Following are a number of back-translations of Jude 1:17:
- Uma: “But you, my relatives whom I love, remember what was said beforehand by the apostles/messengers of our Lord Yesus Kristus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But, my friends, really remember what the apostles (lit. commissioned ones) of our (incl.) Lord Isa Almasi told you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Remember, brothers, the prophecy long ago of the apostles whom our Lord Jesus Christ sent.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But you friends, do not be forgetting what the apostles of Jesu Cristo our Lord prophesied.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But I am impressing upon you whom I hold dear that you consider what was said by the apostles of our Lord Jesu-Cristo, what they told you would come.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Listen, my dear brethren, remember the message spoken before by the messengers of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 2:4:
- Uma: “God’s heart is good, he is patient and his love is long-lasting. But let’s not say in our heart: ‘I don’t need to change my behavior.’ Remember, relatives: the purpose of God’s goodness of heart is so we have opportunity to repent of our sins.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Just because God pities you and doesn’t seem to do anything about your sin and doesn’t immediately punish you, perhaps you mistakenly-think that you do not have to heed/pay-attention to him. Do you not understand that the reason why God pities you is because perhaps you will regret your sins and change your livers?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Perhaps you’re thinking mistakenly that since God is very long-suffering and kind, it’s no longer necessary for you to obey His words. But the reason why God is so gracious is because He is leading you so that you might abandon your evil behavior.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Your thoughts concerning God’s great grace/kindness and patience to you are also different (has connotation of improper or incorrect), because you have not understood that God’s reason for showing-you -kindness is so that you will have opportunity to repent of your sins.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Doesn’t this person realize why it is that God does not at once punish the one who does evil? That person depreciates the grace of God, because God is waiting for the person to separate from evil.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 7:47:
- Noongar: “Then I tell you, because she gave much love, we can see the proof — her much sinning is forgiven. But the person who is forgiven a small thing, he loves little.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “So, since she has great love, that is why we know for sure/certain, her many sins are forgiven. But the person who just a little/few his sins have been forgiven, his love is also just a little.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Therefore I tell you, this woman has a great love for me because her many sins have been forgiven. If a person has few sins forgiven he will also show little love.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason I said this to you is that we can discern from this woman that there are many evil deeds of hers which are now forgiven by God, because I am very precious in her breath. If there’s a person whose evil deeds which are forgiven by God are only very few, he does not have very much breath for God.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I tell you (sing.) then that the large love she has shown me, that is what shows that her many sins have been forgiven. But as for the person who has few sins that were forgiven, little also is the love that he will show.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore what I will tell you is true, that from the big-size of this loving which she has shown, it testifies that she has been forgiven of all her sin, even though it was really big. But the love is little of the person who has had little forgiven.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 2:4:
- Uma: “But there is something I reprimand/am-surprised-at you for: you no longer are loving like your loving at the first.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But there is something that I find fault with in you: you don’t love me now as you did in the beginning.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However I know about some things you are doing that are not good. For when you first believed, your breath was big for Me, but now your breath is becoming somewhat small for Me.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “”But there is that which I dislike-about your way-of-life and it is this. You don’t love me and your companions like your former love should-(still)-be.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But there is indeed something which I am finding fault with in you. Your holding-dear of me is becoming small now, not like it was in the past.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But I have a word against you. This word is that you just a little love me, you do not continue to love me like when at the first you really put your hearts into loving me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 3:7:
- Uma: “So, maybe there are some who think like this: ‘If it is really because of our crooked actions that God’s uprightness ends up being more apparent and he is praised, why does he punish us because of our sins?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Perhaps you say, ‘As for me, even if I lie, yet because of my lie it becomes even more clear that God does not lie therefore he is praised. Na, why does God judge me that I am a sinner and-what’s-more he is praised because of my sin?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there are also some foolish people who say, ‘It’s better if we tell lies because when people realize that we are liars they will think that God, by contrast, is not a liar, and they will praise Him and that will be very good. And if by means of our lies it is made clear that the words of God are by contrast true, why are we still punished because of our lies?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There is perhaps someone who is answering-back saying, ‘I oughtn’t to be condemned to be punished on account of my lies, because on account of my lies, the trueness of God’s word is increasingly seen and he is honored/praised thereby.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But if one lies, then it makes it apparent that God’s word is supremely good because He never lies. Then is it possible that we say it is not right to be judged for our sins?” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Chicahuaxtla Triqui: “And there is another foolish word that those people say. They say we can know that very fine are the true words that God speaks. Because very different is his word from the lying words which we speak. So say they. So therefore it is good that we tell lies and it isn’t right that God should say that we bear sin, say they.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:29:
- Noongar: “He said this because Jesus had told the evil spirits, ‘Go out of him!’ The evil spirits always seized him. People restrained him and tied his feet and hands with rope, but he could break the rope and the evil spirits drove him into the desert.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: (incl. v. 27, 28) “There was there a townsperson who was possessed by many demons. For a long time that person had not worn-clothes and he did not live in a house. His living-place was just the graves. He was often possessed. Even if he has bound by ropes and chains and continually watched, he could still break his bindings and escape/run-away going to the empty-place, because he was carried by the strength of the demons that possessed him. When Yesus landed/disembarked from the boat going to the shore, that possessed person came to meet him. When he saw Yesus, he shouted and kneeled in front of him. Yesus ordered those demons to go-out. That person said loudly: ‘Ee Yesus, Child of God who is in heaven! Why have you (sing.) come? I request that you (sing.) do not torment me!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He spoke like this because Isa commanded hep the demon to come out from him. Formerly he had often hep been ruled over by demons and even if he was tied with a chain and was watched by people, he eventually broke the chain and was taken by the demon to the lonely country.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: (incl. v. 27, 28) “And when Jesus got out of the boat, he happened on to a person who had before been inhabitant there in the town of the Gergesenes, and he was afflicted with demons. And as for that person, for a long time he had not worn clothes; he did not live in a house, rather he lived there in the burial caves. It was not just a few times only that that man was controlled by that which wants to harm him, and even though he was often fastened with chains and guarded by people, he easily broke the chains and the demon lead him away into the land where no people lived. But when he saw Jesus he shouted out and he fell on his face in front of Jesus, saying with a very loud voice, ‘You Jesus, son of the very high God, what are you going to do with me? I beg you that you do not punish me yet!’ He said this because Jesus said to the demon that he should come out of him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: (incl. v. 28) “Often also he was hardshipped by the evil-spirits, and even though his townmates repeatedly-confined him and repeatedly-chained his hands and feet, he snapped the chains nonetheless while the evil-spirits also made-him-run to isolated places. So when he saw Jesus, he screeched and immediately-knelt face-down to him. Then he said shouting, ‘Ay Jesus, Child of the Highest God, why are you (sing.) bothering-us/me? Please-be-so-kind (strong request) as to not punish-us/me!’ That is what he said, because Jesus commanded the evil-spirits to leave him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He spoke like that for Jesus had ordered that one possessing/making-crazy to leave that man. That being-made-crazy of his was really continuous now. No matter what would be done to take-care-of him, it couldn’t be done. For even with fettering him, binding him with chains, he couldn’t be detained, for he would snap them. Well that one possessing him kept leading him there to the wilderness place.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 3:7:
- Uma: “The Lord Yesus also said to me: ‘Write like this to the angel that takes care of my followers in the village of Filadelfia: ‘These are the words of the Lord Yesus, he who is holy and true/right. He is the one who has-power over the kingdom of Daud. If he opens the door, no-one can shut it. And if he shuts it, no-one can open it.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And he also said, ‘Write to the one in charge of the church in the place Piladelpi and write this: ‘This message is from me the holy one and the true one. I am the one who holds/is in charge of the key of Sultan Da’ud. If I open, nobody can close it. If I close also nobody can open it.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And He said again, ‘Write to the angel of God who watches over the believers there in the town of Philadelphia, and say, ‘I am Jesus who speaks, the faithful one chosen by God. I have been given the power My kingdom like the ruling long ago of King David. If I open the door for someone so that I might enter into My kingdom, it cannot be closed by anyone. And if there is a person I shut out, it cannot also be opened by anyone.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then he said, ‘What you (sing.) also are to write to the angel who watches-over the congregation at Filadelfia, it is this. ‘I am the faithful and holy-one who holds the key to the city of King David. If I open-it, no one can-close-it, and if I close-it, no one can-open-it.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘This is what you are to put in the letter you will send to the overseer of the believers in me in Filadelfia. Say, ‘This is what he wants told, he who really is truth and is far from whatever sin, he who holds the key of king David, having been given authority over the kingdom of God. Therefore as long as I have opened it, there’s absolutely no-one who will be able to close it. Well as long as I have closed it also, there’s really also no-one who will be able to open it.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Write a letter to send to God’s worker who leads where the believers are in the city of Philadelphia. Here are the words you will write: ‘Thus is the word of the one who truly does all that is good and all that is true in the word he speaks. This is the one who holds the key of king David. When he opens the door, then no one is able to close it. When he closes the door, then no one is able to open it. He says:” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 4:8:
- Uma: “They are indeed blessed, because the Lord God no longer calls their sins into account.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “A person is really glad when God no longer regards/considers his sin.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “How much better off is the person whose evil behavior is no longer thought about by God!'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Fortunate is the person whom God has counted as having no sin.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now the good fortune has been encountered by the people who had sins and God cleared them’, he said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
