Following are a number of back-translations of Jude 1:15:
- Uma: “He comes to judge [lit., sit-on] the cases of all people, and punish all rebellious people because of all their rebellion. He will punish those sinners who rebel-against Him, he will pay back on them all their disparaging words disparaging him." Like that the words of Henokh long ago foretelling the God’s punishing people who rebel-against him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “to judge all people. He will pass sentence on all who do not fear God because they did things hateful to God and because they always speak evil things of God.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “for he will investigate the activity of every person. He will punish every wicked person who has no respect for God because of the wicked deeds they have done and because of their speaking in rejection against God.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “to go and judge all people. He will condemn all sinners who have no thoughts toward God because of all the evil they have done and all the offensive-things that they have said in their opposing him.’ That is what Enok prophesied.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He will sentence all people to judgment. He will punish all who don’t acknowledge him, because of all the evil which they have done, which they did with a mind/inner-being which is very far from God’s will. And he will punish those who have no fear of him, because of all the insulting/belittling things they said about him.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He will come to judge all people. He will punish all the evil people who do not believe in God because of all the evil they do and because of all the evil words they have spoken against God.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 2:2:
- Uma: “We know relatives, if God punishes people who behave evilly like that, his decision is certainly true. But we have no seat [i.e., right] to criticize our companion, because if we criticize others, it is the same as criticizing ourselves, since our behavior is just like that too. So there is no way for us to make-nothing-of [lit., put downhill] our guilt.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “We (dual) know that it is right/correct/proper for God to punish the people doing those evil-things.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “We (incl.) know that God’s punishment to people who behave wickedly like this is very just. However, you who say that this behavior of people like this is very bad, you cannot escape either, because you criticize the evil behavior of another person but your behavior is also evil. Because of this when you criticize him you are criticizing also your own behavior.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because we know that God’s judging of people like that who do evil is exactly right.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “We surely know that it is right that God judges whatever evil people do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 7:45:
- Noongar: “You did not meet me with a kiss, but she has not stopped kissing my feet since I came here.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “You (sing.), you (sing.) did not greet me with a kiss according to our custom. But this woman, she has not stopped kissing my feet from when I first arrived until now.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You did not kiss me as is our (incl.) custom but this woman since I came in here she has not stopped kissing my feet.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And even though it’s our custom of welcoming to kiss our visitors, you did not kiss me when I arrived. And this woman, ever since I came here, she has continued kissing my feet.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You (sing.) also did not kiss-me in meeting-me as is our custom, but as for her, she has not stopped kissing my feet starting-from when-I-came.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Also you didn’t kiss (showing respect or gratitude) me, but as for her, from when she entered she has kept on kissing my feet.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 2:2:
- Uma: “He says: I know what you do. You work diligently doing my work, you also endure when persecuted because of your belief in me. I know that you hate evil people. There are those who say that they are my apostles, but they are not. You carefully-look-at their deeds and as-a-result you find that they are lying.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I do know your doings. I know that you work very hard and that you persevere enduring even whatever difficulty you have. I also know that you are not pleased with the doings of those bad people and you have closely-questioned the people there who pretend that they are apostles and you know already that they are lying/liars.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I know all the things you are doing; I know that you work hard and that you endure hardship because of your believing. I know also that you do not permit wicked people to be your companions. For the people who say that they are apostles of Jesus, you have tested, and by this you know that they are not true apostles.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I know your way-of-life. You are industrious in working for me and you are patient. You have also been-opposing what evil people are teaching, because you have tested those who say they are apostles, and you have-come-to-know that they are lying.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I really know the deeds/work of you believers there. You persevere with real perseverence and you really hold fast to your believing in the truth. I can really see that you do not tolerate those among you who do evil. You tested those there who were-claiming-falsely-to-be-apostles , and comprehended that they truly were just claiming-falsely-to-be-apostles.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I know what all you are doing. I know how strongly you do the work of God. And you endure however much suffering you go through. I know that you do not carry along with you people who are evil. I know that there have arisen people who want to deceive you, saying that they are my representatives. But you have judged how these people walk and found that they are liars.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 3:5:
- Uma: “So, because of the actions of men that are not upright, the uprightness of God becomes apparent. But let’s not say/think like this: ‘If that’s the case, if God punishes evil men, he is not upright.’ There are indeed men who think like that,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Perhaps some say, ‘If we (dual) do bad, it is good also because if people think about our (dual) bad doings and God’s doings, they really understand that God’s doings are very good then they praise him. Na, if they praise God because of our (dual) evil deeds, God is not straight if he punishes us (dual) because of the bad we (dual) have done.’ (This is what some say.)” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there are some foolish (pilusupu) people who will say, ‘If we (incl.) do evil, that is also good because when people think about our (incl.) evil doings, and the doings of God, certainly they will understand that, by contrast, the behavior of God is very good and they will praise Him and that will be very good. And if,’ they say, ‘good came about because of the evil that we (incl.) did, it’s not right for God to punish us because of the evil that we (incl.) did.’ Words like this are foolish.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There are reportedly excuse-makers (pilosopo = people who invent arguments, usually to excuse their own conduct) who say that God is doing what is not right if he punishes us, because his righteousness is reportedly seen increasingly/especially when it is compared to our sinning.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But if the evil which we do is that which shows that God is supremely good, what then shall we say about it? Can we say that it is not right that God punishes us then? Because this is the way people speak.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:27:
- Noongar: “As Jesus stepped onto the shore, a man from the town met him. Many evil spirits lived inside him. For many years, this man went without clothes and didn’t stay in a house, but he stayed inside the caves of the dead.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: (incl. v. 28, 29) “There was there a townsperson who was possessed by many demons. For a long time that person had not worn-clothes and he did not live in a house. His living-place was just the graves. He was often possessed. Even if he has bound by ropes and chains and continually watched, he could still break his bindings and escape/run-away going to the empty-place, because he was carried by the strength of the demons that possessed him. When Yesus landed/disembarked from the boat going to the shore, that possessed person came to meet him. When he saw Yesus, he shouted and kneeled in front of him. Yesus ordered those demons to go-out. That person said loudly: ‘Ee Yesus, Child of God who is in heaven! Why have you (sing.) come? I request that you (sing.) do not torment me!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When Isa got out of the boat, he was met by a certain person from the town of that place who was demon possessed. For a long time already he had not put on clothes and he did not live in a house but in the burial caves.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: (incl. v. 28, 29) “And when Jesus got out of the boat, he happened on to a person who had before been inhabitant there in the town of the Gergesenes, and he was afflicted with demons. And as for that person, for a long time he had not worn clothes; he did not live in a house, rather he lived there in the burial caves. It was not just a few times only that that man was controlled by that which wants to harm him, and even though he was often fastened with chains and guarded by people, he easily broke the chains and the demon lead him away into the land where no people lived. But when he saw Jesus he shouted out and he fell on his face in front of Jesus, saying with a very loud voice, ‘You Jesus, son of the very high God, what are you going to do with me? I beg you that you do not punish me yet!’ He said this because Jesus said to the demon that he should come out of him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When they landed and Jesus got-out-of the boat, he was met by a man from that-aforementioned town who was possessed by many-evil-spirits. For a long time he had been naked and hadn’t gone-home, because he stayed in the burial (lit. cemetery) caves.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “As Jesus was-leaving-the-water, he was met by a man who was possessed/made-crazy by an evil spirit. That person was indeed from the town but for a long time now had not been clothed and no longer lived in a house. He was just there in the cemetary.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 3:5:
- Uma: “‘Whoever wins, them also I will clothe with white clothes. I will not wipe their names from the Book of Life, the book writing-place of the names of those who receive good life until forever. And in front of my Father and his angels I will confess that they are my followers.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Whoever is not carried-along by temptation/the tempters they will be dressed in white like that and I will not wipe out their names from the book for writing the names of the people who have life without end. And I will make publicly known there in the presence of my Father and his angels that they belong to me.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Everyone who overcomes Satan will be dressed in white, and I will not erase his name out of the book where I have written the names of those who are given eternal life. And before my Father God and His angels, I will own them as My possessions.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The people who defeat evil, they will also be dressed in white like them. I will absolutely not remove their names from the book in which is written the names of those who have life that has no end, but rather I will admit that they are my people in front of my Father and his angels.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For whoever is able to have victory over whatever leads to sinning and destruction of believing/obeying, it’s certain that I will cause him to be dressed in white clothes and I will not erase his name from that in which are written the ones who are being given life which has no ending. And I will testify in the presence of my Father and his angels that I really acknowledge him as being mine.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “And now, concerning the person who comes out victorious over the evil there is, he will wear the white clothing and his name will not be removed from the book in which is written the names of the people who have the new live. There where my Father is with the angels who are there with him, I will say that these are my people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 4:6:
- Uma: “This teaching is the same as the words of King Daud long ago. For Daud said that the persons that God received as straight persons, but not because of their behavior, were blessed.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “This is the meaning of what Da’ud of-old said when he spoke that everyone is really glad whose sin is forgiven and (who is) considered straight by God but not because of his good deeds.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “This is what King David told about long ago when he said that ‘far better off is that person whom God considers to be righteous and whom God forgives, not because of his good works but rather, only because of his faith in him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “This also is what David meant (lit. wanted to say) when he spoke of the happiness of the person whom God counts as righteous, the reason for it not being what he did.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “David told about the good fortune met by the people whom God cleared even though they did not do all the good which should be done.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
