Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 4:19:
Uma: “We are loving, because God is the one who first loved us.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “We (incl.) love because God first loved us (incl.).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason that He is now very dear in our breath is because we were first dear in His breath.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “We love because God went-ahead to love us (i.e. loved us first).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “The truth is, we now ourselves hold dear and value because we are already being held dear and valued by God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “We love God now, because we have now understood that it was he who loved us first.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Yatzachi Zapotec: “We love God because he first began to love us.”
Tzotzil: “First God loved us therefore we love God now.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 27:43:
Uma: “But the warchief forbade them, because he had love/pity for Paulus. He ordered that people who knew how to swim jump into the sea and swim to land.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “But the captain did not want anything to happen to Paul. Therefore he restrained/forbade the soldiers telling them not to do what they were thinking. Even-more-so he told all those who knew how to swim to jump first and swim to the shore.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However the sergeant, he did not want that Paul should be killed, and he did not allow them to kill them. He commanded that those who knew how to swim should jump in and go to the shore.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “But the captain forbid-it, because he wanted Pablo to live. He commanded that those able-to-swim jump into the ocean to go-ahead to go to its edge,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “But their captain didn’t concur for he didn’t want Pablo to get killed. Therefore he prevented them. And then he said that whoever could swim should jump off and swim now, going ahead to shore.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 6:27:
Noongar: “But you listen! I tell you: if people want to hurt you, you must love them; if people hate you, you must do good to them;” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
Uma: “‘But to you who hear my words now, this is my command: We must love our enemies, behave well to people who hate us.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “‘But you who listen to me, this is what I say to you: Love your enemy. Do good to those who hate you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “What I say to you, my disciples who listen to me today, is: it is necessary that your breath is not bad toward your enemy, but rather, treat very well those that are angry with you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Jesus continued to say, ‘What I will say yet to you who are listening is that you should love your enemies. You are also to do good to those who hate you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “‘This is what I will next say to you who are listening. Value those who oppose you. Do good to them (lit. show them good nature/ways) who hate you.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 John 1:9:
Uma: “All people who wander/detour from the true teaching, and they do not follow the teaching of Kristus, those people are not connected with God. People who remain following the teaching of Kristus, they are connected with God the Father and with God the Child.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Whoever does not remain/stick-to the teaching of Almasi but goes beyond (it), God is not there with him. Whoever stays/remains with the teaching of Almasi, both the Father and the Son are with him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If there is a person who has abandoned the true doctrine taught by Christ so that he might hold fast to a false doctrine that he has added on, he has not become one with God. Anyone, by contrast, who holds fast to the true doctrine, he is the one who has been made one with our Father God and His Son.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Any person, if he doesn’t continue to follow what Cristo taught, but rather exceeds it, he doesn’t know God. But the one who carries-on in following what Cristo taught, God the Father and his Child also are in him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “As for the one who is not holding fast to the teaching of Cristo, because he is (emphatic) overriding it, he is really far from God. However, whoever is holding fast to this teaching of Cristo, he is really being held fast to by God the Father and Son.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the person who does not want to say only what Christ taught, but speaks other words which Christ did not teach, he is a person who does not walk with God. But the person who speaks only what Christ taught is one who walks with the Father and also with the Son of God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Yatzachi Zapotec: “Any of us if we are forsaking what Christ taught us and are taking another road, God is not with us. But if we are constantly heeding what Christ taught us, our father God and his son are with us.”
Eastern Highland Otomi: “But whoever wants to go beyond (outdo) God’s teaching, and doesn’t want to remain in the teaching of Christ, but then he isn’t with God. But he who remains in the teaching of Christ, he is with the Father, and also with his Son.”
Isthmus Zapotec: “Whoever goes another direction (all one verb stem) and no longer follows what Christ taught does not know (is not acquainted with)God. But whoever follows what Christ taught, he truly knows God the Father and His Son.”
Sayula Popoluca: “He who goes astray after another doctrine and doesn’t remain (stay with) Christ’s doctrine, he doesn’t have fellowship with God . . ..” (Source for this and three above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 28:31:
Uma: “Without any fear/uneasiness, he announced to them that Yesus was Lord and the Redeemer King, and he taught them the way to become God’s people in his Kingdom. And there were none who bothered him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “He proclaimed about God’s ruling and he taught/preached about Isa Almasi, the Lord. He had no fear-whatever to teach/preach and nobody restrained/forbade him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He caused them to understand how the kinging of God would be and he taught them who our Lord Jesus Christ is. He did not hide his teaching and neither did anyone tell him to stop.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “He was bold to preach and teach concerning the ruling of God and the Lord Jesu Cristo, and no one forbid him. That’s that.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “He taught them well concerning the kingdom of God, and all the teaching concerning the Lord Jesu-Cristo. And there was no-one at all who forbade him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Lalana Chinantec: “Just exactly as he wanted, he preached how God is the boss of people’s hearts. He taught the word of our Lord Jesus Christ. There was no one who prevented Paul from preaching the Word.” (Source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Huautla Mazatec: “Thus he preached on behalf of the kingdom of God. he taught the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ. (There was) no one whom Paul was afraid of. no one who cut him off.” (Source: Florence Cowan in The Bible Translator 1950, p. 135ff. )
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 7:11:
Noongar: “Soon after, Jesus went to a town, Nain. His disciples and many other people followed him.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
Uma: “Not long after that [lit. from there], Yesus went to a town called Nain, with his disciples and many other people with them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Not long after that, Isa went to a town called Nain. He went with his disciples and also great crowds of people followed.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And a few days after that Jesus went to a town called Nain; there were very many people who went with him, including his disciples.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “It wasn’t long and Jesus went to the town they called Nain. His disciples and many people went-with him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “From that day, it wasn’t long till Jesus went to a town called Nain. His disciples went with him and many people also.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Jude 1:13:
Uma: “They are like water that wells-up and brings lots of trash, for they just show their shameful deeds. They are like stars whose movement is not straight/certain: they say [emphatic] that they are bringing [lit., carrying] light, but actually they are just leading [lit., carrying] people astray. God prepares/prepared for them a dwelling-place that is pitch dark. They will live there [out-of-sight] forever.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “They are also like waves of the sea in bad weather and their shameful doings are clearly seen like the foam of the sea. They are also like stars that keep changing their whereabouts, which cannot be used for orientation. God has already beforehand prepared a dwelling place for these people in the utter darkness and there they will be forever.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They are also like large waves in the sea when there is a storm, for their shameful filthy deeds are like foam which appears on the shore. They are like stars which have departed from their true place, for what they teach cannot be trusted. God has prepared a very dark place for them to live in forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “They moreover can-be-compared to big waves in the ocean that repeatedly-splash their (lit. its) filthy foam onto the shore (lit. its edge), because they are continually doing what is shameful. Still another comparison of them, it is running stars (i.e. meteorites or other moving heavenly bodies) who have gone-astray from their proper pathway. Therefore there is an extremely-dark (lit. darkest) place that God has prepared where-they -will-be-imprisoned forever.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Really as for these people, they are irresponsible/wild like waves when the sea is very-rough. They keep breaking and keep beaching froth and garbage/junk. That’s how these are too, for shame is what comes from the disgusting things they do. They really are just like a star which has gone off course. God has in store for them a place which is unending darkness.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “These are like the foam on the ocean when the waves rise up, in that these people only live evilly. They are like the stars when they depart from where they travel. They will be punished forever, going to the deepest darkness.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 1:32:
Uma: “They know God’s commands that say whoever behaves like that is fit to be punished by death. But even so, they still do behavior like that, and they even like-it/approve if others do it.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “They know that the law of God says that everyone who does these sins really deserves/matches to die. But even though they know this, they yet sin more and they are also happy when/if others do as they do.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They know that if they do things like this, they will be punished with death forever. However, they just keep on just the same, and not only that, they are very pleased if they can see behavior in other people which is just like theirs.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Even though they know God’s law which says that those who do those-things deserve to be punished forever, they continue to do them nonetheless. And not only that, but they also praise/honor other people who do things like that.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “These people who do these things well know that God says that he will punish people who sin. But it seems that the people all the more go on doing the evil. When they see their fellowman do what is evil, they even rejoice.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
