Following are a number of back-translations of John 8:44:
Uma: “The King of Evil-ones is your father! And you continually want to follow the will of that your father. From the beginning he was already a killer. He never says what is true, because there is nothing that is true in him. If he lies, that is to be expected, because he was already a liar, and all people who lie follow/take after his behavior.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Isa said yet to those people, ‘You, your father is the leader of demons and that is what you want to follow, the will of your father. Since the very beginning he has always killed. He has not followed the truth because there is nothing true in him. That is what he does, lying, for that is his custom. He is really a liar and he is the source of all lies.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Your Father is Satan, and the desire of your father is also the thing that you want to do. From the beginning Satan was a murderer. He has no part with the true teaching because there is nothing true in him. If he speaks, then he speaks a lie because a lie is the only thing that he can think about. He is a liar and from him originates every lie.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “You are like your father who is Satanas, and your purpose is to obey what that father of yours wants. He has been a murderer starting-from the beginning until now. Neither does he say anything true, because he has nothing to-do-with that. If/When he lies, he does what is fitting to his custom/character, because he is a consistent-liar and he moreover is the origin of lies.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Satanas for sure is the one who is your father. Whatever he wants, that is what you are wanting to do. It’s true, he was a murderer from long ago and an enemy of the truth, for this truth will really never-ever be found in him. When he lies, well that’s his nature/way, because he really is a habitual-liar and he is the source of lies.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “He who is as a father to you is the devil. And you want to please him. The devil has been a murderer from his beginning. He never speaks what is true. When he speaks, it is all lies. He speaks his own ideas because he is a liar. He is as father to those who lie.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 16:26:
Uma: “What is the use we (incl.) gather all the riches of the world, if we (incl.) do not receive good life in the future. For there is nothing that we (incl.) may exchange for that good life.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “For a person, even if he owned all the wealth in the world, there would be no use in it if he does not have everlasting life. For there is no wealth in the world that can redeem him so that he has everlasting life.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Even if a person comes to own the whole world, it is worthless for him if he is not given life forever. For there is nothing which he can exchange so that he will be able to own life forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Because what do-you-suppose will a person be-able-to-gain if he comes-to-own the entire world and then his life is lost and he is punished for ever? None! Because there is nothing that a person can give-in-exchange for his life.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “For what does a person gain, even supposing all the wealth here in the world would be his, if his soul/spirit will be lost-permanently because it will have to go there to hardship/suffering which is without ending? Of course there’s nothing he can do which could free him from there.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Because the person will not gain anything even though he becomes the owner of all the world and then loses his soul. No matter how much money he will pay, yet he is not able to save his soul.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Bariai: “For if a man is receiving all the things on the earth, yet he misses out on good life after his death, how will all those things of his help him? For no one is able to buy his living of later on.” (source: Bariai Back Translation)
German New Testament translation by Berger / Nord (publ. 1999): “What good is it if the whole world lies at your feet, but you have to pay for it with your heart? What is more precious than one’s heart?”
Following are a number of back-translations of Galatians 5:16:
Uma: “My intention is like this: we must follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, so that we do not follow the evil desires of our hearts.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “This is what I say to you: Follow/obey the commands of the Holy Spirit so-then you will not give-in-to/indulge-in your greedy-desires.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “This is my commandment to you: submit yourselves to the Holy Spirit, because if you do this it’s not possible for you to obey the evil desires of your body.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “This is my advice to you: continue to submit-yourselves-to (lit. cause-yourselves-to-be-ruled-by) the Spirit of God, because if you do this, you will not fulfill the evil desires of your human (naipogawan–connotes sinful, limited humanity) minds.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Well now this is what I am saying to you, always follow/obey the supervision of the Espiritu Santo in your lives. For if it’s like that, you will no longer indulge your congenital evil desires.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “I tell you to let the Holy Spirit teach you how you should walk. When you take the road he gives you, then you do not do what only pleases you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 9:17:
Uma: “From there, the Parisi people again asked that blind man, they said: ‘How about you (sing.), what do you (sing.) say, because he healed your (sing.) eyes for you (sing.).’ The blind man said: ‘Surely He is a prophet.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “So-then the person was asked again by the Pariseo, they said, ‘You said that your eyes were healed by that person. Na, as for you, who is he?’ The formerly blind person said, ‘As for me, he is a prophet.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Therefore they asked that cured blind person again, they said, ‘As for you, what do you think about him? Because it was your eyes that he cured. And that person answered, ‘He is a prophet of God.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “When that was so, they inquired again of that man, ‘You (sing.) now, what do you (sing.) say concerning him, because you (sing.) are obviously the one whose eyes were cleared?’ ‘He is a prophet,’ he answered.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “That’s why they interrogated again that blind person. ‘Well as for you,’ they said, ‘since you can now see because, you say, Jesus made you well, well then, what can you say concerning him?’ ‘Oh,’ said his reply, ‘he’s one of the prophets.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Again the man who had been blind was questioned, ‘And you, what do you say about the man who opened your eyes?’ He who had been blind said, ‘I think that he is a prophet of God.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 18:3:
Uma: “and he said to them: ‘Indeed I say to you: if you don’t change your behavior/character and become like this little child, you will not become God’s people/subjects.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Then he said, ‘Truly I tell you, you will not be included in the ruling of God if you do not change your thinking and you become like a small child who doesn’t make himself great.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said, ‘Don’t you all forget this. It is necessary that you take out of your minds your desire to be greater than others, and imitate this child because all are greater than he is. If you don’t, you cannot be ruled by God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Then he said, ‘What I say to you is true, that if you do not change your mind/thoughts so that you are like children, you absolutely can not be joined to God’s ruling.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “And then he spoke, saying, ‘Consider this. As long as you don’t make new this nature of yours which looks for importance, and as long as you don’t make yourselves like still small children, you really can’t be included as subjects of God in his kingdom.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “He said to his learners: ‘Truly I tell you that if you do not turn your minds and become like the boy here, you will not enter where God rules, who is in heaven.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Ephesians 1:4:
Uma: “Before this world was created, he had already chosen us to become connected with Kristus, in order that we become his portion that has no fault in his sight.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “When the world had not yet been created, beforehand we (incl.) had been already chosen by him to be made his people because we (incl.) are one with Isa Almasi. The reason that he chose us (incl.) is so that we (incl.) would be holy/clean and so that we (incl.) would have no spot/blemish in his sight.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Long time ago before the world was created, we (incl.) were already chosen by God. The reason He chose us was so that we might become His subjects, in whom is nothing for Him to scold (faultless or perfect).” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Because before the world was created, God had already chosen us to be joined to Cristo in order that he would thus make-us-into holy (nasantoan) people who had no sin in his sight.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “This being united/tied-together of ours with Cristo, it was already in the mind/thinking of God before he created heaven/sky and the world. Therefore, really from back in the past, he had already chosen us that we could be very far from all sin and that we could come into his presence with nothing that he would find fault with in us.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “And now, all those who now walk with Christ, God has already chosen before the world was made. He wanted that those people who were chosen should separate from evil so that not any evil will be found against them before the face, the eye of God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 10:8:
Uma: “All people who came ahead-of me are thieves and robbers. But my sheep do not pay attention to their calling.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “The people who came before me, the ones that taught what is not true, they were like thieves and burglars. But the people who belong to me did not listen to them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There are teachers who came before me here, but they are just like bandits and thieves. However my own sheep, which is to say, the people who are mine, they did not obey them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “All who preceded me who told-and-told lies, they are thieves and bandits. But (reassurance particle) the sheep didn’t believe/obey.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Many have preceded me who were teachers who had no authority coming from God. They are like thieves and robbers because they snatch-away the believing/obeying of the people. But they weren’t taken seriously by those who are my like sheep.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “All who lived before me and who didn’t enter through the gate are sheep-thieves. But those sheep paid no attention when they were called.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 19:1:
Uma: “When Yesus finished speaking about all that, he went away from the land of Galilea going to the land of Yudea on the other side of the Yordan River.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “So-then when Isa had finished saying that, he left from Jalil and went to the places there in Yahudiya on the other side of the river Jordan.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now when Jesus finished teaching all of this, he left the province of Galilee and went to Judea, on the other side of the River Jordan.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “When Jesus had finished-teaching these things, he left Galilea and went to the other-side of the Jordan river which was the region of Judea.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “When Jesus had ended that teaching of his, he left Galilea again. He went to the region of Judea which is on the other side of the river of Jordan.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “When Jesus finished speaking these words to the people, he left Galilee and went to the land of Judea, to the other side of the river Jordan.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
