uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

πάντα στέγει, πάντα πιστεύει, πάντα ἐλπίζει, πάντα ὑπομένει

all_‹things› /is/_enduring all_‹things› /is/_believing all_‹things› /is/_hoping all_‹things› /is/_enduring

Connecting Statement:

Here, just like in 13:4–6, Paul speaks as if “love” were a person. Continue to follow the translation strategies you chose in those verses. Alternate translation: “If you love others, you bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

πάντα στέγει, πάντα πιστεύει, πάντα ἐλπίζει, πάντα ὑπομένει

all_‹things› /is/_enduring all_‹things› /is/_believing all_‹things› /is/_hoping all_‹things› /is/_enduring

Connecting Statement:

Here, all things refers primarily to the situation or time in which “love” bears, believes, hopes, and endures. The phrase all things does not mean that “love” believes everything it hears or hopes for everything that could happen. Rather, the point is that “love” believes in every situation and hopes at all times. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the idea behind all thingsin a way that more clearly refers to time or situation. Alternate translation: “It bears up in every situation, believes in every situation, hopes in every situation, endures in every situation”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

πάντα στέγει, πάντα πιστεύει, πάντα ἐλπίζει, πάντα ὑπομένει

all_‹things› /is/_enduring all_‹things› /is/_believing all_‹things› /is/_hoping all_‹things› /is/_enduring

Connecting Statement:

If you follow the previous note and understand all things as referring to time or situation, then bears, believes, hopes, and endures do not have stated objects. Paul does not state the objects because he wants the description to be general and easily applied to many situations. If you must express objects, the verbs bears and endures imply that a person bears and endures bad things that other people do. The verbs believes and hopes imply that a person believes and hopes that God will do what he has promised to do. Alternate translation: “It bears what others do in every situation; believes God in every situation; hopes in God in every situation; endures what others do in every situation”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

πάντα στέγει, πάντα πιστεύει, πάντα ἐλπίζει, πάντα ὑπομένει

all_‹things› /is/_enduring all_‹things› /is/_believing all_‹things› /is/_hoping all_‹things› /is/_enduring

Connecting Statement:

Here Paul repeats all things and the same structure in four straight clauses. This was worded powerfully in his culture. If it would be helpful in your language, and if it would not be worded powerfully in your culture, you could indicate why Paul repeats words and structure by eliminate some or all of the repetition and by making the statements powerful in another way. Alternate translation: “It bears, believes, hopes, and endures all things”

Note 5 topic: translate-unknown

στέγει

/is/_enduring

Connecting Statement:

Here, bears could refer to: (1) keeping things that are outside from getting inside. The point here would be that “love” is able to “bear” or endure bad things that other people do. Alternate translation: “It endures” or “It tolerates” (2) keeping things that are inside from getting outside. The point here would be that “love” protects or shields other people from bad things. Alternate translation: “It protects against”