John 15
1 "I am the Vine--the True Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser.
Jag är ett sant vinträ, och min Fader är en vingårdsman.
2 Every branch in me--if it bears no fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Hvar och en gren i mig, som icke bär frukt, den tager han bort; och hvar och en, som bär frukt, den rensar han, att han mer frukt bära skall.
3 Already you are cleansed--through the teaching which I have given you.
Nu ären I rene, för det tals skull, som jag hafver talat med eder.
4 Continue in me, and let me continue in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself--that is, if it does not continue in the vine--so neither can you if you do not continue in me.
Blifver i mig, och jag i eder; såsom grenen kan icke bära frukt af sig sjelf, med mindre han blifver i vinträt, så kunnen icke heller I, utan I blifven i mig.
5 I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who continues in me and in whom I continue bears abundant fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
Jag är vinträt, I ären grenarna; den som blifver i mig, och jag i honom, han bär mycken frukt; ty mig förutan kunnen I intet göra.
6 If any one does not continue in me, he is like the unfruitful branch which is at once thrown away and then withers up. Such branches they gather up and throw into the fire and they are burned.
Hvilken som icke blifver i mig, han skall bortkastas, såsom en gren, och förtorkas; och man binder dem samman, och kastar i elden, och de brinna.
7 "If you continue in me and my sayings continue in you, ask what you will and it shall be done for you.
Om I blifven i mig, och min ord blifva i eder, allt det I viljen, mågen I bedas, och det skall ske eder.
8 By this is God glorified--by your bearing abundant fruit and thus being true disciples of mine.
Derutinnan är min Fader prisad, att I bären mycken frukt, och varden mine Lärjungar.
9 As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you: continue in my love.
Såsom Fadren hafver älskat mig, så hafver jag ock älskat eder; blifver i min kärlek.
10 If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love.
Om I hållen min bud, så blifven I i minom kärlek; såsom ock jag hafver hållit mins Faders bud, och blifver i hans kärlek.
11 "These things I have spoken to you in order that I may have joy in you, and that your joy may become perfect.
Detta hafver jag talat till eder, att min glädje skall blifva i eder, och edor glädje fullkommen varda.
12 This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I have loved you.
Detta är mitt bud, att I skolen älska eder inbördes, såsom jag hafver älskat eder.
13 No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends.
Ingen hafver större kärlek, än att en låter sitt lif för sina vänner.
14 You are my friends, if you do what I command you.
I ären mine vänner, om I gören hvad jag bjuder eder.
15 No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from the Father I have made known to you.
Härefter säger jag icke, att I ären tjenare, ty tjenaren vet icke hvad hans herre gör; men vänner hafver jag kallat eder, ty allt det jag hafver hört af minom Fader, hafver jag kungjort eder.
16 It is not you who chose me, but it is I who chose you and appointed you that you might go and be fruitful and that your fruit might remain; so that whatever petition you present to the Father in my name He may give you.
I hafven icke utkorat mig; men jag hafver utkorat eder, och tillskickat eder, att I skolen gå, och göra frukt, och edor frukt skall blifva; på det att hvad I bedjen Fadren i mitt Namn, det skall han gifva eder.
17 "Thus I command you to love one another.
Detta bjuder jag eder, att I älsken eder inbördes.
18 If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.
Om verlden hatar eder, så veter, att hon hafver hatat mig förr än eder.
19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you.
Voren I af verldene, så älskade verlden det hennes vore; men efter det I icke ären af verldene, utan jag hafver eder utvalt ifrå verldene, derföre hatar verlden eder.
20 Bear in mind what I said to you, 'A servant is not superior to his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.
Kommer ihåg min ord, som jag hafver sagt eder: Tjenaren är icke förmer än hans herre; hafva de förföljt mig, så skola de ock förfölja eder; hafva de hållit min ord, så varda de ock hållande edor.
21 But they will inflict all this suffering upon you on account of your bearing my name--because they do not know Him who sent me.
Men allt detta skola de göra eder för mitt Namns skull; ty de känna icke honom, som mig sändt hafver.
22 "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin; but as the case stands they are without excuse for their sin.
Hade jag icke kommit, och talat med dem, så hade de icke synd; men nu hafva de ingen ursäkt för sina synd.
23 He who hates me hates my Father also.
Den mig hatar, han hatar ock min Fader.
24 If I had not done among them, as I have, such miracles as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin; but they have in fact seen and also hated both me and my Father.
Hade jag icke gjort de gerningar ibland dem, som ingen annar gjort hafver, så hade de icke synd; men nu hafva de sett det, och hata dock både mig och min Fader.
25 But this has been so, in order that the saying may be fulfilled which stands written in their Law, 'They have hated me without any reason.'
Dock är det skedt, att det talet fullkomnas skall, som i deras lag skrifvet är: De hafva hatat mig utan sak.
26 "When the Advocate is come whom I will send to you from the Father's presence--the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father's presence--He will be a witness concerning me.
Men när Hugsvalaren kommer, den jag skall sända eder af Fadrenom, sanningenes Ande, som utgår af Fadrenom, han skall bära vittnesbörd om mig.
27 And you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the first.
I skolen ock desslikes vittna; ty I hafven varit med mig af begynnelsen.
