OET interlinear ROM 12:17

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / declarative

μηδενὶ κακὸν ἀντὶ κακοῦ ἀποδιδόντες, προνοούμενοι καλὰ ἐνώπιον πάντων ἀνθρώπων

˱to˲_no_one evil for evil giving_back providing good_‹things› before all people

Paul is using statements to give commands. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a more natural form for commands. Alternate translation: “repay no one evil for evil; give careful thought to good things in the sight of all men”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

κακὸν ἀντὶ κακοῦ & προνοούμενοι & ἐνώπιον

evil for evil & providing & before

If your language does not use abstract nouns for the ideas of evil, thought, and sight, you could express the ideas in another way. Alternate translation: “evil things for evil things; thinking carefully about … as seen by”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

μηδενὶ κακὸν ἀντὶ κακοῦ ἀποδιδόντες

˱to˲_no_one evil for evil giving_back

Here Paul uses paying back to refer to doing something evil to someone in response to the evil that person has done. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “doing something evil to no one for the evil that person has done to you”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

καλὰ ἐνώπιον πάντων ἀνθρώπων

good_‹things› before all people

Here Paul uses sight to refer to what people mentally perceive. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “do things that all men perceive to be good”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / gendernotations

πάντων ἀνθρώπων

all people

Although the term men is masculine, Paul is using the word here in a generic sense that includes both men and women. Alternate translation: “all people”