Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 23:19:
- Uma: “You are really like blind people! Do you say/think that the offering is more than the offering burning table? No, for it is that table that makes-holy the offering on top of it.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You are very blind. Which is greater, the sacrifice or the place-for-putting the sacrifice? If the animal is not placed on the-place-for-putting sacrifices it is hep not a sacrifice.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You are very blinded. Evidently you think that the thing that is greatest is the sacrifice. It cannot be. Because the source of it’s having the power of God is the altar of sacrifice.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Your blindness is excessive! What do-you-suppose is more-important? The offering or the altar that causes-the offering -to-become holy?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “You really are blind! Which really is the most important? Is it the thank-offering which is burned, or the altar which makes this thank-offering far-from-ordinary?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But it is because your hearts are foolish, you do not understand what is the meaning of what you say. Do you think that the offering is more important than the altar which makes the offering holy?” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Philippians 2:25:
- Uma: “However, as for our relative Epafroditus, whom you long ago ordered to come here to assist me, I think/say it is better that I just order him to go back to you. We(excl.) two are like soldiers that fight together, for we (excl.) are one-work in the work of the Lord, and he has helped me in my hardship.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I (happened-to) think also that I should send back to you our (incl.) brother Epaprode. You sent him hep here to help me. He is really my companion working for God and he is my companion defending the good news.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And I also decided that it was necessary to send to you our (incl.) brother Epaphroditus, the one you sent here to help me. He is my companion and partner in what God has for me to do.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I have also decided that it is necessary to send-home our sibling Epafroditus who is my fellow-worker and my companion soldier of Cristo. He is the one you sent to me to help-me in all my needs,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, as for Epafrodito, our sibling in believing whom you sent here to bring your (financial) help to me and to assist me in my work here, his help to me is really very big. And it’s true that, even though many are opposing, he’s a good friend to me in standing up for the Good News. But I am thinking that it’s necessary to send him home now there-to-you.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I think that it is necessary that I send there Epaphroditus, whom you have sent to bring me the money you sent. Because when he arrived here, he helped me in preaching the word.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 14:27:
- Uma: “‘It is goodness I put/reserve to/for you. It is goodness from me that I give to you. What I give to you is not like what you receive from this world. Don’t let your hearts be uncertain and do not be afraid.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said yet, ‘That is what I leave with you, a peaceful liver. This peace is from me and this is not the same as the peace in the world. Therefore don’t be troubled/sad in your liver and do not be afraid.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I am leaving behind peace in your mind. The peace which is here in my mind, that’s what I am leaving for you. Those people here in the world who do not believe, they cannot give you peace like this. It’s necessary that your breaths should not be painful, and you should not also be afraid.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Don’t be worried and afraid, because I will make-peaceful your mind/thoughts. And the peace that I give you, it isn’t the peace that people in this world talk-about but rather the peace of my mind/thoughts.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Peace/protection of your minds/inner-beings is what I will leave for you to inherit. This peace/protection which I will give has no equal. It’s not like the peace/protection which can be given by this world which doesn’t remain. Therefore don’t be sad/disheartened. Don’t be afraid.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I am going to leave, but be at peace. I will cause you to be at peace, but not like the peace that the people talk about. Do not be sad and do not fear.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 24:12:
- Uma: “At that time, the evil of people will be keep-increasing, to the point that the love of many people will diminish.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because the evil/badness in the world will be exceeding/very bad, most people will no longer love their companions.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And because of the spread of the wickedness of mankind, most will no longer have in their breath their love for their companions.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because of the increase of evil, the love of most will decrease.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Evil will really spread all over the world/land. Therefore what will happen is that many will be those whose holding-dear of me will grow small.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When there has developed much evil, many people will draw back from loving their fellow believers.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Philippians 4:7:
- Uma: “If you turn-over your nervousness to God, he will give you goodness that is beyond the thinking of mankind, with the result that your heart and thinking will be calm in your connection with Kristus Yesus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then God will cause peace in your livers and in your thinking/minds because you belong to Isa. And this peace is unspeakable.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then there will be no trouble in your mind and breath, for by means of your being made one with Jesus Christ, God will give you a peaceful breath that other people cannot understand.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because if you do that, you will have the peace that God gives that people’s minds are not able to surpass, and that will be like a guard that watches-over your minds on-account-of your being joined to Cristo Jesus.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Of course if it’s like that, you will have peace/protection of mind/inner-being which really is far-from-ordinary, the big-size of its good-quality not being able to be grasped by the mind/thinking of man, because God is where it comes from. He will grace/give you that your mind/inner-being and mind/thinking will be peaceful/protected through your trust in and your being united/tied-together with Cristo Jesus.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “God will put peace in your hearts then. Concerning his putting peace in your hearts, it is the greatest in intensity, not like the peace which people talk about. No longer will your hearts be fearful when now you walk with Jesus Christ.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Chichewa (interconfessional translation, 1999): “At that point the peace coming from God, which is going beyond all hum-an wisdom, it will keep well your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.” (Source: Wendland 1998, p. 164)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 16:1:
- Uma: “‘All this I say to you, so that you will not be so discouraged that you let-go believing in me.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said to his disciples, ‘I have told you all this in order that your trust in me will not move/waver.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason I told you all these things,’ said Jesus, ‘is so that your faith in me might not become lax by means of what’s going to happen to you in the future.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘I have told you all these-things so that you aren’t taken-by-surprise at their happening but rather you will-continue to believe in me.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “As for these things, I am telling them to you already so that you won’t as-it-were trip-and-fall over the things which will happen to you, your believing-in/obeying me become insufficient.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I am telling you this so that you will not doubt.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 24:44:
- Uma: “Like that also you must be ready waiting for me, for you do not know when I the Child of Mankind will arrive.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Likewise also you, you shall always be watchful, for I, the Son of Man, will come here at a time when you do not expect me.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “In just the same way, always be on your guard because I, the Older Sibling of Mankind, will arrive at an hour when you don’t expect me.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore you also, it is necessary that you be ready, because I who am Child of a Person, I will come at the hour that you do not expect me to come.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore you are to be always prepared, because I will come who am the One From Heaven Born of Man/human at an hour which you aren’t-sure-of.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Also you do like that, stay awake. Because at the time you don’t expect it, that will be the time the Man who will come from heaven will arrive.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Colossians 1:18:
- Uma: “We who believe in Kristus can be compared to his body, and Kristus is our head. Like the head controls the body, so also he controls all the people who believe in him. And he is the one who gives us new life, for he is the Firstborn, its meaning, the one who first came to life again after death. The result is that he is the one who is the main-thing of all that is.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He also is the one who rules all who trust him. All of them are figuratively his body and he is their head. He is the source of the new life. He was the first to be made alive from his death so-that he is the ultimate highest and greatest (langkew and bangsahan).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “and because He’s the one in charge of His body, which is to say, all of His believers, and also because he is the one who gives life to all the believers, because He is highest in rank of all those who will be raised from the dead; and that’s why He is greater than everything.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He also is the one who is responsible for all of us who believe, so he is the one who is compared to our head and we are like his body. He also is the source of our new life, because he was the first who lived again who won’t again die, in order that he would be the highest of all.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He is the like-the-head of all who are believing/obeying him whose (pl.) likeness is one body-entity. In his coming-alive again he really opened the way for this (matter of) coming-alive again, and he is the source of this life which has no end. Therefore it’s clear that in/among absolutely-all, he only has incomparable highness/importance.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “And it is Christ which directs the body of the person. It is Christ who gives new life to all who believe in him. And it is he who preceded those who will resurrect from where they are buried. Therefore Christ is supreme over all that there is.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
