OET interlinear 1COR 14:20

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / gendernotations

ἀδελφοί

brothers

Although Brothers is in masculine form, Paul is using it to refer to any believer, whether man or woman. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express Brothers with a non gendered word or refer to both genders. Alternate translation: “Brothers and sisters”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

μὴ παιδία γίνεσθε & τῇ κακίᾳ, νηπιάζετε

not little_children /be/_becoming & ˱in˲_the evil /be/_child_like

Here, much like in 13:11, Paul compares people to children. He is particularly thinking about how children do not know very much or do very much. Paul does not want the Corinthians to be like children in how children know very little. Rather, he wants the Corinthians to be like children in how children do very little evil. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this figure of speech as an analogy or in a nonfigurative way. If possible, preserve the metaphor, because Paul has already used “child” language in 13:11. Alternate translation: “do not be immature, like children, … do very little evil, like children,”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / infostructure

ἀλλὰ τῇ κακίᾳ, νηπιάζετε, ταῖς δὲ φρεσὶν, τέλειοι γίνεσθε

but ˱in˲_the evil /be/_child_like ˱in˲_your and thinking mature /be/_becoming

If your language would naturally express the contrast before the comparison, you could move the clause about being mature before the clause about being childlike. Alternate translation: “Rather, become mature in the thoughts, and only be childlike in evil”

τῇ κακίᾳ

˱in˲_the evil

Alternate translation: “about evil”