Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 13:5:
- Uma: “Relatives, you examine your own hearts [to see] whether your faith in Kristus is true/genuine. Look at your own hearts. Isn’t it clear to you, relatives, that Kristus Yesus dwells in your hearts? I hope your faith doesn’t turn out to be just a lie. [lit., Don’t-don’t your faith later just a lie.]” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Really think and see if you truly trust in Isa Almasi or not. Don’t you know that Isa Almasi dwells there in your liver? If he is not there, that means it is not true that you trust in him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Check up on your breaths so that you might know whether your faith in Christ is true or not. Don’t you know that Christ lives in you? And if not, then your faith is false and Christ has not accepted you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It shouldn’t be us (excl.) that you are investigating but rather yourselves so that you will confirm whether your faith is true. Because it ought to be easy for you to distinguish that Cristo Jesus is in you unless it is confirmed that contrary-to-expectation you have no faith.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “What’s good (to do) is that you question-yourselves-thoroughly, as to whether your believing/obeying Cristo is genuine. Verify it in your own selves. Are you not aware that Cristo Jesus has-settled-down-living-in/with you, unless you have not truly believed/obeyed?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning how you walk now, judge for yourselves whether your faith is good or not. Know very well whether you walk with Jesus Christ or not. If you do not walk with Jesus Christ, then you are not truly a real believer then.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:70:
- Uma: “Yesus said: ‘I myself am the one who chose you twelve. But even so, one of you will become a devil.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said to them, ‘You are already my twelve disciples which I have chosen. But one of you has a demon/is demon possessed.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said to them, ‘As for me, I chose you, the twelve, however one of you is a servant of Satan.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus said, ‘I am the one who chose you twelve, isn’t that so? But there is emphatically one of you who is demon-possessed.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Isn’t it so,’ said Jesus, ‘you twelve people are the ones chosen by me? However it’s true, there is indeed one of you who still has an evil mind/inner-being.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said, ‘I have chosen you twelve people. And there is one among you who does the will of the devil.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 14:3:
- Uma: “Like this the story of the death of Yohanes the Baptizer. King Herodes took/stole-away Herodias, the wife of his own relative/brother named Filipus. Many times Yohanes admonished/accosted Herodes for his behavior, he said to him: ‘You may not marry that woman! Your behavior transgresses the Law of Musa!’ Because of that, Herodes ordered his soldiers to catch/arrest Yohanes. They did catch him, tied him up and imprisoned him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For Sultan Herod had commanded hep that Yahiya be arrested and bound and put in prison. It happened like this: Sultan Herod and his sister-in-law Herodiyas desired each other, and-what’s-more his younger brother Pilip, the husband of Herodiyas was still alive. So-then when they married (lit. became one) Yahiya scolded the sultan. Yahiya said to him, ‘It is not right/allowed that you are one with the wife of your brother. You are sinning.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason why John was killed was because he criticized Herod, saying, ‘You have broken the law because you married Herodias,’ he said. Herod was the brother-in-law of Herodias, because she was the spouse of his younger sibling Felipe and because of that criticism of John, Herod had him seized and put in prison. He would have killed John, but he was afraid of the Jews because they knew that John was inspired of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Herod said this because of what had happened before. Because he had had Juan caught and had him imprisoned in-chains due to Juan’s having admonished/advised him. Because Herod, he had married his sister-in-law Herodias who was his younger-sibling Felipe’s wife. And Juan had repeatedly said that it was against the law that he marry her.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Herodes spoke like that because in the past, he had been the one who had caused Juan to be arrested, bound and imprisoned because of Herodias who was the wife of Felipe who was the brother of that Herodes.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “In the days now gone by, this Herod ordered John to be arrested, chained and jailed. He got after him, because John had said to Herod that it was bad for him to live with his sister-in-law Herodias who had been the wife of his brother Philip.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Galatians 1:24:
- Uma: “That is why they praised God, because they heard what had happened to me.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And God was praised by them because I now trusted in Isa Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Therefore, they praised God because I had believed in Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So they praised God because of me.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore they praised God because of his making-new of my mind/inner-being.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Therefore the people praised God that he had changed my heart.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 7:31:
- Uma: “Many in the midst of the people believed in him, they said: ‘He is surely the Redeemer King, because he has done so many miracles.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But many people who were there believed in Isa. They said, ‘Really this is the Almasi. For no person can do wonder-causing deeds exceeding the deeds of this Isa.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There were many people who believed that Jesus was the prophesied king chosen by God, and they said, ‘Jesus is the king because no one else can do greater miracles than those that he does.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “As for the many-people however, many of them believed in him, and they said, ‘Is not this one the coming Messiah? Because probably no one is able-to-do more-amazing-things than what this-one has-been-doing.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But there were indeed many who acknowledged as true what he said. They were saying, ‘What do you suppose, if/when that one meant by Cristo comes here, would he be able to do signs which are amazing things which are greater than this person can do?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now many people believed Jesus was the Christ. They said, ‘This man here, now does the signs just like it is said that Christ will do them when he comes.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 14:35:
- Uma: “When the citizens knew that Yesus was in their city, they spread-the-news going to nearby towns, with the result that all the sick people were carried to Yesus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa was recognised by the people of that place, therefore they sent word to the sick in the surrounding places and they brought them to Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus was recognized by the people there. And they notified the sick people in the neighboring towns. Then people arrived bringing to Jesus the people who had sickness.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “the inhabitants there recognized Jesus. Therefore they had-the sick-ones from all the nearby towns -called so that they would bring-them to him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus was recognized by the people there. They immediately spread the news to all their neighborhood that Jesus had arrived. That’s why (people) kept coming bringing sick ones.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When the people of that area knew that Jesus was there, then to everywhere went out the word. They told them to bring the sick people to Jesus.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Galatians 3:11:
- Uma: “So, we see clearly: there is not one person who is straight in God’s sight because of their following the Law of Musa. Because there are also the words of the Holy Book that say like this: "People who are straight in God’s sight get good life because of their faith."” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then, it is really clear that there is no person considered straight by God because of his following the law. For the holy-book also says, ‘Whoever trusts in God, God will consider him straight and he will live forever.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if that’s the case, we undersand that there isn’t anybody who can be considered righteous before God by means of obeying the Law. For there is a written word of God which says, ‘Anybody who is considered righteous by God by means of his faith in the word of God, he is the one who is given life without end,’ He said.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It is thus clear that absolutely no one will be made-righteous in God’s sight because of his obeying the law, because there is that which God caused-to-be-written which says, ‘The person whom God has made-righteous because of his faith, he has life that has no end.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well is it not clear that if it’s like that, there is not even one person God regards as righteous because of his obedience to the laws, but rather because of his trust and belief in the Lord. Because what is contained in the writing says, ‘That person of mine whom I will regard as righteous, what dominates his mind/inner-being is belief and trust in me.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But we know that the person who says that he does all which the law says, does not have his sins taken care of by God. Because the Holy Book says: ‘ He who believes God, that one has his sins taken care of and is given new life.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 8:10:
- Uma: “From there, Yesus straightened up and said to the woman: ‘Where are the people who were accusing you? Isn’t there anyone left who wants to condemn you?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When Isa looked up again he said to the woman, ‘Woman, where are they? Not even one is left to throw stones at you?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus looked up at that woman, and he said, ‘Woman, where are those who accused you? Is there no one who is able to throw a stone at you?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When that was so, Jesus again straightened-up and said to her, ‘Younger-sibling, where are they? Is no one left-behind to stone you (sing.)?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus looked at her and asked, ‘Where did they go? Is no one going to punish you?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus lifted his head. He saw that no one was there, only the woman. He said to her, ‘Woman. Where are those who were accusing you? Has no one sentenced you?'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
