Following are a number of back-translations of 2 John 1:11:

• Uma: “For the people who greet them, it’s the same as accompanying/going-along-with them in their evil work.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Because whoever greets him, it is as if he joins in his bad doings.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For even if you merely welcome him, you inadvertently help him in his evil behaviour.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Because if you do that, you will be helping (him) in the evil that he is doing.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Because whoever makes-friends with him, he is causing himself to be in harmony with that evil he’s doing.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Because the one who greets him does just as though he encourages him to teach the word which isn’t right.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
• Yatzachi Zapotec: “If we tell him, ‘Come in, brother’, it means that together we are doing evil.”
• Eastern Highland Otomi: “Because whoever asks God’s help in regard to him, it is just as though he helped his bad deeds.”
• Isthmus Zapotec: “Because one who tells him to enter also is erring as he is erring.” (Source for this and three above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 John 1:12:

• Uma: “There is still more that I want to say to you, but I won’t write it in this letter. For my purpose is to come visit you (pl.). So, we will talk to each other lip-to-lip, so that our (incl.) joy is complete.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “I would like to say much more to you but I won’t write (it) now. I expect that I can come and visit you so that we (incl.) can see/face each other talking in order that our (incl.) joy will be complete.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There are many things I would like to say to you, but I do not want to write them. I want to visit you there so that we might talk together and that our (incl.) joy might be drawn tight.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “There is yet much that I want to tell you, but I haven’t included it in this letter, because if it is possible, I will go to visit you. Then we can converse properly and our happiness upon seeing-one-another will be great.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “There is a lot more that I would like to say, but I won’t write it now. Because I do want hopefully to be able to come there to you. I will be able to talk with you when we are in each others presence so that we can be happy with happiness which has no lack.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “There are many other words I want to tell you. But I do not want to write all the words here on the paper to send to you. Because I await the time I will go there, we will see each other in order that we will speak together and then all the greater will be our joy.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
• Yatzachi Zapotec: “There are many things for me to write to you, but I do not want to write more on paper, because I want to come where you are, and when we are together I will give you words from my mouth so we will be very well off (happy).”
• Eastern Highland Otomi: “There is a lot I want to tell you, but this is all I’ll put on this paper. Because I’ll probably be able to go there to see you, and we’ll talk together so that we won’t lack happiness.”
• Isthmus Zapotec: “I still have much which I would write to you but I don’t want to write it but rather I am hoping to go where you are so we can chat. Thus we will become happy together even more.” (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 3 John 1:3:

• Uma: “My heart is very happy, for several of our one-faith relatives arrived here, bringing news from there [where you are]. They said: you remain/keep believing the true teaching, and your behavior always follows the true teaching.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “I was really glad when some of our (dual) brothers arrived and I was told by them that you persevere following the true teaching. Really since before you are remaining/steadfastly with the true teaching.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I rejoice very much when our (incl.) brothers arrived here from there, for they told me that your holding fast to the doctrine is very tight, and they say also that your activities agree with it also.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “There are siblings/cousins (brothers from here on) of ours who have been coming here, and they have repeatedly-said that you (sing.) are persevering in following the true teaching. Reportedly everything that you (sing.) are doing is in-harmony-with that teaching. So I am extremely made-happy,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “For I was really very happy when some of our siblings in believing arrived here coming from there, because they related to me that you are holding fast to the true teaching, and your life is always in harmony with this truth.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “I was very happy when I heard what our brothers said who have arrived here. These have come from where you are, they told me that you are laying hold on the true word.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
• Yatzachi Zapotec: “I rejoiced very much when some of our brethren arrived back here telling how you are making the truth yours and are walking with it (heeding it).”
• Eastern Highland Otomi: “I was very happy in regard to you, because some of the brethren (siblings) who returned from you (where you are) told me, they told me that you follow the true Word, and that all you do is in accord with the Word.”
• Isthmus Zapotec: “The brethren made me very happy when they brought news of you. They mentioned the way in which you follow that which is true in all you do and you haven’t separated from it.” (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 3 John 1:4:

• Uma: “There is nothing that I am more happy about than this, hearing news that says my child(ren) continually follow the true teaching.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “There is nothing that makes my liver happy other than when I hear that my children are remaining/steadfastly with the true teaching.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “What I am really happy about is the fact that I heard the news that my children in the faith are obeying the true doctrine.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “because there is no best cause-of-my-happiness if not my having heard that my children are following the true teaching.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Nothing can exceed my happiness when I have received news that the lives of my like children are in harmony with the truth.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “There is no greater joy except the joy I have when I hear that my children are taking hold of the true word.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
• Yatzachi Zapotec: “There is nothing else that I rejoice over like this that I know you are walking with the truth, you and the other people who are like my children.”
• Eastern Highland Otomi: “There is no other joy greater than the joy I have when I hear that my children follow the Word.”
• Isthmus Zapotec: “Nothing makes my happier than to hear my children following that which is true.” (Source for this and three above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)

Following are a number of back-translations of 3 John 1:5:

• Uma: “Friend! I am happy because you faithfully [lit., remain] help our relatives who stop-in at your village. Even the ones you do not yet know, you still help them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “My beloved friend, you are really persevering in serving our (incl.) brothers who trust in Almasi even if you don’t know each other.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “My dear brother, you are very gracious, for you took care of our (incl.) brothers who stopped by there, even though that was the first time you had met them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “What you (sing.) have been doing with our brothers who have been staying-overnight there is extremely-good, because even though they are only strangers (particle indicating appreciation to addressee), you have nonetheless reportedly cared-for them properly.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “My dear friend, your nature/ways are really good in that you are always-helpful to our siblings in believing, even when not acquaintances of yours.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Listen, my dear brother, you are doing good in that you are taking care of our brothers and even though they are strangers, you help them.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
• Yatzachi Zapotec: “You dear Gayo, when you help our brethren who are from other places, you do a good thing.”
• Eastern Highland Otomi: “Loved-one, there is a lot of your grace (favor) in that you take care of your siblings, even though you don’t know them.”
• Isthmus Zapotec: “Brother whom I love, you do well when you help the brethren even though you don’t know them.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)