Following are a number of back-translations of Galatians 4:18:
- Uma: “It’s good if there are some who want to win you over. Not only while I am with you, also in my absence it is always good if there are those who want to win you over, as long as their purpose is good. [alternate we used but later decided was too far from the literal (sigh!): It does not hurt my heart [i.e., I am not upset] if there is someone who becomes your friend in my absence. It’s fine with me if there is someone who is trying to win you over–as long as their purpose is good.]” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “It is really good if people are concerned about their companions as long as their purpose is only good as to why they are concerned. And you should be concerned whether I am there with you or whether I am not there.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Their being friends with you is very good if their purpose is not bad. It’s my desire that I’m not the only one who makes friends with you. When I’m not there it’s good if there is someone else to be friends with you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The concern of a person for his fellow-man is admittedly proper provided his motives are good, like the way you were with me, but you should always have-concern, not only when I am with you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Now admittedly it’s not bad that you are being valued, as long as there is no evil ulterior-motive. And your valuing me in the past, hopefully you will still continue it even though I am not there with you.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Well it is good if someone wants to help you, but they must live to do what is good when they do it. I also want to help you, but not only when I am there with you, do I want to help you, but also always I want to help you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 8:46:
- Uma: “Who of you can point to there being my sin? When I say something that is true, why do you not believe me?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “None of you can say that I have sin, all that I have said is true. Why do you still not believe me?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Who of you can testify of any bad that I have done? None of you. If true is what I say, why don’t you believe me?” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Is there perhaps anyone among you who will confirm/verify that there is that-in-which-I-have-sinned? Definitely none. If then what I say is true, why don’t you believe-it?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For who of you can prove that I have sinned? If what I am saying really is the truth, why aren’t you believing me?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “There isn’t one among you who can say that I have committed sin. So if what I tell you is true, why don’t you believe me then?” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 16:28:
- Uma: “Truly-truly I say to you: from the midst of you here, there are some who will not yet have died before he has seen me, the Child of Mankind, come as King.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said yet, ‘Truly I tell you, there are some of you here who will not die unless they have first seen me the Son of Man come and rule over the people.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Remember this. Some of our companions here will not die until they see me, the Older Sibling of Mankind, coming in order to rule.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “This that I say is true that there are some of you here who will not have died yet and they will see me who am Child of a Person when I come to rule.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “This which I will say to you really is true, that there are a few of you here now/today who won’t die before they have seen me who am the One From Heaven Born of Man/human begin to reign.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Truly I tell you that there are some here now who will not die before they see the Man who came from heaven take up his power to rule.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Galatians 5:19:
- Uma: “The deeds that we do if we follow the evil desires of our hearts are quite evident/recognizable. For instance: we commit adultery or behave wrongly with a woman or man, or we do other unseemly actions like that,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If their greedy-desire is what people follow, it is easily known because this is their doings: they commit adultery/fornication, they are immoral and they are not ashamed to do folly (sexual things implied).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “We can identify the evil behavior which is made possible by the evil desires of the body because it’s fooling around with someone who is not our spouse, filthy and ugly behavior,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It is easy to distinguish what people do that comes-from their human minds. It is these: they sleep-with those who are not their spouses and they do what is filthy and indecent;” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For those things which are the outcome of our congenital evil desires are clear to us all. Because it’s these things, all kinds of immoral behaviour with one who is not your spouse, disgusting habits/ways or thoughts and the indulging of disgusting desires with no self control at all.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “It isn’t hard for us to know what is the evil done by people. It is adultery, a heart full of evil, one doesn’t want to control himself concerning walking in evil.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 9:19:
- Uma: “and they asked them: ‘Is it really true that this man is your child, whom you said had been blind since birth? What happened with the result that he can see?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Those leaders said to them, ‘Is this person your child? Is it true that he was born blind? Why on earth can he see now?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “and they asked them, they said, ‘Is this your child? Is it really true what is said that he is a blind person, that he was blind before he was born? Then how were his eyes cured?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “and asked them, ‘Is this your child whom you say was-born-with his blindness? If so, how then is it that he is able-to-see now?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “On arrival, they questioned them saying, ‘What’s this, is this person your son and was he truly born blind? Well why today is he no longer blind?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “They were asked, ‘Is this your son here, this one of whom it is said was blind from the time he was born? How is it that his eyes are opened now?'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 18:5:
- Uma: “Whoever receives a little child like this child because of his following of Me, its meaning, it is I whom he receives.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If there is a person and because of his trust in me he honors/treats-according-to-custom one little child like this, I am the one honored/treated-according-to-custom.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The person, who because of his faith in me, accepts and treats well any child like this, he has accepted me also.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And whoever receives a lowly person like this child because of his faith in me, I am the one he has received.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And also whoever receives a humble one like this child because of his belief in me, I am the one he is receiving.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “And the person who has respect for a child like this one here and does so because he knows that I look well upon such action, then it is as though that person has respect for me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Ephesians 1:7:
- Uma: “From the blood of the death of Yesus and from our connection with him, God redeemed us, he forgave our sins from his grace that is very big.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because of the death of Almasi we (incl.) are set free, that means God has forgiven our (incl.) sins. Really very great is God’s love and mercy towards us (incl.).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For because of the fact that His kindness to us is very great, He set us free from punishment by means of the shedding of blood when Christ allowed Himself to be killed. And He forgave our (incl.) sins.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because through the blood of that Child of his, we are set-free, it wants to say (henceforth meaning to say), our sins are forgiven. We enjoy/gain all these-things because of God’s exceeding mercy/grace” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For because of the blood which this Jesus shed (lit.caused-to-drip), we are free now from the punishment by God because of our sins. They have now all been forgiven to us. There is really no comparison to this grace/mercy of his” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because of the grace of God, the Son of God died in order to save us and he forgave our sins.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Bariai: “In our (incl.) joining together with him, he unbound us in order that we leave our bad life. And this action comes to us by his blood which spilled in the day that he died. And so he wiped away our bad deeds. And this action follows [from] his action of kindness which is extremely full (lit. greatly full and very greatly) and existing.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Kupsabiny: “The Saviour redeemed/freed us with his blood which he poured and then/there/at that time he forgave us from our sins. How great his love is towards us!” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Mairasi: “His good intestine [goodness/mercy/grace/generosity] is so great that He even gave us His riches/inheritance. That inheritance is like this: The first person was Great Above One’s very own possession. But he did wrong until finally we people became slaves of the malevolent Spirit [Satan]. Then Great Above One Himself bought us back [redeemed us], He bought us back, taking us into the palm of Yesus’ hands [in Yesus] with His blood, paying our price to become His children. That’s not all. He truly already completely wiped out/dismantled our wrongs [He forgave our wrongs].” (Source: Enggavoter 2004)
- German Gute Nachricht 2018: “Through his blood we are redeemed: all our sins are forgiven. This is how God showed us the riches of his grace.”
Following are a number of back-translations of John 10:10:
- Uma: “The intention of a thief, [he] comes wanting to steal, kill and destroy. But I come so that men receive life that is no kidding its goodness.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The burglar has no other business in coming than to steal and to kill and to destroy. But I, my business/purpose in coming is to give mankind life, its goodness is exceeding.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason that the thief goes to the corral is so that he might steal and kill and destroy. As for me, by contrast, I came here to the world to give mankind life that has no lack forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘The purpose of the thief is to go steal or for-no-reason to kill or butcher-to-eat the sheep and that’s all. I however, I came so that people should be able-to-gain/enjoy the very-good life that has no lacks/imperfections.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The one I said was like a thief, he has no other purpose than that he wants to steal, to kill and to destroy. But as for me, I came here so that those who are my like sheep will be given life by me, and the life I will give is really far-from-ordinary.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The thief just steals. He kills off the sheep. But I came so there would be your new life, you will live joyfully.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
