Following are a number of back-translations of Jude 1:21:
- Uma: “But you, my relatives whom I love! God loves you. So, be very careful so that you remain in his love. Do not cease firing-up one another’s hearts so that your faith is strong–because this teaching that we believe is indeed holy. Keep praying with/by the leading of the Holy Spirit. And wait for the blessing that our Lord Yesus Kristus will give to us when he comes. What he will give to us is good life forever.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Remain in the love of God while you are waiting for our (incl.) Lord Isa Almasi to give you life without end, because he has mercy/pity on you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Always consider God’s very great kindness to you as you wait for the time in the future when our Lord Jesus Christ will show to us (incl.) his great mercy, for then we (incl.) will never be separated from him forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Don’t be-turning-your-backs-on or forgetting God’s love for you, but rather be-patient to wait-for the day on-which-you -will-gain life that has no end in heaven because of the grace/mercy of Jesu Cristo our Lord.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Be careful of your way of living, so that you don’t get-to-go-far from the valuing by God, while you await life which has no ending, which will be graced to us by our Lord Jesu-Cristo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Do not reject the grace of God. Our Lord Jesus Christ has mercy. Let us wait to be given the life which is forever.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 2:8:
- Uma: “But there are also people who just consider themselves. They refuse to follow the desire of God, they follow evil desires instead. They are the prime ones to get God’s anger and punishment.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Some people also what they think of is only themselves. They do not obey/follow the true teaching from God but what they follow/obey is what does not hit-the-mark/is-not-right. God shows them that he is very-very angry and he really punishes them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But there are also some people that the only thing they think about is what they want, and they will not believe in the true doctrine but rather, what they obey is what is not right. And it’s not just a little anger that God will show them, but rather His punishment to them will be very heavy.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But the people who put-first what they desire and who refuse to believe the truth in order to do evil, they will experience God’s severe (lit. heavy) judgment upon them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But God will punish the people who reject his word and do not want to obey the true word but only live in evil.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:1:
- Noongar: “After, Jesus went to all parts of the country, preaching the Gospel, the news of the Kingdom of God. The twelve disciples went with him,” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “After that, Yesus went-around to many towns spreading the Good News, he said: ‘The time has almost come for God to become King in the world.’ His twelve disciples accompanied him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Not long after that Isa covered the towns and villages proclaiming the good news that God rules over his people. His twelve disciples went with him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “A few days later, Jesus passed through many villages, small and big, and he caused people there to understand the good news about God ruling over mankind. And as for his twelve disciples, they also went with him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It wasn’t long before (lit. and) Jesus went-around the many-towns preaching the good news concerning the ruling of God. His twelve disciples also went-along,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Before long, Jesus went all over the towns and barios teaching the Good News concerning the kingdom of God. His companions were indeed his twelve disciples.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 2:8:
- Uma: “After that, the Lord Yesus also said to me, ‘Write like this to the angel who takes care of my followers in the village of Smirna: ‘These are the words of the Lord Yesus, he who is named the first and the last, who died but lives again.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then he spoke to me again, he said, ‘Write to the one in charge of the church in Ismirna, and write this: ‘This message is from me. I am the beginning and I am also the end; I am the one who was dead but I live again.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And He said again, ‘Write to the angel of God who watches over the believers in the town of Smyrna, and say, ‘These are My words. I am the origin of all the ending also of all. I died and am raised again.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then he said, ‘What you (sing.) are also to write to the angel who watches-over the congregation at Esmirna, it is this. ‘I am the first and last. I also am the one who died and lived again. This is what I say to you:” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Also, this is what you are to put in the letter to send to the overseer of the believers in me in Esmirna. Say, ‘This is what he wants to say who was first before all and will be at the very end too, he who although he died came alive again indeed.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Write a letter to send to God’s worker who leads where the believers are in the city of Smyrna. Here are the words you will write: ‘Thus is the word of him who was living when the things which now are began, and he continues to live forever. This one died, but again he lived. He says:” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 3:11:
- Uma: “There are none whose hearts are clear, There are none who seek God,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There is no one who understands what is the straight, and there is no one willing to obey the will/wish of God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There’s no one who knows correctly about God and there is also no person who seeks for the true way going to God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There is also no one who correctly understands concerning God and no one who seeks to know him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “No person will come out that he understands about the word. Not even one person comes out who searches for God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:33:
- Noongar: “They left the man and they went into the pigs. All the pigs ran together down the cliff into the lake and they drowned.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “The demons really did go-out from inside that person, immediately entered the pigs. When they entered those pigs, the pigs stampeded going to plunge into the lake, they drowned [lit., died swollen] in the water.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then the demons came out of the person and entered the bodies of the pigs. Immediately the great herd of pigs rushed down the hill to the cliff and into the lake and they all drowned.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And that was all there was to it — they left the man and they transferred there to the pigs. And then those pigs ran, and they arrived there to a cliff, and they jumped over and they were all drowned in the lake that they had jumped into.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So they then left the man and went and possessed the pigs. Then the pigs ran-as-a-group going-downhill and then they fell into the lake and drowned.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Without anything further, those evil spirits then left that person and moved to that large herd of pigs. Well, what else but those pigs ran directly to the steep edge of that lake. Those pigs numbering about two thousand fell off and all drowned.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 3:11:
- Uma: “‘I am coming soon! Hold strongly to the teaching that you know, so that God will give you a reward for your victory. Don’t let there be those who cause you to fall with the result that you do not receive that reward.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I will soon come back to the world. Really store-away/regard-highly all that has been given to you so that nobody can/will snatch away your reward.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I will soon come. Grasp tightly the true teaching which you know so that the reward which I will give you if you overcome Satan will not be given to another.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “My time-of-coming is soon, so persevere in following the true teaching so that no one will remove the crown that is your reward.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I really will come in a short while. Take care that, as for your belief in the truth and obeying the will of God, that you don’t get misled, so that my reward to you won’t be forfeited, but on the contrary you will really be able to receive it.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Soon I will come. Don’t let loose what work you have grabbed so that someone else will not have come to them the payment which is meant for you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 4:12:
- Uma: “So also Abraham is considered father by the Jews, because he is an example to all Jews who are circumcised and who believe in God just like Abraham did before he was circumcised.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And Ibrahim is also like the parent of the people who have been circumcised, not just because they have been circumcised but because they also believe God like the believing of Ibrahim, the ancestor of us (excl.) Yahudi at the time when he was not yet circumcised.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Abraham has become the ancestor, which is to say, the one whom all the Jews come to be like who do not trust their circumcision but rather, the thing they are trusting is their faith, which is like the faith that Abraham had before he was circumcised.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He is also the ancestor of Jews who have not only been circumcised but who also follow the faith of Abraham when he had not yet gotten-circumcised.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Also Abraham became as a father to all those who have been marked with the sign of circumcision. But it wasn’t just because they were marked with the sign that he became like a father to them, rather it was because they followed the faith Abraham had before he was marked.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
