Following are a number of back-translations of 2 John 1:4:

• Uma: “My heart was very happy to meet with several of your (sing.) children here. For their behavior follows the true teaching, like God the Father taught us.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “I was really glad when I heard that some of your children follow/obey the true teaching as we (dual) have been commanded by our (incl.) Father God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I am very happy for there are children of yours which obey the true doctrine as it was commanded to us (incl.) by our Father God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Extreme was my happiness upon finding-out that some of your (sing.) children are following the true teaching that our Father who is God commanded.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “I really am very happy, because I have observed that as for some of your (sing.) children, they are living in harmony with the truth, like God the Father commanded us.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “I am very happy because I found certainly that some of your sons follow the true word just like God our Father ordered us to do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
• Yatzachi Zapotec: “I rejoiced very much when I found out that some of your children are doing what our father God commanded us to do, they are heeding what is true.”
• Eastern Highland Otomi: “I was very happy when I heard in regard to some of your children, that they follow the Word, as the Father tells us.”
• Isthmus Zapotec: “Very much I was happy to see some of your children walking well as our Father told us to do.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 John 1:5:

• Uma: “So, I request to you (sing.), mother/woman, that we love one another. What I write here, it is not a new command. This command is a command that we have heard all along from the first.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Na, now I have to ask/request something of you, Woman: we (incl.) should love each other. This command is not new now but it has been here with us (incl.) since we (incl.) first trusted in Isa Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And because of that, sister, I beg you that we (incl.) might love each other. This is not a new command which I write to you, for this was given a long time ago when we first believed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “But there is nonetheless that which I want to tell you: it is necessary that we love-one-another. This is not a new command, because we have been hearing it since the first.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Well now, Friend, there’s something I’d hopefully like to ask you (sing.) to do. As for this, it’s not a new command which I am writing, but rather that original command which was here with us from long ago, this that we value one another.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Now, my dear sister, I want to say a word to you now. And this word I will tell you is not a new word, rather it is like the word you at first were ordered to do. Just the same is what I tell you now, that each of us must love all our fellow-believers.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
• Yatzachi Zapotec: “And what we must do, woman, is to love our fellows each of us the other, because God commanded us to do that. As for this which I am saying we should do, it is not a new commandment, but something which we have known since we first believed.”
• Eastern Highland Otomi: “And now, you woman, chosen of God, I have something I want to tell you. And it isn’t new what I will tell you, but just like was told us at the beginning, that we love one another.”
• Isthmus Zapotec: “Now, Señora, that which I am writing to you that you should do is not new, but that which you already knew from time past, where it says we should love one another. I ask you(sg) that you do as this says.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 John 1:6:

• Uma: “This is what is called love: to follow God’s command(s). And this is his command that you have heard all along from the first: we must love one another.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “If we (dual) love God and our (dual) fellows we (dual) ought to follow/obey the commands of God. And since the time you trusted in Isa this has been commanded to you that you should steadfastly love each other.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For if we love each other, we will fulfill the commands of God. For what He commanded us was: it is necessary that we love each other.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “If it is true then that we love, we will obey the commands of God. And his command that we came-to-know at the first, we must love-one-another.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “This is what testifies that we hold God dear, this that we live in harmony with what he commanded. Well this is that which he commanded in the past, that we live lives characterized by valuing one another.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “If we love God then we will do what God commands. And this word which God commands is the word you heard at first, that we love our fellowmen.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
• Yatzachi Zapotec: “This is what we will do if we love God, we will do what he commands. When you began to trust in Christ back then you knew that he commands us to love our fellows.”
• Eastern Highland Otomi: “And really we can love one another if we do all that God told us. And the Word he told us at the beginning is that continually we love one another.”
• Isthmus Zapotec: “We love one another when we walk as he says. And as he says is that we should love one another. And also that is what you heard from past time.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 John 1:7:

• Uma: “I write this to you, for many deceivers are going-around all over the world. They don’t believe that Yesus is the Redeemer King who became a human. People who are like that, they are deceivers and they are indeed enemies of Kristus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Many people are teaching which is not true in the places/countries here in the world. These people don’t believe that Isa Almasi came to the earth in a human body. These people are really deceiving. They are already the ones opposing Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Many have appeared teaching lies here on the earth. They say that, as for Jesus, the one chosen by God to rule, He is not the one who became a human. Anyone who says that, he is a liar and the enemy of Christ.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “I have reminded you of this, because there are many who have come-out/appeared now who are deceiving people. What they are teaching is not true because they do not acknowledge that Jesu Cristo became a true person when he came to this earth. Those like that, they are characteristically-deceiving/lying people who oppose Cristo.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “It’s true, this world/land is really full of misleaders of believing, those people who don’t acknowledge-as-true that as for Jesu-Cristo, he really became a man/human. Those people who are like that, they are the ones who lead astray and who oppose Cristo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Thus I tell you, because here on earth there are many lying speakers going about. These say that Jesus Christ did not truly become a human. The person who thus says this is a deceiver, and he is the enemy of Christ.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
• Yatzachi Zapotec: “Many deceivers have gone out from among us and are going about in this world. They say that Jesus Christ is not born a man on this earth. Those people who are deceivers do contrary to Christ.”
• Eastern Highland Otomi: “This I am telling you, because a lot of deceivers are walking around in the world, who say that God’s Chosen-One didn’t become a person, that is, Jesus. But they are false, and they follow God’s enemy.”
• Isthmus Zapotec: “There are many who go around in the world and say that Jesus Christ did not become a person (of the world). And one who speaks that way is deceiving and he is an enemy of Christ.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 John 1:8:

• Uma: “That’s why you must be careful, lest you let-go-of your faith in the Lord Yesus, with the result that there is no use to our (excl.) work bringing the Good News to you. Keep believing in the Lord, so that you will get all the return/recompense of your faith in the future.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Therefore take care so that all that we (incl.) have labored for is not lost, but/instead that you will receive in-total/completely your reward from God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Be on your guard so that what you have worked so hard for might not be removed from you and so that the reward of God to you in the future might not be lessened.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Be-careful then so that what we (excl.) taught you that was correct does not come-to-nothing, because if you do that, the reward that you will get/enjoy in a future day will not be taken-away-from/lessened.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Therefore you need to be careful, so that what you’ve-worked-hard-for/suffered-hardship-for won’t be lost, but rather you will be able to receive the best reward.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Be careful in order that you will not lose what you are working at. You should want that you will be rewarded completely.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
• Yatzachi Zapotec: “Do not believe them, because if you believe them, the benefit God wants to give to you because of our will be lost. Do you so that you will receive all the benefit which God wants to give to you.”
• Eastern Highland Otomi: “Guard yourselves so that no one will deceive you; and it will be lost what we have worked for. But continue well so that you will gain (earn, win) all that God wants to give you afterwards.”
• Isthmus Zapotec: “Watch carefully that which we did among you so that you won’t lose it but rather you will receive all that which god has prepared for you.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 John 1:10:

• Uma: “So, if there are religion teachers who arrive at your village who bring teaching that is-different-than/at-odds-with this teaching, don’t ask-them-to-stop-in at your house, and don’t greet them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Therefore if there is a person coming to you and his teaching is different, don’t receive him in your house. Don’t even greet him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If anyone arrives teaching a doctrine, and it is not the true doctrine taught by Christ which he teaches, don’t you bring him up into your houses. Don’t you also welcome him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “So if there is someone who goes to you whose teaching is different, don’t have-him -enter your houses. Neither are you to (lit. Never-mind if you don’t) even greet-him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Therefore whoever comes to you bringing different from this teaching, don’t cause him to come up into your house and don’t even greet him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “If one arrives to where you live saying that he will teach God’s word and does not teach the word which Christ taught, do not give him a resting place at your houses, and do not greet him.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
• Yatzachi Zapotec: “If any person comes where you are to teach you, but he does not teach what Christ taught, you should not receive him into your houses and you should not tell him, ‘Come in, brother.'”
• Eastern Highland Otomi: “If one arrives there saying he speaks God’s Word, but if he doesn’t say the same as the teaching of Christ, but then we won’t give him hospitality in our homes, neither will we ask God’s help in regard to him.”
• Isthmus Zapotec: “If someone comes to your house and does not follow these words, don’t receive him in your house nor say to him. ‘Come in, you are in your house.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)