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OET (OET-RV) Bless anyone who persecutes you—be a blesser and not a curser.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / doublet
εὐλογεῖτε καὶ μὴ καταρᾶσθε
/be/_blessing /be/_blessing and not /be/_cursing
These two commands mean the same thing. Paul uses them to emphasize what he is saying. If your language does not use repetition to do this, you could use one phrase and provide emphasis in another way. Alternate translation: “you must absolutely bless”
12:14 The exhortations in this verse closely resemble two sayings of Jesus (Matt 5:44; Luke 6:27-28). Although Paul does not introduce the commands as a quotation, he is almost certainly alluding to these sayings of Christ. Perhaps the words were so well known that he did not need to specify the source. The teaching of Rom 12–13 has many parallels with the teaching of Jesus.
OET (OET-RV) Bless anyone who persecutes you—be a blesser and not a curser.
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.