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OET (OET-LV) By this we_have_known the love, because that one laid the life of_him for us, and we ought to_lay our lives for our brothers.
OET (OET-RV) We know about real love because we saw that Yeshua gave up his life for us, and we should give up our lives for our fellow believers.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
ἐν τούτῳ ἐγνώκαμεν τὴν ἀγάπην
by this ˱we˲_/have/_known ¬the love
In this we have known means something similar to the idiomatic expression “in this we know” that John uses many times in this letter. Alternate translation: “This is how we have come to understand what love is”
Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns
ἐκεῖνος
that_‹one›
The demonstrative pronoun that one refers to Jesus. Alternate translation: “Jesus”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἔθηκεν
for us the life ˱of˲_him laid
This is an idiom that means "died willingly for us." If this phrase does not have that meaning in your language, you could use an idiom from your language that does have that meaning or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “willingly gave his life for us” or “sacrificed himself for us”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
καὶ ἡμεῖς ὀφείλομεν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀδελφῶν, τὰς ψυχὰς θεῖναι
and we ought for our brothers our lives /to/_lay
John is not saying that we should seek out ways to die for our fellow believers in a literal sense, but that we should be prepared to do so, if necessary. However, he is also using the expression lay down our lives to mean that we should seek ways to love our fellow believers in sacrificial ways, as he illustrates in the next verse.
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
τῶν ἀδελφῶν
our brothers
See how you translated the brothers in 2:9. Alternate translation: “our fellow believers”
3:11-22 John now focuses on the believers’ need to love one another (see John 13:34).
OET (OET-LV) By this we_have_known the love, because that one laid the life of_him for us, and we ought to_lay our lives for our brothers.
OET (OET-RV) We know about real love because we saw that Yeshua gave up his life for us, and we should give up our lives for our fellow believers.
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.