Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 8:4:
- Uma: “God’s purpose in doing like that is so that we become truly straight in his sight, like is demanded in the Lord’s Law. For we here, we no longer follow the evil desires of our heart. Now we follow the desire of the Holy Spirit.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “This was done by God so that we (dual) could really obey the commands in his law and our (dual) deeds would be straight. Because if we (dual) already trust Isa we (dual) no longer follow what our (dual) greedy desires want. But what we (dual) obey is the will/wish of the Holy Spirit. Therefore if we (dual) obey/follow the teaching of the Holy Spirit we (dual) are really able to obey/follow the commands in God’s law.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason God did this was so that we might be able to obey what is right according to that commanded by the Law. And this is possible because it’s no longer necessary that we obey the evil desires of our bodies, but rather we can obey what is right because we are helped by the Holy Spirit.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “God did that so that we who follow the Holy Spirit, not our human minds, we have the power to thoroughly obey the correct commands of the law.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Thus he did because he wanted that the Holy Spirit would show us the road to how we should live so that we could do the good spoken of in the law. But no longer now should we do the evil which was in our hearts before.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
