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OET (OET-LV) Therefore be_confessing to_one_another your sins, and be_praying for one_another, so_that you_all_may_be_healed.
Much is_prevailing the_petition of_a_righteous one working.
OET (OET-RV) So confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that all of you can be healed, because when an obedient believer prays, it has a real effect.
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
οὖν
therefore
James uses Therefore to introduce something that believers should do as a result of what he said in the previous verse. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could explain in more detail what he means, as UST does.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
ἰαθῆτε
˱you_all˲_/may_be/_healed
If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this with an active form, and you could state who would do the action. Alternate translation: “God may heal you”
πολὺ ἰσχύει δέησις δικαίου ἐνεργουμένη
much /is/_prevailing /the/_petition ˱of˲_/a/_righteous_‹one› working
The term working has the sense of an adverb rather than an adjective. Alternate translation: “The prayer of the righteous is very strong as it is working” or “The prayer of the righteous is very strong in its effects”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj
πολὺ ἰσχύει δέησις δικαίου ἐνεργουμένη
much /is/_prevailing /the/_petition ˱of˲_/a/_righteous_‹one› working
James is using the adjective righteous as a noun in order to indicate a type of person. Your language may use adjectives in the same way. If not, you could translate this with an equivalent expression. Alternate translation: “The working prayer of a person who is righteous is very strong”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / personification
πολὺ ἰσχύει δέησις δικαίου ἐνεργουμένη
much /is/_prevailing /the/_petition ˱of˲_/a/_righteous_‹one› working
James is speaking of prayer as if it were a living thing that was very strong by itself. Alternate translation: “When a person who is righteous prays, God does very powerful things in response”
OET (OET-LV) Therefore be_confessing to_one_another your sins, and be_praying for one_another, so_that you_all_may_be_healed.
Much is_prevailing the_petition of_a_righteous one working.
OET (OET-RV) So confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that all of you can be healed, because when an obedient believer prays, it has a real effect.
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.