Yokaana 15
1 “Nze muzabbibu ogw’amazima, ate Kitange ye mulimi.
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2 Buli ttabi eriri ku Nze eritabala bibala aliggyako. Naye buli ttabi eribala ebibala, alirongoosa lyeyongerenga okubala.
[As to] every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it away; and [as to] every one bearing fruit, he purges it that it may bring forth more fruit.
3 Mmwe kaakano muli balongoofu olw’ekigambo kye mbagambye;
Ye are already clean by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.
4 mubeere mu Nze era nange mbeere mu mmwe. Ng’ettabi bwe litayinza kubala bibala ku bwalyo nga teriri ku muzabbibu, bwe mutyo nammwe temuyinza kubala bibala bwe mutabeera mu Nze.
Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine, thus neither [can] ye unless ye abide in me.
5 “Nze muzabbibu, mmwe matabi. Buli abeera mu Nze nange ne mbeera mu ye oyo abala ebibala bingi. Kubanga awatali Nze temuliiko kye muyinza kukola.
I am the vine, ye [are] the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.
6 Omuntu bw’atabeera mu nze asuulibwa ebweru ng’ettabi erikaze. Amatabi ng’ago bagakuŋŋaanya ne bagasuula ku muliro ne gaggya.
Unless any one abide in me he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 Naye bwe munywerera mu Nze ne munyweza ebigambo byange, buli kye munaasabanga kinaabakolerwanga.
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall come to pass to you.
8 Bwe mubala ebibala ebingi, muba bayigirizwa bange, ne Kitange, agulumizibwa.
In this is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and ye shall become disciples of mine.
9 “Mbaagadde nga Kitange bw’anjagala. Noolwekyo munywererenga mu kwagala kwange.
As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love.
10 Bwe munaagonderanga ebiragiro byange olwo munaabanga munyweredde mu kwagala kwange, nga nange bwe ŋŋondera ebiragiro bya Kitange ne mbeera mu kwagala kwe.
If ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
11 Mbategeezezza ebyo mulyoke mujjule essanyu lyange. Era essanyu lyammwe liryoke lituukirire.
I have spoken these things to you that my joy may be in you, and your joy be full.
12 Kye mbalagira kye kino nti mwagalanenga nga Nze bwe mbaagala.
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.
13 Tewali kwagala kusinga okw’omuntu awaayo obulamu bwe olwa mikwano gye.
No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.
14 Muba mikwano gyange bwe mukola bye mbalagira.
Ye are my friends if ye practise whatever I command you.
15 Olwo nga sikyabayita baddu, kubanga omuddu tamanya bifa ku mukama we. Kaakano mmwe muli mikwano gyange, kubanga mbategeezezza byonna Kitange bye yaŋŋamba.
I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known to you.
16 Si mmwe mwannonda! Wabula Nze nabalonda, mulyoke mubale ebibala ate ebibala eby’olubeerera. Olwo buli kye munaasabanga Kitange mu linnya lyange anaakibawanga.
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and have set you that ye should go and [that] ye should bear fruit, and [that] your fruit should abide, that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he may give you.
17 Kye mbalagira kye kino nti mwagalanenga.
These things I command you, that ye love one another.
18 “Ensi bw’ebakyawanga mumanye nti yasooka kukyawa nze.
If the world hate you, know that it has hated me before you.
19 Singa mubadde ba nsi, yandibaagadde, naye temuli ba nsi, kubanga nabalonda muve mu nsi, kyeva ebakyawa.
If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on account of this the world hates you.
20 Mujjukire kye nabagamba nti, ‘Omuddu tasinga mukama we.’ Kale obanga Nze banjigganya era nammwe bagenda kubayigganyanga. Era obanga baagondera ebigambo byange n’ebyammwe balibigondera.
Remember the word which I said unto you, The bondman 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 also yours.
21 Ebyo byonna balibibakola ku lw’erinnya lyange, kubanga eyantuma tebamumanyi.
But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they have not known him that sent me.
22 Singa sajja ne njogera nabo tebandibadde na musango. Naye kaakano tebalina kya kwewolereza olw’ekibi kyabwe.
If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Buli ankyawa aba akyawa ne Kitange.
He that hates me hates also my Father.
24 Singa saakola mirimu egitaakolebwa muntu yenna mu bo tebandibaddeko musango. Naye kaakano balabye emirimu egyo, n’okutukyawa ne batukyawa, Nze ne Kitange.
If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they had not had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 Ekyawandiikibwa ne kiryoka kituukirira ekigamba nti, ‘Bankyayira bwereere.’
But that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, They hated me without a cause.
26 “Kyokka mmwe ndibatumira Omubeezi okuva eri Kitange, Omwoyo ow’amazima ava eri Kitange era alibategeeza buli ekinfaako.
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes forth from with the Father, he shall bear witness concerning me;
27 Era nammwe mulinjulira, kubanga mubadde nange okuva ku lubereberye.”
and ye too bear witness, because ye are with me from [the] beginning.
