Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 3:22:
- Uma: «And whatever we request he will give us, for we follow his commands and we do what makes his heart happy.» (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: «Whatever we (dual) ask God for we (dual) will receive because we (dual) follow/obey his commands and we (dual) do what pleases him.» (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: «He will give us what we ask for since we obey His commands and we do what He wants.» (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: «And whatever we request from him, he will give it because we are obeying his commands and we are doing what pleases/satisfies him.» (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: «Well therein, whatever we will request from him, it’s certain we can receive it, because we are obeying his commands and we are doing what pleases him.» (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: «Whenever we ask something from God, God will give what we want because we obey the word he commands and we do what he approves of.» (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: «And whatever we ask him, he will give it, because we do what he commands and what he likes.»
- Eastern Highland Otomi: «And we receive all that we ask for, because we do his will and also we do what he favors (looks well on).»
- Tzotzil: «Because we obey his commands, because we do what his heart wants, therefore he gives us all that we ask him.» (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
- Candoshi-Shapra: «What we ask for we will receive. For we keep God’s orders. And we do only the very work which to God is good.»
- Yanesha’: «We reserve in remembrance his put words, we do thus we please him, that’s why whatever we ask for, we receive, of a truth, from him.»
- Aguaruna: «if we do so, what we ask of God, truly we take, because we obey His Word, because we work what He desires also.» (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)