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OET (OET-LV) Be_requesting and it_will_be_being_given to_you_all, be_seeking and you_all_will_be_finding, be_knocking and it_will_be_being_opened_up to_you_all.
OET (OET-RV) “Make your requests and they’ll be given to you. Keep looking and you’ll find it. Knock on doors and they’ll be opened.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
αἰτεῖτε καὶ δοθήσεται ὑμῖν; ζητεῖτε καὶ εὑρήσετε
/be/_requesting and ˱it˲_/will_be_being/_given ˱to˲_you_all /be/_seeking and ˱you_all˲_/will_be/_finding
You may need to say what a person would be asking for and seeking. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use general expressions that refer to anything good that a person might want or need. Alternate translation: “ask for a good thing, and it will be given to you; seek a good thing, and you will find it”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
δοθήσεται ὑμῖν
˱it˲_/will_be_being/_given ˱to˲_you_all
If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. If you need to say who does the action, it is clear from the context that it is God. Alternate translation: “God will give it to you”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
κρούετε
/be/_knocking
To knock means to hit a door a few times to let a person inside the house know you are standing outside. You could translate this expression with the way people in your culture show that they have arrived at a house. Alternate translation: “call out” or “cough” or “clap”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
κρούετε καὶ ἀνοιγήσεται ὑμῖν
/be/_knocking and ˱it˲_/will_be_being/_opened_up ˱to˲_you_all
Here Jesus speaks of praying as if it were knocking on a door, and he speaks of God answering the prayer as if it were the door being opened. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a comparable figure of speech or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “ask for permission, and permission will be given to you” or “pray, and God will answer your prayer”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
ἀνοιγήσεται ὑμῖν
˱it˲_/will_be_being/_opened_up ˱to˲_you_all
If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. If you need to say who does the action, it is clear from the context that it is God. Alternate translation: “God will open it to you”
7:7-8 This passage teaches persistence in prayer, but Jesus does not teach that God will grant extravagant desires. God’s people are to seek daily provision and spiritual blessing (6:10-11).
OET (OET-LV) Be_requesting and it_will_be_being_given to_you_all, be_seeking and you_all_will_be_finding, be_knocking and it_will_be_being_opened_up to_you_all.
OET (OET-RV) “Make your requests and they’ll be given to you. Keep looking and you’ll find it. Knock on doors and they’ll be opened.
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.