’ī diyā / z̤āhir huā
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ and Believers
New for 1 Corinthians (15:5-8, ὤφθη, repeated 5x). Introduces the eyewitness-testimony chain; the resurrection is presented as verifiable historical fact, not vision or metaphor. Must retain the sense of an objective, witnessed appearance, since the entire apologetic weight of vv.5-8 rests on it. Mandatory theologian review for every occurrence.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: خوش خبری
Transliteration: khush khabrī
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: انجیل شریف کی تعلیم
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. In 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 this term anchors the formal tradition-transmission (παρέδωκα/παρέλαβον) of the death-burial-resurrection creed; must convey a fixed, authoritative proclamation, not a general religious teaching.
Grace
Approved rendering: فضل
Transliteration: faz̤l
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: رحمت, احسان, کرم
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. 1 Corinthians 15:10: grace, not merit, grounds Paul’s apostolic identity and labor; must not be read through a rahmat-plus-deeds framework.
Faith
Approved rendering: ایمان
Transliteration: īmān
Doctrine: Faith
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. In 15:2, 11, 14, 17 the object of faith must remain explicitly the historical gospel content of vv.3-5; ‘faith is in vain’ without the resurrection is unusually load-bearing object-specificity.
Called
Approved rendering: بلایا گیا
Transliteration: bulāyā gayā
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: دعوت دی گئی
Original: κλητός
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Spans apostleship (1:1), sainthood (1:2), and effectual calling to salvation (1:9, 24, 26) in this book.
Calling
Approved rendering: بلاہٹ
Transliteration: bulāhaṭ
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: دعوت
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. In 1 Corinthians 7:15-24 the sense broadens to one’s life-situation/state at the time of God’s call, without losing the sovereign-summons force.
Holy
Approved rendering: پاک
Transliteration: pāk
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: طاہر
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Applied to the believer’s body as God’s temple (3:17; 6:19) and to marriage/children in mixed households (7:14).
Saints
Approved rendering: مقدس لوگ
Transliteration: muqaddas log
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: ولی
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Also used of believers as a body who will judge the world (6:1-2); never a small ascetic-elite class.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: تقدیس
Transliteration: taqdīs
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: پاکیزگی
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Named alongside justification and washing in the 6:11 conversion formula.
Glory
Approved rendering: جلال
Transliteration: jalāl
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Applied to hidden wisdom decreed ‘for our glory’ (2:7-8) and resurrection-body splendor (15:40-43).
Power Of God
Approved rendering: خدا کی قدرت
Transliteration: k͟hudā kī qudrat
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Original: δύναμις θεοῦ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Displayed paradoxically through the ‘weakness’ of the cross (1:18, 24).
Father
Approved rendering: باپ
Transliteration: bāp
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Named alongside ‘one Lord’ in the 8:6 confessional formula; relational, not a claim of physical generation.
Fellowship
Approved rendering: رفاقت / شرکت
Transliteration: rifāqat / shirkat
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: امت
Original: κοινωνία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package (baseline risk Low) but ESCALATED to High for this book: 10:16-20 applies رفاقت to sacramental participation in Christ’s body and blood specifically, set in sharp contrast to pagan sacrificial ‘fellowship’ with demons — a sacramental, not merely social, sense the baseline term did not need to carry. Never امت.
Law
Approved rendering: شریعت
Transliteration: sharī’at
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: توریت
Original: νόμος
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. In 7:19 and 15:56 must not broaden into a general statement that religious law/practice as such is worthless.
Sin
Approved rendering: گناہ
Transliteration: gunāh
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. The reality Christ died for (15:3) and whose ‘sting’ is nullified in the resurrection (15:56); ch.15’s Adam/Christ federal-headship argument continues to require explicit teaching on inherited Adamic guilt.
Flesh
Approved rendering: جسم
Transliteration: jism
Doctrine: Sexual Ethics and the Body as the Spirit’s Temple
Rejected alternatives: نفس
Original: σάρξ
Category: Sin
Inherited from Galatians package, reused exactly. CRITICAL TERMINOLOGICAL BOUNDARY FOR THIS BOOK: جسم (σάρξ) must remain strictly distinct from بدن (σῶμα, see body_soma entry) throughout 1 Corinthians (chs.1, 5, 6, 7, 15), or the letter’s positive body-theology collapses into the same word used for the negative flesh-category. 6:16’s Genesis quotation ‘one flesh’ (ایک جسم) is the sole intentional use of جسم for a bodily-union context; see one_flesh entry.
Idolatry
Approved rendering: بت پرستی
Transliteration: but-parastī
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Original: εἰδωλολατρία
Category: Sin
Inherited from Galatians package, reused exactly. Cited as Israel’s wilderness sin and a present danger for the Corinthians (10:7, 14).
Covenant
Approved rendering: عہد
Transliteration: ahd
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Rejected alternatives: معاہدہ
Original: διαθήκη
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. In 11:25 specifically the new covenant established in Christ’s blood, instituted at the Lord’s Supper — directly attaching covenant-vocabulary to the sacramental cup and compounding it with the blood/wine collision documented under blood_sacramental.
Abba
Approved rendering: ابّا
Transliteration: abbā
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Retained here as the governing precedent for preserving Aramaic transliterations of intimate/liturgical exclamations; directly informs this book’s rendering of مارانا تھا (Maranatha, 16:22).
Wisdom Of The World
Approved rendering: دنیا کی حکمت
Transliteration: dunyā kī hikmat
Doctrine: The Cross as Wisdom and Power
Original: σοφία τοῦ κόσμου
Category: Wisdom
New for 1 Corinthians. حکمت is a major, positively-loaded Islamic theological category (Allah’s hikmah; the Qur’an styled a ‘Book of Wisdom’); this phrase must always be anchored specifically to worldly/human wisdom being overturned by the cross (1:20-25), never left to devalue حکمت as such.
Natural Person
Approved rendering: نفسانی انسان
Transliteration: nafsānī insān
Doctrine: The Cross as Wisdom and Power
Rejected alternatives: جسمانی انسان
Original: ψυχικός
Category: Sanctification
New for 1 Corinthians. نفسانی risks importing the Sufi nafs-discipline framework (nafs as a moral faculty progressively trained/purified) rather than Paul’s sharper category of one who altogether lacks the Spirit (2:14); mandatory clarifying note at first occurrence, parallel to the Galatians جسم/نفس caution.
Temple Of God
Approved rendering: خدا کا ہیکل
Transliteration: k͟hudā kā haikal
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Holiness
Rejected alternatives: مسجد
Original: ναὸς θεοῦ
Category: Church
New for 1 Corinthians. ہیکل is the established Urdu Bible term (Jerusalem temple); the church corporately as God’s dwelling place (3:16-17), replacing that temple. Never رendered مسجد, per the baseline’s church/kingdom cautions.
Sexual Immorality
Approved rendering: زنا / بدکاری
Transliteration: zinā / badkārī
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Holiness
Original: πορνεία
Category: Ethics
New for 1 Corinthians. زنا is established Urdu Bible usage but is also the precise Islamic hudud-law criminal category (four-witness evidentiary rule, prescribed corporal punishment); church discipline (ch.5, restorative and congregational) must be clearly distinguished from that criminal-legal framework every occurrence. بدکاری preferred in pastoral/explanatory material to reduce collision. Mandatory theologian review.
Hand Over To Satan
Approved rendering: شیطان کے حوالے کر دینا
Transliteration: shait̤ān ke ḥawāle kar denā
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Holiness
Original: παραδοῦναι τῷ Σατανᾷ
Category: Ethics
New for 1 Corinthians. Severe formal discipline removing the church’s protective covering (5:5), aimed at eventual restoration; must never be read as a magical curse-formula.
Body Soma
Approved rendering: بدن
Transliteration: badan
Doctrine: Sexual Ethics and the Body as the Spirit’s Temple
Rejected alternatives: جسم
Original: σῶμα
Category: Sanctification
New for 1 Corinthians; introduces a MANDATORY, NON-NEGOTIABLE terminological distinction from جسم (σάρξ). بدن is the dedicated term for σῶμα throughout this book (chs.6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15): ‘a member of Christ’ (6:15), ‘a temple of the Holy Spirit’ (6:19), destined for resurrection (15:35-44). Conflating بدن with جسم collapses the letter’s entire positive body-theology into the negative flesh-category. 6:16’s Genesis quotation ‘one flesh’ is the sole deliberate exception, since it quotes σάρξ, not σῶμα (see one_flesh entry).
Washed
Approved rendering: دھوئے گئے
Transliteration: dhoye ga’e
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Holiness
Original: ἀπελούσασθε
Category: Sanctification
New for 1 Corinthians. Named alongside sanctified/justified in the 6:11 conversion formula; must be distinguished from Islamic ritual ablution (wudu/ghusl), a repeated, works-adjacent purification practice, per the baseline’s پاک/طاہر caution.
Divorce Separate
Approved rendering: جدا ہونا / طلاق
Transliteration: judā honā / t̤alāq
Doctrine: Marriage and Singleness
Original: χωρίζω / χωρισθῆναι
Category: Marriage
New for 1 Corinthians. طلاق names the specific, procedurally defined Islamic legal act (unilateral pronouncement, iddah waiting period); Paul’s pastoral instruction (7:10-16) is not a legal code of that kind. Prefer جدا ہونا in doctrinal exposition while acknowledging طلاق as the term readers will use for the civil act itself.
Unbelieving Spouse
Approved rendering: غیر ایمان دار
Transliteration: g͟hair īmān dār
Doctrine: Marriage and Singleness
Original: ἄπιστος
Category: Faith
New for 1 Corinthians. A non-believing spouse in a religiously mixed marriage (7:12-15); the baseline ایمان risk applies in negative form — the object of faith (Christ specifically) must remain clear even when describing its absence.
Table Of The Lord Demons
Approved rendering: خداوند کی میز / بدروحوں کی میز
Transliteration: k͟hudāvand kī mez / badrūhõ kī mez
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Original: τράπεζα κυρίου / τράπεζα δαιμονίων
Category: Sacrament
New for 1 Corinthians. The sharp either/or between pagan sacrificial worship and the Lord’s Supper (10:21). بدروح (evil spirit/demon) requires comparative-theology care against conflation with the Islamic jinn concept; clarify as spiritual beings in active opposition to God, not a folk-belief category.
Sacramental Participation
Approved rendering: رفاقت / شرکت
Transliteration: rifāqat / shirkat
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Original: κοινωνία τοῦ αἵματος / σώματος
Category: Sacrament
New for 1 Corinthians; see also the escalated fellowship entry. Applies رفاقت/شرکت to participation in Christ’s body and blood specifically (10:16), not merely social fellowship; read alongside the ch.11 blood/wine cautions.
Headship
Approved rendering: سر / سربراہی
Transliteration: sar / sarbarāhī
Doctrine: Order in Worship
Original: κεφαλή
Category: Worship
New for 1 Corinthians. ‘The head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God’ (11:3); must always retain the passage’s own mutual-interdependence qualification (11:11-12), never extracted as a standalone authority-hierarchy proof text.
Wine
Approved rendering: مے / شراب
Transliteration: mai / sharāb
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Original: οἶνος
Category: Sacrament
New for 1 Corinthians. Alcohol (khamr) is categorically prohibited in Islamic law, compounding the blood-collision above. Sacramental use (11:21, 25) must be explained as a symbolic, church-specific practice, not a general endorsement of alcohol consumption; grape-juice substitution is a practice question for the Cultural Context document, not a lexical fix.
Baptism
Approved rendering: بپتسمہ
Transliteration: baptismah
Doctrine: Baptism and Incorporation into Christ
Rejected alternatives: غسل
Original: βαπτίζω
Category: Sacrament
New for 1 Corinthians; not present in the Romans/Galatians baseline TM. Established transliterated Urdu Christian term (never paraphrased as غسل, which would invoke Islamic ritual ablution). Spirit-baptism unites all believers, regardless of background, into one body (12:13); a once-for-all incorporation, distinct from the repeated, works-adjacent wudu/ghusl.
Body Of Christ
Approved rendering: مسیح کا بدن
Transliteration: masīḥ kā badan
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Original: σῶμα Χριστοῦ
Category: Church
New for 1 Corinthians. The church as Christ’s organic, unified, diverse body (12:12-27); reuses بدن per the body_soma entry. A distinct doctrinal category from کلیسیا (the institutional/congregational term) — both are needed and must not be collapsed into one word.
Women Silent
Approved rendering: عورتیں خاموش رہیں
Transliteration: aurtẽ k͟hāmosh rahẽ
Doctrine: Order in Worship
Original: σιγάτωσαν
Category: Worship
New for 1 Corinthians. A disputed, context-dependent instruction on women’s speech in the gathered assembly (14:34-35); must be handled with explicit exegetical care regarding scope, cross-referenced with 11:5 (women pray/prophesy aloud) and 12:7-11 (ungendered gift-distribution), so it is never misheard as a blanket exclusion. Mandatory theologian review alongside ch.11.
Firstfruits
Approved rendering: پہلا پھل
Transliteration: pehlā phal
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ and Believers
Original: ἀπαρχή
Category: Eschatology
New for 1 Corinthians. Christ’s resurrection as the guarantee-pattern for believers’ future resurrection (15:20, 23); the typological logic is the doctrinal engine of the chapter and must be preserved intact.
Last Adam
Approved rendering: آخری آدم
Transliteration: āk͟hrī ādam
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ and Believers
Original: ὁ ἔσχατος Ἀδάμ
Category: Eschatology
New for 1 Corinthians. Federal-headship typology (15:22, 45); the theological category of corporate representation has no ready Islamic-theological counterpart and must be explained, not assumed familiar.
Spiritual Body
Approved rendering: روحانی بدن
Transliteration: rūḥānī badan
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ and Believers
Original: σῶμα πνευματικόν
Category: Eschatology
New for 1 Corinthians. A real, physical, yet Spirit-transformed resurrection body (15:44) — not a disembodied ghost-state and not the old body unchanged. Unusually within this Language Package, a genuine PARTIAL BRIDGE with Islamic qiyamat (both traditions affirm bodily resurrection), though the specific mechanism (union with the risen Christ as firstfruits, 15:23, for ‘those who belong to Christ’) still requires careful distinction from the general resurrection-for-judgment of Islamic eschatology.
Buried
Approved rendering: دفن ہوا
Transliteration: dafn huā
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ and Believers
New for 1 Corinthians (15:4). Confirms the death was real and physical — burial is evidentiary, not merely narrative detail; its evidentiary function (real death, real body, real tomb) directly counters the Qur’anic ‘it was made to appear so’ reading of 4:157 and must be preserved, not glossed over.
Medium Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: رسول
Transliteration: rasūl
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: نبی
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. 15:5-9 anchors the official eyewitness chain; Paul’s ‘least of the apostles’ (15:9) is grace-grounded humility, not a claim to a Quranic scripture-bearing prophetic office.
Church
Approved rendering: کلیسیا
Transliteration: kalīsiyā
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: مسجد, امت
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Distinct doctrinal category from مسیح کا بدن (body of Christ, this book’s new organic-unity term); both are needed.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: خدا کی بادشاہی
Transliteration: k͟hudā kī bādshāhī
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. The final state into which the resurrected hand over all things (15:24, 50); distinguish from a caliphate-style political kingdom.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: غیر قوموں
Transliteration: g͟hair qaumõ
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: کافر
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Never کافر. Contrasted with the church and with Jews in the church’s threefold social identity (10:32; 12:2).
Revelation
Approved rendering: مکاشفہ
Transliteration: mukāshafah
Doctrine: The Cross as Wisdom and Power
Original: ἀποκαλύπτω
Category: Faith
Inherited from Galatians package, reused exactly. Extended here to the Spirit’s general revealing work in believers (2:10) and prophetic revelation in worship (14:6, 26, 30), not only apostolic commissioning; still a sovereign divine act, not an attained Sufi kashf.
Divisions
Approved rendering: تفرقے
Transliteration: tafarqe
Doctrine: Christian Unity versus Factionalism
Rejected alternatives: فرقہ بندی
Original: σχίσματα
Category: Church
New for 1 Corinthians. Standard word for schism/faction over teacher-loyalty (Paul, Apollos, Cephas); low syncretism risk but names the occasion for the whole letter and is doctrinally load-bearing throughout (1:10-17; 3:1-9; 4:1-13; 11:18-19).
Foolishness
Approved rendering: بیوقوفی / حماقت
Transliteration: bewuqoofī / ḥamāqat
Doctrine: The Cross as Wisdom and Power
Rejected alternatives: مشکل تعلیم
Original: μωρία
Category: Wisdom
New for 1 Corinthians. The label the world gives to the cross-centered gospel (1:18, 21, 23; 2:14); retain Paul’s ironic, provocative force, do not soften into ‘a difficult teaching.‘
Boasting
Approved rendering: فخر کرنا
Transliteration: fak͟hr karnā
Doctrine: Christian Unity versus Factionalism
Original: καυχάομαι
Category: Ethics
New for 1 Corinthians. ‘Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord’ (1:29-31); the theological point concerns the object of boasting (self/teachers vs. the Lord), not the word itself.
Spiritual Person
Approved rendering: روحانی انسان
Transliteration: rūḥānī insān
Doctrine: The Cross as Wisdom and Power
Original: πνευματικός
Category: Sanctification
New for 1 Corinthians. One indwelt by and discerning through the Spirit (2:14-15); keep anchored to Spirit-indwelling specifically, not a vague ‘religious/mystical’ category.
Mystery
Approved rendering: راز
Transliteration: rāz
Doctrine: The Cross as Wisdom and Power
Original: μυστήριον
Category: Wisdom
New for 1 Corinthians. God’s previously hidden wisdom, now disclosed in the crucified Christ (2:7) and in the resurrection transformation of the living (15:51); distinguish from Sufi/mystical ‘hidden knowledge’ categories (kashf, haqiqah) attained through spiritual discipline — this μυστήριον is disclosed by revelation to all believers, not an elite attainment.
Mind Of Christ
Approved rendering: مسیح کا ذہن
Transliteration: masīḥ kā zehn
Doctrine: The Cross as Wisdom and Power
Original: νοῦς Χριστοῦ
Category: Christology
New for 1 Corinthians. Believers, taught by the Spirit, share Christ’s own perspective (2:16) — union with Christ’s own understanding, not mere imitation of his example.
Reward
Approved rendering: اجر / انعام
Transliteration: ajr / in’ām
Doctrine: Apostolic Ministry and Stewardship
Original: μισθός
Category: Salvation
New for 1 Corinthians. Payment for faithful ministry-labor (3:8, 14; 9:17-18), always kept distinct from نجات (salvation, never earned): ministers are rewarded for faithfulness after salvation is already secured by grace, never rewarded into salvation.
Steward
Approved rendering: مختار
Transliteration: muk͟htār
Doctrine: Apostolic Ministry and Stewardship
Rejected alternatives: نگہبان
Original: οἰκονόμος
Category: Church
New for 1 Corinthians. Accountable household-manager sense (4:1-2); deliberately kept distinct from the Galatians baseline’s نگہبان (paidagogos, a different Greek concept — temporary custodial guide, not accountable steward).
Leaven
Approved rendering: خمیر
Transliteration: k͟hamīr
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Holiness
Original: ζύμη
Category: Sanctification
New for 1 Corinthians. Metaphor for uncorrected sin’s spreading effect on the church (5:6-8); purely metaphorical use, minimal dietary-law collision risk here.
Expel Remove
Approved rendering: خارج کر دینا
Transliteration: k͟hārij kar denā
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Holiness
Original: ἐξαίρατε
Category: Ethics
New for 1 Corinthians. Formal removal of an unrepentant member (5:13); frame as restorative congregational discipline, never a punitive civil sentence.
Joined To
Approved rendering: جڑ جانا / ملنا
Transliteration: juṛ jānā / milnā
Doctrine: Sexual Ethics and the Body as the Spirit’s Temple
Original: κολλώμενος
Category: Marriage
New for 1 Corinthians. Sexual union creates a real, not merely symbolic, ‘one flesh’ bond (6:16-17, quoting Genesis).
One Flesh
Approved rendering: ایک جسم
Transliteration: ek jism
Doctrine: Sexual Ethics and the Body as the Spirit’s Temple
Rejected alternatives: ایک بدن
Original: μία σάρξ
Category: Marriage
New for 1 Corinthians. The Genesis-quoted description of marital/sexual union (6:16). This is σάρξ, not σῶμα; must remain consistent with جسم as the established rendering of σάρξ — do not substitute بدن here, the sole intentional exception noted under body_soma.
Litigation Lawsuits
Approved rendering: مقدمہ بازی
Transliteration: muqadma-bāzī
Doctrine: Church Discipline and Holiness
Original: κρίνεσθαι
Category: Ethics
New for 1 Corinthians. Believers suing one another before secular courts (6:1-8); the doctrinal point is venue (church vs. secular court), not word choice.
Marriage
Approved rendering: شادی
Transliteration: shādī
Doctrine: Marriage and Singleness
Rejected alternatives: نکاح
Original: γάμος
Category: Marriage
New for 1 Corinthians. Presented as good but not obligatory or superior to singleness (ch.7); Islamic marriage (nikah) is a distinct contractual-legal category (mahr, witnessed contract) that Paul’s pastoral instructions should not be assumed to map onto.
Gift Life State
Approved rendering: خدا کی نعمت
Transliteration: k͟hudā kī ni’mat
Doctrine: Marriage and Singleness
Original: χάρισμα
Category: Spiritual Gifts
New for 1 Corinthians. Both marriage and singleness are, in different ways, χαρίσματα (7:7); reuses the conceptual root of the baseline’s روحانی نعمتیں, applied here to a life-state rather than a ministry-function; keep the unearned, grace-given sense forward.
Conscience
Approved rendering: ضمیر
Transliteration: z̤amīr
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Original: συνείδησις
Category: Liberty
New for 1 Corinthians. The stronger believer’s liberty must not needlessly wound the weaker believer’s conscience (8:7-12); genuinely shared, low-risk vocabulary, also a recognized Islamic ethical-psychological category. Risk is in doctrinal application, not translation.
Knowledge
Approved rendering: علم
Transliteration: ‘ilm
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Original: γνῶσις
Category: Wisdom
New for 1 Corinthians. ‘Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up’ (8:1); علم is a highly esteemed Islamic category (seeking ilm is a religious duty) — Paul’s contrast is against knowledge divorced from love, not against knowledge/‘ilm as such.
Right Authority
Approved rendering: اختیار / حق
Transliteration: ik͟htiyār / ḥaqq
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Original: ἐξουσία
Category: Liberty
New for 1 Corinthians. A permitted right that may be voluntarily set aside for others’ sake (8:9; 9:4-18); distinct from آزادی (eleutheria/freedom, the deeper freedom-from-law-and-sin category).
Crown Prize
Approved rendering: تاج
Transliteration: tāj
Doctrine: Apostolic Ministry and Stewardship
Original: στέφανος
Category: Eschatology
New for 1 Corinthians. Contrast between a perishable athletic wreath and the imperishable heavenly reward (9:25).
Discipline The Body
Approved rendering: اپنے بدن کو تابع کرنا
Transliteration: apne badan ko tābi’ karnā
Doctrine: Apostolic Ministry and Stewardship
Original: ὑπωπιάζω
Category: Sanctification
New for 1 Corinthians. Rigorous self-discipline of the بدن to remain fit for ministry (9:27); must not be read as merit-earning asceticism nor conflated with Sufi ascetic bodily-discipline aimed at nearness to God.
Temptation
Approved rendering: آزمائش
Transliteration: āzmā’ish
Doctrine: Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Original: πειρασμός
Category: Ethics
New for 1 Corinthians. God provides a way of escape from every temptation (10:13); standard shared vocabulary.
Bread
Approved rendering: روٹی
Transliteration: roṭī
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Original: ἄρτος
Category: Sacrament
New for 1 Corinthians. ‘This is my body’ — the bread as a sign of Christ’s body given for believers (11:23-24).
Cup
Approved rendering: پیالہ
Transliteration: piyālah
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Original: ποτήριον
Category: Sacrament
New for 1 Corinthians. ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood’ (11:25); carries the covenant/blood weight documented separately.
Remembrance
Approved rendering: یادگاری / یاد میں
Transliteration: yādgārī / yād mẽ
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Original: ἀνάμνησις
Category: Sacrament
New for 1 Corinthians. The Supper as a repeated memorial act, not a repeated sacrifice (11:24-25); helps anchor the required symbolic-not-literal framing for the blood/wine risk.
Discerning The Body
Approved rendering: بدن کو پہچاننا
Transliteration: badan ko pehchānnā
Doctrine: The Lord’s Supper
Original: διακρίνων τὸ σῶμα
Category: Sacrament
New for 1 Corinthians. Self-examination before participating in the Supper (11:28-29); reuses بدن per the body_soma entry.
Distinguishing Of Spirits
Approved rendering: روحوں کی تمیز
Transliteration: rūḥõ kī tamīz
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Original: διακρίσεις πνευμάτων
Category: Spiritual Gifts
New for 1 Corinthians. A specific gift for discerning true from false spiritual activity (12:10); relevant to the بدروح caution under table_of_the_lord_demons.
Healings
Approved rendering: شفا
Transliteration: shifā
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Original: ἰάματα
Category: Spiritual Gifts
New for 1 Corinthians. Spirit-given healing ability (12:9, 28, 30); شفا is genuinely shared vocabulary (a recognized Quranic term, e.g. Qur’an 17:82), low syncretism risk, a potential bridge point.
The Perfect Complete
Approved rendering: کامل / تکمیل
Transliteration: kāmil / takmīl
Doctrine: Love as the Greater Way
Original: τὸ τέλειον
Category: Eschatology
New for 1 Corinthians. Eschatological completeness, when partial gifts give way to full, unmediated knowledge of God (13:9-12).
Tongues
Approved rendering: زبانیں
Transliteration: zabānẽ
Doctrine: Order in Worship
Original: γλῶσσα
Category: Spiritual Gifts
New for 1 Corinthians. A Spirit-given gift of ecstatic or unknown-language speech, requiring interpretation for corporate benefit (ch.14); must be distinguished as a specific, regulated spiritual phenomenon, not ordinary multilingualism.
Interpretation
Approved rendering: تفسیر / ترجمانی
Transliteration: tafsīr / tarjumānī
Doctrine: Order in Worship
Original: ἑρμηνεία
Category: Spiritual Gifts
New for 1 Corinthians. The companion gift required to make tongues intelligible and edifying (14:13, 27-28).
Imperishable
Approved rendering: لافانی / غیر فانی
Transliteration: lāfānī / g͟hair fānī
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ and Believers
Original: ἀφθαρσία / ἄφθαρτος
Category: Eschatology
New for 1 Corinthians. The resurrection body’s new, permanent, decay-proof nature (15:42, 52-54).
Sting Of Death
Approved rendering: موت کا ڈنک
Transliteration: maut kā ḍank
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ and Believers
Original: κέντρον τοῦ θανάτου
Category: Eschatology
New for 1 Corinthians. Death’s piercing, fatal power nullified by Christ’s resurrection victory (15:55-56).
Victory
Approved rendering: فتح
Transliteration: fatḥ
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ and Believers
Original: νῖκος
Category: Eschatology
New for 1 Corinthians. Triumph over sin and death through Christ (15:57); فتح carries historical-martial resonance in South Asian Muslim discourse (e.g. ‘Fatah Makkah’) and should be clearly framed as spiritual, not military/triumphalist.
Holy Kiss
Approved rendering: پاک بوسہ
Transliteration: pāk bosah
Doctrine: Eschatological Hope and Practical Closing Instructions
Original: φίλημα ἅγιον
Category: Church
New for 1 Corinthians. A formal greeting-kiss among believers, carrying the پاک (set-apart, consecrated) sense (16:20); the cross-gender greeting practice raises a cultural-adaptation question flagged for the Cultural Context document, not a translation-doctrine risk.
Maranatha
Approved rendering: مارانا تھا
Transliteration: mārānā thā
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ and Believers
Rejected alternatives: ہمارے خداوند، آ! (translation-only, rejected as sole rendering)
Original: μαρανα θα
Category: Eschatology
New for 1 Corinthians. Aramaic liturgical exclamation, ‘Our Lord, come!’ (16:22); retain the Aramaic transliteration per the established ابّا precedent rather than only translating it, always glossed at first occurrence (‘ہمارے خداوند، آ!’).
Delivered Received Tradition
Approved rendering: سپرد کیا / قبول کیا
Transliteration: supurd kiyā / qabūl kiyā
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ and Believers
New for 1 Corinthians (15:1, 3, παρέδωκα/παρελάβετε). Technical, formal transmission-of-authoritative-tradition language marking 15:3-5 as fixed, pre-Pauline creedal material — not private opinion or later theological development. Must convey formal transmission, not casual telling.
Preach Proclaim
Approved rendering: منادی کرتے ہیں
Transliteration: munādī karte haĩ
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ and Believers
New for 1 Corinthians (15:11, κηρύσσομεν). Distinct in nuance from εὐαγγελίζομαι; conveys official, authoritative public heralding regardless of which apostle speaks — the message, not the messenger, is authoritative.
Low Risk Terms
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: شکرگزاری
Transliteration: shukr-guzārī
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Includes thanks for the resurrection victory (15:57).
Uncircumcision
Approved rendering: نامختون
Transliteration: nā-makhtūn
Doctrine: Marriage and Singleness
Original: ἀκροβυστία
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Galatians package, reused exactly. Paired with circumcision in the 7:19 indifference statement.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: پیشن گوئی
Transliteration: peshan go’ī
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Original: προφητεία
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Ranked above uninterpreted tongues for corporate edification (ch.14).
Prophet
Approved rendering: نبی
Transliteration: nabī
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Original: προφήτης
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. A Spirit-gifted congregational role (12:28-29).
Foundation
Approved rendering: بنیاد
Transliteration: bunyād
Doctrine: Christian Unity versus Factionalism
Original: θεμέλιος
Category: Church
New for 1 Corinthians. Christ alone as the church’s only legitimate foundation (3:11).
Servant
Approved rendering: خادم
Transliteration: k͟hādim
Doctrine: Christian Unity versus Factionalism
Original: ὑπηρέτης
Category: Church
New for 1 Corinthians. Paul’s self-description as Christ’s subordinate servant (4:1).
Virgin Unmarried
Approved rendering: کنواری / کنوارا
Transliteration: kunwārī / kunwārā
Doctrine: Marriage and Singleness
Original: παρθένος
Category: Marriage
New for 1 Corinthians. Paul’s own commended state (7:25-38); singleness as a valid, even advantageous, calling for undivided devotion.
Race Run
Approved rendering: دوڑ
Transliteration: dauṛ
Doctrine: Apostolic Ministry and Stewardship
Original: ἀγών / τρέχω
Category: Ethics
New for 1 Corinthians. Athletic-competition imagery for disciplined Christian living (9:24-26).
Member Limb
Approved rendering: اعضاء
Transliteration: a’z̤ā’
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Original: μέλος
Category: Church
New for 1 Corinthians. Individual believers as differentiated, interdependent parts of the one body (12:14-27).
Patient Kind
Approved rendering: تحمل کرنا، مہربان ہونا
Transliteration: taḥammul karnā, mehrbān honā
Doctrine: Love as the Greater Way
Original: μακροθυμεῖ, χρηστεύεται
Category: Love
New for 1 Corinthians. Concrete behavioral content of ἀγάπη (13:4); guards against a purely emotional or abstract reading.
Envies Boasts Puffed Up
Approved rendering: حسد کرنا، شیخی بگھارنا، مغرور ہونا
Transliteration: ḥasad karnā, shek͟hī bag͟hārnā, mag͟hrūr honā
Doctrine: Love as the Greater Way
Original: ζηλοῖ, περπερεύεται, φυσιοῦται
Category: Love
New for 1 Corinthians. Negated qualities of ἀγάπη (13:4-5), echoing ch.1’s factionalism.
Building Up
Approved rendering: تعمیر
Transliteration: ta’mīr
Doctrine: Order in Worship
Original: οἰκοδομή
Category: Church
New for 1 Corinthians. The controlling purpose of all worship-gifts (14:3-5, 12, 26); reuses the conceptual root of the baseline’s mutual_edification doctrine.
Decently In Order
Approved rendering: شائستگی اور ترتیب سے
Transliteration: shā’istagī aur tartīb se
Doctrine: Order in Worship
Original: εὐσχημόνως καὶ κατὰ τάξιν
Category: Worship
New for 1 Corinthians. The chapter’s closing governing principle for corporate worship (14:40).
Collection
Approved rendering: چندہ
Transliteration: chandah
Doctrine: Eschatological Hope and Practical Closing Instructions
Original: λογεία
Category: Practical Ministry
New for 1 Corinthians. A gathered financial offering for the Jerusalem church (16:1-4).
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