EPH 3:14 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs, orange:accusative/object, pink:genitive/possessor.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

3:14 BYZ and TR before the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

AICNT For this reason I bow my knees before the Father [[of our Lord Jesus Christ]],[fn]

3:14, of our Lord Jesus Christ: Later manuscripts add. BYZ TR

OEB For this reason, then, I kneel before the Father –

WEBBE For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

WMBB For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah,

NET For this reason I kneel before the Father,

LSV For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

FBV This is why I kneel before the Father

TCNT For this reason I bow my knees in prayer before the Father [fn]of our Lord Jesus Christ,

3:14 of our Lord Jesus Christ ¦ — CT

T4T Because God has done all this for you, I kneel and pray [MTY] to God our Father.

LEB On account of this, I bend my knees before the Father,

BBE For this cause I go down on my knees before the Father,

Moff No Moff EPH book available

Wymth For this reason, on bended knee I beseech the Father,

ASV For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father,

DRA For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

YLT For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Drby For this reason I bow my knees to the Father [of our Lord Jesus Christ],

RV For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father,

Wbstr For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

KJB-1769 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

KJB-1611 For this cause I bow my knees vnto the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ,
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps For this cause I bowe my knees vnto the father of our Lorde Iesus Christe,
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation)

Gnva For this cause I bowe my knees vnto the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ,
(For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Yesus/Yeshua Christ, )

Cvdl For this cause I bowe my knees vnto the father of oure LORDE Iesus Christ,
(For this cause I bow my knees unto the father of our LORD Yesus/Yeshua Christ,)

TNT For this cause I bowe my knees vnto the father of oure lorde Iesus Christ
(For this cause I bow my knees unto the father of our lord Yesus/Yeshua Christ )

Wycl For grace of this thing Y bowe my knees to the fadir of oure Lord Jhesu Crist,
(For grace of this thing I bow my knees to the father of our Lord Yhesu Christ,)

Luth Derhalben beuge ich meine Kniee gegen den Vater unsers HErr’s JEsu Christi,
(Derhalben beuge I my Kniee gegen the father unsers LORD’s YEsu Christi,)

ClVg Hujus rei gratia flecto genua mea ad Patrem Domini nostri Jesu Christi,[fn]
(Huyus rei gratia flecto genua mea to Patrem Master our Yesu of_Christ, )

3.14 Hujus rei gratia. Vos peto, et Deo supplico, ut gratia cooperetur vobis. Et hoc est quod addit: Hujus rei gratia. In quo ostendit eos habere propriæ voluntatis arbitrium. Sed ne illud sufficere putent, addit: Flecto genua mea ad Patrem. Tantum in Græco habetur; quod autem in Latinis codicibus additum est: Domini nostri Jesu Christi, bene convenit, quod orabat, ut merito ejus obtineamus cui proprie et naturaliter est pater, non autem adoptive.

3.14 Huyus rei gratia. Vos peto, and Deo supplico, as gratia cooperetur vobis. And this it_is that addit: Huyus rei gratia. In quo ostendit them habere propriæ voluntatis arbitrium. But not illud sufficere putent, addit: Flecto genua mea to Patrem. Tantum in Græco habetur; that however in Latinis codicibus additum it_is: Master our Yesu of_Christ, bene convenit, that orabat, as merito his obtineamus cui properly and naturaliter it_is pater, not/no however adoptive.

UGNT τούτου χάριν, κάμπτω τὰ γόνατά μου πρὸς τὸν Πατέρα,
(toutou ⱪarin, kamptō ta gonata mou pros ton Patera,)

SBL-GNT Τούτου χάριν κάμπτω τὰ γόνατά μου πρὸς τὸν ⸀πατέρα,
(Toutou ⱪarin kamptō ta gonata mou pros ton ⸀patera,)

TC-GNT Τούτου χάριν κάμπτω τὰ γόνατά μου πρὸς τὸν πατέρα [fn]τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ,
(Toutou ⱪarin kamptō ta gonata mou pros ton patera tou Kuriou haʸmōn Yaʸsou Ⱪristou, )

3:14 του κυριου ημων ιησου χριστου ¦ — CT

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs, red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

τούτου χάριν

this for_reason_of

The connecting phrase For this reason introduces a reason-result relationship. The reason is that Paul’s sufferings have caused glory for the believers. The result is that Paul prays to the Father. Use a phrase in your language that connects a reason to a result.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

τούτου χάριν

this for_reason_of

You may need to make explicit what the reason is. Alternate translation: “Because God has done all this for you”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche

κάμπτω τὰ γόνατά μου πρὸς τὸν Πατέρα

˱I˲_/am/_bowing the knees ˱of˲_me to the Father

Bent knees are a picture of the whole person in an attitude of prayer. Alternate translation: “I bow down in prayer to the Father” or “I humbly pray to the Father”

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