Following are a number of back-translations of John 12:43:
Ojitlán Chinantec: “For greater was their desire for the greatness among men than for God to make them great.”
Aguaruna: “They thought more about what people said, ignoring what God said.”
Shipibo-Conibo: “They wanted only a little for God to praise them. They really wanted people to praise them.” (Source for this and above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
Uma: “Because their desire, they wanted to be praised by their fellow companions, they did not consider/pay attention to praise that is from God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “For they were yet happy when mankind/humans were pleased with them over when God was pleased with them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason they didn’t say anything is because they liked better people’s praise of them, not God’s praise of them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Because what they valued was their companions’ honoring/praising them more than God’s honoring/praising.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “They still wanted their fellow men to be pleased with them, not indeed that God would be the one to be pleased with them.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “They thought it better to have the people look favorably on them than to have God tell them, ‘It is good what you do.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 2:10:
Uma: “People who love their relatives, they stay in the light, and there isn’t anything that causes-their-downfall.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “But the one loving his fellow truster in Isa Almasi, he lives already in the light and there is nothing that causes him to sin.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The person, by contrast, who loves his companion, he is the one whose mind has been illuminated by God, and his behaviour will not cause him to sin.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “But the one who loves his fellow-men, that’s the one who remains in the light, so there is no cause-for-sinning in him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “But as for the person who values his sibling in believing, he is the one who is truly living in the light/enlightenment. Really if it’s like that, there’s no longer anything in/with him which can-lead-him-to-fall(fig.) into sin.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “He who loves his brother, then he is living good. There cannot be said of him that he is responsible if another person should sin.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Yatzachi Zapotec: “If we love our fellows we are constantly present where there is light because we are doing good, and no more will we fall doing evil.”
Eastern Highland Otomi: “He who loves his sibling, habitually lives in God’s light and nowhere will he fall into sin.”
Tzotzil: “If we love our Christian brethren, we are in the sunlight. Thus there is nothing now in our hearts to cause us to become evil (to do evil).” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
Candoshi-Shapra: “The one who loves his brother, always is habitually living in the light. In him there is nothing for stumbling.”
Yanesha’: “The one who loves (concerned for, pities) his countrymen lives in light, there where there is not thus we stumble.”
Aguaruna: “but he, one who loves his brother, walks in light-place, being one who is so, he stumbling does not fall.” (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)
Kele: “He who loves his brother basks in the sunshine and thus is no root in the ground over which his brother might stumble.” (Source: William Ford in The Bible Translator 1957, p. 203ff. )
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 3:13:
Uma: “So, relatives, don’t be surprised if people who don’t believe in Yesus hate you.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Therefore my brothers, don’t be amazed/wonder if you are hated by the people who don’t follow/obey God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Brothers, do not be surprised if the people who are enemies of God act against you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “So don’t be surprised, siblings/cousins if those who don’t believe hate you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “My siblings in believing, don’t let yourselves be surprised if/when you are hated by other people here under the heavens, those ones who don’t believe-in/obey Jesu-Cristo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Listen, my dear brethren, do not be surprised when people here on earth hate you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Yatzachi Zapotec: “There are people whose heads sit (who are concerned) only about what is happening on this earth. Do not be surprised, brethren, that they hate you.”
Tzotzil: “My brethren, don’t be amazed when people hate you.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
Candoshi-Shapra: “Brothers, you who belong to us, listen. If the world hates you, don’t let that surprise you.”
Yanesha’: “Don’t, my loved ones, be disturbed if they despise you, people on the earth.”
Aguaruna: “My brothers, other people will be angry at (hate) you, when it is so, ‘Wa (exclamation of surprise)! Why do they hate me?’ don’t say.” (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 3:17:
Chol: “But God did not send his Son here to earth in order to cause the world to be punished; he sent him here in order that they might find their salvation from God’s Son.”
Yatzachi Zapotec: “God sent his Son to earth here not so that he would decide about humans that they are guilty, but rather so that he would save mankind out of evil.” (Source for this and above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
Uma: “It is not God’s purpose to send his Child here to the world in order to punish / condemn men. His intention in sending his Child here is in order to lift men from the punishment of their sins.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “God sent his Son to the world not to drop judgment on mankind but to take away their sins.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for God, he did not send me, his child, here to earth to punish mankind, but rather so that by means of me mankind might be set free.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Because God didn’t send his Child to this world to sentence/condemn people, but rather that they would be saved through him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Because the reason why God caused his Son to come here was not that people be sentenced to punishement, but on the contrary so that he could free/save these people.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “God did not send his son here to earth in order to sentence the people. Rather he sent him here to earth that he save the people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 19:35:
Ojitlán Chinantec: “I am John. I saw this happen. This testimony I know is true. Therefore I speak in order that you too, might believe.”
Huehuetla Tepehua: “Well, I am the one who saw it and I am the one who says what happened. And what I say is the truth, I’m sure. In this way, you also can believe.” (Source for this and above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
Uma: “The person who saw that happening, he is the one who says what he saw, so that you also believe. His words are true, and he really knows the truth.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “(The person who saw that happen to Isa, has written about this so that you believe. The person who wrote this is trustworthy and his testimony is true.)” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I who am writing this, I testify that this is true because I saw it. I know that this which I write is true, and the reason I write it is so that you also might believe.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “This that happened, it is thoroughly to-be-believed, because that’s what was confirmed/verified by the one who saw it. He for-sure knows that what he said is true, and his purpose in saying it is that you will also believe.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “The one who saw this is the one testifying so that you (pl.) will really believe. This which he is testifying is true. He really knows that this which he is telling is the truth.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “I who wrote this have put down what I saw. And it is true what I say. I know that what I saw is true so that you also will believe.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 2:21:
Uma: “So, it’s not my purpose to write this to you as if to say that you don’t know the true teaching. I write this to you because you do know the true teaching, and you also know that there is no lie that appears from the truth.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “I am writing you not because you are ignorant of the true teaching, but because you know the true teaching. And you also know that no lie comes from the true teaching.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I am not writing to you because you do not understand what the true doctrine is, rather, because you do understand it and because there is nothing false which comes from the true doctrine.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “The reason I wrote you this is not your not knowing the truth, but rather because you already-know it and you also know that absolutely no lies come from the true teaching.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “I don’t mean to say that I’m writing to you because you don’t know the truth concerning Cristo, but rather so that I can cause you to be sure of this truth which you already know. And well, you also know that as for those teachings which are lies, they don’t come from this truth.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “I did not write here in this letter some message that you do not know; rather now you know that the words I tell you are true. And you know that there are no lies included in the true word.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Yatzachi Zapotec: “I have written you this letter because you are acquainted with what is true, not because you do not know what is true. When we speak true words it is obvious we are not lying.”
Eastern Highland Otomi: “And I write to you, and I don’t think (mean) that you don’t know what is true, but you really do know it. And you know that a lie is not the companion of the truth.”
Tzotzil: “It is not that you do not know the word that is true. It is because you know it therefore I wrote to you. You know also that if we tell the truth, we are not lying.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
Candoshi-Shapra: “It isn’t because you haven’t learned the true message that I write, for you did learn it. Surely you know that lies do not come out of true talk.”
Yanesha’: “It is not from your lack that I write to you. You know that deception does not go with that which is true, not even a little bit.”
Aguaruna: “I don’t write to you because you are those who don’t know the truth; I write to you because you are those who know the truth. ‘Falseness is not in truth-place,’ that you know.” (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 3:24:
Uma: “People who follow God’s commands, they stay in harmony with him, and he with them. This is a sign so that we know God stays in harmony with us, because he has given us his Spirit.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Anybody who follows/obeys the commands of God is one with God and God stays/remains with him. We (dual) know that we are one with God because of the Holy Spirit that he caused to live in our (dual) livers.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Anyone who obeys the commands of God has become one with God and God lives in him. We know that God lives here in us (incl.) for we have been inspired by the Holy Spirit.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “The one who obeys the commands of God, he remains in God and God also remains in him. The way-we-know that God remains in us, the Holy Spirit whom God gave is in us.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Well he who is obedient to the commands of God, his life really is holding fast to God, and as for God, he indeed is holding fast to him. And as for this help to us by the Espiritu Santo whom he caused to indwell our body, that is how we can comprehend that God is holding fast to us.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “All those who obey what God commands are walkers-with-God. How we know that we walk with God is because of the Holy Spirit who was sent to us.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Yatzachi Zapotec: “If we are doing what he commands, we are constantly with God, and God is constantly with us. And we know that he is constantly with us because he has given us his Spirit.”
Eastern Highland Otomi: “Whoever does what he says, lives with God, and God also resides in his heart. And we know that we live with God because he gave us his good Spirit.”
Tzotzil: Because if we obey his commands, we are in his presence. God is in our hearts. Because is in our hearts the Holy Spirit that God has given us, therefore we know that God is in our hearts.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
Candoshi-Shapra: “The ones who keep all of God’s orders they are the ones who abide (keep living) with Him. God then will also abide (keep living) in them. The fact that He abides (keeps living) in us we learn (come to know) by the fact of His putting His own Spirit in us.”
Yanesha’: “The one who reserves in remembrance his word which thus is put, he is one with our Father. That’s how we know that we are one, Deity, his Spirit which he gave to us, causes us to know.”
Aguaruna: “He who completes all this word is (lives) in God, and also God is (lived) in him. God gives us His spirit, therefore we know He is (lives) in us.” (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 1:9:
Yatzachi Zapotec: “The light of God has arrived in this world, to enter into the hearts of mankind; and it shines for all of them.”
Huehuetla Tepehua: “The one who is the true one, who can give understanding, came here to this earth. He gives understanding to the minds of all men.”
Alekano: “The father of light, who enlightens the people all over, appeared and remained on earth.”
Lalana Chinantec: “The rays of the real Light were beginning to shine, causing the path on which all men walk to become lit.” (Source for this and above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
Uma: “That Word, He was the true light that shone on the hearts of all people, He arrived in the world.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “This true light, that means the Word, has come here already to the world giving light to the thoughts/minds of all mankind.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “At that time Christ arrived here on the earth, that true light. He is the one who illumines the minds of all mankind.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “The proper/real light, it was the one who came to the earth to go illuminate (the particle ‘go’ is commonly used with verbs of motion such as ‘come’) the minds of all people.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “That one who really is this light, who gives light to all people, he was now arriving here under the heavens/sky.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “That one who came to the earth is truly the one who opens the hearts of the people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “Jesus-Christ is the one who is the true light that arrived here in the world and lightens/enlightens the mind/thinking of all the people.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Mairasi: “That is the true Light which already arrived in this world to brighten people.” (Source: Enggavoter 2004)
Bariai: “And the true light which gives light to all people, that’s just was descended and came to the earth.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
Kupsabiny: “That light of truth came to the world so that it could bring light to every person.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
