Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 5:46:
- Uma: “If we (incl.) love just only the people who love us (incl.), we (incl.) shouldn’t hope that God will reward us (incl.) for that behavior/deed. Even the tax collectors whose deeds are evil love people who love them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Do not expect/hope that God will reward you if you love only the ones who love you. For even the tax collectors who cheat, also love those who love them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Don’t you think that God will pay you if you only treat well those who treat you well. Because even the collectors of taxes whose doings are deceitful, they also treat well those who treat them well.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If it’s only the ones-who-love you whom you love, will you be rewarded do-you-suppose? Even the looked-down-on-ones who collect taxes, they are capable-of that.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For if it’s only those who value you whom you value, what more reward are you waiting for? For isn’t it so that like this is being done by even the money-grabbing official-receivers of payment to the government?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “If it is only those who love you whom you love, what good thing are you doing then? Even the tax collectors do that.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 15:43:
- Uma: “So also it will be with the dead when they live again. While we live on the earth, our bodies are weak and pitiable. When we die, our bodies are buried and become rotten. But when we are caused to live again, our bodies are changed to become bodies that are strong and beautiful, that no longer die or become rotten.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When it is buried the body of a person is not nice to look at and it has no strength. But when it is made alive again it will be really nice to look at and strong.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for our (incl.) body, when these are buried they are not good to look at and they no longer have any value; however, when they are raised they will be very beautiful and very strong.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The body of a dead-person, its appearance is bad and it also has no power, but the body of one-who-lives again is good-looking/well-formed and strong.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The body which is buried is no longer good to look at and no longer has ability, but when it will be made to live again its good-ness and ability will be vary-far-from-ordinary.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The body of a dead person is bad when it is buried. But when it is resurrected it then appears good. A person is not strong when he is buried. But when he resurrects he is strong.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 24:46:
- Noongar: “Then Jesus told them, ‘This was written: ‘The Messiah, he must suffer and after three days, he must rise from death’.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “He said: ‘In the Holy Book it is written: I the Redeemer King must undergo suffering and be killed, and on the third day live again.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “and he said to them, ‘This is what is written in the holy-book that the Almasi had to endure persecution including being killed and three days after his death he should live again.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He said, ‘It is told in the written word of God that as for me, the king chosen by God, I would be killed and within three days from then, God would raise me up.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “and he said to them, ‘This is what was written: the Messiah must suffer and die and then live again on the third day.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He said, ‘What was written says that it’s necessary that the Cristo experience hardship/suffering and die, and on the third day come alive again.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 6:30:
- Uma: “So, if God makes-beautiful that grass in the field–that are today and are burned tomorrow–how much more you! His care of you is more/surpasses. So why-in-the-world don’t you believe/trust his care?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If God can clothe so beautifully the flowers of the weeds which do not last, they live now and are burned tomorrow, na (and) you he cannot clothe? Really, your trust in God is very little.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “A weed has no value. We see it today, and before long it dries up and is burned. But if God makes even these weeds beautiful, of course he will also give you clothing. Why is your trust in Him so small?” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If like that is the beauty that God gives to the weeds that are here now and are burned tomorrow, don’t-you-suppose it is more certain that he knows how to give you your clothing? Why therefore perhaps is your trust only a little?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Your belief/obeying and trust-in/relying-on me is really small, for if it’s like God clothes with flowers the weeds/brush which are alive today, but tomorrow will be thrown on the fire, well isn’t it so that you will all-the-more be clothed by him?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “For God himself makes the flowers of the fields appear beautiful. For these are in the field now, yet tomorrow they are burned in the ovens. How much more will God clothe you. Yet you do not believe very well that God will care for you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 16:17:
- Uma: “I am happy about the arrival of Stefanus, Fortunatus and Akhaikus here. It’s like they are your replacements here to me.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I was really happy when Estepanus and Portunatus and Akaikus arrived here. Even though you could not all come, I can endure my longing because of these three,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I was really overjoyed when Stephanas, Fortunatus and Achaicus arrived; it seemed as if my great loneliness for you was helped.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Great was my happiness at the coming of Estefanas and Fortunatus and Akaicus, because my missing you was reduced because of them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I was very happy when Estefanas arrived, along with his companions Fortunato and Acaico. Because what you couldn’t do because we were not together, they have now been able to do it for me.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I rejoice very much that your fellow townspeople Stephanas, with Fortunatus, with Achaisus have arrived here. Since you live a long way away, you can’t come here to greet me. But now it is as though you yourselves are greeting me in that now have arrived our brothers to greet me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 1:27:
- Uma: “Yohanes said: ‘I baptize people with just water. But there will come a person after me. He is actually in your midst at this time, but you do not know him. Just to become his servant to undo/open the strings of his shoes, I am not fit/worthy.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He comes here after me but I am not worthy even to undo the string of his shoes for he is really greater than I.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for me, even to take off his shoes, I am not yet a worthy enough servant,’ said John.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It is he who will follow me, and on-account-of his greatness, I am not worthy to even untie the laces of his shoes.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He is the one coming next after me. The truth is, even to undo the tie of his footwear, it’s not allowable/acceptable for me to do it because he’s so much more praiseworthy.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I came before him, but he will come afterwards. But he is greater than I. I don’t compare with him.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 7:29:
- Uma: “Because he did not teach like the teachers of religion. His teaching [was] as a person who really has authority/power.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “because Isa’s teaching was very different from the teaching of the teachers of the religious law. For Isa had power when he spoke.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus finished teaching there, and the many people who were gathered there were amazed because his teaching was not like the teaching of the teachers of the law. Because the teaching of Jesus, by contrast, had power.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “because in his teaching, they could-see that he had authority/rulership, not like the way of the teachers of the law.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because it was clear from his speech that he had authority to teach. Not like the explainers of law, who always quoted what had been said by the ancestors of the past.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because the teachers of the law do not speak forcefully when they speak, yet Jesus was like an official when he spoke, he spoke so that what he said was the final word.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 2:1:
- Uma: “So, I said I had better not go visit you right away, for I do not want to make your hearts sad again, like what happened on my previous visit.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then I thought, I would not come so that I would not make you troubled/sad again.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And because of this, brothers, I decided that I would not visit you again if it was going to be just like my first visit to you. Because at that time my visit to you caused you grief.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Thus I decided that I wouldn’t visit you again if it was like my-preceding -visiting there at which you were saddened.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore, just like I said, I decided not to go to you yet, in which I would be bringing you big grief.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Therefore I thought that it would be better that I wouldn’t go there again, because if I had gone, it would only be that your hearts would be sad from the word I would reprimand you with concerning what you are doing.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
