Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 12:2:

• Uma: “Don’t follow the character of people who don’t know God. Allow God to change your character by making your thoughts new. For if it is like that, you will really know God’s purpose in your life. You will know that his purpose is good, that which pleases his heart and that which has no lack/deficiency.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Don’t do like most (people)/the masses here in the world do. But let God renew your thinking/mind in order that your livers be changed. So-then you really know what God wants/wishes. His will/wish is what is good and what pleases him and what has no fault.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Don’t you imitate the behavior of those people who are enemies of God, but rather, you allow God to change you by means of making your minds new; and then you will understand at last the will of God, which is to say, you will understand what is righteous behavior which God likes and He will not rebuke.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Don’t take-after the behavior/customs of non believers but rather continue to let-God -make-your minds -new so that your way-of-life will be made-new. Because if you do that, you will come-to-know and agree-with what God wants you to do which is what is good and what pleases-him and is exactly right.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “And now change your thinking. Do not do like the sinners do here on earth. Do that you live in a new way. Therefore you can know well what the will of God is. Concerning the good God wants you to live in, that is what you will do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
• Kuwaataay: “Do not imitate the ways of those on this earth; let God give you new thinking, so that you may be new people. If you do so, you may understand what he wants. It’s what’s good, what’s pleasing to him, and what’s very pure.” (Source: Kuwaataay Back Translation)
• Bariai: “You can’t be following the practices of the people of the earth and so become like them. But you must yield yourselves to God, in order that he cause your heads and your interiors to become new. And so by this way, your actions also will change and become new. When it’s like that, you will be able to evaluate well what thing(s) God likes/wants, and know well what thing(s) are very upright and cause him to be happy.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Mairasi: “Then do not live like ordinary people here in this world! But change your throats [minds] with the result that you have new throats. By doing this you will definitely come to know: ‘This is definitely what is Above-One’s throat’ you will say. That throat of His is good, in Above-One’s vision, and definitely straight. ” (Source: Enggavoter 2004)
• Low German translation by Johannes Jessen, publ. 1933, republ. 2006: “And then don’t do as they in the world do! No, you shall become a different kind of people. You shall look at everything with different eyes, so that you know exactly what is God’s will, what is truly good and what he likes and what is perfect.”