Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Thessalonians 5:12:

• Uma: “Relatives, we request that you respect those who hold the work of the Lord in your midst, because they are the ones who are your elders in the Lord and who admonish you.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Na, my brothers who trust in Isa Almasi, there is still something we (excl.) want to ask/beg you (for): respect your leaders of the prayer-house. They work among you because they were chosen by our (incl.) Leader to teach you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “So, brothers, those who work hard to lead you, your bosses whom God has chosen, and those who teach you, we beg you to respect them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “We (excl.) have something else to request of you brothers. It would be good if you properly respect/acknowledge those who are leading you who put-themselves-to-hardship to care-for and advise you in your following the Lord Jesus.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “The final thing we (excl.) can teach you, siblings in believing, is that you will please recognize/acknowledge well those who have been given authority who persevere in the work of the Lord there. For as for these, of course the Lord is the one who chose them and set them up to oversee and teach you.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Listen, brothers, we want that you have respect for the workers of God who work where you live. Because they are the chosen of God to lead there where you are in order to teach you the word of God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Thessalonians 2:4:

• Uma: “No matter how the words of others are, don’t allow yourselves to be deceived. For before that day comes, these two things have to happen first: many people will retreat from their faith, and an evil person will appear who will oppose God. That evil person, he will be proud [lit., his heart will be high], he will put himself [lit., his life] ahead of all that is worshipped on earth. And he will dare [emphatic] to sit in the House of God, saying that he is God. So, it is certain ahead of time that he will be thrown into hell.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “This person will be an enemy of everything that-is-considered-God and everything worshiped by mankind. He will make himself greater than all of them and even/including in the prayer-house of God he will go and sit down and say that he is God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He will resist and try to make himself higher than anything people consider to be God and anything they worship. He will even sit in the worship place, the House of God, for he will say that he is God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “He will oppose God and all idols/false gods and whatever else people worship/honor and he will make-himself -higher (in rank, importance) than all of them. And he will go and sit-down in God’s temple saying that he himself is God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “What this one who will-appear-on-the-scene will do is, he will oppose all who are worshipped by people which they regard as their god. He will elevate himself that he now is the most important, far more than all of these. And furthermore, he will even enter the Templo of God, and then say that he is the one meant by God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “This person will be against all that people worship, even God he will be against. He will want that only he himself will be worshipped. He will sit in the church of God as though he himself were God. He will say, ‘I myself am God,’ he will say.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)