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OET (OET-LV) I_have_known of_you the works, that neither cool you_are nor hot.
Profit cool you_were or hot.
OET (OET-RV) “I’m aware of what you’ve been doing and that you’re neither hot nor cold. (You’d benefit[fn] if you were hot or cold.)
3:15 TC: Some manuscripts don’t have this parenthesised sentence at all, and some later manuscripts have ‘I wish’ instead of ‘You’d benefit’.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ψυχρὸς & οὔτε ζεστός & ψυχρὸς & ἢ ζεστός
cool & nor hot & cool & or hot
Jesus is speaking as if the believers in Laodicea were literally water that was a certain temperature. He is using the word hot to mean diligently obedient to God and the word cold to mean stubbornly resistant to God, so he means that the Laodiceans are complacent and indifferent. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [disobedient nor obedient … disobedient or obedient]
3:14-22 The letter to the church in Laodicea castigates lukewarm Christians whose inconsistent lives stand for nothing but themselves. They sicken Christ to the point of his spitting them from his mouth.
OET (OET-LV) I_have_known of_you the works, that neither cool you_are nor hot.
Profit cool you_were or hot.
OET (OET-RV) “I’m aware of what you’ve been doing and that you’re neither hot nor cold. (You’d benefit[fn] if you were hot or cold.)
3:15 TC: Some manuscripts don’t have this parenthesised sentence at all, and some later manuscripts have ‘I wish’ instead of ‘You’d benefit’.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.