Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:26:

• Noongar: “If you can’t do this small thing, why worry about other things? ” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
• Uma: “So, if you are not able to do that small thing, why do you have so much thinking/worry?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “If you can’t do even a little thing like this, why do you worry about the others?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if, by means of your troubling, you cannot do anything about even this very small thing to do, what’s the use of your being troubled with other things?” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Therefore if you aren’t capable of even one hour, you shouldn’t be worrying about other things you need.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Well if you can’t do such a little thing as that, well why are you agitating your mind/thinking about other things?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:27:

• Noongar: “See the flowers in the bush! They don’t work. They don’t make clothes to wear. I tell you, King Solomon had much wealth but he did not have more beautiful clothes than these flowers.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
• Uma: “Consider the lives of flowers. They do not work, they do not make their clothes. But I say to you, even King Salomo with all of his riches, his clothes were not as pretty as those flowers.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Look at the flowers as to how they grow. They don’t work, they don’t weave. And-what’s-more I tell you, even King Sulaiman who was rich in old times, his clothes were not as good/nice as one of these flowers.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Look at the flowers, how they are growing — they do not work; they do not weave, but in spite of that, I tell you that even King Solomon long ago, who was very rich and famous, the beauty of his clothing did not amount to even a little fingernail, compared to these flowers.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “‘Look at the way the flowers get-big. They don’t work and weave their clothes, but I tell you that even King Solomon whose wealth was excessive, he had no clothes whose beauty equaled that of one of these flowers.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “And another thing, think about flowers. Isn’t it so that they don’t work hard or make cloth? But it’s the truth, even king Solomon who was spoken highly of for the big-size of his wealth, he indeed couldn’t dress to surpass one of these flowers in looking nice.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:28:

• Noongar: “God dresses the grass. This grass grows today and goes away tomorrow, burned in the fire. So God will dress you before the grass, won’t he? How very small is your faith!'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
• Uma: “Grass in the field lives today, tomorrow it is burned up. But even so, God still made that grass pretty. Even more so you! God’s taking-care-of you is more. So, why do you not believe his taking-care?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “If God is able to clothe the flowers of the weeds as nicely and-what’s-more they don’t last long, they live today tomorrow they are burned, na, he should not be able yet to clothe you? Really, your trust in God is lacking.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now they grow very quickly; we can see them today and in a little while they are dried up and they are burned. And if God makes these weeds beautiful, how much more will he give you something to wear. Why is it that your trusting him is very small?” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “If like that is the beauty that God gives the weeds that exist today and are burned tomorrow, is it not perhaps more-certain that he knows how to give you your clothes? Why then maybe is your trust only a little?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Your belief and trust is really small, for if God as-it-were clothed with flowers the brush/weeds which are alive today but tomorrow will be thrown on the fire, well isn’t it so that he will much more clothe you?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:29:

• Noongar: “‘So don’t be sad, always worrying about the things you will eat or drink.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
• Uma: “So do not be extremely busy considering what you will eat or what you will drink. Do not be afraid.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Don’t be sad/troubled/worried and don’t always think about as to what you should eat or drink.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Don’t you worry; don’t permit your thinking to be about what you’re going to eat and what you’re going to drink,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Therefore what you eat and drink, it’s not that which should monopolize your thoughts and about which you should worry,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Therefore as for you, don’t agitate your mind/thinking about food or drink and put far away the habit of always worrying.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:30:

• Noongar: “Because other people of this World, people who do not know God, they always worry about all these things. Your Father knows you need these things.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
• Uma: “All that is why is continually searched or by people who do not know God. But your Father in heaven knows your needs.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “The people who do not know God, that is what they always think about. But you, you should not be sad/troubled/worried for your Father God knows that you need it.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “because those kinds of things are what trouble the people who will not believe in God. However, as for you, you must not be troubled about things like that because your Father God, He knows that you need all of these things.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “because that’s what the many-people who don’t know God are grabbing-after. But you however, your Father in heaven knows that you need all these-things.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “It’s really true that these are what people are bothered about who have no belief and trust in God. But as for you, hopefully you won’t make yourselves like them, because your Father in heaven knows already that you really need all these.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:33:

• Noongar: “Sell your possessions and give the money to the poor people. Get purses which don’t wear out and put your wealth in Heaven. There, your wealth will not become smaller, because no thief can take everything and moths can not eat everything.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
• Uma: “That is why I say, sell your goods, and give the price to the poor. Make a purse that cannot tear. Its meaning, do good behavior. Because that good behavior can be compared to goods that you store in heaven, that do not disappear, because there is no-one who steals and there are no insects that wound [it].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Sell your wealth and give the proceeds as alms to the poor. If you do this, you are figuratively storing your wealth in a purse which does not become old, that means your wealth will not be used up there in heaven. And there are no people who steal and there are no termites that destroy it.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Sell all of your possessions and give the money to the poor; by means of this it will be possible for you to have wealth there in Heaven. Your possessions in Heaven cannot be destroyed; they cannot be lessened, because there’s no one there who steals, and there are no cockroaches to gnaw on them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “So sell your possessions in order to give the sale-money to the poor, and you will be prepared with a wallet/coin-purse that can’t-be-destroyed in which-will-be-stored your wealth in heaven. There it will not be reduced, because no thief will-be-able-to-approach and nothing also will be able to ruin it.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Go ahead, sell your belongings now, and divide them among the poor. What is good is to collect wealth in heaven, for what that is like is a money container which can’t be destroyed and also never runs out (of contents). Because that is wealth which can’t be stolen and isn’t chewed by chewing-insects.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)