complete verse (Matthew 6:4)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 6:4:

  • Uma: “It is better that not one person know of our (incl.) deed. Only our (incl.) Father in heaven knows. He sees our (incl.) character that others do not know, and he will reward us (incl.).” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “so that your giving is not known. Your Father in heaven knows what you do even if it is hidden and he will reward you.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Don’t let people know about your giving help to the poor, and our Father who is in heaven, he alone will see it and he also will be the one to reward you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “so that no one will know. And our Father who sees what you do that is not known will be the one to reward you.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “so that this giving of yours is really secret/hidden. For it’s certain that you will be rewarded by your Father who is in heaven, who can see even this secret doing of yours.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “When you give help, do it secretly. Your Father who is in heaven sees what you do, it is he who will pay you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (1 Corinthians 15:49)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 15:49:

  • Uma: “At this time, our life is like the life of Adam, for our bodies are still bodies that are fit to dwell on earth. In the future we will live like Kristus, and at that time our bodies will be fit to dwell in heaven.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Here in the world our (incl.) bodies resemble the body of Grandfather Adam made from earth. When we (dual) are there in heaven our (incl.) bodies will also resemble the body of Almasi the person from heaven.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For since our bodies were made like the body of the first man who was made from the earth, it is necessary that our bodies also are like the body of Christ, who is the man who came from Heaven.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Therefore we also who are earthly, we now take-after the one who was from the earth, but in the future, all of us who have been joined to the one who was from heaven who is Cristo, we will also take-after him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Well, just as for all this time we have lived the life of a person who is fitted-for-earth, we must now make our nature/ways like that of a person fitted-for-heaven, who is Cristo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Concerning us, we have our bodies which are like the body of Adam. But afterwards, there will be our bodies like the body of Christ who came from heaven.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 24:52)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 24:52:

  • Noongar: “They gave great praise to Jesus, and went back into Jerusalem, and great joy filled them.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “They knelt down worshipping him, and their hearts were very glad to go back to Yerusalem.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “They prostrated there before Isa and then they returned to Awrusalam. They were very glad,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And they worshipped him and they were much full of joy as they returned to Jerusalem.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “They praised/worshipped him and then they returned to Jerusalem with great happiness.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “When they observed that it was like that now, they worshipped him. And then they returned to Jerusalem with very happy minds/inner-beings.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 7:2)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 7:2:

  • Uma: “Because the measuring-thing that we (incl.) use to others, that also will be used to measure for us (incl.). Meaning, if we (incl.) go too far criticizing others, like that also God will decide/judge our (incl.) case.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “for if you practically (lit. as if appearing) judge your companion, likewise also will God judge you. And however (lit. as to how) you measure out for your companion like that will it be also measured to you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because the thing you criticize your companion for will be also the thing God criticizes you for. The bigness of what you criticize your companion for will also be the bigness of what God criticizes you for.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Because the measure that you use-to-judge your companions, that also is the measure that God will use to judge you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Because how you judge your companion is how you will be judged. If you are hard (lit. heavy) on your companion, hard is what you too will receive.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Because you will be judged like you judge other people. Like you do, that is what will be done to you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (1 Corinthians 16:23)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 16:23:

  • Uma: “The Lord Yesus bless you!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “May our Leader Isa Almasi always care for you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “May our Lord Jesus bless you all.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “May the Lord Jesus be-gracious/merciful-to you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “I pray that hopefully with you always is the grace/mercy of our Lord Jesus.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “May our Lord Jesus Christ want to bless you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 1:33)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 1:33:

  • Yatzachi Zapotec: “I wouldn’t have realized who he was, but God, the person who sent me to baptize said to me, ‘You will see my Spirit come down where the person is who will cause my Spirit to be in your hearts to rule you.'”
  • Huehuetla Tepehua: ” . . . ‘You will see the Holy Spirit who will come down from heaven. The Holy Spirit will come to rest on a man. He is the one who will send the Holy Spirit to people, as if to say, he will baptize with the Holy Spirit instead of water.'”
  • Lalana Chinantec: “I didn’t know who he was at first, but the one who sent me said to me: ‘You are going to see the Great Spirit descend on a person. The Great Spirit will remain on him. He is the one who will cause my Great Spirit to enter into people’s hearts. That’s how he will baptize people.’ That’s what he told me.” (Source for this and above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
  • Uma: “There is also this testimony of Yohanes. He said: ‘At first I did not know that Yesus was the Redeemer King. But God ordered me to baptize people with water, and he said to me like this: ‘If you (sing.) should see the Holy Spirit come-down and land on a person, He will be the one who will baptize people with the Holy Spirit.’ So, I did see the Holy Spirit come-down from heaven in-the-shape-of a dove, land and come-to-rest on Yesus. That is why these are my words: Yesus, He is the Child of God.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “I did not yet know him, but God who told me to bathe the people with water told me, he said, ‘When you see the Holy Spirit come down going to a certain person and remaining there with him, he is the one who will bathe mankind in a different way, he will send to them the Holy Spirit.’ ‘ Then Yahiya testified about Isa, he said, ‘I really saw the Holy Spirit come down from the sky like the shape of a dove alighting and remaining with Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And at first,’ said John, ‘I did not yet know that he was the prophesied king, but God who is the one who sent me that I might baptize by means of water, he told me beforehand, he said, ‘If you see a person upon whom the Holy Spirit comes down and doesn’t leave him, this is the person who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Previously, I-say, I didn’t know him. But then the one who sent me to go baptize-with water, he said, ‘The one whom you (sing.) see on-whom-my-Spirit -alights and remains, it is he who will baptize-with the Holy Spirit.’ And so it was that I saw the Holy Spirit like a pigeon/dove who came-down from heaven and stayed with/in him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “I didn’t know that he was the one. But God who sent me to baptize in water, he’s the one who said to me, ‘You will see the Espiritu Santo who will descend on a person and enter-to-indwell him. Well, that one, that person is the one who will baptize, the Espiritu Santo being what he baptizes with.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Until then I did not know who was the Christ. But when I was sent to baptize with water, God told me, ‘That man you see that the Holy Spirit arrives upon, he is that one who will cause that the people will be empowered by the Holy Spirit.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 8:6)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 8:6:

  • Uma: “he said: ‘Father, my slave/servant is very sick in the house over there [out of sight]. He just continually lies down and is continually suffering.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “‘O, Sir, I have a servant in my house. He is very sick, he cannot move and has great pain.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then Jesus went to the town of Capernaum. And when he was going into the town, there was a person who wasn’t a Jew who was the captain of a hundred soldiers. And he went near to Jesus saying, ‘Chief, in my house my servant is sick. He is paralyzed, and very painful is what he is feeling.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “‘Lord, I have a servant who is lying-on-his-back at (my) home. He cannot-move and his suffering is extreme.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “‘Master, excuse me, my male servant at the house is seriously ill. He can no longer even turn over. His condition really is very serious.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “He said: ‘Listen Lord, there is a boy who works at my house who is suffering much from having a paralyzed body,’ he said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (2 Corinthians 2:7)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 2:7:

  • Uma: “Forgive him and comfort him. Lest [lit., don’t-don’t, like Indonesian ‘jangan-jangan’] he feel too sad, with the result that he loses heart [lit., his heart is lessened].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Now you should forgive him and you should encourage his liver. Perhaps he would be exceedingly sad/troubled and be like a person drowning.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And now you must forgive him; advise him, because if not, his trust in God might be removed by his excess of grief.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “What you should do now is forgive him and strengthen his mind so that his sorrow is not added-to and that is his-cause-of-defeat.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Forgive him now and cheer him up, so that he will not be overwhelmed (lit. drowned) by the big-size of his grief which is too much now.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “It would be good for you to forgive the man now. Encourage his heart. Do not want that there continue the overflowing sadness not knowing what to do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)