Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 1:8:
- Uma: «If we say that we have no sin(s), we are deceiving ourselves, and we do not take-to-heart the true teaching.» (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: «If we (dual) say that we have no sin whatsoever/there is no sin of ours (dual), we (dual) deceive ourselves and there is no truth in our (dual) livers.» (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: «If we say that we don’t have any sin, we are trying to get our breath to believe a lie, and we are not obeying the true doctrine.» (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: «If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves (lit. our own bodies; so also any reflexive expressions from now on) and we don’t agree-to (lit. say-yes-to) the truth of the matter (lit. of it).» (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: «Well, if we are saying also that as for us, we have no sin, we are only lying to ourselves, and the truth is far from us.» (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: «If we say that we do not have our sins, we are deceiving ourselves then, it is not true what we say.» (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: «If we say we have no evil in our head-hearts, we deceive ourselves and we do not speak true words.»
- Eastern Highland Otomi: «If we try to say that there is none in us sin, but then we are deceiving ourselves, and we don’t know what truth is.»
- Tzotzil: «If we say, ‘There is not my sin,’ we deceive ourselves for sure. It is in vain that thus we say.» (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
- Candoshi-Shapra: «If we say, ‘Surely we have no sin,’ we deceive ourselves saying that. We are not at all doing straight.»
- Yanesha’: «If when we say, I, there is not my, sin, we deceive ourselves; those which are the true words have not arrived on us in our hearts.»
- Aguaruna: «‘I’m one who does not sin,’ if we say, we deceive ourselves, not speaking the truth;» (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)