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OET (OET-LV) For/Because I_was_elated exceedingly coming the_brothers and testifying of_you in_the truth, as you in the_truth are_walking.
OET (OET-RV) I was very happy when some of our spiritual brothers came and told us about your faithfulness to the truth and how you are living it out.
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
γὰρ
for
John is using word translated as For to introduce the reason for what he said at the end of the previous verse. Use a connector in your language that makes this clear. Alternate translation: “I know that your soul prospers because”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ἀδελφῶν
/the/_brothers
John is using the term brothers to mean people who share the same faith. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. In this case, these brothers were probably all male. Alternate translation: “fellow believers”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
σὺ ἐν ἀληθείᾳ περιπατεῖς
you in /the/_truth /are/_walking
Here, walking on a path is a metaphor for how a person lives his life. Alternate translation: “you are living your life according to God’s truth”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
ἀληθείᾳ & ἀληθείᾳ
truth & /the/_truth
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of truth, you could express the same idea in another way. The UST models one way to do this.
1:3 The traveling teachers (literally brothers) were probably John’s emissaries who traveled from church to church, teaching the Good News and encouraging Christians (see 1:5, 10).
• you are living according to the truth: Gaius was faithful to the apostolic gospel of Jesus Christ. The false teachers denied the reality of the incarnation or the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ (cp. 1 Jn 4:1-3).
OET (OET-LV) For/Because I_was_elated exceedingly coming the_brothers and testifying of_you in_the truth, as you in the_truth are_walking.
OET (OET-RV) I was very happy when some of our spiritual brothers came and told us about your faithfulness to the truth and how you are living it out.
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.