The Greek that is translated in English as “walk in (or: by) the Spirit” is translated in Uduk as “let the Spirit lead you in the way.” (Source: Nida 1964, p. 238)
comfort from love, consolation of love
The Greek that is translated into English as “comfort from love” or “consolation of love” is translated into Navajo as “if by loving your minds can be put to that place of refuge.” (Source: Nida 1964, p. 228)
In Western Highland Purepecha “consolation” in this verse is translated as “God takes sadness from our hearts” and in Aymara as “preparing the heart.” (Source: Nida 1952, p. 131)
hungry and thirsty for righteousness
The Greek that is translated as “hungry and thirsty for righteousness” in English is translated as “like hungering and thirsting, they desire righteousness” in Navajo, turning a metaphor into a simile. (Source: Nida 1964, p. 220)
there is no fear in love
The phrase that is translated as “there is no fear in love” in English has been translated in Huautla Mazatec as “he who really loves forgets to be afraid.” “The concepts of love and fear must be expressed by verbs, not nouns, and hence an actor must be expressed. Furthermore, the relationship indicated by the English ‘in’ must be radically altered, for though in can express the relationship of objects to each other in Huautla Mazatec, it does not show the relationship of events, as it does in English.” (Source: Nida 1964, p. 196).
See also complete verse (1 John 4:18) and love (abstract noun).
press on toward the goal
The Greek that is often translated in English with “press on toward the goal” is translated into Avaric with an existing expression: ch’alde shshveze: “to race for the finish,” taken from the language of horse racing.
Source: Magomed-Kamil Gimbatov and Yakov Testelets in The Bible Translator 1996, p. 434ff.
basket, bushel, measure
The Greek that is translated in English with “basket” or “bushel” or “measure” is translated into Avaric with an existing term: “sah.” “To the European reader it is not clear how a lamp can be put under a measure, since such a reader has only a vague idea what this “measure” (modios in the original Greek) must look like. For the Avar, again, there is no problem here: everybody knows the word sah, which means exactly the same as the Greek modios.” (Source: Magomed-Kamil Gimbatov and Yakov Testelets in The Bible Translator 1996, p. 434ff.)
evidentiality, he had great wealth
Avaric uses the so-called evidential verbal forms. Such forms are used when the speaker himself has not witnessed a given action or event, but has come to know about it indirectly or by report.
So, for example, when in the episode of the rich young man it is said that “he had great wealth,” this information, which was acquired by the teller from hearsay rather than from actual experience, can be expressed by means of these evidential verb forms. In addition, evidential verbs are used in the text of parables, being the standard form for reported speech in texts describing what the teller has not actually witnessed.
Source: Magomed-Kamil Gimbatov and Yakov Testelets in The Bible Translator 1996, p. 434ff.
true son in the faith
The Greek that is translated in English as “(my) true son in the faith” is translated into Arop-Sissano as “son lamat in the faith.”
Nystrom explains: “In Arop, if you want to talk about the real essence of something -– its most important part -– you talk about the lamat of it. Arops say, ‘I don’t want to tell you everything they said at the meeting, but the talk lamat is like this,’ and they proceeded to tell you the main point of what was said. (…) Here Paul is saying that Timothy is his true son, his son in every important way.” (p. 198f.)
See also flesh (John 1:14).