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OET (OET-LV) For/Because yourselves you_all_have_known how it_is_fitting to_be_imitating us, because not we_loafed among you_all,
OET (OET-RV) You yourselves know that it’s appropriate to be imitating us, because we didn’t loaf when we were among you all,
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
μιμεῖσθαι ἡμᾶς
/to_be/_imitating us
The phrase to imitate may be a difficult word to translate in your language. In that case, you could make this explicit. Alternate translation: “to act the way that my fellow workers and I act”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / doublenegatives
οὐκ ἠτακτήσαμεν ἐν ὑμῖν
not ˱we˲_loafed among you_all
Paul uses a double negative to emphasize the positive. If this double negative would be misunderstood in your language, you could translate it as a positive statement. Alternate translation: “we lived among you as those who had much discipline” or “we worked diligently when we were with you”
3:7 Teaching by example was highly regarded in the ancient world. Paul himself provided an example by working for his own food (3:8; 1 Thes 2:9).
OET (OET-LV) For/Because yourselves you_all_have_known how it_is_fitting to_be_imitating us, because not we_loafed among you_all,
OET (OET-RV) You yourselves know that it’s appropriate to be imitating us, because we didn’t loaf when we were among you all,
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.