MAT 3:8 Parallel Verse View

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

OET (OET-RV) Turning from your sins should be accompanied by evidence that you’ve changed.

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 RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

UST You need to do the things that show that you have truly rejected your previous sinful way of living!

AICNT Therefore, produce fruit worthy of repentance

OEB Let your life, then, prove your repentance;

WEBBE Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance,

LSV Bear, therefore, fruits worthy of conversion,

FBV Show by what you do that you have truly repented,[fn]

3:8 Literally, “Produce fruit worthy of repentance.”

TCNT Produce [fn]fruit consistent with repentance.

3:8 fruit ¦ fruits TR

T4T Do what is appropriate [IDM] for people who have truly turned away from their sinful behavior before you come to me in order to be baptized {that I baptize you}.

LEB No LEB MAT book available

BBE Let your change of heart be seen in your works:

Moff No Moff MAT book available

Wymth Therefore let your lives prove your change of heart;

ASV Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance:

DRA Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance.

YLT bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation,

Drby Produce therefore fruit worthy of repentance.

RV Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance:

SLT Do ye therefore fruit worthy of repentance.

Wbstr Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:

KJB-1769 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:

KJB-1611 Bring forth therefore fruits [fn]meet for repentance.
(Same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

3:8 Or, answerable to amendment of life.

Bshps No Bshps MAT book available

Gnva Bring foorth therefore fruite worthy amendment of life.
(Bring forth therefore fruit worthy amendment of life. )

Cvdl No Cvdl MAT book available

TNT Brynge forth therfore the frutes belongynge to repentaunce.
(Bring forth therefore the fruits belonging to repentance. )

Wycl No Wycl MAT book available

Luth No Luth MAT book available

ClVg Facite ergo fructum dignum pœnitentiæ.[fn]
(Facite therefore fruit dignum pœnitentiæ. )

3.8 Facite ergo fructus dignos. BEDA. Quasi diceret: Quare prius venena non deponitis, ut sic ad baptismum, etc., usque ad gratia est quæ sentit, sentiens quærit sanctitatem.

3.8 Facite therefore fruit dignos. BEDA. As_if would_say: Why first/before venena not/no deponitis, as so to baptismum, etc., until to grace it_is which sentit, sentiens seeks sanctitatem.

UGNT ποιήσατε οὖν καρπὸν ἄξιον τῆς μετανοίας.
(poiaʸsate oun karpon axion taʸs metanoias.)

SBL-GNT ποιήσατε οὖν καρπὸν ἄξιον τῆς μετανοίας
(poiaʸsate oun karpon axion taʸs metanoias)

RP-GNT Ποιήσατε οὖν καρπὸν ἄξιον τῆς μετανοίας·
(Poiaʸsate oun karpon axion taʸs metanoias;)

TC-GNT Ποιήσατε οὖν [fn]καρπὸν ἄξιον τῆς μετανοίας·
(Poiaʸsate oun karpon axion taʸs metanoias; )

3:8 καρπον αξιον ¦ καρπους αξιους TR

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

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

οὖν

therefore

The word Therefore introduces an exhortation based on what John said in rebuking the Pharisees and Sadducees in the previous verse (see [3:7](../03/07.md)). If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a word or phrase that introduces an exhortation based on a previous rebuke. Alternate translation: [Instead] or [But here is what you should do:]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

ποιήσατε & καρπὸν

produce & fruit

Here, John is speaking of people behaving in certain ways as if they were trees producing fruit. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [act in ways] or [perform deeds]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / possession

ἄξιον τῆς μετανοίας

worthy ¬the ˱of˲_repentance

Here, John is using the possessive form to describe fruit that matches or goes along with repentance. If this is not clear in your language, you could express the idea in another way. Alternate translation: [that goes along with repentance] or [that shows repentance]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

τῆς μετανοίας

¬the ˱of˲_repentance

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of repentance, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [of repenting] or [of people who repent]

Parallel MAT 3:8