Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 14:7:
- Uma: “There also they announced the Good News.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “and they proclaimed there the good news about Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And they spread there the good news.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And they continued to preach the good news there.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “for they were teaching there next the Good News about Jesus.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 12:24:
- Uma: “Yesus said: ‘Your thinking is indeed wrong there, for you don’t comprehend the contents of the Holy Book, nor do you know the power of God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa answered them, he said, ‘You are mistaken. The reason that you are mistaken is, because you do not understand what is written in the holy-book and you also do not know the power of God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then Jesus answerd them, he said, ‘No wonder you are in error, for you don’t understand the written word of God, and you also don’t understand that he is powerful enough to raise the dead.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus answered saying, ‘You are mistaken, because you don’t understand the written word of God and neither do you understand his power.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus replied to them, saying, ‘Your perception really is wrong, for the reason that you don’t know the word of God which was written and the strength of his supernatural-power.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 11:6:
- Uma: “So we clearly know that he had faith, for there is no person whom God is happy about if they don’t believe/have-faith. For people who want to approach God must believe like this: God certainly is, and he certainly rewards the character of every person who really seeks for him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “God really is not pleased with a person (lit. whoever) if he doesn’t trust in him. Instead a person who prays to God ought to believe that God truly exists and he ought to believe also that God will reward good to everyone who perseveres trying-to-reach him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The person who has no faith in God, it cannot be that God will be pleased with his behavior. For the person who calls for help to God, he must believe that God will bless with good anyone who works hard, looking for a way to become the friend of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And even any person, it is not possible for God to be pleased with him if he has no faith. Therefore the one who wants to draw-near to God, he must believe that he exists and he must also believe that he rewards the one who searches-for him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But it really is not possible that God will be pleased with the person who has no believing/obeying him. Because whoever wants-to-ask- God -for-grace/mercy, he must believe that there really is God. And he must also believe that God will reward all who persevere in looking for how they can really know him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But the person who does not believe that it is true what God says is not able to say that God looks well upon how he walks. So then the person who wants to be a companion of God must believe that God truly lives and must believe that those people who hunt for God are those whom God will take along with him in companionship.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 15:11:
- Uma: “We are not freed from the punishment of our sins by our following commands and taboos like that. We believe that we receive goodness/salvation only from the grace [lit., white insides] of the Lord Yesus. So also they.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Don’t. We (incl.) trust in Isa the Lord and we (incl.) are set free from our (incl.) sins because he loves and pities us (incl.). Likewise also the people from other tribes.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Surely you believe, brethren, that as for us Jews, our being freed from punishment is just like their being freed from punishment, that is, the people who aren’t Jews, because it’s only because of the Lord Jesus’ kindness to us.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Please remember that we believe we are saved by-means-of the Lord Jesus’ grace/mercy, and likewise also with them,’ Pedro said.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “On the contrary, we are sure that, through the grace the Lord Jesus, we will be saved because of our believing and trusting in him. Well, as for them, it’s like that too.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 13:12:
- Uma: “‘The time will come that all people will hate you because of your following me. There will be some people who will give their own relatives or children to be killed because of their following me. There will also be some children who oppose their parents and kill them. But the people who keep believing in me until the end, they will get goodness [i.e., salvation] in the future.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “In the future,’ he said, ‘there will be people, their siblings will hand them over commanding them to be killed. There will also be children, their fathers will hand them over commanding them to be killed. And the children will be the enemies of (lit. will enemy) their parents and they will command their parents to be killed.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And at that time there will be people who will have their siblings killed, and there will be fathers who will have their children killed. There will be people who will go against their parents and have them killed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘At that time, there will be those who betray their brothers to the officials so they will kill (them). The same with fathers, they will betray their children to the officials so they will kill (them). The children moreover, they will oppose their fathers and mothers and have-them-killed.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It really is so that a brother who has believed in me will-be-betrayed-to-death by his brother who has no belief. Like that indeed will be done by a father to his own child. And the child will fight/go-against his parent who has now believed. He won’t just go against him, but will even cause him to be killed.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 11:38:
- Uma: “They fled out to the uninhabited prairie and the mountains, they dwelt in holes in the rocks. Yet actually, this world was not an appropriate dwelling-place for them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “These people wandered about there in the lonely places and in the mountains like people who have no place. They lived in caves and in holes in the ground. A place much better than this world would have been/is fitting for them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for the evil people here in the world, they are not worthy to go around with these righteous people! And other believers besides these, they had to leave their houses and they just wandered around as if lost in the land where nobody lives and in the mountains, and they lived in caves, in cliffs, and in holes in the earth.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “and they wandered-about in places with no inhabitants and in the mountain-area, staying-temporarily in caves and tunnels/caverns. But the truth of it is, the collective-people on this earth were not worthy to companion them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It’s really like this sinful world is/was not fitting for people with believing/obeying as good as this. For as for some, they were wandering-around-unable-to-settle in the mountains and wilderness places. There were those hiding in holes-in-the-ground and in caves.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning these people, they were very good people, not to be compared at all with the evil people who live here in this earth. Yet they suffered, walking in the wilds not knowing where they could go. They went about the mountains. They lived in caves. And they lived in holes in the ground.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 16:2:
- Uma: “Timotius was respected by all the one-faith relatives in the towns of Listra and Ikonium.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “All the ones trusting in Isa in the place Listara and in the place Ikoni spoke well about Timoteo.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “According to the word of the believers there in Lystra and Iconium, the actions of Timothy were very good.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “All the believers in Listra and in Iconium praised/spoke-highly of Timoteo,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “As for Timoteo, he was well spoken of by the believers who were taga Listra, and by the taga Iconio too.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:7:
- Uma: “For the poor, they are always with you. If you want to help them, you always have opportunity. But I, I won’t always be with you.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For the poor,’ Isa said, ‘will not go-away from you, and whenever you want to, you can help them. But I, I will not remain here with you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You can always help the poor people for you can never get away from them, but as for me, I will soon leave you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because there are always poor-people where you are, and whatever hour you want, you can help them, but as for me, I will not always be with you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For all time the poor are your companions and you can aid them at whatever hour you wish. But as for me, I won’t be your companion for much longer.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
