Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Timothy 2:4:

• Uma: «For a good soldier, he is certainly patient shouldering suffering, and he is not busy arranging his own arrangements, for he wants to please the heart of his warchief.» (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: «A person who is a soldier (lit. mag-soldier), he wants that his leader be pleased with him. That’s why he does not join in the doing/work of civilians.» (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: «A person who has become a soldier, it is not possible for him to do what people who aren’t soldiers do. For he must always be ready to obey the commands of his master.» (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: «Follow-as-an-example also the way a soldier doesn’t get-sidetracked by/in what civilians are doing, because he wants his boss to be satisfied/content with him.» (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: «For while he’s a soldier, he doesn’t interfere/get-involved in anything other than his soldiering. On the contrary what he really perseveres in is, that the one who caused him to be a soldier will be pleased with him.» (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: «The person who is like a soldier of Christ is ordered by his Lord and it is He whose will he does. He does not decide for himself what work he will do.» (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)