Following are a number of back-translations of Jude 1:20:
- 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: “But you, my friends, encourage each other so that your trust in God will become strong and do remain steadfast with the teaching of God that you have believed-obeyed. When you pray to God follow the teaching of the Holy Spirit to you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for you, by contrast, my dear brothers, keep on help in each other so that your faith in the doctrine which God has caused us (incl.) to believe might be drawn tight. Pray strongly by means of the power which the Holy Spirit gives.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But as for you friends, continue strengthening the faith of your companions through your learning the thoroughly holy teaching that we believe/obey. Persevere moreover in praying, and see-to-it that the Holy Spirit is the one who guides you in your praying.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But as for you, my dear ones, cause your believing/obeying to become really firm, being firmly-grounded on the truth which God caused to be comprehended. And pray through the power and prompting of the Espiritu Santo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But you, my dear brethren, make your holy faith increase. When you pray to God, may the Holy Spirit bring to mind what you should say.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 2:7:
- Uma: “There are some people who keep behaving good, because they want to get praise, honor and life that has no end from God. To people like that God gives good life forever.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There are people who persevere in doing good because their aim is (that) God praises them and he honors them. They also aim/aspire that God give them life without end. These people God really will give life in heaven without end.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But there are some people who hold fast to good behavior because what they’re always thinking about is God’s praising them in the future and making them immortal and His honoring them. And life forever is what He will give to them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The people who have persisted in doing good so that God will praise them and they will live where God is forever, God will give them life that has no end.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “God will give the new life to whoever does only what is good, looking for how God will look well upon him and earnestly seeking how to enter where God rules forever.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “God will give us eternal life if we continually do good, because we so very much want to find out how to arrive where he is, and how to cause him to give us honor, and cause us to live forever.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 7:50:
- Noongar: “But Jesus said to the woman, ‘Your faith saved you. Go in peace.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Yesus also said to that woman: ‘You (sing.) are free from the punishment of your (sing.) sins because of your (sing.) faith in Me. Go with goodness of life.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But Isa said to the woman, ‘You are saved already because you trust in me. Go now, don’t be sad.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus spoke again to the woman, he said, ‘Now, you just go home, woman, and may your situation be good. You are free from punishment because you have trusted God.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But Jesus said to the woman, ‘Your (sing.) faith is the reason that you (sing.) have been saved. Go-home with your (sing.) mind at-peace.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus said again to that woman, ‘You have really been saved/freed through the big-size of your belief/obeying and trust in me. Go home happy.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 2:7:
- Uma: “‘Whoever has-ears/is-eared, listen well to what the Holy Spirit says to my followers in every village. ‘Whoever wins/is-victorious [intransitive form of the verb ‘to defeat’], I allow them to eat the fruit of the tree of life, that is in the Garden of God.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘All you who have ears, you should listen to what the Spirit of God says to the gatherings of people belonging to me.’ (after this ‘the churches’). He also said, ‘Whoever is not carried-along by temptation/the tempters I will give authority to him to eat fruit from the tree that gives life which is there where God is (lit. in the there-place of God).'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Every one of you must listen/obey what the Holy Spirit says to you believers! The person who is able to defeat Satan, I will permit him to eat the fruit of the tree of life forever which is in the place where God lives.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You who are listening, think-about what God’s Spirit is saying to the congregations. The people who defeat evil, I will give them the authority to eat the fruit of the tree that gives life which is growing in Paraiso the place of God.’ ‘” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore since what ears are for is for listening with, you must listen well to this which is being said, which the Espiritu Santo is causing to be comprehended by the ones who believe and trust in me. For whoever is able to have victory over whatever leads to sinning and leads to destruction of believing/obeying, I will give him authority to be able to eat fruit of the tree which gives life, which is in the garden of God.”” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the person who has an ear, let him listen to these words which the Holy spirit says to the believers. He says: To the person who comes out victorious over the evil there is, I will give permission to eat the fruit of the tree which stands in God’s garden. When he eats the fruit, then that person will live forever,’ he says.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 3:10:
- Uma: “As it is written in the Holy Book long ago: ‘There are no people who are upright, not even one.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “It is written in the holy-book, saying, ‘There is no person straight in the sight of God, there is none not even one.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For there is written word of God which says, ‘There is not even one person that God considers to be righteous.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because this is the very-thing the written word of God is talking-about which says, ‘There is absolutely no righteous person, not even one.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “There in the Holy Book is written the word which says: ‘No person will come out that he has lived good, not even one person.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quote, see Psalm 53:1 and Psalm 53:3.
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:32:
- Noongar: “Near that place, many pigs were eating on the hill. So the evil spirits begged Jesus, ‘Send us into the pigs!’ And Jesus sent them.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Not far from there, there were many pigs rooting on the side of the mountain/hill. Those demons requested to Yesus, they said: ‘Please permit us (excl.) to enter those pigs over there.’ He did permit them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “At the slope (of the mountain) there was a large herd/crowd of pigs feeding there, they were very many. The demons begged Isa to enter the pigs. Isa told them to.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And not very far away from there, there was a herd of pigs grazing on the hillside. And the demons begged Jesus that they might be allowed to transfer to the pigs; and Jesus allowed them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Now there were many-pigs rooting-together there on the slope, so the evil-spirits begged Jesus to not send them below where would be their punishment, but rather to permit them to go possess those many-pigs. ‘Yes indeed,’ he said.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, on a hill beyond them, a large herd of pigs was being caused to feed by herders. Those evil spirits requested that if possible/acceptable, Jesus would allow them to transfer to those pigs. Jesus permitted them.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 3:10:
- Uma: “Since you follow my commands that say you must endure, that is why I protect you from the hardship that will strike the whole world. That time of hardship will test/try all people who live in the world.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You persevere following my commandment that you should endure/suffer. Therefore I will also care for you so that no evil will befall you when the difficulties come to the whole world to test all the people in the world.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because you are faithful to My command that you endure, I will watch over you so that you will not experience the punishment which all mankind must suffer and be tested by.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Since you have obeyed my command that you endure your hardship, I will save you from the fearful hardship that will arrive to the entire world which is the time-of-hardship of people who don’t believe.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because you obeyed my command to hold fast even though being persecuted, I really will take care of you so that you won’t be lost/perish when the time comes that all people here under the heavens will experience hardship for I will then test/try them.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I have told you to endure whatever suffering you must pass through. And this word I commanded you to do, that is what you have done. Therefore now I will help you when you suffer the suffering which all the people who live on the earth must pass through. Thus it will be made known which people will come out having good faith.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 4:11:
- Uma: “He was circumcised later, and his circumcision was a sign that he was straight in God’s sight. So we clearly see that Abraham became straight in God’s sight because of his faith before he was circumcised. That’s why we can say that we all consider Abraham as father. Abraham is considered father by people who are not Jews who believe in Yesus, because although they are not circumcised according the Lord’s Law, they become straight in God’s sight because of their faith just like Abraham.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When the promise of God was already believed by Ibrahim then he was circumcised as a sign that he really was already forgiven and he was already considered straight by God because he believed God. That’s why Ibrahim is like the parent of the people who believe God and are considered straight by God even though they have not been circumcised.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason he had himself circumcised was because circumcision became a sign in his body that God considered him to be righteous because of his believing at the time when he was not yet circumcised. And Abraham became our (incl.) ancestor, which is to say, the one everyone who believes comes to be like, even if they are not circumcised. The reason they believe is so that God might consider them righteous.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And his getting-circumcised according to God’s command, that was a sign which confirmed that God’s counting him as righteous was on account of his faith when he had not yet gotten-circumcised. Thus he is as-if the ancestor/leader of all who believe whom God counts as righteous even though they have not gotten-circumcised.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Afterwards, Abraham was marked with the sign of circumcision in order that it be God’s sign that he was cleared because he believed. Therefore it is Abraham who became like a father to all who have faith. Even though they are not marked with the sign of circumcision, yet God clears them.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
