John 15
1 I am the true vine; and my Father is the husbandman.
“Ke nna mofine wa boammaaruri, mme Rara ke ene mmaakanyi wa tshimo.
2 Every branch in me, that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
O kgaola kala nngwe le nngwe e e sa ungweng. Mme o ntlafatsa dikala tse di ungwang gore di ungwe thata.
3 Now you are clean by reason of the word, which I have spoken to you.
O setse a bile a lo ntlafaditse ka go lo ntlafaletsa mo go ene gore lo nne le nonofo e kgolo thata le tiriso ka ditaolo tse ke di lo neileng.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me.
Elang tlhoko gore lo nne mo go nna, le nna ke nne mo go lona. Gonne ga e kake ya re kala e kgaotswe mo mofineng ya ungwa, le lona ga lo kake lwa ungwa kwa ntle ga me.
5 I am the vine: you the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.
“Ee, ke mofine; lona lo dikala. Lefa e le mang yo o nnang mo go nna le nna ke nna mo go ene, o tlaa ungwa loungo lo logolo. Gonne ga go na sepe se lo ka se dirang kwa ntle ga me.
6 If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch, and shall wither, and they shall gather him up, and case him into the fire, and be burneth.
Fa mongwe a ikgaoganya le nna, o latlhwa jaaka kala e e senang molemo, e omelela, e phuthwa le tse dingwe mme di tshujwe.
7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be done unto you.
Mme fa lo nna mo go nna lo reetsa ditaolo tsa me, lo ka kopa kopo nngwe fela e lo e ratang, mme lo tlaa e newa!
8 In this is my Father glorified; that you bring forth very much fruit, and become my disciples.
Barutwa ba me ba boammaaruri ba ungwa thobo e kgolo thata. Mme go tlisa kgalalelo e kgolo thata mo go Rre.
9 As the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you.
“Ke lo ratile fela jaaka Rara a nthatile. Nnang mo loratong lwa me.
10 If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; as I also have kept my Father’s commandments, and do abide in his love.
Fa lo inkobela, lo nna mo loratong lwa me, fela jaaka ke reetsa Rara ebile ke nna mo loratong lwa gagwe.
11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be filled.
Ke lo boleletse se gore lo tlale boitumelo jwa me. Ee, senwelo sa lona sa boitumelo se tlaa penologa.
12 This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you.
Ke batla gore lo ratane fela jaaka ke lo rata.
13 Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Mme lorato lo lekanngwa jaana, lorato lo logolo lo supega fa motho a ntshetsa ditsala tsa gagwe botshelo jwa gagwe;
14 You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you.
mme lona lo ditsala tsa me fa lo inkobela.
15 I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends: because all things whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you.
Ga ke sa tlhole ke lo bitsa batlhanka gonne mong wa batlhanka ga a ba rerise sepe; lo ditsala tsa me jaanong, gonne go supiwa ke lobaka lwa gore ke lo boleletse sengwe le sengwe se Rara o se mpoleletseng.
16 You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have appointed you, that you should go, and should bring forth fruit; and your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
“Ga lo a ntlhopha! Ke nna ke lo tlhophileng! Ke lo tlhomile go ya go ntsha maungo a mantle malatsi otlhe, gore le fa e le eng se lo se kopang mo go Rara, lo dirisa leina la me, o tlaa se lo neela.
17 These things I command you, that you love one another.
Ke batla gore lo ratane.
18 If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you.
“Gonne lo ilwa ke lefatshe thata! Mme nna lefatshe le sale le nkila pele ga lona.
19 If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Lefatshe le ne le ka lo rata fa lo ne lo le ba lone; mme ga lo ba lone, gonne ke lo tlhophetse go tswa mo lefatsheng, mme jalo le a lo ila.
20 Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.
A lo gakologelwa se ke se lo boleletseng? ‘Motlhanka ga a mogolo mo go mong wa gagwe!’ mme ereka ba mpogisitse, le lona fela jalo ba tlaa lo bogisa. Mme fa ba ka bo ba ne ba ntheetsa, ba ne ba tlaa lo reetsa.
21 But all these things they will do to you for my name’s sake: because they know not him who sent me.
Batho ba lefatshe ba tlaa lo bogisa gonne lo ba me, gonne ga ba itse Modimo o e leng one o nthomileng.
22 If I had not come, and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
“Ba ka bo ba se molato fa nkabo ke sa tla ka buisanya nabo. Mme jaanong ga ba na seipato ka ntlha ya dibe tsa bone.
23 He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.
Le fa e le mang yo o nkilang, o ila Rara.
24 If I had not done among them the works that no other man hath done, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Fa nkabo ke sa dira dikgakgamatso tse dikgolo jaana mo go bone ba ka bo ba sa tsewe ba le molato. Mme jaanong jaaka go ntse, ba bonye dikgakgamatso tse, mme ba re ila rotlhe, Nna le Rara.
25 But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: They hated me without cause.
Mo go diragatsa se baporofiti ba se buileng ka ga Mesia ba re, ‘Ba nkidile ke sena molato.’
26 But when the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall give testimony of me.
“Mme ke tlaa lo romelela Mogomotsi, Mowa O O Boitshepo, motswedi wa boammaaruri jotlhe. O tlaa tswa kwa go Rara mme o tlaa lo bolelela gotlhe ka ga me.
27 And you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the beginning.
Mme le lona lo tshwanetse go bolelela mongwe le mongwe ka ga me, gonne lo ntse lo na le nna go tswa kwa tshimologong.”
