Verse List for YHN 3:30

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) It’s right and proper that he should increase and I should fade out.”

OET-LV That one it _is _fitting to _be _increasing, but me to _be _being _made _less.

ULT It is necessary for that one to increase, but for me to decrease.

UST Jesus, the bridegroom, must become more influential, and I, the bridegroom’s friend, must become less influential.

BSB He must increase; I [must] decrease.

MSB He must increase; I [must] decrease.

BLB It behooves Him to increase, but me to decrease.

AICNT That one must increase, but I must decrease.”Possible Narrator Interjection

OEB He must become greater, and I less.’

LSB He must increase, but I must decrease.

WEBBE & WMBB He must increase, but I must decrease.

NET He must become more important while I become less important.”

LSV It is necessary [for] Him to increase, and me to become less;

FBV He must become more important, and I must become less important.”

TCNT He must increase, but I must decrease.”

T4T It is necessary for Jesus to become more important by making more disciples than I have, and for me to become less important.”

LEB It is necessary for that one to increase, but for me to decrease.”

BBE He has to become greater while I become less.

Moff He must wax, I must wane."

Wymth He must grow greater, but I must grow less.

ASV He must increase, but I must decrease.

DRA He must increase, but I must decrease.

YLT 'Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less;

Drby He must increase, but I must decrease.

RV He must increase, but I must decrease.

SLT He must increase, and I must be diminished.

Wbstr He must increase, but I must decrease.

KJB-1769 He must increase, but I must decrease.

KJB-1611 Hee must increase, but I must decrease.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps He must increace, but I must decreace.

Gnva He must increase, but I must decrease.
(Same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from marking of added words (and possibly capitalisation and punctuation))

Cvdl He must increace, but I must decreace.

TNT He must increace: and I muste decreace.
(He must increace: and I must decreace.)

Wycl It bihoueth hym to wexe, but me to be maad lesse.
(It behoves him to wexe, but me to be made lesse.)

Luth Er muß wachsen, ich aber muß abnehmen.
(He must grow, I but must decrease/lose_weight.)

ClVg Illum oportet crescere, me autem minui.[fn]
(Illum it_is_necessary to_grow, me however minui.)

SR-GNT Ἐκεῖνον δεῖ αὐξάνειν, ἐμὲ δὲ ἐλαττοῦσθαι. ‡

UGNT ἐκεῖνον δεῖ αὐξάνειν, ἐμὲ δὲ ἐλαττοῦσθαι.

SBL-GNT ἐκεῖνον δεῖ αὐξάνειν, ἐμὲ δὲ ἐλαττοῦσθαι.

RP-GNT Ἐκεῖνον δεῖ αὐξάνειν, ἐμὲ δὲ ἐλαττοῦσθαι.

TC-GNT ἐκεῖνον δεῖ αὐξάνειν, ἐμὲ δὲ ἐλαττοῦσθαι.