Following are a number of back-translations of Colossians 1:6:
- Uma: “and it has been told all over the world, with the result that more and more people are believing in the Lord Yesus and are doing good behavior. So also [is] what happened to you, relatives. When you heard that Good News, you believed in the Lord Yesus, and so [lit., to-the-point-that] you really knew the grace [white insides] of God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And this good news that you have heard about Isa Almasi has spread to all the places here in the world and many already are the ones who believe. And everyone who believes, their behavior is changed like you also, your behavior is changed since you heard about the love and pity/mercy of God to you and since you understood that this is really true.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for this which is called the Good News, by means of believing this, there are already many people in every town whose behavior has become good. And that’s not all, because believers are continuing to increase by means of the Good News, just like beginning with the day long ago when you heard the news of God’s kindness to us (incl.) and you realized that it was true, the believers there among you are always increasing in number.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And this good news, it is now being newsed-from-one-to-the-other in all the towns/countries on the earth. It is also having results in the way-of-life of many who are hearing and believing. And like that indeed also is what you have been experiencing beginning-from when you began to hear concerning God’s mercy/grace and came-to-know its correct likeness.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It wasn’t just to you that this truth reached but rather this is spreading all over the world. And wherever it is reaching the nature/ways of the believers are becoming-new, just like you from the time you first heard of this grace/mercy of God and after you comprehended that this is really the truth.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now it wasn’t only you who were told this word, but also this word has been taken everywhere all over the world. And now, everywhere more and more people are believing this word, and the word is increasingly opening the minds of the people about what good they should follow after. Because now everywhere there is taking place what took place where you live since the day you heard this word. It was then you realized that God truly has grace.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 16:21:
- Uma: “Your joy, [will be] like the joy that a woman has who is ready to give birth. First she suffers/groans, because that is the way it is at the time to give birth. But when the child is born, she no longer considers her suffering, she is glad because a child is born in the world.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “It’s figure is like a woman giving birth. She is troubled because the time for giving birth has come. But when the child is born (lit. is outside), she does not remember/think of the pain that she experienced because of the joy that a child has been born into the world.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When a woman is in labor pains, she endures the pain because she is giving birth. But when the child is born she forgets the pain because the new person here on the earth gives her great joy.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Like a woman whose hardship/suffering is extreme at her giving-birth. But when however the baby is born (lit. comes-out), she has forgotten her hardship, and great is her happiness on-account-of her child.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Isn’t it so that when a pregnant-woman is in advanced labor now, she really is distressed now (lit. her mind/thinking really is no longer very good), because the hour has been reached when her body experiences suffering/hardship? But after she has given birth, it’s like she has already forgotten this suffering of hers. She’s happy again because of the child to which she has given birth.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “A woman, when she is about to give birth, is sad because the time has come for her to suffer. But when the child has been born, then she doesn’t remember the pain she suffered. Because she is happy that a child is born here in the world.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 25:14:
- Uma: “‘When I come again to be King, it will happen like this parable: A noble planned to go to a far away village. Before he left, he called his ordered-ones and turned his money over to them to do business with and try to get an increase while he was gone.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘When I come back, the ruling of God will be like this. There was a certain man who went to a different country. When he was soon leaving, he told his servants to come to him and he entrusted to them his money.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The rule of God is also like a man who went on a journey. Before they left, he gathered together his servants so he could divide up his money so that they might invest it.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus also related this parable. He said, ‘God’s ruling, it can also be compared to a man who got-ready to go to a far country. Therefore he called his servants so that he would entrust to them his riches.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus said next, ‘Another illustration of the kingdom of God is like this. There was a person who was going on a far journey. Without anything further, he called for his slaves and left all his possessions in their charge.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “God in heaven rules the people here, he is compared with a man who must go to a far away country. He called his workers to deliver over money for them to use while he is gone.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Colossians 2:9:
- Uma: “So, don’t be deceived, because it is in the person/body of Kristus that all the character and power of God dwell with no lack.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because Almasi, even though he was born like our (incl.) human shape/appearance nevertheless/but all God’s customs and thoughts/mind were gathered there in him;” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason I say this to you is because Christ became a person. He had a body; but in spite of that, everything that was there in God was also there in Him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because the truth-of-the-matter concerning Cristo is that he became a person but there was nevertheless in him all of the godhood of God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For this Cristo, there is no difference between his Godship and the Godship of God, for they are one living-entity. But his has been embodied.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Christ appeared in that he became a person, but not a bit was lacking of the power of God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 17:20:
- Uma: “‘It is not just these my disciples only for whom I pray. I also pray for people who will believe in me from their testimony.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘I am not just asking/requesting for these my disciples,’ said Isa, ‘but for all who believe in me because of their teaching.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I beseech you not just for these people who are ours now, but rather also because of all who will believe in me later on by means of their teaching.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘It’s not only these that I pray for but even those also who will believe in me on-account-of what these will go and say.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And it’s not only for these disciples of mine that I am praying, but on the contrary those also who will believe-in/obey me because of their teaching,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But I don’t ask you the favor to care for only them, but also for those who will believe in me afterwards by means of the word spoken by our people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 25:46:
- Uma: “Yesus finished his words, he said: ‘All those evil people will be thrown into hell and be punished forever, and the upright people will get good life forever.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then these people will be put in hell and they will be in difficulty forever, but the righteous people are put in heaven and they have life forever.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then I, the king, will answer, ‘I tell you that if you didn’t help even one of these whose rank is very low, I am the one you didn’t help.’ And these people,’ said Jesus, ‘will be taken away from here because they will be punished with a punishment forever. However, the righteous, by contrast, they will be given life forever.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then Jesus concluded, saying, ‘Those then, they will be removed to be punished forever, but the righteous people, they will enjoy life that has no end.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, without anything further, they will then be driven there to punishment which is without ending. But as for these righteous ones in the sight of God, they will receive life which is without ending.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Then these people will go to punishment forever. The people whose sins had been acquitted will be given life forever.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Colossians 3:18:
- Uma: “All you who have husbands, submit to your husbands as is appropriate for women who follow the Lord.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You women you ought-to/must follow your husband’s wish/want/desire. This is right for you to do because you trust our (incl.) Leader Isa Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for you women, submit yourself to your husbands, because this is the proper behavior of a woman who is a believer in the Lord.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You women, submit-yourselves -to (lit. cause-yourselves -to-be-ruled-by) your spouses, because that is what is fitting to believers in the Lord.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Here is what else I want to say to you. First, as for the women, it is necessary that you submit to your spouse for this is fitting for those who are united/tied-together with the Lord Jesus.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Listen you women, obey your husbands. This is the duty of those who believe in the Lord Jesus.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Martu Wangka: “There are some of you Jesus’s relatives who are women spouses. You should sit well to your men spouses, to those who are like your bosses. Jesus thinks that you should sit well like that.” (Source: Carl Gross)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 18:26:
- Uma: “There was also a slave of the Big Priest there. That slave was a relative of the person whose ear Petrus had sliced. That slave said to Petrus: ‘Is it not you (sing.) whom I saw earlier in that garden with Yesus?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then one servant of the leader priest, a relative of the man who had his ear severed by Petros spoke. He said to Petros, ‘Did I not see you there in the orchard with him?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there was also there one of the high priest’s servants. He was a relative of the one whose ear Peter had cut off. And he said to Peter, ‘It seems as if I saw you a while ago there where they arrested Jesus. Perhaps you are his companion.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Whereupon there was a slave of the highest priest who was a relative of the man whose ear Pedro had sliced-off. He said, ‘Aren’t you (sing.) the one I saw who was a companion of Jesus where-the grove-of-trees -is-located?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He was next questioned by a helper of that Most-important Priest, who was a relative of that one whose ear had been cut off, ‘Isn’t it so,’ he said, ‘that you are who I saw with Jesus there in that plantation?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Then one of the workers of the chief priest who was a relative of the man whose right ear had been cut off by Peter said, ‘Wasn’t it you I saw at the woods in his company?'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
