Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 17:18:
- Noongar: “Why only this one foreigner returns to give thanks to God?'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Why is it that only just this one returned to say thank you to God? And he isn’t even a Yahudi person!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Why is it only this foreigner who comes back to give thanks to God?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Why is it that you alone, a Samaritan, returned to praise God?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Why have none of them returned to thank God, only just this one who is a Gentile?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Didn’t they come back to praise God? Was it only this one, this one who is not a Judio?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 3:15:
- Uma: “If his work does not last the Lord’s inspection, he will suffer-loss. Its meaning, he himself will be freed from the punishment of his sins, but he will not get a reward from his work. He can be compared to a person whose house burns up: all his materials are lost, only his bare self is not eaten by the fire.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “but if the material a person uses burns, that means his teaching is bad, he will suffer loss, he will not receive good/blessing. He will be saved, but he will be like a person just escaping from his burning house.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But if there is a person whose work is removed, he’ll be freed just the same from punishment, but he will have no reward. He’s like the person who was able to escape out of a burning house, carrying nothing.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But the person whose construction is burned, he will receive no reward. He will indeed be saved, but like a person who is able-to-escape from a burning house.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But if it is burned up, will he not suffer a big loss? Admittedly he himself will indeed be saved, but it will be just as if he had escaped through flames almost losing his life in the process.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But the builder who put in that which burns, then the work he has done will be lost. The builder himself will be saved as though a person escapes death from his burning house.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 18:13:
- Noongar: “But the tax collector stood far off and did not raise his face to Heaven, but beat his chest and said, ‘God, pity me, because I am a sinful man’.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘But that tax collector, he just stood far off/at-a-distance, and he did not dare look up to the sky. He continually rubbed his chest, and he said: ‘Oo God! have pity on me, I am a sinner!’ ‘” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But the person who collects payment, stood far off and he didn’t even look up but just looked down. He beat (repeatedly) his chest because of his sadness/being troubled and said, ‘O God, have pity/mercy on me, I am sinful.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But that other person who was a tax collector, he went far away; he just stayed there in the corner of the house with his head bowed, and he was pounding on his chest because he was very much grieved. And he prayed to God saying, ‘God, be very much merciful to me, a peson who is a sinner!’ ‘” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘As for the tax collector however, he stood at a short-distance and he didn’t look-up to heaven but rather kept-striking his chest because of his repenting of his sins saying, ‘Ay (vocative) God, please have-mercy on me who am sinful.’ ‘” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “As for that official receiver of payment, he was at-a-small-distance from the Pariseo and other people. He hung his head like he was ashamed to look up to heaven, and he kept thumping his chest in the big-size of his grief. His prayer was, ‘God, please be merciful to me who am sinful.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 5:3:
- Uma: “Even though I am far from you, relatives, yet my heart is there with you, and I do have authority to order you, just like I was there in your midst. So, with the authority that the Lord Yesus Kristus gave me, I have definitely-decided [lit., made-it-certain]: the person who has acted like that must be punished. When you gather together and my heart is there with you, I request that with the authority of our Lord Yesus,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I, even though I am far from you, nevertheless I am like there with you because I always think of you. Because I have been given authority by Isa Almasi therefore I already drop judgment on that sinning person as if I were really there with you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for me, even though I’m still here far away, it’s as if I were there with you because I’m always thinking about you, and just as if I were there I know before hand what is the proper punishment for that person who has done such a wicked thing.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because even though I am absent from you, I am nonetheless thinking-about you, and because of my authority as the Lord Jesus’ representative (lit. bodyhood), I have already sentenced the one who did that-aforementioned sin as if I were with you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Even though I am not bodily there but in my mind/inner-being, it’s like I am indeed there passing judgment on the one doing that.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Even though I do not live there where you live, but in my thinking, it seems as though I were living there in order to judge the man who did the sin.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 19:2:
- Noongar: “A chief tax collector lived in Jericho. His name was Zachaeus, and he was very rich.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “In that town, there was a rich man who was the head of the tax collectors, named Zakheus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There was a person living there, his name was Sakkiyas. He was the leader of the people who collect payment and he was rich.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there was there a man from Jericho who was named Zacchaeus. And as for this Zacchaeus, he was the chief of the tax collectors there, and he was very rich.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “there was a rich-man who was the leader of the tax collectors who was named Zakeus.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “There was a rich person there who was a boss of the official receivers of payment to the government, whose name was Zaqueo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 7:2:
- Uma: “But I [emphatic] say, it’s better a man have-relations-with [transitive verb based on the root ‘woman’] his own wife/woman, and a woman have-relation-with [transitive verb based on the room ‘man’] her own husband/man, so that no-one behaves wrongly as so often happens.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But because now many men and women do bad, it is better if each one of you has a husband or a wife.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, since there are so many people who get involved with someone who is not their spouse, it’s better if a man gets married and if a woman gets married, because you might be influenced by those people whose activities are filthy.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “but since many people are sleeping-with with someone who is not their spouse, it’s better yet if you get-married so that each one will have a proper spouse.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But if that’s what can lead men into immoral-behavior with one not their spouse, each married-couple is to enjoy/be-happy-with his/her own spouse.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But it is know that people everywhere very much commit adultery. Therefore it is better that the man has a wife. And that the woman has a husband.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 19:34:
- Noongar: “‘The Lord wants it,’ they said.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “They answered: ‘Because the Lord needs it.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They answered they said, ‘The Lord needs it.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And they answered, ‘Our Lord needs this.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Our (excl.) Lord needs it,’ they answered.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Those two replied, ‘The Lord needs it.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Bariai: “And then the two of them said, ‘The Chief has work with it.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Kupsabiny: “The disciples replied, ‘The Lord needs it.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Mairasi: “They themselves said to him: ‘It is Above-One’s throat’ they said. ” (Source: Enggavoter 2004)
- Hiligaynon: They answered, ‘The Lord needs this.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 7:34:
- Uma: “with the result that his heart is divided [lit., branched]. So also is the difference between the woman who is married [husbanded] and the one who is not married [husbanded]. The woman who is not married [husbanded] or an unmarried-girl keeps thinking about the Lord, for her desire is to live completely for the Lord. But the woman who is married [husbanded], she also thinks about this world, wanting to make her husband happy.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Therefore there are two things that he thinks about, how he should please God and how he should please his wife. Likewise also a woman who doesn’t have a husband, that is what she only thinks about to work for God and what she should do so that God will be pleased with her. She gives herself wholeheartedly to God. But a woman who has a husband, that is what she thinks about her work for her family because she wants that her husband is pleased with her.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And because of this he’s always thinking about two things, and these things cannot agree. In the same way also, the woman who has no spouse, all she’s thinking about is what God wants. She give her breath and her strength so that God might be pleased. However, if she has a husband, she is aways thinking about the problems here on the earth, so that she might please her husband.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “so his thoughts are divided/shared. So also with the young-lady and the woman who now-has-no husband. She can concentrate her thoughts on her serving the Lord Jesus, because she has no other purpose/motive except (lit. if not) the continual offering of her body and mind to him. But the woman who is married, she thinks about their life on this earth and about what makes-her husband -happy.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore his hard-effort is divided. Like that also is the woman who no longer has a husband and those still unmarried. She can attend to the Lord’s will so that she can dedicate/secure herself, body and mind/inner-being, as really the Lord’s. But the woman who is married, she has to attend also to the things in this world, as to how she can please her husband.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Like this is the woman too. The girl who is not married sets her heart to do Christ’s work. The same for her body and for her thoughts, she has committed to God to do his work. But the girl who now is married sets her heart on doing the work there is here in this world, because she wants her husband to look well upon her.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
