Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 20:31:

• Uma: “That is why you must watch out. Remember, relatives, for three years I did not stop giving you advice to each one of you, whether during the day or during the night, and many times my tears flowed, crying over you.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Therefore be watchful. And remember that day and night for three years, I did not stop teaching/preaching-to each one of you and many tears of mine spilled because of you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Therefore be on your guard, and do not forget that for three years, day and night, I taught you everything. My tears flowed because of my pity for you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Watch-out therefore. Remember that I have warned all of you in the three years that I have-stayed-with you, both (lit. even) day and night, while also I have shed-tears from my large love and pity for you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Therefore always watch-for-danger. Consider that for the space of three years, night and day I persevered in teaching you, sometimes accompanied by my tears.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 20:32:

• Uma: “‘So now, relatives, I call-out to the Lord God, I request that he be the one who cares for you. I advise you to faithfully follow Word of the Lord that tells us of God’s white insides [grace] to us. Because it is only God who has power to strengthen our hearts and gives us blessing that he prepared from the start for people who are his portion.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “‘Na now,’ Paul said, ‘may God take-care of you and may his word/message about his love and his mercy make-firm your trust in God. If you follow/obey this his word/message God will give you good/blessing, that is what he gives-as-inheritance to those who follow him wholly.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And now I entrust you to God who is able to help you. His kindness to us all which I taught to you is able to help you also. God is the one who is able to give us strength of faith. From him we also can get our share of the blessings which he gives to all believers in him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “‘Now then, I entrust you to God and to what he promised that he would have-mercy-on you. It is he who is powerful to strengthen your faith and to give the blessings he promised to all of them whom he has made-into his people.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Well now, I now commit you to God and to the help of his word which tells concerning his far-from-ordinary grace to us. This word of his is what can cause your believing to be sturdy. And as long as you hold fast to him, it’s certain that you will be able to receive the completion of your salvation which is being held in store for all who have been chosen and set apart by God as his people.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 20:33:

• Uma: “I have not ever desired anyone’s money or clothes.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “I have never coveted a person’s property/wealth, his money or his gold, or his clothes.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Silver and even cloth of any of you, that was not my purpose.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “As for me, I have not requested money or clothes from even whoever of you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “It’s true, I didn’t envy, wanting to get gold, silver or clothing from any of you,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 20:34:

• Uma: “You yourselves know, relatives, how I worked with my own hands so I could buy whatever my needs were, and the needs of my friends.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “You, you know very well that I worked so that I (lit. we (excl.)) and my companions had (money for our) expenses.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You know that I continued on working so that I might get what I and my companions needed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “You know that I myself am the one who has-been-working to get my-needs and the needs of my fellows who are my traveling-companions.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “but on the contrary, you observed what my persevering was like so that I could find what I would live on, including what my companions would live on.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 20:35:

• Uma: “In all things, I showed you an example, how we must work to help our companions who are unable [to help themselves]. Because we must always remember the words of the Lord Yesus that say: ‘The person who gives is more blessed than the person who receives.’ ‘” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “I showed to you,’ Paul said, ‘that we (incl.) must work hard in order that we (incl.) can help those who are poor. We (incl.) must remember what was spoken by our (incl.) Lord, Isa, he said, ‘We (dual) are happier if we (dual) give than if we (dual) are given.’ ‘” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And through this I showed you how that it is necessary that through our continuing to work we will be able to help the poor. Because we (incl.) remember the words long ago of our Lord Jesus because he said, ‘Greater is our joy if we give rather than if we are the ones to receive.’ ‘” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “That’s what I have always done in order that you would have an-example-to-follow, because we must be industrious to work in order that we will have that-with-which-to-help the needy. We ought to think-about what the Lord Jesus said saying, ‘Bigger is the happiness of the one who gives than the one to-whom-is-given.’ ‘” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Like this is what I did so that hopefully you would also copy it, that you would be helpful to others, those who are feeble and other poor-folk. For isn’t it so that the Lord Jesus said that the person who is always giving can be much happier than the person being given to?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 20:36:

• Uma: “When Paulus finished talking, he kneeled together with all those companions of his from Efesus, and he prayed.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “After Paul had spoken, he stood with his knees together with all of them praying to God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when Paul finished saying this, he knelt down and he called upon God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Upon Pablo’s saying that, then they all knelt-down, and Pablo prayed.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “When all of what Pablo said was ended, they all knelt down and prayed.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 20:37:

• Uma: “They all wept and hugged Paulus and said to him: ‘Have a good trip. / Be careful walking.’ [traditional leave-taking formula]” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “When they took-leave, they wept embracing Paul and kissing him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the believers’ tears flowed and they hugged Paul and they kissed him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “After that they then cried-quietly in hugging and kissing him,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “They really couldn’t endure it, they all wept. They embraced Pablo and kissed him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 20:38:

• Uma: “What really made their hearts sad were Paulus’s words that said they would not see him again. From there, they escorted him until he boarded the ship.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “What grieved them very much were his words that they would not see him again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “His words that they would never see him again caused them such sorrow. And then they accompanied him to the ship.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “because they were extremely sorrowful at his saying that they would not again see-each-other. After that they then escorted him as-far-as the location of the ship.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “For what they were really grieving over was what he had said that they wouldn’t again set eyes on each other here under the heavens. When he set out, they too went with him as far as to the ship.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)