complete verse (Matthew 5:13)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 5:13:

  • Uma: “‘You who follow me can be compared to salt, which brings goodness [broad word sometimes used to mean salvation] to mankind. But if you do not follow my teaching, you are like salt that is tasteless, it cannot be made salty again, and there is no longer its usefulness, with the result that it is discarded and stepped on.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “‘You who follow me are like salt for all mankind. But when/if the salt has no more taste, it will not become salty again. There is no use for it anymore. Then it is just thrown out and the people walk over it.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You, my disciples, you are like salt which is that which makes food good, because you are the means of making all-mankind good. However if the flavor is removed from salt, there is no way to bring its flavor back, and there is no use to salt which no longer has any flavor. It is thrown out and people inadvertently walk on it.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Jesus continued to teach and said, ‘You are what-can-be-compared to salt for the people on this earth. But if salt becomes-tasteless it is impossible to return its saltiness (same word as sour/bitter). It is useless, therefore it will be thrown-away and people will step on it.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Jesus continued his teaching saying, ‘You (pl.) who obey the will of God, an illustration of you is salt, that being really necessary here in the world. Well suppose this salt becomes tasteless, how can its saltiness be caused to return again? Isn’t it useless now? Of course it will just be thrown away. What will happen to it is that it will just be being trodden on by people.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Salt has the work that when it is put on something it keeps it from spoiling. You must do like this in the world so that because you live here it will keep down the evil which people do. But when salt has lost its strength, it is not able to salt anything again. Then it is worth nothing, it is then thrown away, people step on it.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
  • Martu Wangka: “Jesus told them a small talk like this, ‘Meat becomes good from salt. That salt is good. Salt which has laid around on the ground becomes bad and then becomes bad rubbish. You all sit like good salt — you who are my relatives. Others, when they see you sitting well, they will gather together with you and they will follow me, Jesus. You will sit like good salt.'” (Source: Carl Gross)

complete verse (Revelation 5:8)

Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 5:8:

  • Uma: “When he took that letter/paper, the four living things and the twenty-four elders lay prostrate, worshipping that Lamb. Each of them held a harp and a golden basin full of fragrant stuff called incense. That incense means the prayers of people who are the portion of God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “When he took it, immediately the four different-kind-of angels and twenty four elders prostrated towards him, that is praising him. Each one of the elders held a harp and a golden censer full of incense. Because the fragrance of that incense is a sign of the prayers of the people belonging to God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when He took the scroll, the four creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down on their faces in front of the young sheep to worship Him. Each one of the elders had a harp (arpa), and they were holding golden bowls full of sweet smelling stuff which is burned to make sweet smelling smoke. The meaning of this is the prayers of the people who belong to God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Upon his taking it, the four creatures and the twenty four leaders, they knelt face-down in front of him. Each of the leaders, he had a harp (loan arpa) which he was strumming and he was holding a gold bowl full of incense (loan insinso) which are the prayers of God’s people.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “When he took hold of it, those four created living beings and those twenty four elders bowed down with their faces down low, each of them (the elders) holding a stringed-instrument which was an alpa, and also holding a gold bowl full of incense. What was meant by that was the prayers of God’s people.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “When he took the paper, the four who stood at each corner of the throne and also the twenty-four who sat in the chairs all kneeled before the Lamb. Each of them had a stringed instrument named harp and each held a bowl of gold in which burned incense. This stands for the prayers to God made by the people who are in the hand of God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
  • Martu Wangka: “Then after that, those same four and the twenty four old men, they went to that young sheep and they lay face down to praise him. They had guitars, each one of them, in their hands and they each had a billy/bowl in their hand and there was smoke rising from those. A long time back the Father’s relatives (God’s people) were praying to the Father from the earth. As they were praying to the Father, then their talk would become smoke, and I saw smoke rising from those bowls.” (Source: Carl Gross)

complete verse (John 6:56)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:56:

  • Uma: “The people who eat my body and drink my blood, they stay in-harmony [lit., mutual-life] with me, and I with them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains with me and I remain with him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He who eats my body and drinks my blood never leaves me, and I also never leave him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “The one who eats my body and drinks my blood, he is in me continually, and I also, I am in him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “That one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood, it’s like we (excl.) are now one body.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood is in fellowship with me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
  • Martu Wangka: “If a person eats my body, and drinks my blood, as a result of that, we two will sit together as relatives.” (The idea of sitting together as relatives is good.) (Source: Carl Gross)

complete verse (Colossians 3:18)

Following are a number of back-translations of Colossians 3:18:

  • Uma: “All you who have husbands, submit to your husbands as is appropriate for women who follow the Lord.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “You women you ought-to/must follow your husband’s wish/want/desire. This is right for you to do because you trust our (incl.) Leader Isa Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for you women, submit yourself to your husbands, because this is the proper behavior of a woman who is a believer in the Lord.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “You women, submit-yourselves -to (lit. cause-yourselves -to-be-ruled-by) your spouses, because that is what is fitting to believers in the Lord.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Here is what else I want to say to you. First, as for the women, it is necessary that you submit to your spouse for this is fitting for those who are united/tied-together with the Lord Jesus.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Listen you women, obey your husbands. This is the duty of those who believe in the Lord Jesus.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
  • Martu Wangka: “There are some of you Jesus’s relatives who are women spouses. You should sit well to your men spouses, to those who are like your bosses. Jesus thinks that you should sit well like that.” (Source: Carl Gross)

complete verse (Matthew 5:29)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 5:29:

  • Uma: “So if for example our (incl.) right eye causes [lit., carries] us (incl.) to sin, scoop it out and throw it away. It is far better that one of our (incl.) eyes is lost, than our (incl.) whole body be thrown into hell.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “If your right eye influences you to sin, leave that sin of yours. Figuratively as if you dig out your eye and throw it away. It is better if you no longer have one of your eyes than that your whole body be thrown into hell.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if it is your right eye that causes you to sin, dig it out and throw it away. It is better if you have no eye rather than your being thrown into the fire of hell with your whole body.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Therefore if your (sing.) right eye is the cause-of-your (sing.) -sinning, extract it to throw it away. Because it’s-preferable if your (sing.) body has a part taken-from-it (root word: lack) than that your (sing.) body have no lack and you (sing.) be thrown into hell.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Therefore if your (sing.) eye is the source of what causes you to sin, just pluck it out and throw it away. Because it’s better if there’s a part of your body subtracted, rather than still having a complete body which will be thrown into the fire that doesn’t die down, which is punishment by God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “So now, if you say that it is the fault of your eye, the right one, that you commit sin, then pluck out your eye and throw it away. It is better that you have lost an eye rather than you go to hell with all your body.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
  • Martu Wangka: “Jesus said to them another talk like this, ‘If you see with your eye, and think about doing bad, if you have thought like that with the intention of doing bad, then you should dig out your eye and throw it away. If you think and do like that, You will sit well with one eye without doing bad so that you won’t be sent to the fire if you should do bad.'” (Source: Carl Gross)

complete verse (1 Corinthians 11:9)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 11:9:

  • Uma: “And also, it was not man who was made to help woman, it was woman [emphatic] who was made to help man.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “And the man was not created because of the woman but the woman was created so that she would be a companion for the man.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason that God created man was not so that woman might have a companion, but rather he created the woman so that the man might have a companion.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Furthermore God didn’t create the man for the woman but the woman for the man.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “And it was not for the benefit and happiness of the woman that God created the man, but rather for the benefit and happiness of man that he created the woman.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Woman was made in order to be a helper for the man, it wasn’t that the man was made in order to be a helper for the woman.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
  • Martu Wangka: “The Father made the man to look after the woman as a boss and he did not make the man so that the woman would look after him as a boss.” (Source: Carl Gross)

complete verse (2 Timothy 2:20)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Timothy 2:20:

  • Uma: “In a big house there are many kinds of stuff in the kitchen. There are good things, for instance things made of gold and silver. There are also some made from wood or just from clay. The good things are used if there is a guest that is honored. The things that aren’t so good are used daily.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “I will tell you a comparison/parable, Timoteo. In a big house where a rich person lives are many kinds of equipment. There are gold plates and silver plates. These valuable plates are used only if there are important people visiting them. There are also in that house wooden plates and clay pots. These are used every day.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “In any large house there are implements of gold and silver, and there are also implements of wood and pottery. The owner of the house sets aside those implements of gold and silver for they are dear to him. But the others are not so dear to him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “In the large house of a rich-person, the types of things-used are not the same. There are (things) made of gold and silver whose use is valuable/important, there are also (things) made of wood and clay for whatever.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “For let us use as an illustration an elaborate house. It isn’t as if all the utensils there are gold and silver. There are indeed those made of wood and clay. These made of gold and silver, they’re only used on high/important days. These made of wood and clay, they are for everyday use.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “In a large house the dishes are not the same. There are dishes of gold, there are dishes of silver. There are wooden ones. There are dishes of clay. Concerning these dishes, there are some which are special, and also there are those which are not special.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
  • Natügu (verses 20-21): “In our way, when a big man comes to our house, we give him very nice food, in our honouring him. But when we stay alone, we don’t habitually eat food like that given to him. And this is the talk-picture that we must follow. And we also will be like that good food if we purify ourselves from those bad things. Because it is we who are chosen to help our Lord. So, we are already prepared to do very nice things.” (Source: Carl Gross)

complete verse (Matthew 5:30)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 5:30:

  • Uma: “If for example our (incl.) right hand causes us (incl.) to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is far better that one of our (incl.) hands is lost, than our whole body be throw into hell.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “And if your right hand influences you to sin, leave that sin of yours. Figuratively as if you chop off your hand and throw it away. It is better if one of your hands is chopped off than that your whole body goes to hell.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If it is your right hand that causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you not to have a hand than for you to be thrown into hell with the whole body.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “And if it is your (sing.) right hand that is the cause-of-your (sing.) -sinning, cut it off to throw it away. Because it’s-preferable if your (sing.) body has a part taken-from-it than that your (sing.) body have no lack and you (sing.) be thrown into hell.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “It’s like that too with your hand/arm, even if it’s your right one, that you should cut it off if that’s where you are getting sin from, and throw it away. Because it’s really better to have a subtraction from the body, rather than a whole body which will be thrown into the fire which has no dying down, which is punishment by God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “If you say that it is the fault of your hand, the right one, that you commit sin, then cut off your hand and throw it far away. It is better that you have lost a hand rather than you go to hell with all your body.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
  • Martu Wangka: “‘If you are thinking about doing bad with your hand, and you are thinking like that with the intention of doing bad, then as a result of that, you should chop off your hand and throw it away. You should do like that, and then you will be with one hand but you will sit well and you will not do bad so that you can avoid the fire if you did do bad.'” (Source: Carl Gross)