OET interlinear ROM 3:3

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

γάρ

for

For here indicates that what follows is a response to what Paul said in the previous verse. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “If these things are true, then”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

τί & εἰ ἠπίστησάν τινες? μὴ ἡ ἀπιστία αὐτῶν, τὴν πίστιν τοῦ Θεοῦ καταργήσει?

what & if disbelieved some not the unbelief ˱of˲_them the faith ¬the ˱of˲_God /will_be/_nullifying

In this verse Paul is not asking for information, but is using these two questions here to express the objections that a Jew might have to what Paul said in the previous verse. 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: “But some of them were unfaithful! Their unfaithfulness surely cannot nullify the faithfulness of God!”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / quotemarks

τί γάρ εἰ ἠπίστησάν τινες? μὴ ἡ ἀπιστία αὐτῶν, τὴν πίστιν τοῦ Θεοῦ καταργήσει?

what for if disbelieved some not the unbelief ˱of˲_them the faith ¬the ˱of˲_God /will_be/_nullifying

In this verse Paul is speaking as if he himself were a non-Christian Jew arguing against Paul. It may be helpful to your readers to indicate this by setting off all of this material with quotation marks or with whatever punctuation or convention your language uses to indicate a quotation.

Note 4 topic: writing-pronouns

τινες

some

The pronoun some refers to some Jewish people. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “some Jewish people”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

μὴ ἡ ἀπιστία αὐτῶν, τὴν πίστιν τοῦ Θεοῦ καταργήσει

not the unbelief ˱of˲_them the faith ¬the ˱of˲_God /will_be/_nullifying

If your language does not use abstract nouns for the ideas of unfaithfulness or faithfulness, you could express the same ideas in another way. Alternate translation: “The fact that they are unfaithful will not nullify God’s faithful acts, will it”

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / possession

τὴν πίστιν τοῦ Θεοῦ

the faith ¬the ˱of˲_God

Paul is using the possessive form to describe the faithfulness that characterizes God. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a different expression. Alternate translation: “the faithfulness that characterizes God”