complete verse (Matthew 18:32)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 18:32:

  • Uma: “Hearing that earlier, the king became angry. He ordered people to go call that slave whose behavior was evil. When he arrived, he said to him: ‘You (sing.) are very evil! Your (sing.) debt I wiped our of my books, because you (sing.) pleaded-for-mercy to me.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Therefore the sultan commanded the servant who had the great debt to come to him again. ‘You are really wicked/a fool,’ he said. ‘I told you, surprise, you need not pay your debt because you asked me to have pity.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the king called that servant, and he said, ‘You are a wicked slave. I forgave you, and I removed from you the debt just because you begged me.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “‘Whereupon the king had-that official of his -called and he said to him, ‘Your (sing.) behavior is bad (strong rebuke)! I canceled (lit. set-aside) your (sing.) debt because you (sing.) entreated me.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “When that king knew, he at once sent for (him). On arriving, he said, ‘You, your nature/ways are really evil! I just wrote-off-as-paid the whole of your debt because you begged me for mercy.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “The boss then ordered for that one to be called again and he said to him: ‘You evil man. Here I forgave you all the money you owed me to do you the favor you asked.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Ephesians 2:9)

Following are a number of back-translations of Ephesians 2:9:

  • Uma: “not from our behavior. That is why there is not one person who can say: "It is because of the goodness of my behavior that God lifted me from the punishment of our sins."” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “You cannot boast, because the reason that you are saved is not because of your good works.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “but rather life forever was just given to us. Therefore, there is no person who can boast about His being freed from punishment, because it’s really not His good doing that set Him free.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Therefore there is no reason for us to boast about ourselves, because our being saved, it was not due to the good that we have done.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Therefore no-one can boast that his salvation is because of the good-quality of his own deeds.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Concerning a person, there is not a bit of good he can do in order that he be saved.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 10:36)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 10:36:

  • Uma: “Because I am the one who was consecrated by my Father, he uses-as-lips he uses-as-feet to come to the world. So, why do you say that I make God small because I say that I am his Child?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “much more so is it fitting for me to be called Son of God. For I, I am chosen by God and sent by him here to the world. Na, why do you say that I am speaking bad to/insult God because I say that I am the Son of God?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “why are you saying that I am transgressing God if I say that I am the Son of God? I am the one God chose to come into the world.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “why do you say that I make-myself -equal to God when I say that I am his Child? Because I am the one he appointed and sent to this world.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Well as for me, since I was chosen and sent by the Father to come here to under the heavens, how can you say now that I am making-false-claims of Godship in what I said, that I am the Son of God?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Then if God appointed me to send me here to the earth, how can you say that I do not respect God when I say that I am the Son of God?” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 19:29)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 19:29:

  • Uma: “Whoever leaves behind his relatives, his father or his mother, his children or his home or his garden, because of following me, he will definitely receive a reward/return a hundred times, and he will also receive goodness of life forever.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “If a person leaves his house or his brothers and sisters or his mother and father or his children or his land (fields), if he leaves these because of his love for me, God will reward him richly (lit. cause-much), and he will be given life without end.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And whoever has left his house, his sibling, his father, his mother, his child, and his land because he follows me, he will reap a hundredfold multiplication of that which he has left. And besides that, he will be given life forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Whoever leaves his house, his siblings/cousins, his father and his mother, his children and his land because of his being joined to me, he will receive one hundred times more than the worth of what he left-behind and he will also join-in-inheriting life that has no end.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “And whoever is able to leave (implies leave when necessary, not total desertion) his household, his siblings, parents and his children, or his livelihood, just because of his serving me, he really will receive one hundred times as much (lit. one hundred doubles), and he will be given life without ending too.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Who all have left their homes, who have left their siblings, who have left their fathers, who have left their mothers, who have left their wives, who have left their children, who have left their lands in order to follow me, will a hundred times more like it find than what all they left. In the day which is to come they will be given lift forever.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Ephesians 3:19)

Following are a number of back-translations of Ephesians 3:19:

  • Uma: “I pray that you, together with all the believers in Kristus, know how no kidding the bigness of the love of Kristus to us is. That love of his cannot be told fully, the depths of it cannot be sounded, and we are not able to measure its bigness. I pray that you experience his love in your lives, in order that all that is in God is also in you.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Truly may you really know how great his love is – though one/we (dual) cannot understand it all – so that all customs and thoughts of God will be gathered there with you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “May you come to know His kindness to you even though this cannot be thoroughly understood by anybody. I want this so that God’s inspiring you, which has no lack, might be fulfilled in you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Granted, it is not possible for people to properly understand this love of his, but may it be that what you know and feel of his love will be added-to in order that your character/behavior will continually-become-better until it is-the-same-as God’s character/behavior which has no lack/fault.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “And hopefully you will all the more experience and comprehend this valuing by him, even though the whole of it can’t be grasped/understood by people, so that you will-be-completed in your ability to copy all which God is causing you to copy of his nature/ways.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Therefore I ask that you hearts may find about how it is that Christ loves us, even though we can never know all about how he loves us. But by this more and more it will be seen that you walk with God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 11:26)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 11:26:

  • Uma: “And all people who live and believe in me, they definitely will not die, until forever. Do you (sing.) believe what I say?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “And all who live and trust in me, will not die forever.’ Then Isa asked Marta, he said, ‘Do you believe?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because the person who believes in me, he has life forever, and his soul will never die. Woman, do you believe this?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “And those-aforementioned who live who believe in me, they will never-be-separated from God. Do you (sing.) believe this?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “And whoever has belief in me which is true and is living in harmony with this belief of his, he really has life which has no ending. Well, do you believe this?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Those who are now living and who believe in me will never died, now they have the new life. Do you believe what I am telling you?'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 20:31)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 20:31:

  • Uma: “The many people who were there got angry with him, they said, ‘Be quiet!’ They did not pay any attention, they just yelled louder: ‘Lord, descendant of King Daud, have pity on us!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “They were scolded by the many people and told not to make a noise. But they made their shouting only louder, they said, ‘O, descendant of Sultan Da’ud have pity on us.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The people got angry at them and told them that they should stop calling, but they shouted all the more, ‘Oh Lord, Descendant of David, pity us.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “The people scolded them so that they should be still koma, but they just did-it-even-more, shouting, ‘Lord, descendant of David, please have mercy!'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “They were rebuked by those people, stopping their noise. But they shouted all the louder, ‘Lord, descendant of king David, please do really pity us!'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “The people there where the blind men sat ordered them not to shout. But the blind men even more loudly shouted, saying: ‘Listen, Lord, you descendant of David, take pity on us.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Ephesians 4:30)

Following are a number of back-translations of Ephesians 4:30:

  • Uma: “[We must] be careful of our behavior, that we do not make sad the Holy Spirit that God gave us. Remember: the Holy Spirit is like a seal/stamp [saa’, from Indonesian "cap"] in our hearts, for he is the sign/indication that we are God’s portion. From the presence of the Holy Spirit in our hearts, we clearly know that the time will come that God will indeed free us from this evil world.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “And don’t cause the Holy Spirit of God to be grieved. Because the Spirit of God in your liver is a sign given by God that you belong to him. And because of God’s Spirit you are sure that there is a day in the future when God will make you really free.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Don’t do anything that’s not desired by the Holy Spirit, for He is the sign in you that you belong to God and a sign also that in the future, a day will come when God will finish all that He has started in the work of freeing you from your sins.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “And you ought not to sadden (lit. hurt the mind) the Holy Spirit of God, because he is the one whom God gave you as a mark or sign that you are his people, and his remaining in you, that is how you know for sure that God will completely set-you -free.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Put-far-away from you now whatever activity which grieves the Espiritu Santo whom God caused-to-indwell your body, he who is called Santo because he is far from all sin. Consider that this Espiritu Santo is like the brand-name of God on you which is your authorization that, as-for-you, (you) will be saved from his punishing because of your sin when the set-termination day arrives.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Do not cause the Holy Spirit’s heart to be sad because you do some sin. Because we walk with the Holy Spirit and from that we are assured that we are in the hand of God, who guards us until there will come the day that our Savior comes.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)