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OET (OET-LV) or to_governors as being_sent by him, because/for vengeance to_evildoers, but praise to_welldoers.
OET (OET-RV) or the governors that he sends to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good.
ἡγεμόσιν ὡς δι’ αὐτοῦ πεμπομένοις
˱to˲_governors as by him /being/_sent
Alternate translation: “to governors, who have been sent through him”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
δι’ αὐτοῦ πεμπομένοις
by him /being/_sent
If your language does not use the passive form in this way, you can state this in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: “whom the king has sent”
Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns
δι’ αὐτοῦ πεμπομένοις
by him /being/_sent
Here, him could refer to: (1) the king mentioned in the previous verse, as in the UST. (2) God, who is the one who installs and removes all governing authorities. Alternate translation: “those being sent by God”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
εἰς ἐκδίκησιν κακοποιῶν, ἔπαινον δὲ ἀγαθοποιῶν
for vengeance ˱to˲_evildoers praise but ˱to˲_welldoers
If your language does not use abstract nouns for the ideas of punishment and praise, you can express the same ideas in another way. Alternate translation: “to punish evildoers and praise those who do good”
2:14 to punish those who do wrong and honor those who do right: Cp. Rom 13:3-4.
OET (OET-LV) or to_governors as being_sent by him, because/for vengeance to_evildoers, but praise to_welldoers.
OET (OET-RV) or the governors that he sends to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good.
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.