Jọn 15
1 “Mụ onwe m bụ ezigbo osisi vaịnị ahụ. Nna m bụkwa onye ọrụ ubi.
"I am the vine, and my Father the vine-grower.
2 Ọ na-egbuda alaka ọbụla dị nʼime m nke na-adịghị amị mkpụrụ. Ma alaka ọbụla na-amị mkpụrụ ka ọ na-egbucha, ka o nwee ike mịa mkpụrụ dị ọtụtụ.
"He cuts back any of my branches that bear no fruit, and prunes every fruit-bearing branch, that it may bear more.
3 Ugbu a, e meela ka unu dịrị ọcha nʼihi okwu m gwara unu.
"Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you.
4 Nọgidenụ nʼime m, ka mụ onwe m nọgidekwa nʼime unu. Dịka alaka ọbụla apụghị ịmị mkpụrụ nʼonwe ya ma ọ bụrụ na ọ nọgideghị nʼosisi vaịnị. Otu a, unu apụghịkwa ịmị mkpụrụ ma ọ bụrụ na unu anọgideghị nʼime m.
"Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me.
5 “Mụ onwe m bụ osisi vaịnị ahụ; unu bụkwa alaka ya. Onye ọbụla na-anọgide nʼime m, nke mụ onwe m na-anọgidekwa nʼime ya, na-amị ọtụtụ mkpụrụ. Nʼihi na ewezuga m, unu enweghị ike ime ihe ọbụla.
"I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing.
6 Onye ọbụla na-adịghị anọgide nʼime m dị ka alaka e gbuturu, tụpụ ya, ọ kpọnwụọ. A ga-achịkọta ya, chịnye ya nʼọkụ, o repịa.
"If any one does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and burned.
7 Ọ bụrụ na unu anọgide nʼime m, okwu m anọgidekwa nʼime unu, rịọọnụ ihe ọbụla unu chọrọ, a ga-emere unu ya.
"If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever your will is, and it shall be yours.
8 Nke a ga-abụrụ Nna m otuto na unu mịrị ọtụtụ mkpụrụ hie nne, ọ na-egosikwa na unu bụ ndị na-eso ụzọ m.
"By this is my Father glorified, by your bearing abundant fruit, and so being my disciples.
9 “Dị ka Nna sị hụ m nʼanya, otu a ka m sị hụkwa unu nʼanya. Ya mere, nọgidenụ nʼime ịhụnanya m.
"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.
10 Unu ga-anọgide nʼịhụnanya m ma ọ bụrụ na unu edebe iwu m. Dị ka m debere iwu Nna m ma nọgidekwa nʼịhụnanya ya.
"If you obey my commands you will abide in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and abide in his love.
11 Agwala m unu ihe ndị a ka ọṅụ m dịrị nʼime unu ka ọṅụ unu zukwaa oke.
"I have told you these things that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
12 Nke a bụkwa iwu m, ka unu hụrịta onwe unu nʼanya dị ka m siri hụ unu nʼanya.
"This is my command, Love one another as I have loved you.
13 Ọ dịghị onye ọbụla nwere ịhụnanya karịrị nke a na mmadụ tọgbọrọ ndụ ya nʼihi ndị enyi ya.
"Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
14 Unu onwe unu bụkwa ndị enyi m ma ọ bụrụ na unu edebe ihe m nyere nʼiwu.
"You are my friends if you do what I command you.
15 Anaghị m akpọkwa unu ndị ohu ọzọ. Nʼihi na ohu adịghị amatazu ihe niile onyenwe ya na-eme. Ma ana m akpọ unu ndị enyi m nʼihi na agwala m unu ihe niile m nụrụ nʼọnụ Nna m.
"I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.
16 Ọ bụkwaghị unu onwe unu họọrọ m. Ọ bụ m họọrọ unu, wepụtakwa unu iche ka unu gaa mịa ọtụtụ mkpụrụ, mkpụrụ nke ga-adịgidekwa. Ya mere, Nna m ga-enye unu ihe ọbụla unu ga-arịọ nʼaha m.
"You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
17 Ihe ndị a ka m na-enye unu nʼiwu, hụrịtanụ onwe unu nʼanya.
"This is my command. to love one another. If the worlds hates you,
18 “Ọ bụrụ na ụwa akpọọ unu asị, chetanụ na o buru ụzọ kpọọ m asị.
"do not forget that it hated me first.
19 A sị na unu bụ nke ụwa, ụwa ga-ahụ unu nʼanya dịka ndị nke ya. Ma otu ọ dị unu abụghị nke ụwa. Kama, esi m nʼime ụwa họrọ unu. Ọ bụkwa nʼihi ya ka ụwa ji akpọ unu asị.
"If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you.
20 Chetakwanụ ihe m gwara unu, ‘Ohu adịghị adị ukwuu karịa Onyenwe ya.’Ya mere, ebe ha kpagburu m, ha ga-akpagbukwa unu. Ọ bụrụ na ha debere okwu m, ha ga-edebekwa nke unu.
"Remember what I told you, ‘A slave is not better than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. If they have obeyed my word, they will obey yours also.
21 Ee, ha ga-eme unu ihe niile ndị a nʼihi aha m, na nʼihi na ha amaghị onye ahụ zitere m.
"But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they know not Him who sent me.
22 Ọ bụrụ na abịaghị m, gwa ha okwu, ikpe mmehie agaraghị ama ha. Ma ugbu a, ha enweghị ngọpụ ọbụla banyere mmehie ha.
"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Onye ọbụla kpọrọ m asị kpọkwara Nna m asị.
"He who hates me hates my Father also.
24 A sị na ọrụ niile m rụrụ nʼetiti ha akarịghị ọrụ nke onye ọbụla ọzọ rụrụ, ha agaraghị abụ ndị ikpe mmehie mara. Ma ugbu a ha ahụzuola ọrụ ebube ndị a niile, ma ha nọgidekwara na-akpọ mụ na Nna m asị.
"If I had not done among them such works as none ever did, they would have had no sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 Nke a bụ imezu ihe e dere nʼakwụkwọ iwu ha. ‘Ha kpọrọ m asị na-enweghị ihe m mere.’
"And so is fulfilled the word written in their Law, ‘They hate me without cause.’
26 “Mgbe Onye Ndụmọdụahụ ga-abịa, onye m ga-ezitere unu site nʼaka Nna, bụ Mmụọ eziokwu ahụ sitere na Nna pụta, ọ ga-agba ama banyere m.
"When the Comforter is come whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father, he will bear witness of me;
27 Ma unu onwe unu aghaghị ịgba ama, nʼihi na mụ na unu anọọla site na mmalite.
"and you to shall bear witness because you have been with me from the first.
