Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 3:3:
- Uma: “And more than that, because of your behavior, relatives, it has become clear to all people the fruit of our (excl.) work carrying the words of Kristus to you. We can say, you are like a letter that was written by Kristus. What he wrote in your hearts is better than the letter that is written with ink or that is written on a writing rock, like the Law of Musa that was written long ago on a writing rock. For Kristus wrote his words in your hearts with the power of the Spirit of God who Lives.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “It is clear that Almasi wrote this letter and we (excl.) were only used by him to write it. This was not written with ink but written with the Spirit of God who is living. And this letter was also not written on flat stones like the writing of Musa but this is written in people’s livers.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Your faith is like a letter which says there that our activity is right. The one who made this letter is Christ, because He sent us there in order that you might believe. And this letter is much better because it is not written with ink, it was not written on writing tablets of stone like the Law which Moses left behind, but rather, by means of the Holy Spirit, God wrote it in the breath of you people.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It can be seen in your life that Cristo is the one who wrote it through us (excl.), but it wasn’t ink that was used-to-write-it but rather the Spirit of the living God. Neither was it flat stones like those-on-which-were-written the law of Moses that he-wrote-it-on but rather on your thoughts.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It’s really clear that what you are now like is a letter of which Cristo is the one-who-wrote and we here are like the writing-instrument that he used. And this new-quality of your lives now, that’s like what he wrote, in which the ink (lit. that-with-which-it-stained) was none other than the Espiritu Santo whom the God who is alive forever caused-to-indwell. And what he wrote this letter on, it was not on flat rocks like the laws of Moises, but rather on your minds/inner-being.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Christ wants the people to see how much good he has done for you by means of the word which I spoke. But he did not write a letter with ink in order that the people would see words. And he did not write letters on a rock slab like Moses wrote. Rather the Holy Spirit changed your hearts so that it would be apparent what Christ has done for you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Warlpiri (verses 1-3) “You people talk and reckon that I am just boasting and calling myself big. But me, you people know me as a Church Apostle. I am not like many others who reckon that they themselves are Apostles. They show you papers/letters with their names so that you can look at them and know, so they reckon, that they are Apostles. And as for me, I am not asking you so that you can give me a paper like that so that I can go around showing it. You people are like a paper with story that God wrote in my heart. When other people see you, they think about me as God’s Apostle. And they know you also that you are like a letter that Christ Jesus wrote on paper. He did not write the story on stone with something like charcoal. In your hearts he wrote it with God’s Holy Spirit, God who is really alive. This certainly is the paper I show to people.” (Source: Carl Gross)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 3:2:
- Uma: “One night, he came to meet-with Yesus, he said to him: ‘Teacher, what we (excl.) know [is], you are a teacher sent by God, because there is no person who can do miracles like what you do, if God is not with him.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “One night he went to Isa and he said, ‘Sir, we (excl.) know that you are a teacher sent here by God. For you would not be able to do the wonder-causing works that you do if you were not given power by God.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He went to Jesus at night, and he said to Jesus, ‘Datu, we know that you are a teacher whom God has sent, because the miracles which you do, the only one who can do like this is a person to whom God has given power.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “One night, he went to where Jesus was and said to him, ‘Sir teacher, we (excl.) know that God has sent you (sing.) to teach us (excl.). Because absolutely no one can-do the amazing signs that you (sing.) have-been-doing if God is not with him.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “One night he made-a-house-call on Jesus. He said, ‘Teacher, we (excl.) know that you are a Teacher raised up by God, because no-one can do amazing things like you are doing unless he is being helped by God.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “This Nicodemus went one night to talk with Jesus. He said, ‘Teacher. We know that God has sent you to teach us. Because no one can do the signs you do if God doesn’t enable him.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 9:17:
- Uma: “So also it is not good to pour new wine into an old putting-place. Because when it bubbles [word used of fermenting], that old putting-place will break, with the result that the wine just spills, and the putting-place also is wasted. New wine must be poured into a new putting-place, so that all is good.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa also compared his teaching with fresh grape juice/water put in bags of goat skin. He said, ‘Nobody also puts fresh grape water which still bubbles/ferments into an old bag. Because if he does that, the bag will tear. So-then the grape water will be spilled and the bag is destroyed. Instead fresh grape water should be put in new bags. Then both will not be destroyed.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “In the same way also, wine which is just newly made and is placed in a goatskin container, it is not possible to put it into an old container because the container will burst, and the wine will spill out, and the container also will be ruined. It is necessary for wine which has just been made to be put into a new container. In that way, neither the wine nor the container is not ruined.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Neither of course does anyone put recently-yeasted grape juice in a dried-up leather bag for rice-wine, because when it ferments, the leather will crack-open and the bag will be ruined while-simultaneously the grape juice will also be thrown-away. Recently-yeasted grape juice then, it must be a new leather in which it is placed so that nothing will be ruined or thrown-away.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Also no-one puts new drink into an already old container made of skin which no longer gives/stretches. For if one does like that, as (the drink) develops/ferments (the container) will of course burst. Well isn’t it so that the drink put in will be spilt and the container destroyed as well. Of course what is fitting to put new drink in is indeed a new skin container. Well isn’t it so that both will last a long time.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “It is like new wine cannot be put into an old wineskin to ferment. Because the new wine will split the wineskin when it ferments, and be lost. Therefore the new wine is put in new wineskins in order that neither will be lost.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 4:17:
- Uma: “The difficulties that we (incl.) get at this time, they are just light-weight and for-a-while. And because of our enduring in these difficulties, we will get big life [i.e., glory] that lasts forever. The difficulties that we get at this time, are just a tiny bit if we compare them with the big life that we will get in the future.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Our (excl.) troubles are like nothing (to us) and they are only passing, when we (excl.) think that the outcome is we (excl.) will be given abundant good/blessing that lasts forever.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for these very difficult things that we have to endure now, they will quickly be finished. But because of our enduring these things, there is that which we expect which is very great highness which will be given to us in the future. And the difficulties that we have to endure don’t amount to even a little fingernail, compared to this very big never ending highness.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because the hardship that we experience doesn’t last-long and it’s as if it has no weight if it is compared to what we will gain in a future day. Because the result of this hardship is the very-good life in heaven that has no end and no equal.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because, the big-size of these hardships that we (excl.) are experiencing right now, it will not last and we could say that it is just small if we think of its reward in the future, which is much-the-farthest-from-ordinary glory/praiseworthiness which really will never be removed.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Even though I suffer during the days I live here on the earth, yet very little do I consider it, because the suffering will pass away. Because the results of what I suffer will be the very great good I will meet forever.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 3:35:
- Uma: “God the Father loves his Child, and has given him all his power.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “God really loves his Son and he has given him authority over everything.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Very big in the breath of our Father God is his son Jesus. And he has entrusted to him the rule over everything.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because God the Father, he loves his Child, and he turned-over everything to him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The Son is really held dear by the Father. And he has handed all things over to him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The Father loves his Son and gave him the power to rule all things.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 10:11:
- Uma: “‘When you arrive in a village, search there for people who have good hearts to receive you into their homes. Stay/live there until you go on to the next village.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘When you arrive in a town or a village, look for a person who has good customs. Stay there with him as long as you are there in that place.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Jesus said, ‘If you arrive at a big town or even a little one, look for a person who will receive you, and you go up in his house. Stay there until you leave that village. (‘Stay’ here means ‘make it your headquarters.’)” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘When you arrive in a town, look-for someone worthy to show-hospitality to you, and stay there until you leave that town.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, whatever town or bario you come to, what you are to look for is a person of good ways who will welcome/treat you properly. There is where you are to stay while you are in that place.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When you arrive at a city or town, look for a man who is respected in the town, ask him for permission to stay with him. There you must stay at his house until you depart.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 6:10:
- Uma: “Many are our (excl.) difficulties, but our (excl.) hearts are always happy. We(excl.) are poor, but we (excl.) [emphatic] are the ones who bring blessings to many people. It looks like we (excl.) don’t have anything, but actually we (excl.) have everything.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Even though we (excl.) are troubled/sad nevertheless we (excl.) are always glad. Even though we (excl.) are poor nevertheless because of our (excl.) teaching many people receive true riches. We (excl.) have no wealth here in the world but everything belongs to us (excl.).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “We have many problems, yet we are always rejoicing. It’s as if we are very poor, yet by means of us, many people are becoming rich forever. It’s as if we have no possessions and yet we’ve come to own everything which God gives.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “We (excl.) have times-of-sorrow, but our (excl.) happiness still remains-constant. We (excl.) are moreover poor, but many are those whom we (excl.) make-rich. We (excl.) also have no possessions on this earth, but we (excl.) nevertheless own everything.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “(Our) work really is grief-producing, but is it not so that our (excl.) happiness is immoveable? It’s like we (excl.) are extremely poor but there are many whom we (excl.) are being able to make rich with riches that can’t be removed. Here in the world we (excl.) don’t have any possessions of our (excl.) own but all of the good in heaven has been secured for us (excl.).” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Even though my heart feels sad for what I pass through, yet my thought are joyful. Even though I am poor, yet this word which I speak does good for many people. Even though I don’t have any possessions, yet concerning all that there is in existence, all works for good for me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 4:31:
- Uma: “While that woman was going into the town, Yesus’s disciples said to him: ‘Teacher, let’s eat.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When the woman had left for the town, the disciples begged Isa to eat. They said, ‘Sir, eat.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then while the woman was still in the village, Jesus’ disciples spoke to him saying, ‘Datu, eat.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When the woman had gone, Jesus’ disciples repeatedly said to him, ‘Sir teacher, you (sing.) eat now.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When that woman had left to go-and-tell in the town, the disciples kept saying to Jesus, ‘Teacher, have something to eat now.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus’ learners said, ‘Teacher, eat now.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
