Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 2:14:

• Uma: “People who don’t know God, they don’t believe the teaching that is from the Spirit of God. They say: ‘[Talk] like that is talk of stupid people.’ The teaching from the Spirit of God [of course] doesn’t enter their hearts, for that kind of teaching can only enter our heart if the Holy Spirit makes-it-clear-to us.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “A person if there is not with him God’s Spirit does not receive the preaching from God’s Spirit. He does not understand that preaching. As for him, there is no use in it because God’s Spirit has to be there first with that person then he can understand.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now as for the person who does not have the Holy Spirit in him, he cannot receive the teaching of the Holy Spirit, because it has no value for him. And he cannot also understand it, because the only one who can explain this to him, is the Holy Spirit.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “As for the one who doesn’t believe in whom God’s Spirit does not stay, he doesn’t receive what comes-from God’s Spirit, because it is of no value to him. Neither does he understand it, because its proper meaning and importance can only be understood by means of God’s Spirit.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “But those people whose minds/inner-beings have not yet been renewed by the Espiritu Santo, they are not accepting the teachings which are coming from this Espiritu Santo of God. For they are in fact saying that they are just nonsense/stupidity. They really cannot understand them, because, these things, (they) can only be understood through the help of the Espiritu Santo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “But the people who do not walk with the Holy Spirit cannot understand about the word the Holy Spirit teaches us. They say that the person who speaks this word is not wise. They do not know about it because they do not walk with the Holy Spirit.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 4:7:

• Uma: “Do you think thus, that you are better than others? Is there anything you have that you didn’t receive from God? Why are you proud? Do you think that everything you have is not something God gave you?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Why do you say that you are greater than others? Is it not that God gave you what you have? Na, why do you then boast as if it were from yourselves, and it really was just given to you by God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Perhaps you are thinking mistakenly that you are higher than other believers in Christ; your great understanding, perhaps you’re thinking mistakenly that you had this before and it was not given you by God! For if you realized that this was just given to you, why are you boasting about it?” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Because what perhaps is your importance over your fellows? Do you perhaps have wisdom or ability that God didn’t give? And if God is the one who gave it, why are you boasting-about yourselves as if you were the ones who worked-for-it?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “For are you much more knowledgeable than other people? What ability do you have which was not graced to you by God? Well, since it’s like that, why do you still boast of it, just as if it wasn’t graced to you?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “And now, who told you that you are greater than other people? Which word do you encounter which isn’t what God has given to you? And now, if God caused that you know the word which you know now, why is it that you boast about the words which you know, as though you know it by yourselves?” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 6:5:

• Uma: “The purpose of my words is that you be ashamed, relatives. Isn’t there even one of you who is wise [lit., clear] who can decide the cases among your fellow Kristen people!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “You should be ashamed! Is it that there is nobody, not even one among you trusters in Isa who knows how to judge you if you have opposing views?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason I say this is so that you might feel ashamed. Surely there must be one of you who could be a judge, who knows how to settle the case for believers.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “It’s utterly shameful! Is there perhaps not even one of you who is skilled to adjudicate the cases of you believers?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Please don’t (do that). Be ashamed of that now. Because look-here, is there nobody there who knows how to fix up whatever his fellow believers are quarrelling about?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “I tell you this word in order that you be ashamed. There where you live, isn’t there even one of your brothers who knows how to settle a matter that is troubling his brothers?” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 7:17:

• Uma: “To each person the Lord gives a different life: some of us are single, some are married, some live as slaves, some live as nobles. So, if God calls us to become a Kristen person, let us follow him in our life, like our life already is. That is the command that I teach to every Kristen person in every village I go to.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “This I teach to all the gatherings of trusters in Isa Almasi. Whatever God gave to you and whatever your status was in the beginning when you followed Isa Almasi, don’t change it.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And whatever the situation of each one of us (incl.) is here on the earth, each one must fulfill or obey what God wants him to do according to the situation, whatever it was, when he believed our Lord. I teach this to the believers in every town.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “The summary (lit. gathering-together) of what I’ve been saying is this: each one should continue in the status that the Lord gave him which is the status he had when he heard God calling him. This is what I am commanding in all the congregations.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “This is what’s good, whatever the circumstances God determined for each one of us when he put it in our minds to trust in and believe Cristo, in those circumstances let us fulfill what he determined for us. This is what I teach to all believers.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “God determined how each one of us is to live. That condition we were in when God called to us, that is how we are to continue. In all the cities where the believers gather together this is the word I tell these people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)