Following are a number of back-translations of 2 John 1:7:

• Uma: “I write this to you, for many deceivers are going-around all over the world. They don’t believe that Yesus is the Redeemer King who became a human. People who are like that, they are deceivers and they are indeed enemies of Kristus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Many people are teaching which is not true in the places/countries here in the world. These people don’t believe that Isa Almasi came to the earth in a human body. These people are really deceiving. They are already the ones opposing Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Many have appeared teaching lies here on the earth. They say that, as for Jesus, the one chosen by God to rule, He is not the one who became a human. Anyone who says that, he is a liar and the enemy of Christ.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “I have reminded you of this, because there are many who have come-out/appeared now who are deceiving people. What they are teaching is not true because they do not acknowledge that Jesu Cristo became a true person when he came to this earth. Those like that, they are characteristically-deceiving/lying people who oppose Cristo.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “It’s true, this world/land is really full of misleaders of believing, those people who don’t acknowledge-as-true that as for Jesu-Cristo, he really became a man/human. Those people who are like that, they are the ones who lead astray and who oppose Cristo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Thus I tell you, because here on earth there are many lying speakers going about. These say that Jesus Christ did not truly become a human. The person who thus says this is a deceiver, and he is the enemy of Christ.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
• Yatzachi Zapotec: “Many deceivers have gone out from among us and are going about in this world. They say that Jesus Christ is not born a man on this earth. Those people who are deceivers do contrary to Christ.”
• Eastern Highland Otomi: “This I am telling you, because a lot of deceivers are walking around in the world, who say that God’s Chosen-One didn’t become a person, that is, Jesus. But they are false, and they follow God’s enemy.”
• Isthmus Zapotec: “There are many who go around in the world and say that Jesus Christ did not become a person (of the world). And one who speaks that way is deceiving and he is an enemy of Christ.” (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 2 John 1:8:

• Uma: “That’s why you must be careful, lest you let-go-of your faith in the Lord Yesus, with the result that there is no use to our (excl.) work bringing the Good News to you. Keep believing in the Lord, so that you will get all the return/recompense of your faith in the future.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Therefore take care so that all that we (incl.) have labored for is not lost, but/instead that you will receive in-total/completely your reward from God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Be on your guard so that what you have worked so hard for might not be removed from you and so that the reward of God to you in the future might not be lessened.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Be-careful then so that what we (excl.) taught you that was correct does not come-to-nothing, because if you do that, the reward that you will get/enjoy in a future day will not be taken-away-from/lessened.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Therefore you need to be careful, so that what you’ve-worked-hard-for/suffered-hardship-for won’t be lost, but rather you will be able to receive the best reward.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Be careful in order that you will not lose what you are working at. You should want that you will be rewarded completely.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
• Yatzachi Zapotec: “Do not believe them, because if you believe them, the benefit God wants to give to you because of our will be lost. Do you so that you will receive all the benefit which God wants to give to you.”
• Eastern Highland Otomi: “Guard yourselves so that no one will deceive you; and it will be lost what we have worked for. But continue well so that you will gain (earn, win) all that God wants to give you afterwards.”
• Isthmus Zapotec: “Watch carefully that which we did among you so that you won’t lose it but rather you will receive all that which god has prepared for you.” (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 2 John 1:10:

• Uma: “So, if there are religion teachers who arrive at your village who bring teaching that is-different-than/at-odds-with this teaching, don’t ask-them-to-stop-in at your house, and don’t greet them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Therefore if there is a person coming to you and his teaching is different, don’t receive him in your house. Don’t even greet him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If anyone arrives teaching a doctrine, and it is not the true doctrine taught by Christ which he teaches, don’t you bring him up into your houses. Don’t you also welcome him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “So if there is someone who goes to you whose teaching is different, don’t have-him -enter your houses. Neither are you to (lit. Never-mind if you don’t) even greet-him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Therefore whoever comes to you bringing different from this teaching, don’t cause him to come up into your house and don’t even greet him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “If one arrives to where you live saying that he will teach God’s word and does not teach the word which Christ taught, do not give him a resting place at your houses, and do not greet him.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
• Yatzachi Zapotec: “If any person comes where you are to teach you, but he does not teach what Christ taught, you should not receive him into your houses and you should not tell him, ‘Come in, brother.'”
• Eastern Highland Otomi: “If one arrives there saying he speaks God’s Word, but if he doesn’t say the same as the teaching of Christ, but then we won’t give him hospitality in our homes, neither will we ask God’s help in regard to him.”
• Isthmus Zapotec: “If someone comes to your house and does not follow these words, don’t receive him in your house nor say to him. ‘Come in, you are in your house.” (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 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.)