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OET (OET-LV) Not many teachers be_becoming, brothers of_me, having_known that greater judgment we_will_be_receiving.
OET (OET-RV) My brothers and sisters, not everyone should desire to be a teacher because we know that us teachers will be judged more strictly.
μὴ πολλοὶ διδάσκαλοι γίνεσθε
not many teachers /be/_becoming
Alternate translation: “Not many of you should become teachers”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ἀδελφοί μου
brothers ˱of˲_me
See how you translated the term brothers in 1:2. Alternate translation: “my fellow believers”
εἰδότες ὅτι
/having/_known that
Alternate translation: “since you know that”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / exclusive
μεῖζον κρίμα λημψόμεθα
greater judgment ˱we˲_/will_be/_receiving
James is speaking of himself and other teachers but not of his readers, so the pronoun we is exclusive here. Alternate translation: “we who teach will receive greater judgment”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
μεῖζον κρίμα λημψόμεθα
greater judgment ˱we˲_/will_be/_receiving
By greater judgment, James means that God will judge people who teach his word more strictly than he will judge other people. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could indicate explicitly why that is true. Alternate translation: “God will judge us who teach his word more strictly than he will judge other people, because our teaching greatly influences what other people believe and how they live”
3:1 Becoming teachers was one way to improve social status in the early church (1 Cor 12:28; Eph 4:11; 1 Tim 5:17; cp. Acts 5:34). Such honor would compensate for the shame imposed upon Christians as social outsiders (Jas 2:6-7). But the conspicuous role of teachers symbolizes the power of human speech to benefit or harm the church.
OET (OET-LV) Not many teachers be_becoming, brothers of_me, having_known that greater judgment we_will_be_receiving.
OET (OET-RV) My brothers and sisters, not everyone should desire to be a teacher because we know that us teachers will be judged more strictly.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and English gloss (7th line) are all thanks to the SR-GNT.