Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 14:7:
- Uma: “For there is not one of us who lives following our own desires. Nor is there one of us who dies following our own desires.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “All of us (incl.) belong to Isa Almasi, our (incl.) Leader. That’s why in our (incl.) life and in our (incl.) death we (incl.) ought to please him not ourselves (incl.).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For there isn’t any one of us believers that doesn’t belong to God while he’s still on the earth or whether he is already dead. For while we are still alive we are subjects of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because all of us who believe, it is not our being-honored/praised that we are searching for in our living and even in our dying,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “No one can decide on his own how he will live, because all of us are in the hand of our Lord Jesus Christ. While we are living we are in his hand. When we have died we are in his hand.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Mezquital Otomi: “Because not one of us lives to do what we want to do ourselves, and not one of us dies according to our own will.”
- Highland Totonac: “Because no one of us is our own boss in our living, and neither is any of us our own boss when we die.”
- Sayula Popoluca: “We don’t live just for ourselves, nor will we die because we want to.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 3:16:
- Uma: “Wherever they go they bring evil and suffering.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Wherever they go many are destroyed by them, and they carry sadness/troubles to people.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Wherever they go they destroy and they bring hardship.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “and no matter where (lit. even wherever) they go, there are those whom they ruin and cause-to-be-piteous.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “There where they go, always they ruin the people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Isthmus Zapotec: “Wherever they pass by they destroy and in that place will remain pain for others.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
For the Old Testament quote, see Isaiah 59:7 and Isaiah 59:8.
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 10:4:
- Uma: “But Kristus, he is the fulfillment of the Lord’s Law. Everyone who believes in him becomes straight in God’s sight.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Since Isa Almasi came here the law is no longer the way to God. But that is why we (dual) are considered straight by God because we (dual) trust in Isa Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For Christ has made it so that there is no value in obeying the Law. So that as for anybody it is only by believing in Christ that he is considered righteous by God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But the truth of it is that Cristo is the ending-place of the law, so all those who believe in him are made-righteous in God’s sight.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning all who believe in Christ, these are the people whose sins are cleared. No longer should people say that first they must do all which the law says and only then they will save their souls.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- North Alaskan Inupiatun: “Everyone who believes in Christ has stopped trying to make himself right by obeying God’s law which he gave through Moses. He has been made right by believing in Christ.”
- Isthmus Zapotec: “Since Christ came, in vain do they follow after some law in order to become good, because now whoever believes Christ shall became good.” (Source for this and above: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 1:2:
- Uma: “That Good News was promised beforehand by God with the lips of the prophets of old, as is written in the Holy Book.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “This good news God promised in old times and commanded his prophets to write in the holy-book (kitab).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I am Paul, the one writing this. I’m a slave of Jesus Christ and he has made me also to be an apostle. God promised long ago by means of what he caused the prophets to write, that there would be a time when there would be Good News which would be made known to us (incl.) The reason he chose me to be an apostle was so that I might tell repeatedly this Good News.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “This good news, it is what God promised long ago which he caused-to-be-written by the prophets through-whom-he-spoke.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Very long ago God’s spokesmen wrote in the Holy Book that there would come the day when it would happen as is the word which is in the good news.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “A long time ago God had said that there would be such words as these. And the servants of God who lived a long time ago, that’s what they wrote about when God told them to write his words.”
- Chicahuaxtla Triqui: “And way back when, the ones who spoke the Word of God wrote that this good word should come to the world and God Himself cause so that they should write.” (Source for this and above: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 5:1:
- Uma: “So, since we have become straight in God’s sight because of our faith, our connection with God has become good because of our Lord Yesus Kristus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then because we (incl.) have been forgiven and considered straight by God because we (incl.) trust in Isa Almasi, therefore we (incl.) are now reconciled with him because of what Isa Almasi our (incl.) Leader has done.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now since we (incl.) have already believed in Jesus, God considers us to be righteous as if we had never sinned. And because of this, by means of what our Lord Jesus Christ did, our relationship with God is now peaceful.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore since God counts us as righteous because of our faith, our companionship with him is also good because of what Jesu Cristo our Lord has done.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now our sins are cleared because we believe in our Lord Jesus Christ. By means of Jesus Christ we have been brought together with God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “God says we walk straight because we trust in Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ causes us to be at peace with God.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 11:11:
- Uma: “So, most of the Jews stumbled because they do not believe. But let’s not say/think like this: they stumbled with the result that they will end up falling forever. That is not God’s purpose! From the disobedience of the Jews, people who are not Jews are given opportunity to believe in the Lord Yesus and be lifted from the punishment of their sins. In the end the Jews will get desirous, wanting to follow the example of people who are not Jews.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If it is like that, what is the outcome/result for the tribe of Yahudi? Did God already turn-his-back-on/reject them forever because they do not trust Isa Almasi? No indeed! But because they turned-their-backs-on/rejected God so then the not Yahudi are saved/rescued first by God so that they go to heaven, in order that when the Yahudi see this, they will want to follow/obey God like the nations/tribes not Yahudi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And my fellow Jews have stumbled because they don’t believe in Christ. However, don’t you think that it’s not possible for God to bring them back to faith. Because they would not listen to the word of God, it became possible that the people who are not Jews could be freed from punishment so that the Jews might become envious. The reason this took place is so that the Jews might return to their faith when they see that the people who aren’t Jews are being saved.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I ask then: The stumbling of the majority of Jews, does it mean to say that they are not able-to-rise again? No, the truth of it is that because of their sin of not believing in Cristo, the Gentiles experienced being saved so that the Jews would thus be-jealous-of them, because they indeed also want to be saved.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Well then, is it that God will be separated from the Jews always? Will there never come the day when other Jews will have their souls saved? Yes, there will come the day when there will be Jews who will have their souls saved. Truly the Jews now are separated from God, but God caused that the people who are not Jews became the people of God. Because he wants that the Jews who separated from God will be jealous of the people who became the people of God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “Well now I want to ask you this. Now that the Israelites have fallen down, are they going to stay down forever? No. They will be loved again. But since they fell because they wouldn’t believe, now the other people who aren’t Israelites can be saved. In that way the Israelites will want that God do for them as he did for the other people.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 1:27:
- Uma: “Men [i.e., males] did the same also: they did not wive women, but desired only their fellow men. Men did behavior that is not fitting with fellow men, and in the end they received punishment that is in keeping with that wrong behavior of theirs.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Likewise also the men no longer want/like/desire women but what they desire/want is their fellow males and/so that they do evil/bad together. Male does shameful things with male. The repayment to them matches these their evil deeds.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And in the same way also the men; it’s no longer women they sleep with but they become sexually aroused by even other men. And it’s very shameful what they do with their bodies. And by means of their wicked behavior, they destroy their bodies and this becomes a punishment for them which cannot be avoided.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So also with the men. They have turned-their-backs-on their proper sleeping-with women so that it’s their fellow men whom they exceedingly crave to sleep-with. Therefore they are undergoing the punishment that is fitting for the filthy-things they have been doing.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Also like this the men do. They do not want to marry and live with wives. Rather they do shameful things with their fellowmen. But concerning how these people live, there is a payment in that their manner of life is all ruined.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Chicahuaxtla Triqui: “And that’s what the men began to do also, because they left off talking with the women and they began to lust each one after his fellow and very ugly things they did among themselves, man with man. Therefore on account of this sin they suffer punishment because they have left the road of God.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 8:23:
- Uma: “And it isn’t just the world that groans. We who are God’s children also groan in our hearts. We have received the Holy Spirit as a sign of God’s promise to us. But we still wait for the time God will lift us to become his children and free our bodies from all that is evil.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “It is not only some of God’s creation that suffers but including us (incl.) the ones to whom God gave his Spirit who is his beginning/first gift, we (incl.) also suffer while we (incl.) keep-on-waiting-for the day when God will make our (incl.) bodies new so that/and we (incl.) will no longer be sick and die. When that day arrives it will then be really clear that he has really made us (incl.) his children.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And that’s not all, because as for us (incl.) also who have received the Holy Spirit which is the sign that there is still something which will be given to us by God in the future, drawn very tight is our expectancy of this, because we (incl.) really desire that that time might come when God will finish His making us His sons and He will carry out His making our bodies immortal.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But it is not only they who are having-a-hard-time but rather even we to whom the Holy Spirit has been given who is the first-thing that God has given us who believe. It is as we are also groaning in our minds in our waiting for the time when God will clearly reveal our status as his children and will transform these bodies of ours into new bodies that never-die.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now, not only what is in the world suffers, but also we want to have what we suffer pass by, that there will come the day when our bodies will become new. Then it will appear that we are God’s children. Even though we now walk with the Holy Spirit, yet we want to see the good which will be afterwards.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Mezquital Otomi: “And we suffer thirst and hunger, sickness and misfortune, and we sigh, but because God has given us the Holy Spirit as a sign of the joy that will come, therefore we wait for God to show we are his sons, with our bodies made new and glorious without weariness or pain.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
