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OET (OET-LV) To_no_one nothing be_owing, except not/lest which one_another to_be_loving, because/for the one loving the other, the_law has_fulfilled.
OET (OET-RV) Don’t be in debt to anyone other than the debt of love to each other, because those who love one another have fulfilled God’s law
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / doublenegatives
μηδενὶ μηδὲν ὀφείλετε
˱to˲_no_one nothing /be/_owing
If your readers would misunderstand this double negative, you could translate it as a positive statement. Alternate translation: “Do not owe anyone anything”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
μηδενὶ μηδὲν ὀφείλετε, εἰ μὴ τὸ ἀλλήλους ἀγαπᾶν
˱to˲_no_one nothing /be/_owing except ¬not/lest ¬which one_another /to_be/_loving
Here Paul speaks of loving other believers as if it were a debt owed to them. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly or use a simile. Alternate translation: “Owe nothing to anyone, but love one another as if it were a debt that you owed them”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
τὸ ἀλλήλους
¬which one_another
Here, one another refers to other Christians. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “other believers”
Note 4 topic: grammar-collectivenouns
νόμον
/the/_law
See how you translated the law in 2:12.
13:8 The idea of obligation is the hinge that connects 13:1-7 and 13:8-10. Christians are to “give to everyone what [they] owe them” (13:7), and Christians always owe love to their neighbors.
• Owe nothing to anyone: Debts are not sinful but should be avoided and, if incurred, should be promptly repaid so that the believer is free to serve in love (see Prov 22:7).
• love one another: Believers are called to love all those they encounter (Rom 12:14-21; Luke 10:25-37), but the phrase especially emphasizes the love that each believer owes to other believers.
• you will fulfill the requirements of God’s law: This teaching closely follows Jesus’ teaching in Matt 22:34-40.
OET (OET-LV) To_no_one nothing be_owing, except not/lest which one_another to_be_loving, because/for the one loving the other, the_law has_fulfilled.
OET (OET-RV) Don’t be in debt to anyone other than the debt of love to each other, because those who love one another have fulfilled God’s law
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.