Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 8:37:
- Uma: “But no matter what hits us, we nonetheless win / are-victorious, and no kidding the greatness of that winning of ours because of [the power of] Yesus who loves us!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But even though like this is our (incl.) suffering/difficulty we (incl.) are not overcome/defeated because Isa Almasi loves us (incl.).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Even though we are in great difficulty, we do not allow it to frighten us because we really rejoice in suffering these things, and by means of the power of Christ, we are the ones to win because of His very great kindness toward us.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But even if we experience all these-kinds of difficulty, they have no ability to defeat us but rather we will thoroughly win-the-victory because of Cristo who showed us his love.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Even though we suffer, going through these things, yet let us be strengthened because of Christ loving us.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 11:24:
- Noongar: “‘When an evil spirit leaves a person, he travels in the desert, looking for a resting place. If he does not find a place, he says, ‘I will go back to my house’.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘For example, there is an evil-spirit possessing [lit., riding] a person. That evil-spirit goes out, and he goes-wandering in the wilderness looking for a dwelling-place. Because he does not find one, he says: ‘It is better that I just return to the dwelling-place that I left earlier [lit., yesterday].'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘If there is a demon,’ said Isa, ‘who has come out of a person, he walks in the lonely country searching for a resting place. If he doesn’t find one, he says in his mind, ‘I will go back to where I lived before.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When a demon leaves a person that he has been afflicting, he passes through a dry land because he is looking for some place to live. If he doesn’t find any place, he says, ‘I’d better go back to the place where I lived.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus continued parabling, ‘If an evil-spirit who has possessed a person leaves, he goes and wanders around a rocky-area that has no water looking for a resting-place. And if he doesn’t come-upon any, he says to himself, ‘I-think I’ll (lit. Even-if I) return to the house that I came-from.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Supposing an evil spirit comes out of a person whom he is possessing, what that evil spirit will do is like just wander-around in the wilderness place, looking for whom he can next possess/make-crazy. Well if he doesn’t find any, ‘Oh well,’ he says, ‘I’ll just go back to that one I was possessing.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 12:17:
- Uma: “No kidding the anger of the dragon being angry at the woman. That is why he went and warred against the descendants of the woman; they are the people who follow the commands of God and confess that Yesus is their Lord.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The dragon was very angry at the woman. Therefore he declared war on/to the descendants of the woman. They are the ones who follow the commandments of God and really persevere following the true teaching taught by Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then the dragon became very angry with the woman, and he came to some of the children of the woman to fight against them. They are all those who are faithful to the commands of God and faithful also to the true doctrine which Jesus taught.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then extreme was the dragon’s anger at the woman, and he went to wage-war-against her other children who are those who follow God’s commands and the teachings that Jesus made-known.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, in the big-size of the anger/hatred of the dragon for that woman, he moves/changes to war against the other descendants of that woman. These people, they are the ones who are really obeying the will of God and are not giving up the truth which was caused to be comprehended by the Lord Jesus.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Therefore the terrible animal overflowingly was angry against the woman whom he couldn’t harm. Then he went to make war with the woman’s children. These are the people who do what God commands. And they do not want to separate from the word Jesus Christ left behind.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 9:30:
- Uma: “So, my words are like this: People who aren’t Israel people, they did not hunt for way to become straight in God’s sight. But there are some of them who became straight in his sight. God made them straight in his sight because of their faith.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then, what do we (dual) say about this? What we (dual) say is that the people not Yahudi, they did not aspire-to/try-to be forgiven and be considered straight in the sight of God. But they are now the ones forgiven and considered by God as straight because of their trust in Isa Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “What I am trying to say here is: as for the people who are not Jews, even though it never entered their minds that they would be considered righteous by God, there were some of them who by means of their faith, were made righteous just the same;” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “This then is the summary (lit. gathering-together) of these-things that I have said. The Gentiles who were not striving to be-made-righteous in God’s sight, they nevertheless gained the righteousness that is based on their faith in Cristo.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Thus the word is that the people who are not Jews are the people who did not seek as how to get right with God. But they were put right with him because they believed.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Highland Totonac: “Well, what does this mean? It is this, that the outsider people who were not searching how to toe the line to come out free, they are the ones who found it, that is, this coming out free that has its beginning in faith.”
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “Well, what shall we say? This lets us know that those who aren’t Israelites found the straight life before God even though they didn’t hunt for it, They found the straight life when they put their confidence in Christ.” (Source for this and above: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:2:
- Noongar: “All things covered will be seen, and everything secret will be known.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “But all their behavior that is hidden will definitely become visible. And all that is in their hearts will definitely be exposed.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Nothing is covered up which does not finally come out, nothing is hidden which won’t finally be known.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “but every activity of people which is covered up will be known just the same, and anything which is hidden will be revealed just the same.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because everything that is hidden and not known now, it will be shown and known in the future.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because it’s true, there’s nothing hidden which won’t be discovered, and there’s nothing in the mind/inner-being which won’t be exposed.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 14:13:
- Uma: “After that I heard a voice from heaven that said: ‘Write this: From now on, blessed/fortunate are the people who die who believe/trust in the Lord.’ The Holy Spirit answered: ‘How very true! Because they have stopped from their labor, and they have definitely received the fruits of their work.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, ‘Write this: From now on, whoever dies and they trust in Isa Almasi, they will really be glad.’ Then the Holy Spirit agreed-with/confirmed that, he said, ‘That is true. They will really be glad. They will rest from their hard-work because the outcome of their good works they bring with them to the afterworld.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then I heard someone speaking in heaven, He said, ‘Write this down: Far better is what will happen to people who die if they are believers in the Lord.’ ‘They will greatly rejoice for they no longer have to labor and they are able to rest. And then they will be rewarded for their good deeds.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then I heard a voice from heaven which said, ‘Write this: Beginning from now, the people who die who are united-with the Lord Jesus, they will be extremely fortunate.’ ‘This is indeed true,’ says God’s Spirit. ‘Because that will be their time-for-resting from their difficult work, because they will be recompensed for the good they have done.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then I again heard speech which came from heaven which said, ‘Write this. From now/today, they will be able to be really happy who till death haven’t caused themselves to separate from being united/tied-together with the Lord.’ ‘This is really true,’ said the Espiritu Santo, ‘they will be able to rest from their perseverence and they will be given a reward for the things they have done.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I heard gain that someone spoke from heaven and he said to me: ‘Write down these words here. The good fortune will be met by the believers who will die and have not left the work of Christ. Because thus is the word said by the Holy Spirit who says: ‘All the suffering they have gone through, now it is ended. Concerning the work of God they did, there is payment in heaven.’ ‘” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 11:8:
- Uma: “As it was written long ago in the Holy Book: ‘God gave them a stubborn [lit., stiff] heart. He closed their eyes so they won’t see the true road. He stopped their ears so they won’t hear the true message. up to the present time.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There is something the holy-book says about these people whose heads are hard. The holy-book says, ‘God has made their thoughts/minds dull. Until now it is as if they do not see even though they have eyes, it is as if they do not hear even though they have ears.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For there is a written word of God which says, ‘God made their minds to become numb so that they might not understand. And up till now they don’t know what is right and they don’t understand what is proper.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “This very-thing is what God caused-to-be-written is talking-about saying, ‘God made their minds like the mind of a sleeping person. So until today, even though they have eyes, they are not able-to-see and even though they have ears, they are not able-to-hear.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “It says in the Holy Book: God caused that the people do not understand the word they hear. They do not understand about what they see. They will hear the words but will not understand about the words they will hear. This happened in past days and this again is happening now.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “And since that is the way they were done to, it was fulfilled like it is written where it says this: God made their hearts stupid. In this way, even though they read the truth, they don’t understand. And even though they hear the truth, they don’t believe. And that is the way it is even until now.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:34:
- Noongar: “Because your hearts will always live in the country where your wealth lives!” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “For wherever the storing-place of our goods [is], there also are our hearts [are].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For wherever you store up your wealth, there also stays your liver.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And wherever is placed those things which you cherish, there also will be your breath.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because where your wealth is, that also is where your minds are.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because it’s true, wherever your wealth is, of course there always is your mind/inner-being.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
