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OET (OET-RV) What would you all prefer: should I come to you all with a rod, or come with love and a gentle spirit?
OET-LV What you_all_are_wanting?
With a_rod I_may_come to you_all, or in love, and a_spirit of_gentleness?
SR-GNT Τί θέλετε; Ἐν ῥάβδῳ ἔλθω πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ἢ ἐν ἀγάπῃ, πνεύματί τε πραΰτητος; ‡
(Ti thelete? En ɽabdōi elthō pros humas, aʸ en agapaʸ, pneumati te prautaʸtos?)
Key: yellow:verbs, orange:accusative/object, pink:genitive/possessor, cyan:dative/indirect object.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
ULT What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod or with love and a spirit of gentleness?
UST When you choose how you will respond to what I am saying, you are also choosing how I will act when I visit. When I visit you, I can either harshly discipline you because you did not listen, or I can act gently and lovingly because you did listen.
BSB Which do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and with a gentle spirit?
BLB What do you desire? Should I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
AICNT What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
OEB What do you wish? Am I to come to you with a rod, or in a loving and gentle spirit?
WEB What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
NET What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline or with love and a spirit of gentleness?
LSV What do you wish? Will I come to you with a rod, or in love, also with a spirit of meekness?
FBV So what do you want? Shall I come with a stick to beat you, or in love and a gentle spirit?
TCNT What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?
T4T So which do you prefer? Do you want me to come to you and punish you because you have not changed your ways, or shall I come to you and act lovingly and gently toward you because you have done what I told you to do?
LEB What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?
BBE What is your desire? is my coming to be with punishment, or is it to be in love and a gentle spirit?
MOF No MOF 1COR book available
ASV What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
DRA What will you? shall I come to you with a rod; or in charity, and in the spirit of meekness?
YLT what do ye wish? with a rod shall I come unto you, or in love, with a spirit also of meekness?
DBY What will ye? that I come to you with a rod; or in love, and [in] a spirit of meekness?
RV What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of meekness?
WBS What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of meekness?
KJB What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
BB What wyl ye? Shal I come vnto you with a rodde, or in loue and in the spirite of mekenesse?
(What will ye? Shal I come unto you with a rodde, or in love and in the spirit of meeknessse?)
GNV What will ye? shall I come vnto you with a rod, or in loue, and in ye spirite of meekenes?
(What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in loue, and in ye/you_all spirit of meekness?)
CB What wil ye? Shal I come vnto you wt the rodd, or with loue and the sprete of mekenesse?
(What will ye? Shal I come unto you with the rodd, or with love and the spirit of meeknessse?)
TNT What will ye? Shall I come vnto you with a rodde or els in love and in the sprete of mekenes?
(What will ye? Shall I come unto you with a rod/staff or else in love and in the spirit of meekness?)
WYC What wole ye? Schal Y come to you in a yerde, or in charite, and in spirit of myldenesse?
(What will ye? Schal I come to you in a yerde, or in charity, and in spirit of myldenesse?)
LUT Was wollet ihr? Soll ich mit der Rute zu euch kommen oder mit Liebe und sanftmütigem Geist?
(What wollet ihr? Soll I with the Rute to you coming or with love and sanftmütigem spirit?)
CLV Quid vultis? in virga veniam ad vos, an in caritate, et spiritu mansuetudinis?
(Quid vultis? in virga veniam to vos, an in caritate, and spiritu mansuetudinis?)
UGNT τί θέλετε? ἐν ῥάβδῳ ἔλθω πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ἢ ἐν ἀγάπῃ, πνεύματί τε πραΰτητος?
(ti thelete? en ɽabdōi elthō pros humas, aʸ en agapaʸ, pneumati te prautaʸtos?)
SBL-GNT τί θέλετε; ἐν ῥάβδῳ ἔλθω πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ἢ ἐν ἀγάπῃ πνεύματί τε πραΰτητος;
(ti thelete? en ɽabdōi elthō pros humas, aʸ en agapaʸ pneumati te prautaʸtos?)
TC-GNT Τί θέλετε; Ἐν ῥάβδῳ ἔλθω πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ἢ ἐν ἀγάπῃ πνεύματί τε πρᾳότητος;
(Ti thelete? En ɽabdōi elthō pros humas, aʸ en agapaʸ pneumati te praotaʸtos?)
Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs, red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).
4:6-21 Paul again rebukes the Corinthian Christians for their arrogance (4:6-13) and then admonishes them as a father (4:14-21).
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
τί θέλετε?
what ˱you_all˲_/are/_wanting
Paul asks the Corinthians What they want because he wants them to realize that their behavior will show him how to respond to them. He does not want the Corinthians to tell him all their desires. Rather, he presents two options in the rest of the verse, and the question What do you want? shows the Corinthians that they can choose between those two options by listening to Paul or choosing not to listen to him. If your language does not use a question to express this idea, you can translate the question in statement form. Alternate translation: “Depending on what you do, I will behave towards you in one of two ways.” or “How you respond to me will tell me how to respond to you.”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
ἐν ῥάβδῳ ἔλθω πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ἢ ἐν ἀγάπῃ, πνεύματί τε πραΰτητος?
with /a/_rod ˱I˲_/may/_come to you_all or in love /a/_spirit and ˱of˲_gentleness
Here Paul uses a question to present the two options for how he could act toward the Corinthians when he “comes” to them. He asks a question for the same reason he asked the first question in this verse. He wants them to realize that how they choose to respond to him will dictate how he will act when he visits. If they do not listen to him, he will come with a rod. If they do listen, he will come with love and a spirit of gentleness. If your language does not use a question to express this idea, you can translate the question in statement form. Alternate translation: “I will either come to you with a rod or with love and a spirit of gentleness.” or “If you do not listen, I will come to you with a rod. If you do listen, I will come to you with love and a spirit of gentleness.”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / go
ἔλθω πρὸς ὑμᾶς
˱I˲_/may/_come to you_all
Here Paul is speaking about his plan to visit the Corinthians at some point. Use a form in your language that indicates future travel plans to visit someone. Alternate translation: “Shall I arrive where you live”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ἐν ῥάβδῳ
with /a/_rod
Paul speaks of coming with a rod as if he is going to physically beat the Corinthians to teach them to listen to him. This metaphor may continue the way in which he speaks of himself as a “father” in 4:14–15, since fathers could punish their children physically with a rod if they did not obey. By speaking in this way, Paul thus refers to discipline or punishment, but the discipline he threatens will not be physical. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this figure of speech with a word or phrase that would describe discipline or punishment, or you could express the idea plainly. Alternate translation: “to punish you” or “with a harsh rebuke”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
ἐν ἀγάπῃ & τε
with in love & and
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea behind love, you can express the idea by using an adverb such as “lovingly” or a verb such as “love.” Alternate translation: “shall I love you with”
Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / possession
πνεύματί & πραΰτητος
/a/_spirit & ˱of˲_gentleness
Here Paul uses the possessive form to describe a spirit that is characterized by gentleness. If your language would not use the possessive form to express that idea, you could express the idea by translating gentleness as an adjective, such as “gentle.” Alternate translation: “a gentle spirit”
Note 7 topic: translate-unknown
πνεύματί
/a/_spirit
Here, spirit does not refer to God’s Spirit, the Holy Spirit. Rather, it refers to Paul’s spirit. In Paul’s culture, as spirit of something is a way to describe a person’s attitude that is characterized by that thing. Here, then, Paul speaks about an attitude that is gentle. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express spirit with a word such as “attitude” to express the idea. Alternate translation: “an attitude”
Note 8 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
πραΰτητος
˱of˲_gentleness
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea behind gentleness, you can express the idea by using an adjective such as “gentle.” Alternate translation: “that is gentle”