Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 1:11:
- Uma: “My relatives, the reason I say like this is that there are some of our relatives from Kloe’s household who confided to me that there are arguments among you.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The reason that I mention this, my brothers, is because I have been told by the companions of Kaloya that you are opposing/quarreling-with each other there.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason I say this, brothers, is because there are some companions of Chloe who told me that you are quarreling with each other there.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I advise/command this to you because there are those in the family of Kloe who have reported-negatively to me that you are arguing.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I am saying this because it has been newsed to me here by the people/employees of Cloe that you are now quarreling among yourselves there.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I tell you this word, my brothers, because the relatives of Chloe told me that you are quarreling.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 16:30:
- Noongar: “The rich man, he said, ‘They aren’t enough, Father Abraham! But if one man rose from the dead and went to them, they would turn away from their sinning.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘That rich man said: ‘If only that, it is not enough! There must be a dead person who lives again to go talk to them, and only then will they repent from their sins!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘They don’t listen to those, Grandfather Ibrahim,’ he said. ‘But if a dead person would come to life again and go to them they would really regret and leave their sins.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then the rich man answered, ‘Grandfather, they won’t obey those. But if there’s a dead person who is raised and goes to them, they will abandon their evil-doings.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘ ‘Yes granted, sir Abraham,’ the rich-man then said, ‘but that emphatically will not suffice. If there were someone who went from the place of the dead to go to them, they would repent of their sins.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Oh not like that, Uncle Abraham,’ he said, ‘for maybe they won’t believe/obey it at all. But if that is who is sent to them, one who has died and come alive again, it’s certain they really would repent/be-sorry and drop/give-up their sins.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 2:12:
- Uma: “And we, we did not receive a clearness [i.e., awareness, spirit, influence] from this world. We received the Clearness [an expression occasionally used for the Holy Spirit] that is from God, so that we know all that God has given us in his grace [lit., white insides].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The thoughts/mind God gave to us (incl.) is not just like the thoughts/mind of mankind here in the world, but God caused his Spirit to dwell with us (incl.) so that we (incl.) know all that he has given to us (incl.).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for us (incl.) believers, God has given us the Holy Spirit, and the one who guides us, He comes from God; He does not come from just a person. Therefore the Holy Spirit was given to us so that we might understand everything that God is going to give to us.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But as for us who believe, it is not a worldly mind that we received, but rather God’s true/proper Spirit whom he sent in order that we might understand all that he has given us.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “We believers, we have not been given perception/understanding which is only like the perception/understanding of people in the world who are unbelievers. Our wisdom/understanding is now true/genuine for the Espiritu Santo is whom God has sent to indwell our bodies, so that we would really comprehend these things that he has freely-given us.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Therefore concerning us, it is not the words of wise people here on the earth we know. God sent us the Holy Spirit in order that we know about the blessing of God given to us.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 17:31:
- Noongar: “That Day, a man sitting on the roof of his house, he must not go down inside his house to get his things. Also, a man standing outside his house, he must not go back inside the house.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘On that day, quickly run away! The person sitting on the porch, let him no longer take-time-to enter into the house to get his goods. So also the person in the garden/fields, let him no longer take-time-to go home to get anything in the town.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘When that day arrives, if there is someone outside his house and all his belongings inside the house, he shall not go inside to fetch them but he shall flee. Likewise also the person who is on his field he shall not go back to his house.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And on that day,’ said Jesus, ‘a person who is found outside of his house and still inside are his possessions, he should not go back into the house to get anything, because on that day there will be no value in possessions. It’s the same way also with a person who’s found in the field. It’s not necessary that he return home to his house.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘On that day, the one who is in the yard of his house, he must not enter to go get his possessions. The one also who is in the rice-field, he should not go-home.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “On that day, that one there on the flat roof of his house isn’t to enter his house again to get his belongings. And that one in the field, he isn’t to go home to get anything. Because on that day, belongings will have no more usefulness.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 4:5:
- Uma: “So, relatives, don’t talk-about others whether their work is good or not. Wait for the Lord to come again. He’s the one who will uncover/expose all that is hidden in the dark, he will make-appear all the purposes in the heart of mankind. At that time every person will get praise for God as is appropriate.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Therefore don’t find fault with your companions as long as the time for judgment has not yet come. When our (incl.) Leader Isa Almasi comes back he will judge. He will tell the doings of people that they hid. He will also tell what people planned/intended in their livers. Then God will praise the people each one about/because of the work they did.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Therefore, let us (incl.) not rebuke our companions, but rather let’s wait until our Lord Jesus Christ returns; He will reveal at that time the hidden works of people today, and He will cause to be known the things that people think about which are not yet known. And then every person will find out whether there is anything which he has that God can praise him for or not.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore don’t be judging your fellow people ahead-of-time. Wait until the right time for the Lord to come arrives so that he will be the one to judge. Because he will make-known all that has been hidden, including the thoughts and motives of people. And then God will praise each one in proportion to what he deserves.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore do not pass judgment on anyone as to whether their serving is good or not. Wait for the time of judgment at the return of the Lord. He will certainly expose the things that at the moment are hidden in darkness (fig.). And he will also expose even the ulterior motives of each one. And then each one will receive praise from God which is fitting for what each one has done.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “So do not any of you judge while the day on which will come our Lord Jesus Christ has not yet come. It is he who will judge who all have done good, and who all have not done correctly. He it is who knows what all is thought in the mind of each person. Concerning what will be found, God will pay to each person accordingly.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 18:26:
- Noongar: “All the people listening to Jesus asked, ‘Then who can save his life?'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “All the people who heard the words of Yesus were surprised, they said: ‘If thus, who [in the world] can receive eternal life?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When the people heard what Isa said, they said, ‘Na, who can then go to heaven, if it is like that?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when the people heard this, they said, ‘If it’s not possible for a rich man, it must not be possible for anybody to come to own life which has no end.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “As for those who heard that, they said, ‘If that indeed is so, who perhaps can be saved?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Those who heard that questioned, saying, ‘Well if it’s like that, that it’s hard for the rich to be saved who have big means, well who in fact can be saved? Isn’t it so that no-one can?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 6:3:
- Uma: “Don’t you know, on the Kiama Day Kristen people will judge the cases of angels. So, certainly you are capable of deciding cases in this world.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Do you know also that we (incl.) will even judge the angels in the future? Na even more so about problems/cases here in this world now we (dual) should judge.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because we will be the ones in the future to check up on the activities of even the angels of God in Heaven; and how much more it should be that we can check up on activities which take place just here on earth!” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Don’t you also know that we are the ones who will judge the angels? If we are capable of that, surely more so that which concerns only this earth.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because even the angels, we will be included in judging them. Well do we not all the more have the ability to fix up things in our lives?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “And even God’s angels will be judged by us. Therefore we should be able to set right some little matter that is troubling us.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 19:15:
- Noongar: “But people of the far country, they made this man become king. He returned. Immediately, he called his servants to stand in front of him to see how much money they had made.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘But he was lifted becoming king anyway, and he returned to his town. When he arrived in the town, he called his servants to meet with him, he wanted to know how much blessing/profit they had gotten.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘But even-so/inspite of it he was made king/given the title of king. When he returned to his country he commanded his servants to be called to him whom he had given the gold-coins so that he would know how much each one had earned.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But in spite of that, that prince was made a king anyway, and when he returned, he immediately called the ten whom he had caused to take care of money, because he wanted to see how much increase there was of the money of each one.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But he was appointed a king nevertheless and then went-home. ‘When he arrived, he had-called his servants to whom he had given money to inquire how much they had profited.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But he was put in office of kingship anyway, and then after that was finished he went home to reign in their-place/at-home now. When he arrived, he assembled again those to whom he had given the money so that he would know how much each one had been able to make in profit.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
