Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 7:23:
- Uma: “But I don’t end up following the Lord’s Law, because there is another power in my life that defeats me. In my heart I really want to follow the Lord’s Law, but the power of sin in my life is at-odds with what my heart wants, with the result that I am defeated by sin.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But there is also something in my liver urging me telling/commanding me not to follow/obey the law approved-of/consented-to (by) my thinking/mind. It is really as if I were the slave of my inborn sinning/old nature therefore I can’t-do-anything-about-it.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, here in my body something different controls me for the evil desires of my body that I transgress the right custom that my breath wants. It’s as if I am a slave to my evil desires and I have to obey the desires of my body.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “but I-now-realize that what is ruling my body is different. And this that is ruling my body, which is my sinfulness, it wars-against God’s law which my mind desires/likes so that I sin. Thus the result is that I am as if a prisoner of my sinfulness.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But in my heart there was a thought that didn’t look well upon the good I decided that I would do. This word though, is what was caused by sin which had grabbed my heart. It didn’t let me do good.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
