If someone could please translate these bible verses for me.. i know one of the original bibles was greek.. and i am greek.. so i would like all these verses in greek tattood on my back. could you translate verse by verse in NIV translation.. so it's easier to understand? or would it be better to get the verses right out of the greek bible?
I don't quite get what you mean by "translate verse by verse in NIV". There is already a translation, or not?
Anyway, as for the original text in Greek (the New Testament was written in Greek), I am copy-pasting the text as is found in the
official library site of the (orthodox) Church of Greece. However, as Billberg pointed out, be careful not to ask for any
translations of phrases longer than 12 words.
1st Corrinthians 13:4-8
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away
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Ἡ ἀγάπη μακροθυμεῖ, χρηστεύεται, ἡ ἀγάπη οὐ ζηλοῖ, ἡ ἀγάπη οὐ περπερεύεται, οὐ φυσιοῦται, 5
οὐκ ἀσχημονεῖ, οὐ ζητεῖ τὰ ἑαυτῆς, οὐ παροξύνεται, οὐ λογίζεται τὸ κακόν, 6
οὐ χαίρει ἐπὶ τῇ ἀδικίᾳ, συγχαίρει δὲ τῇ ἀληθείᾳ· 7
πάντα στέγει, πάντα πιστεύει, πάντα ἐλπίζει, πάντα ὑπομένει.8
Ἡ ἀγάπη οὐδέποτε ἐκπίπτει. εἴτε δὲ προφητεῖαι, καταργηθήσονται· εἴτε γλῶσσαι, παύσονται· εἴτε γνῶσις, καταργηθήσεται1st Corrinthians 13:13
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love
νυνὶ δὲ μένει πίστις, ἐλπίς, ἀγάπη, τὰ τρία ταῦτα· μείζων δὲ τούτων ἡ ἀγάπη1st John 4:8
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because(B) God is love
ὁ μὴ ἀγαπῶν οὐκ ἔγνω τὸν Θεόν, ὅτι ὁ Θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίνMatthew 22:37-38 NIV
Jesus said, "love the lord your god with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment"
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ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς ἔφη αὐτῷ· Ἀγαπήσεις Κύριον τὸν Θεόν σου ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ καρδίᾳ σου καὶ ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ ψυχῇ σου καὶ ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ διανοίᾳ σου· 38
αὕτη ἐστὶ πρώτη καὶ μεγάλη ἐντολήAnd my source:
http://www.myriobiblos.gr/bible/default.aspTry to get some confirmation before tattooing anything, though.