Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 3:4:
- Uma: «All people who do sins break God’s commands. For this is what is called sin, breaking God’s commands.» (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: «Whoever sins, breaks God’s law, because if we (dual) sin we (dual) already break God’s law.» (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: «If someone sins, he has transgressed the Law of God, for behaviour which is called sin is any kind of behavior which is a transgression of the Law of God.» (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: «Whoever sins, he has broken God’s law, because sin is breaking the law just the same.» (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: «As for the one who does sin, he is fighting/breaking the laws of God. Because what is meant by sin is, fighting/breaking the laws of this God.» (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: «All who commit sin break God’s law. Because sin means that one breaks the law.» (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: «Each one of us if we (are accustomed to) do evil we do not receive from (obey) the law because the evil we are doing goes contrary to the law.»
- Eastern Highland Otomi: «He who does sin, he just disobeys what God says. When we disobey the law of God, it is sin.»
- Tzotzil: «If we seek our sin, we break his commandments. When we break his commandments we sin.»
- Candoshi-Shapra: «The one habitually lives bad is oblivious to God’s orders. What is (characteristically) sin? When one throws away God’s orders that is sin.»
- Yanesha’: «All whoever sins, that one disobeys the words which are thus put (by God). If we disobey words which are thus put, that is sin.»
- Aguaruna: «He who works sin, God’s word which is to be obeyed, he doesn’t obey it. A sinner is one who disobeys God’s word.» (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)
- Sayula Popoluca: «Whoever sins, he doesn’t obey God’s law. Because when we sin, we don’t obey God’s law.» (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)