complete verse (2 Corinthians 9:14)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 9:14:

  • Uma: “And they also will pray for you will loving hearts, for God’s love that works in your lives is indeed big.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “So then they will pray to God for you and they will really love you because they know that the reason you give to them generously is because you have been caused to be generous by God because of his love and mercy.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then they will pray for you, and you will become very precious in their breath because of your great kindness to them which God has given you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “They will moreover pray-for you while also they very-much-want to see you because of God’s amazing grace to you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “And furthermore, they will be praying for you since they will hold you very dear because of your great grace/aid, which God indeed freely-gave you.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “They then will pray to God for you and overflowingly love you. Because they will see that God really opened your hearts so that you are able to do good.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 5:39)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 5:39:

  • Umiray Dumaget Agta: “You read the writings carefully because you mistakenly think that you will live forever because of them. These, however, are what tell of me.”
  • Huehuetla Tepehua: “It is necessary that you study well God’s words since you say that there you will find everlasting life up in heaven. And you will find that even there it talks about me.”
  • Lalana Chinantec: “You read where the word of God is written down, for you think that you will live forever because you have the word of God. But I am the one the word of God is speaking about.” (Source for this and above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
  • Uma: “You study the contents of the Holy Book, because you say that you receive good life forever from that Holy Book. But the Holy Book itself also talks about me.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “You really persevere studying the holy-book because you think that if you study you will find/obtain life forever in heaven. And-what’s-more this holy-book tells about me.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You study the written word of God because you suppose mistakenly that by means of this you will be able to own eternal life. The written word of God testifies about me, however you don’t believe in me.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “You study-and-study what God caused-to-be-written long ago, because you mistakenly-think that if you do that, you will have life that has no end. But I of-course am the one that that-aforementioned writing talks-about,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “You keep going over and over the word of God in your writings, because you’re sure you will find there how life which has no ending may be yours. However as for these, they testify only concerning me.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “You earnestly study the Holy Book you have because you thus want to find out about the new life which is forever. And the one written about in that Holy Book you study is me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
  • Kupsabiny: “You like reading the writings so much thinking that when you do like that you will get life everlasting. But these writings talk of how I am.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Mairasi: “You guys already definitely regularly study what’s inside the Holy Book because you guys think/assume: ‘By doing that we will certainly see the life-fruit place [salvation]’ you guys say. In this very same Holy Book it testifies about Me Myself.'” (Source: Enggavoter 2004)

complete verse (Matthew 12:33)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:33:

  • Uma: “Yesus also/again said to the Parisi people: ‘As for a good tree, its fruit is also good. As for a tree that is not good, its fruit also is not good. Whether a tree is good or not is evident in its fruit.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “‘If for example a tree is good it’s fruit is also good. Likewise if the tree is not good it’s fruit is not good. The tree is known by it’s fruit.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “A tree without any disease bears good fruit. A tree that has a disease bears bad fruit. A tree can be recognized by its fruit.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Then Jesus said, parabling, ‘You should make your opinion of a tree and of its fruit the same. If you count a tree as good, good also should be your opinion of its fruit. And if you count a tree as bad, bad also should be your opinion of its fruit. Because what-distinguishes a tree is its fruit.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Of course you regard as good a tree whose fruit is good, and as bad if its fruit is bad. Because isn’t it so that by the fruit it is recognized as being good or not?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “The good tree produces good fruit. But the tree that is no good produces fruit which is no good. Therefore concerning a tree, according to the fruit it produces thus it is known whether it is a good tree or not.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (2 Corinthians 11:13)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 11:13:

  • Uma: “People like that, they are lying [i.e., fake] apostles. They work in your midst, as if they were really apostles of Kristus, when in fact they are deceivers!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Those people, it is not true that they were commissioned by Almasi. They only deceive and pretend that they are truly people who were commissioned by Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They are not true apostles of Christ, but rather they are false servants of Christ. They are fooling you by means of their works and they say that they are true apostles of Christ.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Because those people, they appear (lit. show-themselves) as if they are true apostles of Cristo, but the truth of it is, they are pretend apostles who deceive the ones-they-are-teaching.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “As for those people, in what they say and do, they are giving-out that they are true/genuine apostles of Cristo. But there is no truth (to that). They are just falsely-claiming-to-be-apostles.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “These teachers of whom I speak say that they are Christ’s representatives but it is not true. Rather they are deceivers. For only on the outside are they like Christ’s representatives.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 6:24)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:24:

  • Uma: “When the crowd/people heard that Yesus was no longer there, not even his disciples were still there, they boated going to Kapernaum to look for him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “So-then when the people saw that Isa wasn’t there, surprise, nor his disciples, they got in/rode in those boats to look for Isa in Kapernaum.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when the people knew that Jesus was no longer there nor his disciples, they got in the boats because they will look for Jesus there in the town of Capernaum.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “When the many-people saw that Jesus and his disciples were not there, they rode-along in those-aforementioned boats and they went to Capernaum to go look-for Jesus.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Therefore when the people observed that Jesus and his disciples were no longer there, what they did was, they went aboard and crossed over to Capernaum, to look for Jesus.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Now these people saw that Jesus wasn’t there nor were his learners there. They went in the boats which had arrived and went to Capernaum to look for him.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 13:15)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 13:15:

  • Uma: “Because their hearts are hard, they make themselves deaf and they make themselves blind: they refuse to see with their eyes, they refuse to hear with their ears, they refuse to have their hearts made clear. That’s why they will not return to Me, and I will not give them goodness/salvation.’ ‘” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Because the liver of these people has become hard. They stop their ears and shut their eyes. If they would not do like that, they would see with their eyes, they would hear with their ears, they would understand in their livers and they would return to me, says God, and I would forgive their sins.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For as these people, their thinking has become hard. They have stopped up their ears. They have closed their eyes. Because if they didn’t they would be able to see and they would be able to hear, and they would understand what is right, and they would trust in me and I would set them free.’ ‘” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Because their minds/thoughts have already hardened. They turn-a-deaf-ear-to the truth while they also close-their -eyes lest they be-able-to-see, able-to-hear, and able-to-understand and-then turn-to-face me so that I will heal them.’ ‘” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Really, as for these people, they have become stubborn (lit. made their heads hard). They’re making- their -ears-let-things-go-in-one-side- -and-out-of-the-other and they’re closing their eyes. For if it wasn’t like that, maybe they would indeed be able to see, and be able to hear, and be able to understand, and they would indeed return to me that I would heal them, whereas they won’t.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Because these people have closed their minds. It is as though they stopped their ears, not wanting to see what there is to see. Because they do not want to understand about the word and they do not want to turn their hearts to believe in me that they would have their sins forgiven,’ says God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

For the Old Testament quote, see Isaiah 6:9 and Isaiah 6:10.

complete verse (2 Corinthians 12:12)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 12:12:

  • Uma: “While I was with you, I did signs that made-clear that I was really the Lord Yesus’s apostle. I was patient working in difficulties, I did amazing signs and powerful things with strength from God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “When I was there with you before, you saw that it is true I was really commissioned by Jesus Christ because of my doings/work. No matter what opposed me, I just endured it, and you could see the signs I did, the deeds that cause-wonder and the powerful (supernatural) deeds.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when I was there with you, I showed you that I’m a true apostle of Christ because even though I was in difficulty, I endured it, so that I might be able to show signs and miracles which are the sign of a true apostle.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Because you have seen that I am truly an apostle because of the signs and other amazing manifestations of God’s power that I have been-patient to do while I was staying-with you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Truly I am testifying that, when I was there with you, you comprehended that, as for me, (I am) a true/genuine apostle because of the signs and amazing things that God was causing-me -to-do. I kept on doing all these things with a good mind/inner-being enduring the hardships that were happening to me.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “When I was there where you live in order to speak the word, it was clearly seen that I was Christ’s representative. In the work I did for Christ I patiently endured all that those people said. And those miracles I did, made it plain that I was Christ’s representative.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 6:56)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:56:

  • Uma: “The people who eat my body and drink my blood, they stay in-harmony [lit., mutual-life] with me, and I with them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains with me and I remain with him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He who eats my body and drinks my blood never leaves me, and I also never leave him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “The one who eats my body and drinks my blood, he is in me continually, and I also, I am in him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “That one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood, it’s like we (excl.) are now one body.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood is in fellowship with me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
  • Martu Wangka: “If a person eats my body, and drinks my blood, as a result of that, we two will sit together as relatives.” (The idea of sitting together as relatives is good.) (Source: Carl Gross)