The Greek that is translated with «deny himself» or «deny oneself» is according to Bratcher / Nida «without doubt one of the most difficult expressions in all of Mark to translate adequately.» These are many of the (back-) translations:
- Tetelcingo Nahuatl: «not accept self»
- Amganad Ifugao and South Bolivian Quechua: «forget self»
- North Alaskan Inupiatun: «have no regard for oneself»
- Toraja-Sa’dan: «not bother oneself about oneself»
- Huautla Mazatec: «cover up oneself»
- San Miguel El Grande Mixtec: «not worship oneself»
- Tzeltal: «stop doing what one’s own heart wants»
- Yaka: «let go that which he wants to do oneself»
- Cashibo-Cacataibo: «say, I will not do just what I want to do»
- Tzotzil: «say, I do not serve for anything» (in the sense of having no personal value)
- Sapo: «not do what is passing through one’s mind»
- Central Mazahua: «not take constant thought for oneself»
- Tabasco Chontal: «quit what one wants»
- Highland Totonac: «undo one’s own way of thinking»
- Dan: «put one’s own things down»
- Kekchí: «despise oneself»
- Kituba: «refuse oneself»
- Javanese: «turn one’s back on oneself»
- Southern Bobo Madaré: «disobey oneself» (in the sense of denying one’s own wishes)
- Huastec: «leave oneself at the side»
- Chicahuaxtla Triqui: «leave one’s own way»
- Loma: «take one’s mind out of oneself completely»
- Panao Huánuco Quechua: «say, I do not live for myself»
- Mitla Zapotec: «say No to oneself» (source for this and all above: Bratcher / Nida)
- Copainalá Zoque: «forgetting self»
- Huallaga Huánuco Quechua: «declare, I do not live for myself» (source: Nida 1952, p. 154)
- Galela: «put self down» (source: Howard Shelden in Kroneman 2004, p. 501)
- Mairasi: «shuffle out of one’s vision (=forget) everything which is one’s own» (source: Enggavoter 2004)
- Q’anjob’al: «do not belong to oneself any longer» (source: Newberry and Kittie Cox in The Bible Translator 1950, p. 91ff. )
- Achi: «don’t do only what one wants to do»
- Chipaya: «leave one’s own way of living» (source for this and above: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.)