Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 2:1:

• Uma: “Relatives, when I arrived at your village announcing the news from God, I didn’t speak to you with soothing words or following my own cleverness.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Now, I my brothers, when I first came to you to tell you the good news from God, I did not use deep words or the speech/words of those with high/extensive learning.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for me, brothers, when I first arrive here to you, when I preached to you about God, I did not use wisdom or skill in speaking, or a reason that had been devised by just people.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “As for me brothers, in my going there (near addressee) to preach what God made-known concerning Cristo, I didn’t use deep words or fancy ways-of-expressing-them and neither did I speak-about the wisdom of people.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Just like that, my siblings in believing, when I went to you to teach the words of God which he has now made known, I did not teach with deep/profound talk or from the height of great education.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Listen my brothers, when I went to where you live to tell you the word of God, I did not speak the words which are spoken by people who say they are knowers of words. Neither did I speak words which are beautiful to hear.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 3:17:

• Uma: “Anyone who destroys the harmony/unity of the people of God, God will also punish him. For the dwelling-place of God is holy [emphatic]. And you, relatives, are the dwelling-place of God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Therefore if a person destroys God’s dwelling place, that person will really be destroyed by God. Because God’s dwelling place is holy. And you are his dwelling place.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If there is a person who destroys the place where God lives, God will punish him because the people where He lives are very precious to God, and you are that place where He lives.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Therefore if someone destroys God’s temple, God will also destroy him. Because God’s temple is set-apart for him, and it is indeed you who are that temple.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “God will unhesitatingly punish the one who destroys this house of his. Because this house is far-from-ordinary, for it really is God’s house, by which is meant none other than you who are his people.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “If someone should spoil God’s church, God will punish that person. Because God’s church is holy. Therefore the teacher who spoils the work of God where you live will be punished.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 5:5:

• Uma: “you just hand-him-over into the authority of the King of Evil-ones. Meaning, you order him to leave your fellowship, don’t allow him to attend-services with you. Do this so that he will get punishment in his body, and his soul will get goodness [salvation] when the Lord Yesus comes.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “So-then from/by Almasi’s authority, hand over that sinner to the power of Satan (lit. leader of demons) so that his body will be punished so that his soul will be saved when our (incl.) Leader Isa Almasi will come here to judge mankind.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And I command you by means of the authority that our Lord Jesus Christ has given, that you abandon that person and you give him to Satan, so that his body might be destroyed, and then his soul will be saved from punishment by God in the future on the day when our Lord Jesus Christ judges people.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Turn-over that-aforementioned man to Satanas so that Satanas will hardship his body in order that his spirit will be saved on the day when the Lord will come again.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “that person who is behaving disgustingly, remove him from your group returning him to the control of Satanas, so that hopefully he will repent/be-sorry-for his indulging of his disgusting desires. For if it’s like that, he will indeed be saved on that day when the Lord judges.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Concerning this man who did the sin, throw him outside from where you are, he is to go where the people whom the devil commands live, there he will suffer in his body. Perhaps his soul will be saved when the day arrives when the Lord Jesus comes.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 7:4:

• Uma: “A woman may not say: ‘My body is my own.’ The one who commands/gives-orders-to her is her husband. So also a man may not say that his body is his own. The one who commands him is his wife.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Because the woman is not the ruler of her own body but her husband. Likewise also the man is not the ruler of his own body but his wife.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because as for the woman, she is not the owner of her body, but her spouse is. And in the same way also, the man, he is not the owner of his body because his spouse is the one.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Because the married woman, it is not she who is the owner of her body but rather her husband. And so also with the man, it is not he but rather his wife who is the owner of his body.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Because, with a married couple, it’s not the woman who has jurisdiction over her own body, but rather her husband. Like that also with the man. He also does not have jurisdiction over his own body but rather his wife (does).” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the woman, who is in the hand of her husband, she must do what he wants. in the same way the man is in the hand of his wife, he must do what she wants.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)