complete verse (Romans 7:19)

Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 7:19:

  • Uma: “I do not do the good behavior that I like. What I continually do is the evil behavior that I don’t like.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “For I do not do the good which I want to do. But what I do is the bad which I don’t want/like.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For what I do is not the good that I want to do, but rather it’s evil that I am disgusted to do.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Thus I am not able-to-do the good I want to do and simultaneously I am doing the evil that I dislike.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “I didn’t do the good I wanted to do, rather the evil I didn’t look well upon is what I did.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 10:23)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 10:23:

  • Noongar: “Then Jesus turned to his disciples and only spoke to them, ‘It is wonderful for you, seeing the things which you are seeing!” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “From there, so that others would no hear, he turned to his disciples, he said to them: ‘You are very fortunate, because you have seen all this.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Then Isa turned to his disciples and said to them only, ‘Really, how fortunate you are because you are seeing all this that you are seeing.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when they were alone, Jesus turned to his disciples and he said, ‘How better off you people are because you have seen clearly all these things that I am doing.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “After that Jesus turned-to-face his disciples and he said to them, ‘Fortunate (appreciative particle) are all of those who see what you have been seeing.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Jesus turned to face his disciples and spoke-quietly/spoke-just-to-them, saying, ‘You(emph.) can really be happy because of the things which I am doing which are happening before your eyes.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Revelation 10:3)

Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 10:3:

  • Uma: “That angel shouted like the roar of a lion. When he had finished shouting, the seven thunders also sounded with a loud sound, speaking like men.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Then he called loudly and his voice was like the loud/strong sounding of a lion. When he had called, he was answered by seven loud rolling-thunders.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He called out loudly, and his voice was like the roaring of lions. And when he called, seven very loud thunderclaps answered.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “He shouted like the loud (lit. strong) roar/growl of a lion, and seven thunders roared (different word) in reply.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “He called out, his voice being like the roaring of a leon. After he had called out, it was like he was answered by thunder because it thundered seven times, like it was speaking.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “I heard him speak loudly, like a ferocious animal when it roars. After shouting out, I heard seven thunders thunder.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Romans 8:26)

Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 8:26:

  • Uma: “So also the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not really know what we must say in our prayers. But the Holy Spirit accompanies us in uttering our requests to God with crying-out that is beyond the ability of human language.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “And the Holy Spirit also helps us (incl.) when our (incl.) trusting in God is weak and he encourages our (incl.) liver. Because when we (incl.) pray/ask God and/but we (incl.) do not know what is right to ask for or how we (incl.) should ask, then the Holy Spirit in our (incl.) liver asks God for us (incl.) but/and we (incl.) don’t know as to how.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Another thing the Holy Spirit is doing is, as for us (incl.) who do not have wisdom, the Holy Spirit helps us because we do not know the proper things to pray for. However, the Holy Spirit, it’s possible that He is the one who stands before our Father God by means of beseeching which is not possible in human language.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “It is not only our hope which helps us, but rather God’s Spirit also helps-us in our weakness. Because we don’t know how to pray correctly, but God’s Spirit speaks-with God for us with groans which can-not -be-spoken.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Concerning us, when we want to pray to God and we do not know what we will say to him, it is the Holy Spirit who helps us then. Even though it just be a groan we make in thinking of God, yet it is the Holy Spirit who makes it become a prayer to God, that word which has not come out to be said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 11:13)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 11:13:

  • Noongar: “Now you are bad people but you know how to give good things to your children. So God your Father will give much more; he will give the Holy Spirit to all people who ask him.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “No matter how evil you are, you know to give good [things] to your children. Even more so your Father who is in heaven. He definitely gives the Holy Spirit to people who request to Him.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “You, even though you are sinful, you know (how) to give to your children all kinds of good things. More so really God, your Father in heaven will give you the Holy Spirit if you ask him to.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now as for you humans who are not righteous, if good is what you give children, how much more will our Father God in heaven give you the Holy Spirit if you ask this from Him.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “You then who are bad, if you know to give your children good-things, surely even-more-so our Father in heaven will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Well, if as for you who are sinful, you know indeed to give good things to your children, isn’t it so that your Father in heaven does much more? He really will give his Espiritu Santo to him who truly requests from him.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Revelation 12:5)

Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 12:5:

  • Uma: “That woman did give birth, bearing a male Child. That Child, He is the one who will rule all the world with strength like the strength of an iron walking stick. The dragon was about to swallow the Child, when he was lifted up and taken to God to rule along with God in heaven.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Then the woman gave birth to a boy but he was not eaten by the dragon because immediately he was snatched away and brought to God, there to the throne of God. The fate of that boy was that he should rule over all tribes in the future and his ruling would be strong like iron that does not break.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then a male came out, and as for this male, in the future He will rule over all kingdoms here on the earth, and no one will be able to resist His rule over them. And this child was snatched by God and taken up to heaven to the seat of His ruling.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “But upon the birth of her child which was a male, someone snatched him to take him to where-God -was who was ruling, because he is the one who will later rule-over all nations, and he will thoroughly defeat whoever doesn’t acknowledge his authority.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Without anything further, that woman gave birth, a male being born. But it didn’t get drawn into the mouth of the dragon, because through the determined-plan of God, someone grabbed that baby and took him to him who was sitting on his seat of kingship. For as for that child, he was dedicated/secured to reign over all nations with far-from-ordinary means/ability.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “This woman who carried the child gave birth to a son, the one who will strongly rule the people. But this son was taken by God to where he lives so that he would sit with him.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Romans 9:19)

Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 9:19:

  • Uma: “So, certainly there will some person who will say like this: ‘If it is like that, then why does God criticize our bad behavior, because our that behavior of ours is just following his decision [he made] beforehand.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Perhaps one of you (pl.) says to me, ‘If it is like that, why does God find-fault/accuse people. Nobody can oppose his will/wish.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Certainly there will be someone who says, ‘If that’s the case with God, then why does He get angry with people because of their sins, because it is not possible for them not to obey what God wants.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Now there may be those of you who will say, ‘If that is indeed the case, why does God still accuse-people -of-sin? Is there even one person who is able-to-change what God wants?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “I suppose that there is someone who wants to say to me: ‘How come then God says that the people have sin? Because no one can go against what God has determined’ they will say to me. Now we, being just people, who are we to say that we do not look well upon what God has determined? Take a pot, for instance, can it say to the maker of pots: ‘I do not look well upon the form in which you have made me’ it will say.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 11:45)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 11:45:

  • Noongar: “One Law Man said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, if you say this, you insult us also!'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “A Yahudi religion teacher said to Yesus: ‘Teacher, with those words of yours(s), you (sing.) are also finding-fault with us (excl.)!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Then one of the teachers of the religious law answered Isa he said, ‘Sir, if you speak like that you also shame us (excl.).'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There were there some teachers of the Law, and they said to Jesus, they said, ‘Chief, as for those words of yours, we were struck also by them.’ (this means that those words were a rebuke to them)” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Whereupon one of the teachers of the law said, ‘Sir teacher, in your (sing.) saying that, you (sing.) are including us (excl.) in being shamed.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “An explainer of law spoke. He said, ‘Teacher, in what you said there, you are insulting/belittling even us (excl.) now.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)