Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 1:12:
- Uma: “My intention is that I as well will be strengthened because of your faith, so that we will each strengthen the other’s heart.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The meaning of my saying is that I want to go-there to you so that we (incl.) can encourage one another. Your liver will be encouraged if you see my trust and my liver also will be encouraged when I see your trust.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now what I mean is that we will encourage each other in believing.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “What I mean (lit. want) to say is that the faith of us all will be strengthened. I will be helped on account of seeing your faith and you will also be helped by my faith.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I want that his faith which we have will strengthen each of us more.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 7:23:
- Noongar: “God will bless people who do not leave my truth.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Fortunate are the people whose hearts are not uncertain/hesitant towards Me.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And happy is who does not doubt about me.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Far better off is the person who does not doubt that I am the one sent by God.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Tell him also that fortunate is the person who has no doubts about me.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The person can really be very happy whose mind isn’t of two minds about me.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Jude 1:24:
- Uma: “Praise God, because he has power/authority to take-care-of us so that we do not fall, until we stand in front of him in his light, we will have no faults and our hearts will be happy.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “God is able to care for us (dual)/watches-over us so that we (dual) will not (lit. be carried to) sin. He is the only one who can take our (dual) sins away so that there will be no sin of ours that he can see when we (dual) are brought there into his presence. We (incl.) will really be glad there in his radiant presence.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Our (incl.) thanks to God is very big. He is the one who knows how to help us (incl.) so that we might not be separated from him. He is the one who knows how to bring us (incl.) before him in the future in the golden going-home-place, and there will be nothing to blame us (incl.) for, and our joy then will be very great.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “May the only-one God who saves us through Jesu Cristo our Lord be praised/honored forever. He is able to protect you so that you don’t stumble to sin, and in-the-future you will have absolutely no fault/deficiency when he causes-you -to-stand in front of him, and great will be your happiness to look-closely at his dazzling godhood. He is praised/honored, because he is the highest and all-powerful God who has no limit to his authority beginning from the very-first and today/now and forever. Amen.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It is really essential that God be praised, he who is really well-able to take care of you so that you won’t be misled and fall-down in sin. And he can cause you to come into the presence of his far-from-ordinary praiseworthiness/glory with big happiness, there being no longer anything for him to find fault with.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “God alone has wisdom, and he has the power to guard you so that you will not sin. He will cause you to stand in the presence of God. At that time you can be happy because no sin will be found against you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 2:12:
- Uma: “People who don’t know the Lord’s Law, if they sin, they are still/nonetheless guilty and fit to be separated from God. God punishes them because of their sins, but he does not punish them because of their breaking of the Lord’s Law. So also people who know the Lord’s Law. If they sin, God will punish them as well, but them he will punish because of their breaking of the Lord’s Law.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The people not Yahudi they do not know the law of God written by Musa. When/if they sin God punishes them and they go to hell. But their punishment is not as is said in the law. The Yahudi, the ones who were given the law, when/if they sin they are judged (by) whether they were able to follow/obey the law or not. If they did not follow/obey, God punishes them like/as is said in the law.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for the people who are not Jews, they do not know what is commanded by the Law that Moses left behind, and when they do evil, they will be judged just the same in the future by God. However, He will not use the Law in His judging them, but He will punish them with death which is forever. And as for the people who are Jews, they by contrast know what is commanded by the Law, and if they do evil, God will judge them according to what they have transgressed there in the Law.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because all who have sinned, they will be separated from God to be punished forever. As for the Gentiles, they don’t know the law of Moses, so that will not be the basis for God’s condemning them, but they will be punished nevertheless. As for the Jews by-contrast, they do know the law of Moses, so God will use that law in condemning them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now then, all people have sins and God will judge them. Concerning the people who do not know the law which the Jews follow, they also will be judged according to what they know. But concerning the people who know what is said in the law which the Jews follow, they will be judged according to that word which is written in the law.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Teutila Cuicatec: “All those who owe sin, who do not know the law that Moses wrote, it will not be that law that will rule what punishment they have, but they will be punished. Also all those who do know that law but owe sin, they will have to be punished as that law commands.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:5:
- Noongar: “‘One day, a man went out planting seeds. He planted the seeds in the ground, but some seeds fell on the path. People trod the seeds and birds ate them.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘There was a sower [who] went sowing. In his sowing, there was seed [sowed-thing] that fell in the middle of the road [lit., eye of the road], and so it was stepped on by people and pecked by birds.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘There was a person who went to his field to broadcast seed. As he broadcasted some seed happened to fall on the way. So-then it was stepped on and the birds went and ate it.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘There was a person who went to his field in order to plant. And of that which he planted there was some which fell on the path and was trodden on by people and birds ate it.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He said, ‘On one-occasion, there was a person who went to broadcast seed in his swidden. While he was broadcasting the seed, some fell on the path and people were-stepping on it while moreover birds were-pecking-it-up.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘There was a person who scattered his planting-seeds. Well since the way he planted was by scattering (seed), some got scattered on the pathway, which is why it got trodden on, and as-soon-as-he-turned-his-back, it was eaten by the birds.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 2:11:
- Uma: “‘Whoever has-ears, listen well to what the Holy Spirit says to my followers in every village. ‘Whoever wins, they will certainly not receive the punishment in hell that is named the second death.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘All you who have ears, you should listen to what the Spirit of God says to the churches.’ He also said, ‘Whoever is not carried-along by temptation/the tempters he will not be caused-pain/punished in hell, which is called the second death.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Everyone of you must listen/obey to what the Holy Spirit says to you believers. The person who overcomes Satan will not be included in the punishment which is the second death.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You who are listening, think-about what God’s Spirit is saying to the congregations. The people who defeat evil, they will not join in being punished forever in what is designated as the second death of people.’ ‘” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore since what ears are for is for listening with, you must listen well to this which is being said, which the Espiritu Santo is causing to be comprehended by the ones who believe and trust in me. For whoever is able to have victory over whatever leads to sinning and destruction of believing/obeying, he really won’t experience the second death, which is unending hardship/suffering.”” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the person who has an ear, let him listen to these words which the Holy spirit says to the believers. He says: The person who comes through and wins over the evil there is will not go through the second death, he says.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 3:15:
- Uma: “‘They are always ready-to-fight, wanting to kill others.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They easily hurt and kill.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And that’s not all, for they can easily murder.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It is easy for them to murder,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Only killing do they want.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “They kill people at slight provocation.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
For the Old Testament quote, see Isaiah 59:7.
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:37:
- Noongar: “Then all the people of the place asked Jesus to go away because they were very afraid. So Jesus got into the boat and went away.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “From there, all the people in the land of Gerasa requested to Yesus that he go-out/leave from their town, because they were very afraid. So he rode a boat returning going to the other-side.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then all those people from the different places there in Gerasa told Isa to leave, for they were entered by much fear. Therefore Isa went into the boat and soon left.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then all those people who were inhabitants there in the land of the Gergesenes, they begged Jesus that he might leave them because they were very much afraid of him. So that was that, and Jesus and company got into a boat in order to leave.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And all those-people from the region of Gerasa, they begged Jesus to leave their town/country, because they were totally/already defeated by their fear.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, what that crowd of Geraseno did was, they asked Jesus not to stay in their place, because what was dominant was their fear. When Jesus heard, he got into the boat again and they sailed again.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
