Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 2:11:
- Uma: “For God does not discriminate [lit., look-at the face/appearance of people].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because God does not treat differently human beings; they are all the same in his sight no matter what his tribe is.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “for God, He does not show favorites to anybody.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because there is no person whom God will favor in his judging of them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because God will judge each and every person very well.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Central Tarahumara: “For with God all peoples are the same.”
- Isthmus Zapotec: “Because before God’s face all people are worth the same.”
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “God looks at all men alike.”
- Teutila Cuicatec: “That’s how it will be because God judges the same for all.” (Source for this and three above: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 8:35:
- Uma: “Who will separate us from the love of Kristus? Whether there’s difficulty or suffering, whether persecution or hunger or lack, whether there’s disaster, or if we should actually be killed, the love of Kristus for us does not let go.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Therefore we (dual) are assured that no matter what befalls/happens (connotation bad) to us (dual), Isa Almasi really loves us (dual). If we (dual) are in trouble/sorrows or in suffering/difficulties or in persecution, it does not mean that he no longer loves us (dual). Even if we (dual) lack food and clothing, even if we (dual) are in danger or even if we (dual) are killed, Almasi’s love for us (incl.) really does not move.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if that’s the case then there is nothing that can separate us from Christ; even though we are in great difficulty because of hardships and trouble and people harming us; even if we are in great difficulty because of hunger and we have no clothing; even if we are harmed and we are killed, that cannot remove our value in the breath of Christ.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So what then is able to separate us from Cristo’s love? Can perhaps difficulty or worry or people’s hardshipping us? Can also hunger or lack of clothes or fearful happenings or even our being killed?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now nothing can stop Christ from loving us. Even though we suffer, he loves us. Or if we live in sad circumstances. he loves us. Or if people persecute us, he loves us. Or if there isn’t anything to eat, he still loves us. Or if there are no clothes to wear, he loves us. Or if we live in danger, hated by the people, he loves us. Or if it is we must die, still he loves us.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Chicahuaxtla Triqui: “Therefore people can’t cause that Christ should not love us. It is certainly true that trouble can come to us, and we can be in agony of heart, and various things can bother us. And famine can come upon us, and clothing for us to wear be lacking. And we may have to go where it is dangerous to go, and they may kill some of us. That’s how we will suffer, but Christ will not loose his grip of us, but Christ will keep on loving us.”
- Hopi: “Christ loves us, and who can separate us from him? No one. We may suffer. We may be afraid of something. We may be persecuted. We may be hungry. We may lack clothing. We may be in danger. We may be killed by the sword. But in going through these things, we will not be separated from Christ.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 15:8:
- Uma: “Consider this: Kristus came to the earth to help Jewish people, in order that the promises of God to the ancestors of Jews would be fulfilled, with the result that is would be clear to all people that God’s Word is true.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For I tell you that the reason Isa Almasi came to help us (excl.) the Yahudi, is so that he could show that God is trustworthy and so that God’s promises to our (excl.) ancestors would be fulfilled,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “It’s true what I say to you, that as for Christ, He was made to be like a servant to the Jews so that He might show them that it’s really true that God is going to fulfill the promises He made long ago to their ancestors.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Don’t forget that Cristo came to help the Jews in order to show that God is trustworthy, because he fulfilled what God promised their ancestors.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “You see that Christ came in order to bless the Jews. Concerning the word which was promised to our ancestors long ago, he came to bring it to happen. Thus it is seen that God does not forget the word he has promised to bring about.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Mezquital Otomi: “But I declare that the Lord Jesus Christ worked among the Jews so it would be seen that God truly fulfilled what he promised to their grandfathers.”
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “This is what I want to tell you. Jesus Christ came here to this world for the purpose of helping the Israelites. In that way it would be shown that God tells the truth and fulfills what he promised to our ancient fathers.”
- Teutila Cuicatec: “I tell you that our Lord Jesus Christ proclaimed God’s Word among the people of the nation of Israel showing that God kept his promise that he gave to their forefathers.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 3:24:
- Uma: “But God releases us from the punishment of our sins and he says we are straight [just] because of the redeeming of Kristus Yesus. All this is a gift [lit., a giving dry] of God to us because of his grace [white insides].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But because of God’s love and pity/mercy to us (incl.), that is his love-gift to us (incl.), therefore our (incl.) sins are forgiven by him and we (incl.) are considered straight by him because we (incl.) trust Isa Almasi who redeems/frees us (incl.) from our (incl.) sin.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, only because of God’s favor to us (incl.), He will consider us righteous just the same as if we (incl.) had never done any wrong, because Jesus Christ has set us free.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But because of his grace/mercy to us that has no payment, he counts us as righteous by-means-of what Cristo Jesus has done to redeem us.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “It was pure grace that God cleared our sins. Because Jesus Christ paid for our sins.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Central Mazahua: “God is a good person. He just gives us that which we didn’t earn. God says we don’t any longer owe sin because Jesus Christ paid.”
- Hopi: “We through Jesus Christ have been set in the clear, and haven’t paid anything but have been made right through his mercy.”
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “But God did men a favor and he sees as if they were straight all who have put their confidence in Jesus. And men are not asked anything for the price of this favor. They are seen as if they were straight just because of Jesus Christ since he is the one who redeemed them.” (Source for this and two above: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 10:10:
- Uma: “For we believe in Yesus with our hearts, with the result that God says we are straight in his sight. And we admit/confess Yesus with our lips, with the result that we are lifted from the punishment of our sins.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because if we (dual) really believe wholeheartedly and we (dual) confess/say-it-is-true to people, we (dual) are forgiven and considered straight by God and we (dual) are saved/rescued.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For by means of our (incl.) minds we believe, and God considers us to be righteous. And then we tell someone else about our faith and then our being set free from punishment is made sure.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because due to our sincere faith, God counts us as righteous, and because of our admitting what we believe, we will be saved.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because God clears us when we believe in our hearts. And when we tell people that we believe the Lord Jesus Christ, then we are saved.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Mezquital Otomi : “The person has to believe in his heart so that God will say that person doesn’t owe anything. Also, to be saved, he has to declare that Jesus is his Savior.”
- Isthmus Zapotec: “Because for him who has believed from his heart there is no longer any guilt over him, and he who tells it before people, will be saved.”
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “If anyone has confidence in Christ in his heart, he is seen as if his life is straight. And if by his mouth he says that he has confidence in Christ, he will be saved.” (Source for this and two above: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 1:6:
- Uma: “So also you Kristen people there in the village of Roma. God called you as well to become the portion of Yesus Kristus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You (pl.) the ones who are there in the place Roma are also included. You were chosen by God so that you belong to Isa Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for you there in the town of Rome, you’re included also in these people, for God has made a way so that you might believe and you might become the subjects of Jesus Christ.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Even you also there in Roma, you are included-with the people whom God has called/invited to be joined to Jesu Cristo.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Of these people whom God called to believe in Jesus Christ, you also were called by God to believe in Jesus Christ now.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Tzeltal: “As, for example, you whom Jesus Christ has called to himself.”
- Highland Totonac: “And of these also were some of you who have been chosen in order that you will belong to Christ.”
- Sayula Popoluca: “And you likewise I tell you that God called you so that Jesus Christ could make you his own.”
- Isthmus Zapotec: “And among those people (I’ve just mentioned), you (pl.) are included because God has spoken to you that you should become Jesus Christ’s people (or followers).” (Source for this and three above: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 5:17:
- Uma: “From the transgression of that one person, all people have to die because of their connection with that one person. But indeed greater is the deed/doing of the other one person, that is Yesus Kristus! Whoever believes in Yesus Kristus, they get power and good life forever. They get that as a free gift from God because his love to us is so big. He says that we are straight in his sight because of our connection with Yesus Kristus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The result of God’s love and pity/mercy to us (dual) is greater than the result of Apu’ Adam’s sin. Because of Apu’ Adam’s sin all men are destined to die. But the ones who receive/accept the love and pity/mercy of God are already considered straight by God, which is like God’s gift. They will live in heaven without end and they will rule together with Isa Almasi because they trust Isa Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now, if because of the transgression of this one person who is Adam, all mankind die, how much more surprising is that which was done by one person also, who is Jesus Christ. For anybody who accepts God’s great kindness to them by means of Jesus Christ, they will be regarded righteous and they will be given life forever, and they will be able to rule along with God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It is admittedly true that all people must die because of the sin of the one, but the result of what the one person Jesu Cristo did is far weightier. Because due to him, all who receive God’s extreme grace and the righteousness which he gifted, they will enjoy the life that has no end and will join Cristo in his ruling.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “By reason of this one person who committed sin, afterwards all the people must go through death. But concerning all who meet God’s grace, being cleared of their sins, they will be given the new life by reason of Jesus Christ.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “Just because one person sinned, all people die. But now just because of one person, the one, Jesus Christ, God can do us a favor when he forgives our sins. And for that reason he sees us as if our lives were straight. And all of those who receive the favor which God has done, they will be chiefs with Christ in heaven.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 11:27:
- Uma: “This is my promise to them: At that time, I will forgive their sins.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When that day arrives, I will remove all their sins as I have promised before.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when I take away their evil behavior, at last will be fulfilled my long ago promise to them,’ He said.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And that will be the fulfillment of what I promised them that I would remove their sins.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “God said: Thus will be the agreement I make with them, that now I will clear their sins.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “And when I forgive their sins then I will fulfill the word that I agreed with my ancient men.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
