complete verse (2 Corinthians 6:13)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 6:13:

  • Uma: “I am speaking here like I am speaking to my own children: I request that you open your hearts to return our (excl.) love.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “I talk to you like you are my true children. We (excl.) ask/pray you, love us (excl.) also like we (excl.) love you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I will speak to you as if you were my own children; you must love us also.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Therefore you whom I consider as my children, please-be-so-kind-as-to repay/return our (excl.) big love to you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “I am now regarding you as my children. Hopefully, since I am not holding back from you, you will reciprocate with holding dear which is not insincere.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “I call on you like a father when he calls on his children. Love me just like I love you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 4:34)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 4:34:

  • Uma: “That is why Yesus said to them: ‘My food is to follow the will of the Lord God who sent me, and to make-complete the work that he gave me.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Isa said to them, ‘That is what fills/satisfies me, when I do the wish of God, the one who sent me, and I have to finish the work he gave me to do.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘To fulfill the will of God who sent me and to finish that which he has given me to do is just like my food because it is that which gives me strength,’ said Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Then Jesus said, ‘This is what I eat, my obeying what the one-who-sent-me wants in order that the work he gave-me -to-do will be finished.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “When Jesus observed that, he said to them, ‘What I mean by my food is that I obey the will of the one who sent me to come here and fulfill what he is causing me to do.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said, ‘It is like eating to me when I do the will of him who sent me and I will complete the work he gave me to do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 11:4)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 11:4:

  • Uma: “When Yesus heard that question, he said to the messenger: ‘Return, say to him there all that you have heard and seen:” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “So-then Isa answered the disciples of Yahiya, he said, ‘Go and tell Yahiya what you have heard me say and what you have seen me do.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus answered, ‘Go back to John and tell him what you’ve seen that I have done and what you’ve heard that I have spoken. What you should tell him is that because of me the blind can already see, the lame can already walk, lepers are cured, and deaf people are now able to hear. I have raised the dead, and I have caused the Good News to be understood by poor people. Far better off is the person who does not doubt that I am the one God sent.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Jesus said, ‘Return to Juan to tell him what you saw and heard,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Jesus replied, saying, ‘Go back to Juan and tell him what you have heard and seen,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said to them: ‘Go back now, tell John what you have seen happening. Tell him the words you have heard me speak.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (2 Corinthians 8:11)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 8:11:

  • Uma: “So, these are my words to you, relatives: it is so very appropriate [lit., it is the way] that you finish the work that you began last year, since you, relatives, are the first ones who wanted to gather your helping money, and you also are first ones who began to gather this money. So, like your diligence to make plans, I hope that also is how your diligence will be to continue this work as far as your ability goes.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Therefore do it and finish now your help. You were really happy when you started it therefore you should also be happy to finish it, however much each one of you can afford.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “What I advise you to do is, that collecting of money that you started last year. You were the first ones to collect money to help the people of Judea, and that’s not all, because this idea of helping them came from you. And because of this, you should continue so that you can finish according to what you can do. It is necessary for your desire to be great to finish this work, just like your desire was big when you first started it.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Carry-through then to fulfill your plan in proportion to your ability. May your desire to fulfill your plan be equal to your desire to plan.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Therefore, what’s good is, finish- it -off now. That enthusiasm/perseverance you had when you began, hopefully it will continue-indefinitely. But that which you give, it should of course be in accordance with what you have ability to give.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “So now, just like you did before in that you were eager to give help, so also now be eager to give whatever bit you have the ability to give.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 5:12)

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

  • Uma: “They asked him: ‘Who commanded you (sing.) to carry your (sing.) mat?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “‘Who is the person who told you that?’ they said.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the man answered, ‘Which person told you to roll up your mat and to walk around?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “‘And who perhaps (particle of strong disapproval) is the one who said that?’ they inquired.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “‘Who is that who said that to you,’ said the Judio, ‘that you should carry it and go?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Then he was told, ‘Who told you to pick up your mat and go?'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 12:6)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:6:

  • Uma: “So, even more so I, because I surpass [am more important than] the House of God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “I tell you, there is someone here with greater authority than the law of the temple.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “It’s true what I say to you that someone has arrived here to you who is greater than the House of God. There is also a written saying of God which says, ‘The thing that is big in my breath is not your sacrifice, rather it is your mercy to your companions.’ ‘” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “I say to you moreover that what/the-one-who is here now is more valuable than the Temple.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “This is really true which I will say to you, that there is here with you now one who is greater/more-important than the Templo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “I tell you that here where you are is a person who is greater than the church.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (2 Corinthians 10:4)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 10:4:

  • Uma: “We(excl.), we (excl.) are just human. But when we (excl.) oppose people who reject us (excl.), we (excl.) oppose them with strength that is from God. Our(excl.) behavior is not like that of people who don’t know God, nor do we (excl.) only use the skills of mankind. We(excl.) use strength from God. We(excl.) can be compared to soldiers to knock-down the fortresses of the enemy. Its meaning, with strength from God” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “That is what we (excl.) use, expertise from God and the expertise given to us (excl.) is powerful (supernatural), therefore we (excl.) defeat even whatever opposes the true teaching.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For the arguments, which is to say, weapons, which we use to fight against evil, they don’t come from people, but rather they are very powerful because they come from God. And as for these arguments, none of the arguments of the enemies of God can resist them, even though they are very strong.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Because the weapons that we (excl.) use are not those that worldly people use but rather those that are very-powerful in God’s estimation, for they are capable of defeating those that oppose him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “For this with-which- we (excl.) -contend/fight, (it’s) not like that-with-which-people here in the world -contend/fight, but rather it has God’s supernatural-power with-which-any surrounding-wall around his enemies -can-be-knocked-down. Through the strength of this supernatural-power of his we (excl.) can defeat the wrong reasoning of the minds/thinking of people,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “I do not by myself hunt for how to make victorious God’s work which I do, because the person’s own words are not able to win. Therefore God strengthens me for the work I do for him so that it will conquer over evil.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 5:44)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 5:44:

  • Uma: “How can you believe in me, for you just want to be honored by your companions, you do not look for honor from the One-and-only God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “How can you believe in me if that is what you want, that your companions praise you? You do not strive for praise from God, the only God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “How can you properly believe, when each one of you looks for praise from his companions, and the praise of the one God, you do not want.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “How do-you-suppose will you believe? Because what you want/like, it is your praising-one-another, but you don’t care-about the one-only God’s speaking-highly-of you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Because what you are drawing out is, praise from one another, not praise coming from the true God. Well how could you believe-in/obey me?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “How could it be that you would believe in me while you look well on each other and you do not seek now to have God look well on you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)