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OET (OET-LV) And who is the one going_to_mistreat you_all, if you_all_may_become zealous for_the good?
Connecting Statement:
In 3:13–22 Peter teaches the believers how to behave when unbelievers persecute them.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
τίς ὁ κακώσων ὑμᾶς, ἐὰν τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ ζηλωταὶ γένησθε?
who_‹is› the_‹one› /going_to/_mistreat you_all if ˱for˲_the good zealous ˱you_all˲_/may/_become
Peter is not asking for information, but is using the question form here to emphasize that it is unlikely that someone would harm them if they did good things. If you would not use a rhetorical question for this purpose in your language, you could translate his words as a statement or an exclamation and communicate the emphasis in another way. Alternate translation: “no one will harm you if you become zealous ones of the good”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / possession
τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ ζηλωταὶ
˱for˲_the good zealous
Peter is using the possessive form to describe people who are zealous about doing good deeds. If this is not clear in your language, you could use a different expression. Alternate translation: “ones zealous to do good deeds”
3:13 Generally speaking, no one will want to harm someone who is doing good, but sometimes Christians do suffer even when they do good (3:14; see 1:6; 4:12-19).
OET (OET-LV) And who is the one going_to_mistreat you_all, if you_all_may_become zealous for_the 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.