Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 12:14:
- Uma: “If there are people who persecute you, request to God that he bless them. Bless them, don’t curse them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Ask for good/blessing from God for everyone who persecutes you. Don’t curse them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The one who does harm to us, let’s pray for him to God that he might bless him, let us not pray that he will punish him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “As for those who hardship you, request God that he will bless them. Yes absolutely! Don’t curse them but rather pray for them so that they will be blessed.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the people who persecute you, ask God to bless them, do not ask that they pass through misfortune.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:17:
- Noongar: “When Jesus replied, the official who argued became ashamed, and all the people became happy because of the great things Jesus was doing.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Those words of Yesus embarrassed his enemy. But as for the people, they were glad to see all the surprising things that he did.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When Isa said this, his opponents were very ashamed. But all the people were happy about the wonder causing works he was doing.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And that answer of Jesus caused great shame to his enemies, but the many other people who were there, they were very happy with all of the miracles which he did.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The one opposing Jesus was totally shamed by this answer of his while at-the-same-time great was the happiness of the many-people at all the amazing-things he had been doing.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Those who were opposing Jesus were embarrassed because of that answer of his. But the crowd of people were really pleased with those far from ordinary things he was doing.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 18:20:
- Uma: “Be glad, inhabitants of heaven, over its destruction! Be glad, followers of God, his apostles and prophets! For God punishes the Babel people, paying-back-for-you their evil deeds against you.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then, be glad you who are in heaven because that city is destroyed. Be glad God’s people and his apostles and the prophets who make God’s message known, because God has sent his judgment to that city because of the bad she did to you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You inhabitants of heaven, rejoice over the punishment of that great city. Rejoice also you prophets, and apostles, and believers in God, because God has punished that city because of its persecutions to you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You who are in heaven, be-happy. You who are God’s people, apostles and prophets, be-happy also, because the legal-accusations of that city against you, God has reversed (them), and he has judged and punished them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “You (pl.) there in heaven, be very glad about this which has happened to her/it. You prophets and apostles and others of God’s people, you can now be glad. Because God has paid back the people from Babilonia for the things they did to you.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Let all who live in heaven rejoice over what the city went through. Let the representatives of Christ along with all the spokesmen of God rejoice. All the rest of the people who are in the hand of God, let all of them rejoice. Concerning the punishment given to this city, it is God who judged it for what it did to you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 14:11:
- Uma: “For in the Holy Book God says like this: ‘Really-really I say: Every person certainly will kneel to me. And every person must admit/confess that I am God.’ Thus are the words of the Lord.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because it is written in the holy-book, saying, ‘Very truly, says God, all people will bow down/prostrate to me. All people will confess/say-it-is-true that I am really God.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For there is a written word of God and there the Lord says, ‘I am the God who has no death, and because of this it’s really true that all mankind will kneel down to me and everybody will worship me.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because there is that which God caused-to-be-written which says, ‘This that I tell you (pl.) will absolutely certainly be fulfilled, I who am your Lord: All people will kneel to me. They will all acknowledge that I am God.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because it is written in the Holy Book the word which says: ‘That what I say will truly come to be, says God who lives. I tell you that all the people will kneel before me. All the people will say that I am God.’ says the word.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quote, see Isaiah 45:23.
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:14:
- Noongar: “and God will bless you, because they cannot give you what you gave them. God will repay you on the day when the good people rise from death.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “If we do thus, the Lord God will bless us, because people like that are not able to return our behavior. The Lord God will return our behavior on Kiama Day, when he makes-live again people who are straight in his sight.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If you do this you will be very happy/glad. For they are not able to repay/reward you. God will be the one repaying you in the last day (meaning: after death) when the straight people are made alive again.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if this is what you will do, you will be very happy. Because they cannot in turn invite you, and they cannot pay back to you the good which you did to them, and God will be the one to pay you back with a good situation in the future, when the people whose actions, whose customs are good, are raised from the dead.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “and you (sing.) will be fortunate. Because even though they will not be able-to-repay you (sing.), you (sing.) will be rewarded nevertheless, because God will repay (you) on the day that good people come-to-life again.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Of course there’s nothing with which they can reward you. That’s why you can be very happy, for God is the one who will reward you, when the people who are straight/righteous in his sight will be made alive again by him.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 20:7:
- Uma: “When the thousand years is finished, the King of Evil-ones is released from his imprisonment,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When one thousand years are over, the leader of demons will be let loose from the hole where he is imprisoned.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When those thousand years are finished, Satan will be released temporarily from his prison.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When the one-thousand years are finished, Satanas will be released from his place-of-imprisonment,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well at the end of those one thousand years, Satanas will again be released from that prison of his.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When the one thousand years had finished, the devil was let loose from where he was jailed.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 15:20:
- Uma: “The purpose of my heart is: I always want to take the Good News to villages that have not yet heard the name of Kristus. I don’t want to build a house on a foundation-stone that another person has planted.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Since former times this is what I have been aiming at to preach-to/teach people who had not heard the good news about Isa Almasi because I do not want to follow after another person’s work.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And I always want to preach the Good News in those towns where the name of Christ has not yet been heard.The reason I want to do this is because I do not want to tell again the Good News to people who’ve already been told by others.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because my unchanging purpose is that I preach the good news in the towns of people who have not known concerning Cristo so that I would not add-another-layer to the work of other people.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning myself, there where never have the people heard the name of Christ I have earnestly spoken the good news. Because there where already is known the word, where others have worked, I did not want to again tell the word.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 15:11:
- Noongar: “Then Jesus said, ‘A man had two sons.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Yesus then said: ‘A man had two sons.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then Isa said yet, ‘There was a person who had two sons.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now Jesus continued speaking, he said, ‘There was a person who had two offsprings and both were sons.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then Jesus continued to relate this parable. He said, ‘There was an older/mature-man who had two male children.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus continued his speech, saying, ‘There was a person whose two children were both sons.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
