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OET (OET-LV) And to_the messenger of_the in Sardeis assembly write:
These things is_saying the one having the seven spirits of_ the _god and the seven stars:
I_have_known of_you the works, that the_name you_are_having, that you_are_living, and_yet dead you_are.
OET (OET-RV) To the assembly’s messenger in Sardis write:
¶ The one having the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says these things: “I know what you’re achieving and that you have a reputation of being ‘alive’, but you’re actually dead.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
ὄνομα ἔχεις ὅτι ζῇς
/the/_name ˱you˲_/are/_having that ˱you˲_/are/_living
Here, name represents the reputation of a person or group. Alternate translation: “you have a reputation for being alive”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ὅτι ζῇς, καὶ νεκρὸς εἶ
that that ˱you˲_/are/_living and_yet dead ˱you˲_are
When Jesus says that the believers in Sardis have a reputation for being alive, he does not mean literally alive, but spiritually vibrant, that is, obeying and honoring God and experiencing God’s presence and power. Similarly, when Jesus speaks as if the believers in Sardis were literally dead, he means that they are not spiritually vibrant. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “for being spiritually vibrant, but actually you are not”
3:1 Sardis, nearly 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of Smyrna on the southeast highway from Pergamum and Thyatira, was home to a large colony of prosperous Jews, called “Sephardic” after the city’s ancient name. Its fortified acropolis gave its inhabitants an overconfident sense of security.
• a reputation for being alive—but you are dead: Other churches may have believed that the Sardian Christians comprised a dynamic church, but their secularism revealed their lack of spiritual life.
OET (OET-LV) And to_the messenger of_the in Sardeis assembly write:
These things is_saying the one having the seven spirits of_ the _god and the seven stars:
I_have_known of_you the works, that the_name you_are_having, that you_are_living, and_yet dead you_are.
OET (OET-RV) To the assembly’s messenger in Sardis write:
¶ The one having the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says these things: “I know what you’re achieving and that you have a reputation of being ‘alive’, but you’re actually dead.
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.