Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 20:23:

• Uma: “All I know is, in every town that I have gone to, the Holy Spirit made clear to me that I will certainly be bound/tied-up there and received suffering.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “The only thing I know,’ Paul said, ‘I am assured by the Holy Spirit in all the places I come to, that I will be imprisoned and persecuted.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The only thing I know is that in every village that we have passed through, the Holy Spirit has made clear to me that I am going to be put in prison and there will be many hard things that I will have to experience.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “I know only what the Holy Spirit has warned me in the various-towns I have visited that in-the-future I will be imprisoned and hardshipped.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “All I know is what the Espiritu Santo has testified about to me in each city I arrived at, that waiting for me is jail and other hardships also.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 20:24:

• Uma: “However, I do not put foremost my own self/body. Even if I should really be killed, it doesn’t matter. As-long-as I can finish the work that the Lord Yesus gave to me. That work of mine, is announcing the Good News that says God gives us goodness [salvation] because of his white insides [grace].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “But I no longer cherish my life in order that I can only do what has been commanded me, and that I can finish the work given to me by our (incl.) Lord, Isa. And this work of mine is proclaiming the good news about the love and mercy/pity of God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, I do not cherish my life here on the earth, so that I can finish what our Lord Jesus has given me to do, and that is the spreading of the Good News of the kindness of God to us.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “But never-mind if I die, because what I value, it is not my life but rather that I finish all the work-the Lord Jesus -has-given me to confirm the good news concerning God’s grace/mercy.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “But, even my life/breath, I don’t overly value it, as long as I can attend well to and fulfill the job/responsibility which I received from the Lord Jesus, to teach the Good News concerning the grace of God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 20:25:

• Uma: “‘Relatives all, for a long time I worked in your midst, I visited you and taught you to believe in the Lord Yesus to become God’s people in his Kingdom. But it has become clear in my heart, that you will no longer see me.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “‘I have already gone to all of you preaching to/teaching you about the rule of God. And I know that until now only/that this is the last time we (incl.) will see each other.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I have preached to you one by one about God’s rule, and now I know that you will not see me anymore.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “‘You with-whom-I-have-stayed when-I-was-preaching about the ruling of God, I know we will not see-each-other again.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Well now, all you whom I taught concerning this kingdom of God, I am sure that after today, we won’t set-eyes-on-each-other again here under the heavens.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 20:26:

• Uma: “That is why I make it plain to you from the start today, if there are any of you who receive disaster in the future, it is no longer my fault.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Therefore I am telling you this day, that if there is one among you who will go to hell, I cannot be blamed.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I say to you that if there is even one of you that is not freed from God’s punishment, I have not sinned against him,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Therefore I definitely/firmly tell you now, if any of you is separated from God to be punished, it is not my fault (lit. sin),” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Therefore, I testify now today that if anyone falls into punishment from God, I won’t have anything to answer for over it.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 20:27:

• Uma: “Because I am/was not afraid/uneasy to say to you all of God’s purposes for us.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “For I have not hidden anything from you but I have told you all that God has planned.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “because I taught you everything that God wanted me to.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “because I have carefully/thoroughly taught you all that God wants keeping-nothing -to-myself.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “For I haven’t left anything out. I have now told you everything which God has determined which he wants people to know.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 20:28:

• Uma: “Be careful to guard you own selves and to guard all the followers of God that the Holy Spirit has entrusted to you. You must care for them like a shepherd shepherds his sheep, because the Lord Yesus died, his blood flowed, to pay for the punishment of our sins so we could become God’s portion.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Be careful about yourselves,’ Paul said, ‘and take care also of all those trusting in Isa whom the Holy Spirit has caused you to take care of. Attend to those who trust in our (incl.) Lord because they belong to God because his Son died for them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Keep watch over your actions, and keep watch also over all the believers that the Holy Spirit has entrusted to you because you are the ones to strengthen the faith of the believers in God. He made us his subjects by means of his son causing himself to be killed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “‘Be-careful therefore what you do with/in your life, while-simultaneously you watch-out-for the people the Holy Spirit has entrusted to you, because that is the responsibility of you who are their leaders. Properly care-for the people of God, because he redeemed-them-with the blood of his Child.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Therefore, now, be careful always of your own believing/obeying, and also keep-close-watch on the believing/obeying of all the believers there in Efeso who have been placed by the Espiritu Santo under the supervision of you overseers. Take good care of these ones who have been as it were bought by God, what he bought them with being none other than the blood of his own Son Jesus.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 20:29:

• Uma: “I know, relatives, that when I go away from here, certainly evil people will come to bother those people that you tend, like a serigala [jackal] bothers sheep.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “I know that when I have left,’ Paul said, ‘there will be religious-teachers who are liars coming to mingle with you and they will teach what is not true. They are like bold dogs, and they will not pity you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I know that when I leave you there will appear among you teachers whose teaching can destroy unity, and they will destroy the unity of the believers.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Because I know that when I leave, there will be those who go and teach you what is wrong/different. They are like fierce animals that kill domesticated-animals, because they will disrupt the faith of the people you are caring-for, and they will not take-pity-on them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “For I know that after I have left, people will come to Efeso who will teach what is really wrong. An illustration of them is, they are like fierce wild-dogs who tear-and-eat sheep, for they want to destroy the believing of the believers there with you.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 20:30:

• Uma: “Even from you yourselves later, there will be those who bring wrong teaching, so that the followers of Yesus are enticed and deceived, until they go over to their side.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Even from among you (lit. your many), there will be (those) who will lie in order to bring the ones trusting in Isa to follow them/join them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And it will happen in the future that even your own companions will tell lies so that they might carry away the believers to follow after them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “There are also those who have-already-joined you who believe who in-the-future will teach lies in order to persuade believers to follow them (emphasis on them in RL).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “And it isn’t only coming from outside, but on the contrary even your members who supposedly have believed now, it’s certain that some will arise also who will come out with very many lies so that they are the ones who will be followed/obeyed by the believers.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)