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OET (OET-RV) So when perfection comes, partial things will disappear.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ἔλθῃ τὸ τέλειον
/may/_come the perfect
Here Paul speaks as if the perfect could “come,” by which he means that people experience the perfect. He uses this metaphor because he uses the verb comes also for Jesus’ return (See: 4:5; 11:26), and he wishes to identify the coming of the perfect with the coming of Jesus. The time when the perfect comes will be when Jesus comes back. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this figure of speech with a comparable metaphor or express the idea plainly and connect the perfect to Jesus’ return in another way. Alternate translation: “we experience the perfect at Jesus’ return”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
τὸ τέλειον, τὸ ἐκ μέρους
the perfect the_‹thing› by part
Here, that which is partial refers back to the “knowing” and “prophesying” in 13:9. The phrase the perfect contrasts with partial, so the perfect refers to full knowledge and experience of God and of what God says. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the idea behind what perfect and partial refer to more explicitly. Alternate translation: “the perfect experience of God … the partial experience of God, including knowledge and prophecy,”
13:1-13 Paul interrupts his discussion of spiritual gifts (resumed in ch 14) to emphasize that love is more important than any spiritual gift (cp. 8:1-3). The most important thing for Christians is to become deeply and consistently loving people.
OET (OET-RV) So when perfection comes, partial things will disappear.
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 VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.