Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 13:7:
- Uma: “Give to all people what is appropriate to give them, whether it is tax or other payment. Submit to people whom it is appropriate to submit to. Honor people whom it is appropriate to honor.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Therefore pay what is right to be paid, land tax or any tax, and respect/treat-according-to-custom and honor the ones who rule your land/place.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And because of this, it’s necessary that we pay taxes and the other things that the government asks us to pay. And also let us respect the people in the government, and let’s show our great respect for their rank.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So let us pay the various-kinds of taxes that we are obligated to pay while at-the-same-time we also properly respect those who rule us.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning all to whom you owe, pay them. Those to whom you owe the taxes, pay your taxes. Respect those who have positions.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Isthmus Zapotec: “Pay everything (or everyone) you owe. Where you owe a hand (that is, a day’s work to help build a house, or town work) give it, and where you owe a tax pay it. Where you owe respect, give it, and where you owe esteem, give esteem.”
- Teutila Cuicatec: “All authorities who ask taxes of you, pay them, and all officials and authorities respect and love them.” (Source for this and above: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 13:11:
- Uma: “We must do all this, relatives, because we know what is proper for us to do in this time. Let’s wake up from our sleep, because the time has almost arrived for the Lord Yesus to come lift us from this evil world. From the first of our believing in the Lord until now, the time of the Lord Yesus’ arrival has gotten closer-and-closer.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “That’s why you ought to do that, especially because you know that not long and Isa Almasi arrives again. At the beginning of our (dual) believing in Isa Almasi, it was as if the day when God will rescue/save us (dual) was still somewhat distant but now it is already very near. If you are figuratively people who are sleeping you ought/must now awake.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “It’s necessary that we do this for we know what is the proper thing to do at this time. Because starting from now, the time in the future when God will finish His setting us free is nearer than it was at the time long ago when we believed. And because of this, we must not be like people who have fallen asleep, but we must be like people who are on their guard.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “We must do this, because we know that the time in which we are now living is valuable/important. If I compare this time to the night, I say that we must wake-up, because our salvation is nearer than when we believed at first.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “These then are the words by which you must walk. Now be aware, concerning the day when you believed the good news, it has now well gone past. Now day by day comes nearer the day when Christ our Savior will come. We should not be just taking it easy.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Mezquital Otomi: “All this is what we ought to do because we know that the hour has come for seeking God more. And soon our Savior will come to take us away from this world. The time is nearer than when we first believed.”
- Isthmus Zapotec: “It is necessary that you do all that these words say because it is now late. The day when we believed it appeared that it lacked yet much time but now already is coming rapidly the day when God is to save us.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 14:7:
- Uma: “For there is not one of us who lives following our own desires. Nor is there one of us who dies following our own desires.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “All of us (incl.) belong to Isa Almasi, our (incl.) Leader. That’s why in our (incl.) life and in our (incl.) death we (incl.) ought to please him not ourselves (incl.).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For there isn’t any one of us believers that doesn’t belong to God while he’s still on the earth or whether he is already dead. For while we are still alive we are subjects of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because all of us who believe, it is not our being-honored/praised that we are searching for in our living and even in our dying,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “No one can decide on his own how he will live, because all of us are in the hand of our Lord Jesus Christ. While we are living we are in his hand. When we have died we are in his hand.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Mezquital Otomi: “Because not one of us lives to do what we want to do ourselves, and not one of us dies according to our own will.”
- Highland Totonac: “Because no one of us is our own boss in our living, and neither is any of us our own boss when we die.”
- Sayula Popoluca: “We don’t live just for ourselves, nor will we die because we want to.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 14:8:
- Uma: “Living or dying, we still/nonetheless follow the desires of the Lord. Living or dying, we are still the Lord’s portion.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “That’s why we (incl.) are alive, so that our (incl.) Leader Isa Almasi is praised. Likewise also when we (incl.) die. So-then if we (incl.) are alive or dead, we (incl.) belong to Isa Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when we die, it is just the same also. And therefore, while we are still alive or whether we are already dead, we still belong to God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “but rather we want the Lord to be honored on account of our living and so also our dying. Therefore whether we are alive or whether we die, it is the Lord who owns us.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Therefore whether we live or whether we die, it is the Lord in whose hand we are.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Highland Totonac: “And if we live, we shall only live longer in order that we should do that which the Lord God wants us to do. And if we die, we shall only die so that we shall be with the Lord God. And meanwhile that we yet live, also when we die, we always belong to the Lord God.”
- Tzeltal: “It is our Lord’s command how we are alive now, and it is again our Lord’s command what hour we die. Therefore although we are alive or although we die, it is our Lord who is in charge of us.”
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “While we are present living we are present in order to do like our Lord wants us to do. We will die when our Lord says we will die. Thus it is, living or dying, we are children of our Lord.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 14:9:
- Uma: “That [emphatic] is why Kristus died and came back to life, in order that he be-the-Lord of all people, both the ones who are alive and the ones who are dead.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For this is the reason that Almasi died and he is alive again, so that he is our (incl.) Leader whether we (incl.) are alive or dead.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For the reason that Christ let himself be killed and was raised again was so that He might rule over those that believe in him, who are still alive or who are already dead.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because Cristo died and lived again so that he would be the Lord of the living and likewise also the dead.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Christ died and again lived in order that he be our Lord whether we live or whether we have died.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Isthmus Zapotec: “For just that is why Christ died and came to life and lives even now, so that he should be Lord of all; just as he is of those who have died, in the same way he is of those who are living.”
- Highland Totonac: “Because as for Christ, that is why he died, and also why he arose from the dead, and is alive again, in order that he might have the say over those who are dead and those who are alive.”
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “Christ, the reason he died and the reason he came up out of the grave again where he was buried is so that he could be the chief of all the dead who have put their confidence in Christ and all of those who are still alive who have put their confidence in him.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 14:12:
- Uma: “So, every one of us must answer God’s questions about our behavior.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then all of us (incl.) ought/must tell to God about what we (incl.) have done here in the world.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And at that time, we (incl.) will have to be before God and He will check up on us and we will have to tell Him about everything that we did here on the earth.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore God is the one each one of us will face so that we will tell him what we have done.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Therefore at that time each one of us will give account to God concerning how we have lived.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “Each of us will really tell God what we have done here in this world.”
- Central Tarahumara: “Thus it is very sure that each one of us will confess to God how we ourselves have done.”
- Isthmus Zapotec: “That is the way it is: God is the one to show the deeds of each one.”
- Teutila Cuicatec: “Because of this we knew that God will have to judge each one of us.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 15:8:
- Uma: “Consider this: Kristus came to the earth to help Jewish people, in order that the promises of God to the ancestors of Jews would be fulfilled, with the result that is would be clear to all people that God’s Word is true.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For I tell you that the reason Isa Almasi came to help us (excl.) the Yahudi, is so that he could show that God is trustworthy and so that God’s promises to our (excl.) ancestors would be fulfilled,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “It’s true what I say to you, that as for Christ, He was made to be like a servant to the Jews so that He might show them that it’s really true that God is going to fulfill the promises He made long ago to their ancestors.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Don’t forget that Cristo came to help the Jews in order to show that God is trustworthy, because he fulfilled what God promised their ancestors.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “You see that Christ came in order to bless the Jews. Concerning the word which was promised to our ancestors long ago, he came to bring it to happen. Thus it is seen that God does not forget the word he has promised to bring about.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Mezquital Otomi: “But I declare that the Lord Jesus Christ worked among the Jews so it would be seen that God truly fulfilled what he promised to their grandfathers.”
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “This is what I want to tell you. Jesus Christ came here to this world for the purpose of helping the Israelites. In that way it would be shown that God tells the truth and fulfills what he promised to our ancient fathers.”
- Teutila Cuicatec: “I tell you that our Lord Jesus Christ proclaimed God’s Word among the people of the nation of Israel showing that God kept his promise that he gave to their forefathers.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 15:17:
- Uma: “From my connection with Kristus Yesus, I am proud [my heart is big] to recount the work that I have worked for God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because I belong already to Isa Almasi, I am not ashamed to make well-known about what I do for God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And because of Jesus Christ’s help to me, I’m not ashamed to tell about everything that I’ve been able to do as a servant of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So because of my being-one-with Cristo Jesus, I can boast-about my aforementioned serving God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I thank Jesus Christ that the work I do for God has turned out well.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Miahuatlán Zapotec: “Therefore I feel it is all right if I become a little happy [polite way to talk about boasting] concerning the things that Jesus Christ did for you through my agency.”
- Chicahuaxtla Triqui: “And thanks to Christ Jesus I can speak well concerning my work which is the work of God.” (Source for this and above: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
