Following are a number of back-translations of Ephesians 6:12:
- Uma: “For in this war of ours, we do not oppose mankind. We oppose those who have authority and powerful ones that are not visible. We oppose the warchiefs of darkness that have power on the earth. We oppose many kinds of demons and evil-ones that have power in the air/sky.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because our (dual) enemy is not human but the leader of demons and all his servants and they are all bad/evil; their place is there in air-space. They have (supernatural) power and some of them have authority and they rule over all people in darkness here in this world.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For we are not just fighting against people, but we are fighting against evil supernatural powers that dwell in Heaven and those kings which cannot be seen and bosses and those who are in charge of the evil people who are subject to darkness now here on the earth.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because it’s not people who are our enemies, but rather the leaders and officials of the demons in the sky and the malicious/naughty/bad spirits (collective plural) and the other powerful unseen-ones who rule the people who are still in the darkness on this earth.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For those who are fighting against us, they are not just people/humans like us, but rather innumerable evil-beings in the atmosphere, ones entering-and-controlling-the-mind and ones not (doing that) who have great knowledge/skill and authority in their respective area-of-jurisdiction here in the world. They are the ones governing the darkness in which people here under heaven are living.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because concerning the war that we are in, it is not our fellowmen that we are at war with, rather those we are at war with are the evil spirits who have power, in that they rule the evil there is here in the earth. They go about above everywhere.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 12:47:
- Uma: “‘People who hear my words and do not follow them, it is not I who condemn them. Because it is not my intention to come to this world in order to condemn men. I came in order to free them from their condemnation/punishment.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If there is a person who hears my teaching but does not follow/obey it, it is not I who will judge him. For I have not come to judge the people in the world, but I have come to save them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if there is a person who has heard my teachings and he does not obey them, I do not judge him worthy of punishment because I did not come here to the earth in order to punish mankind, but rather so that I might set mankind free from punishment.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘As for the one who hears my words but he doesn’t believe/obey, I am not the one who will judge him. Because I didn’t come to this world to judge people but rather to save them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And whoever has heard my word, but he will not indeed follow/obey it, he will be sentenced to judgment, but it is not I who judges him. Because it is not my purpose in coming here that I will judge this world, but on the contrary I will save people.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But there are those who hear what I say and do not pay attention. I do not sentence them because I did not come to sentence the people here in this world. Rather I came to save them.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 22:29:
- Uma: “Yesus said: ‘Your thinking is so wrong, for you do not understand the contents of the Holy Book, nor do you know the power of God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa answered he said, ‘You are wrong. That’s why you are wrong because you do not understand what is written in the holy-book and you also do not know the power of God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus answered them, saying, ‘You are really mistaken. It’s because you do not understand the written word of God, and you also don’t understand that God is very powerful to raise the dead.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus answered saying, ‘You are mistaken, because you do not understand God’s written word and neither do you understand his power.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus replied, ‘Your perception is wrong, for the reason that you don’t know the written word of God, and the strength of his supernatural-power.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said to the people he was speaking with: ‘You do not know about the matter you are speaking of. Because you do not understand the word written in the Holy Book. And you do not know how great God’s power is.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Philippians 1:20:
- Uma: “My desire and what I greatly hope, is that I will not become shamed in this work of mine. I hope that I will keep being brave to say my witness/testimony–even more so at this time–so that whether I live or die, the name of Kristus will be made-big in me [lit., my body].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Truly that is what I really want and expect/hope, that I will really not fail in the work which God has given to me. If only I will/would always be bold to proclaim, especially now, so that Isa Almasi is praised because of me. If/whether I am still living or if/whether I am killed, I want that Almasi is praised because of me.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And it is my strong desire and I have entrusted it to God, that I might always be able to do what He wants me to, so that I might not be ashamed at any time, especially now; I want that Christ be praised by means of me, by means of my being set free from this prison or if not, that Christ might be praised by means of my death.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “What I expect and exceedingly want is that there should be no cause-for-me-to-be-ashamed to God but rather that my courage to preach God’s word will suffice now as previously so that Cristo might continue to be praised because of me now when I am alive and even if I die.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And I am also really hoping/expecting that there will be nothing at all which I might do which would cause me to be ashamed. On the contrary, I am asking that my mind/inner-being become really extremely bold now, as it has been all this time, so that whether I die or am allowed to live, it will greatly bring praise/glory to Cristo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “For me, if I fear to speak the word about Christ, it is a shame I do. Rather must I be strengthened to speak the word always, and not be afraid because I’m ion jail. Whether I am released, or whether I am put to death, is not important to me. Only it is that I search how to cause Christ to be looked well upon.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 13:29:
- Uma: “Some thought that maybe Yesus ordered Yudas to buy something that they needed for their feast, or to give money to the poor. Because Yudas was the one who stored their money.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because Judas was holding their money, some of them thought-mistakenly that Isa told him to go and buy what they needed for the festival, or that he was told to give alms to the poor.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Some of them supposed that Jesus was having him buy things that they needed to celebrate the feast, and if not that, there was something Jesus was having him give to the poor. The reason they thought that was because Judas, he was the one who kept their money.)” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But since Judas was in-charge-of their money, what was in the minds of some of them was that Jesus was sending him to go buy what they needed at the fiesta or to go give money to the poor.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because Judas was the one who was holding (in charge of) their money, they thought-mistakenly that Judas was being sent to buy what they needed for the fiesta, or he was being sent to give to the poor.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because Judas was the one in charge of the money bag, some thought that Jesus intended to tell him to buy what was needed for the celebration, or to give something to the poor people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 23:15:
- Uma: “‘Disaster on you, you religious teachers and Parisi people! You are just good on the outside! You go far crossing the sea and journeying overland in order that at least one person becomes your follower. And when you have followers, you teach them to follow your deceiving [ways], with the result that their deeds are worse than yours, and they are more fit to be punished in hell than you are.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘You are to be pitied teachers of the religious law and Pariseo because God will punish you. You only pretend to follow God. You cross the sea going to other countries/places and you go far/walk far to teach so that at least one person will follow your teaching. But when he already follows, he is even more worthy to be put in hell than you because of what you taught him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Pity you, teachers of the law, and you Pharisees, because your faith in God is a lie. You cross the sea and you travel over a wide country so that you might convert a person, and the person you convert, you make him far more worthy than you of being punished in hell.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Pitiful are you teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! Because you cross-over the sea and go to far countries so that you will have a way to persuade even just-one to become your disciple. And when you have persuaded him, you turn-him-into a person more worthy to be punished in hell than yourselves!” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Really extremely hard is what is being reserved for you, you explainers of law and Pariseo, who pretend to believe/obey God. You go all over the land/world, you cross the sea, for you are persevering in rounding up even just one person who isn’t a Judio to join the belief of the Judio. Of course if/when you get someone to join, because of your teaching he will keep-on/overdo copying your evil nature/ways, till his wickedness is much greater. Well, none other will become of him than that his punishment is now double, there in the fire which never dies down.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Listen, you teachers of the law and Pharisees, how great is the suffering you will have, for it is not true that you are good people. All over the world you go, you cross the sea to search for people to follow the word you teach. When you have converted the person to follow what you teach, then the person ends up with twice the punishment in hell that you will have.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Philippians 2:22:
- Uma: “But as for Timotius, you yourselves have seen how strong his faith is. He works with me, announcing the Good News. We two are just like father-and-son.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But Timoteo, you know that he is really trustworthy. His helping me preaching/proclaiming the good news is as if he helps his own father.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for Timothy, you know that his behavior is proper; he is like my true son in his helping me to spread the Good News.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But as for Timoteo, you definitely know that his character is good, because you have seen that we (excl.) were like father-and-son in our (excl.) working-together to preach the good news.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But as for this Timoteo, you know the big-size and good-quality of his help to me in my teaching of this Good News. Really as for his obeying and his help to me, you could say that I am his natural-father.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “You know that concerning Timothy, it is apparent that he eagerly is helping me tell the good news. Like a son when he helps his father in his work is what he is like.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 14:23:
- Uma: “Yesus said: ‘ I show myself to people who love me and who follow my words. My Father loves people like that. My Father and I go to those people, and we (excl.) live with them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa answered, he said, ‘If a person loves me, he will certainly follow/obey my teachings. Then my Father loves him and my Father and I live/dwell with/in him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus answered, ‘If there is a person whose breath is big for me, he will carry out my commands, and then he will be big in the breath of my Father. And I and my Father, we will go to him and we will live there to him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus then said, ‘Because the one who loves me, he obeys/believes what I say. He is the one my Father loves. Therefore my Father and I, we (excl.) will go and dwell in him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus answered, saying, ‘That one who holds me dear, of course he will follow/obey the things I say. He will be held dear by my Father, and we Father-and-I will settle-permanently there with him as his companion for always.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said, ‘He who loves me will pay attention to what I say. And my Father will love him. My Father and I will be companions of whoever loves me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
