Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 7:11:

• Uma: «Upon my hearing the Lord’s Law, sin ended up having opportunity to work in my heart. We can say like this: from the Lord’s Law, sin ended up causing my downfall with the result that I am fit to be punished with death and separated from God.» (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: «It is as if I were deceived by sin because I cannot follow/obey the law of God. And the result of it is (that) I die and I go to hell.» (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: «It’s as if evil activity deceived me, because by means of evil activity which was against the Law, I finally understood that I was sentenced to death without end.» (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)

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• Kankanaey: «I was admittedly deceived on account of my hereditary sinfulness, because I indeed thought that it was possible for me to attain life by means of my obeying the law, but the truth of it was that I was breaking it (particle of realization), so I was condemned to be separated from God forever.» (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: «Concerning the sin I had, it caused that I was deceived in my mind, I thought I could do what all the law said. But there in the law I found that it said I would go to punishment because of my sin.» (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
• Yatzachi Zapotec: «The evil which was in my head-heart deceived me and caused me not to listen to the law, and for that reason I began to be guilty.» (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)