1 TIM 1:7 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, 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).

ULT wanting to be teachers of the law, not understanding neither what they are saying nor what they insist on.

UST Those people desire to be people who teach the Jewish law. However, they do not understand what they talk about or what they confidently affirm.

BLB desiring to be teachers of the Law, understanding neither what they are saying nor that about which they confidently assert.

AICNT desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.

OEB They want to be teachers of the Law, and yet do not understand either the words they use, or the subjects on which they speak so confidently.

WEBBE desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say nor about what they strongly affirm.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or the things they insist on so confidently.

LSV willing to be teachers of law, not understanding either the things they say, nor concerning what they confidently assert,

FBV They have ambitions to be teachers of the law, but they have no idea what they're talking about or what they're so boldly announcing!

TCNT desiring to be teachers of the law, although they do not understand what they are talking about or what they so confidently affirm.

T4T They desire to teach the laws that God gave to Moses, but they do not understand what they are really saying, or the things about which they ◄confidently speak/say that they understand well►.

LEB wanting to be teachers of the law, although they[fn] do not understand either the things which they are saying or the things concerning which they are speaking confidently.

1:7 *Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“understand”) which is understood as concessive

BBE Desiring to be teachers of the law, though they have no knowledge of what they say or of the statements which they make so certainly.

Moff doctors of the Law is what they want to be, but they have no idea either of the meaning of the words they use or of the themes on which they harp.

Wymth They are ambitious to be teachers of the Law, although they do not understand either their own words or what the things are about which they make such confident assertions.

ASV desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.

DRA Desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither the things they say, nor whereof they affirm.

YLT willing to be teachers of law, not understanding either the things they say, nor concerning what they asseverate,

Drby desiring to be law-teachers, not understanding either what they say or concerning what they [so] strenuously affirm.

RV desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.

SLT Wishing to be teachers of the law; neither understanding what they say, nor of certain things they are assured.

Wbstr Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor concerning what they affirm.

KJB-1769 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

KJB-1611 Desiring to bee teachers of the Law, vnderstāding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirme.
(Desiring to be teachers of the Law, understāding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirme.)

Bshps Couetyng to be doctours of the lawe, not vnderstandyng what they speake, neither wherof they affirme.
(Coueting to be doctours of the law, not understanding what they speak, neither whereof they affirme.)

Gnva They would be doctours of the Law, and yet vnderstande not what they speake, neither whereof they affirme.
(They would be doctours of the Law, and yet understand not what they speak, neither whereof they affirme. )

Cvdl wyllinge to be doctours of the scripture, and vnderstonde not what they speake, nether wherof they affirme.
(wyllinge to be doctours of the scripture, and understood not what they speak, neither whereof they affirme.)

TNT because they wolde be doctours the scripture and yet vnderstonde not what they speake nether wherof they affirme.
(because they would be doctours the scripture and yet understood not what they speak neither whereof they affirme. )

Wycl and willith to be techeris of the lawe, and vndurstonden not what thingis thei speken, nether of what thingis thei affermen.
(and willith to be teachers of the law, and understoodn not what things they speaking, neither of what things they affermen.)

Luth wollen der Schrift Meister sein und verstehen nicht, was sie sagen, oder was sie setzen.
(want the/of_the writing master be and understand not, what/which they/she/them say, or what/which they/she/them set/put/place.)

ClVg volentes esse legis doctores, non intelligentes neque quæ loquuntur, neque de quibus affirmant.
(volentes to_be law teachers, not/no intelligent nor which they_speak, nor from/about to_whom affirmant. )

UGNT θέλοντες εἶναι νομοδιδάσκαλοι, μὴ νοοῦντες μήτε ἃ λέγουσιν, μήτε περὶ τίνων διαβεβαιοῦνται.
(thelontes einai nomodidaskaloi, maʸ noountes maʸte ha legousin, maʸte peri tinōn diabebaiountai.)

SBL-GNT θέλοντες εἶναι νομοδιδάσκαλοι, μὴ νοοῦντες μήτε ἃ λέγουσιν μήτε περὶ τίνων διαβεβαιοῦνται.
(thelontes einai nomodidaskaloi, maʸ noountes maʸte ha legousin maʸte peri tinōn diabebaiountai.)

RP-GNT θέλοντες εἶναι νομοδιδάσκαλοι, μὴ νοοῦντες μήτε ἃ λέγουσιν, μήτε περὶ τίνων διαβεβαιοῦνται.
(thelontes einai nomodidaskaloi, maʸ noountes maʸte ha legousin, maʸte peri tinōn diabebaiountai.)

TC-GNT θέλοντες εἶναι νομοδιδάσκαλοι, μὴ νοοῦντες μήτε ἃ λέγουσι, μήτε περὶ τίνων διαβεβαιοῦνται.
(thelontes einai nomodidaskaloi, maʸ noountes maʸte ha legousi, maʸte peri tinōn diabebaiountai. )

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

SOTN SIL Open Translator’s Notes:

Section 1:3–11: Paul told Timothy to oppose false teaching

Paul reminded Timothy about things that he had told him to do the last time he was with him. That is, he told him to command certain people to stop teaching the Old Testament Scriptures incorrectly. Paul told Timothy that when people listened to the false teachers, they started arguing about things that were unimportant. Paul said that when Timothy taught the Scriptures, the result should be that people love one another, not that they argue with one another.

After talking about the incorrect use of Scripture in 1:3–7, Paul talked about the correct use of Scripture in 1:8–11. Paul did not want people to use Scripture to speculate about unimportant things. Instead he wanted them to stop sinning and behave how God wanted them to behave.

Paragraph 1:5–7

Paul said that when people taught about God, the result should be that people begin to love each other. The false teachers did not love other believers. They wanted people to think that they were important teachers but they did not teach the Scriptures correctly.

1:7a

They want to be teachers of the law,

They want to be recognized as teachers of the law,
They want people to believe that they can teach the law/laws which God told to Moses,

They want to be teachers of the law: People respected the teachers of Moses’ law and recognized that they were experts. The false teachers about whom Paul was writing here also wanted people to respect them and to consider them experts.

teachers of the law: The Greek word that the BSB translates as teachers of the law refers to men who were experts in the laws which are recorded in the Old Testament.

the law: Here Paul was referring to the laws that God gave to Moses and that are recorded in the first five books of the Old Testament.

Some ways to translate the law in the sense of “the law of Moses” are:

God’s laws that Moses taught

the law that God gave to Moses

Since this phrase is singular in English (and Greek), some readers may think that Paul was talking about only one law. If this causes a problem for your readers you may need to use a plural term.

1:7b

but they do not understand what they are saying

but they do not really understand what they are trying to teach others about,

they do not understand what they are saying: Paul said that these false teachers did not understand what they were saying. They did not understand the meaning of God’s laws, even though they thought they knew them well enough to teach others. This is similar to what Paul said about the false teachers in 6:4a. See the note there.

1:7c

or that which they so confidently assert.

and what they confidently insist is true.

or that which they so confidently assert: This phrase is similar to what Paul said in 1:7b. However, he now added the idea that the false teachers taught confidently. That meant that they spoke boldly as if they understood what they were teaching.

so confidently assert: The Greek word that the BSB translates as so confidently assert could also be translated as “insist [on].” This word also occurs in Titus 3:8, where the BSB translates it as “emphasize.”

General Comment on 1:7b–c

In some languages, it may be best to translate 1:7b and 1:7c as two separate clauses, as the BSB does. But in other languages, it may be better to combine both clauses and translate them as only one emphatic clause. For example:

…but they really know absolutely nothing about what they are trying to teach.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

νομοδιδάσκαλοι

law_teachers

Here, the word law refers specifically to the laws that God gave the Israelites through Moses. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could make that idea more explicit. Alternate translation: [teachers of the law of Moses]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / doublenegatives

μὴ νοοῦντες μήτε & μήτε

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: θέλοντες εἶναι νομοδιδάσκαλοι μή νοοῦντες μήτε ἅ λέγουσιν μήτε περί τίνων διαβεβαιοῦνται)

The words not, neither, and nor are three negative words. In this construction, the second and third negatives do not cancel the first to create a positive meaning. Instead, they give greater emphasis to the negative. If your language can use three negatives that do not cancel one another to create a positive meaning, you could use a triple negative here. If your language does not use three negatives in that way, you could translate with one or two negatives. Alternate translation: [understanding neither … nor]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

μήτε ἃ λέγουσιν, μήτε περὶ τίνων διαβεβαιοῦνται

neither nor (Some words not found in SR-GNT: θέλοντες εἶναι νομοδιδάσκαλοι μή νοοῦντες μήτε ἅ λέγουσιν μήτε περί τίνων διαβεβαιοῦνται)

Here, the clauses what they are saying and what they insist on mean similar things. Paul is using the two clauses together for emphasis. If it would be clearer for your readers, you could express the emphasis with a single clause. Alternate translation: [anything that they are saying] or [any of the things that they insist on]