Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 16:15:
- Uma: “My greetings to Filologus and Yulia, to Nereus and his female relative, and to Olimpas with all the believers in the Lord Yesus with them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Tell also Pilologo and his wife Juliya, and Nereyo and his sister and Olimpas and all their companions belonging to God that I remember them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Greet also for me Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and also Olympas and their fellow subjects of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Tell also my greetings to Filologus and Julia, Nereus and his female sibling, and Olimpas and God’s people who are their companions.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Please greet for me Philologus with Julia, with Nereus and his sister and Olympas and all the rest of our brethren who live there.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 16:7:
- Noongar: “Then he asked the next person, ‘You also – what must you give the boss?’ ‘1000 containers of wheat’, he said. The worker told him, ‘Here is your account. Write 800.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘After that, and he said to the second one: ‘And you (sing.), how much is your (sing.) debt?’ ‘He answered: ‘One thousand sacks of rice.’ ‘That servant said: ‘Here is your (sing.) letter of debt, write just eight hundred sacks.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And he said to another one, ‘You, how much is your debt?’ He said, ‘One hundred sacks rice.’ Then he said to him, ‘Here is your account, write here eighty.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then another one arrived, and this servant asked him how much his debt was, and he answered, ‘A thousand baskets of wheat.’ And the servant said to him, ‘Here’s the list of things you owe; sit down here and change it to only eight hundred baskets.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He said also to another, ‘You (sing.) also then, how much is your (sing.) debt?’ ‘One thousand gantas of wheat,’ he answered. Then the employee said, ‘Here, take your (sing.) receipt and write eight hundred.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He questioned the next one. ‘So as for yours,’ he said, ‘how much is your debt?’ ‘Oh, it’s a big one,’ was his reply, ‘for it’s one hundred sacks of wheat.’ ‘Well, here is your piece-of-writing with your debt. Write a new one. Write only eighty.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 1:20:
- Uma: “What is the use of clever people? What is the use of Yahudi religion teachers? What is the use of people in this world who are skilled in speaking? In God’s sight, the cleverness of mankind is just all stupidity.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Now, if this is so, how are/what about the people with deep knowledge? How are/what about the people with high learning? How are/what about the people considered to be expert debaters by mankind? There is no use. Because God explained/caused to understand that human knowledge is useless as far as he is concerned.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And we understand from this that there is no vlaue of the wisdom of those who are wise; there’s also no value in the understanding of those who have studied, and those who know how to speak here on the earth. For God has made it known that the wisdom which comes from here on the earth has no value with him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “What then is the status of the wise person and the teacher of the law and the one who is a skilled debater who are on this earth? Because God has already shown that their earthly wisdom is of no value.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well since it’s like that, what shall we say concerning the knowledgeable here in this world? Or those teachers who have studied a lot concerning the laws of Moises and those who really know how to debate? Is it not so that God has caused it to be comprehended that the perception of this world concerning what can save people is just nonsense/stupidity?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Here on earth there live people who say they have wisdom. There live people who say they are teachers. There live people who say they know well about all there is here on earth. But God says that the wisdom of these people is of no value.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 17:8:
- Noongar: “No! You say to him, ‘Prepare my meal, then put on your right clothes and stand here to serve my food. Then you can eat your meal.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Of course not. Surely we say like this: ‘Prepare my food! Put on clothes that are not dirty. Wait for me while I drink and eat. When I am finished eating, only then do you (sing.) eat.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Surely not. Instead that is what you say to him, ‘Change your clothes and prepare my food so that I can eat. When I have finished, then you can eat.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “That’s not the way, because what you will say is, ‘Wash your hands and cook for me, so that I may eat.. And you may eat when I have finished eating.’ ‘” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “No indeed, but rather you (sing.) say, ‘Go change so you (sing.) will then prepare what I will eat and place-it-before me until I have finished-eating, then you (sing.) also will eat.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Of course not. On the contrary, what you will order is that you will say, ‘Go ahead, serve my evening meal and get changed to wait-on/take-care-of me while I eat and drink. You just eat when I have eaten already.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 3:5:
- Uma: “As for me and Apolos, we (excl.) are just God’s servants/ordered-ones, who led-you-by-the-hand to believe in the Lord Yesus. We(excl.) each do the work that the Lord has caused-us-to-carry [on our shoulders].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Who is Apollos and who am I that you should make us (excl.) your leaders? We (excl.) two are simply servants of God. We (excl.) preached to you and therefore you trusted in Isa Almasi. We (excl.) only did what God had commanded each one of us (excl.).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You think about this. As for me, Paul, who am I? And who also is Apollos? We are just servants of God. By means of us He caused you to believe; we just carry out the orders that He gives us, and that’s all that we do.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Think-about this. Who really is Apollos? Who really am I? We (excl.) are God’s messengers and that’s all. We (excl.) admittedly are the ones whom God used to persuade you to believe, but we (excl.) only did the work that God entrusted to each (lit. one and one) of us (excl.).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, tell me, who is Apolos and (who is) this Pablo? Is it not so that we (excl.) are just the Lord’s servants whom he used so that you would believe/obey him? We just carried out the work which he had entrusted to us.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning me, Paul, along with Apollos, what power do we have that people should follow us? We are just workers for God. We have just done the work that causes you to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. But each of us, that concerning that work God gave us to do, that is what we do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 18:3:
- Noongar: “A widow was also living in that place. She always went to the judge. She begged the judge to help her to get what she should get, saying, ‘You help me fight this bad man!'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “In that town also, there was a widow. She had gone many times before that judge bringing her case, she said: ‘Please help me confront my enemy.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “In that place there was also a widow woman who had a problem/a case. This woman always went to the judge asking for help and begged that he would show her truth/that she was in the right. She said, ‘Do help me so that my opponent will not win.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And in that town, there was also a widow-woman who always went to the judge because she begged his help. She said to the judge, ‘Help me so that my enemy will not take away my possessions.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There was also a widow in that town who kept-going to him to beg for her legal-rights saying, ‘Please help-me so that my enemy doesn’t defeat-me.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Also in that city there was a woman who was a widow who kept going to that judge, for she was asking for straightness/justice because of someone who was causing her hardship/suffering.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 4:14:
- Uma: “Relatives, my purpose in speaking to you like this is not to shame you. My words are to reprimand you, I am treating you like children I love.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I am not writing this in order to make you ashamed, but to teach you because you are like my children whom I love very much.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Brothers, I haven’t said this because I want you to be ashamed, but rather so that you might be taught. Because you have become my dear children by means of your believing in Christ.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I didn’t write these-things to cause-you -humiliation but rather to advise/admonish you, because I count you as my much-loved children.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It’s not as-might-be-said that I am writing these things to shame you. I’m constrained (to write them) in order to teach/correct you, you who are like my offspring whom I hold very dear.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “This word I have put down on this paper here wasn’t put down in order to make you ashamed. Rather I give you advice as though you were my children.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 18:35:
- Noongar: “Jesus was going near Jericho. A blind man was sitting close to the road, begging.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “When Yesus was close to the town of Yerikho, there was a blind person sitting by the side of the road begging.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When they were already close to the town Ariha, there was a blind person sitting there at the edge of the road they were passing begging/asking for money.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when they were already near to the town of Jericho, there was there a blind person sitting by the side of the path, and the only thing he did was to hold out his hand, in begging for money.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “As plural Jesus were approaching Jerico, there was a blind-person sitting at the edge of the road begging.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Jesus and company were now close to Jerico, there was a man who was blind who was sitting at the edge of the trail begging-to-be-given-to.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
