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OET (OET-LV) The one having the son, is_having the life, the one not having the son of_ the _god, is_ not _having the life.
OET (OET-RV) Anyone who has the son has life, but anyone who doesn’t have the God’s son, doesn’t have eternal life.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ὁ ἔχων τὸν Υἱὸν, ἔχει τὴν ζωήν; ὁ μὴ ἔχων τὸν Υἱὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ, τὴν ζωὴν οὐκ ἔχει
the_‹one› having the Son /is/_having ¬the life the_‹one› not having the Son ¬the ˱of˲_God ¬the life not /is/_having
John speaks of believers who are in a close relationship with Jesus as if Jesus were their possession. If this is confusing in your language, you can use a different expression. Alternate translation: “Anyone who is in a close relationship with the Son has life. Anyone who is not in a close relationship with the Son of God does not have life”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ἔχει τὴν ζωήν & τὴν ζωὴν οὐκ ἔχει
/is/_having ¬the life & ¬the life not /is/_having
Since both groups of people are physically alive, John means this in a spiritual sense. As in 4:9, he is likely referring to what he calls “eternal life” in 3:15 and 5:11. See how you translated that term in those verses. Alternate translation: “has power from God to live as a new person now and will live forever in God’s presence after death … does not have power from God to live as a new person now and will not live forever in God’s presence after death”
Note 3 topic: guidelines-sonofgodprinciples
τὸν Υἱὸν & τὸν Υἱὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ
the Son & the Son ¬the ˱of˲_God
Son and Son of God are important titles for Jesus that describes his relationship to God.
5:11-12 Whoever has the Son has life: Those who have the Son of God living in them have God’s eternal life now—they enjoy the presence of God’s Spirit (2:20, 25, 27), and they have the guarantee of eternity with God (see Eph 1:13-14).
OET (OET-LV) The one having the son, is_having the life, the one not having the son of_ the _god, is_ not _having the life.
OET (OET-RV) Anyone who has the son has life, but anyone who doesn’t have the God’s son, doesn’t have eternal life.
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.