The purpose (Cranfield) or the result (Lenski)20 of this is not so much that you will be able to test (as NIV) as that “you will test”; the renewal gives more than a possibility. NIV has rendered the one Greek verb by test and approve, which is a good solution of a difficult translation problem.21 The word here will include test, for Paul is not advocating an uncritical approval, but it will also include approve, for more than the process of testing is in mind. Indeed, there is probably
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