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OET (OET-RV) but with what is fitting for women who do good things, having declared that they honour God.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / infostructure
ἀλλ’ ὃ πρέπει γυναιξὶν ἐπαγγελλομέναις θεοσέβειαν, δι’ ἔργων ἀγαθῶν
but what /is/_befitting ˱to˲_women professing /the/_God-fearing through works good
If it would be more natural in your language, you could state how the women are supposed to adorn themselves before you indicate why this is proper. If you use the following alternate translation, you should delete the dash before it. Alternate translation: “but through good works, which is proper for women professing godliness”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
ἀλλ’ ὃ
but what
Paul is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You could supply these words from the previous verse if it would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: “but to adorn themselves—as”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ὃ πρέπει γυναιξὶν ἐπαγγελλομέναις θεοσέβειαν, δι’ ἔργων ἀγαθῶν
what /is/_befitting ˱to˲_women professing /the/_God-fearing through works good
Here Paul implies that the women should “adorn themselves” through good works. He speaks of these good works as if they were articles of clothing in order to indicate that it should be good works that characterize these women, just as clothing characterizes people. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “as is proper for women professing godliness—to be characterized by good works”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
θεοσέβειαν
/the/_God-fearing
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of godliness, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “to be godly”
2:1-15 This unit deals first with prayer (2:1-7) and with the deportment of men and women (2:8-10). It closes with the question of women and teaching (2:11-15).
OET (OET-RV) but with what is fitting for women who do good things, having declared that they honour God.
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.