Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 4:8:
- Uma: «People who don’t love others, they do not yet know God, for God, he is loving.» (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: «He who does not love does not know God, because God really loves hep.» (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: «Anyone who has no love for his companions, know nothing at all about the actions of God, for every act of God is His showing His love.» (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: «But the one who has no love for his fellow, neither does he know God, for God is consistently-loving.» (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: «But the one who doesn’t value like this, that one doesn’t yet know/acknowledge God, because God really is the one who is the source of this valuing.» (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: «He who does not love his fellowman is not acquainted with God, because God loves all people.» (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: «If we do not love our fellows we are not yet acquainted with God, because we do not do like God does. God loves mankind.»
- Eastern Highland Otomi: «But he who has no love, doesn’t know God, because God is love (lover).»
- Tzotzil: «If we do not take on the character of a lover it is because we do not know God. Because God has the character of a lover (or God’s character is to habitually love).» (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
- Candoshi-Shapra: «The one who doesn’t love, doesn’t come to know (learn) God. For God is one who loves.»
- Yanesha’: «Those who are not lovers do not know our Father how he is, because our Father, he is love.»
- Aguaruna: «But he who does not love, he doesn’t know ‘God is like that’ saying; because ‘God is one who really loves.’ saying, he doesn’t say it.» (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)