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.
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.
3 Mmwe kaakano muli balongoofu olw’ekigambo kye mbagambye;
Now you are 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, so neither can you, unless you 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: you the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.
6 Omuntu bw’atabeera mu nze asuulibwa ebweru ng’ettabi erikaze. Amatabi ng’ago bagakuŋŋaanya ne bagasuula ku muliro ne gaggya.
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.
7 Naye bwe munywerera mu Nze ne munyweza ebigambo byange, buli kye munaasabanga kinaabakolerwanga.
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be done unto you.
8 Bwe mubala ebibala ebingi, muba bayigirizwa bange, ne Kitange, agulumizibwa.
In this is my Father glorified; that you bring forth very much fruit, and become my disciples.
9 “Mbaagadde nga Kitange bw’anjagala. Noolwekyo munywererenga mu kwagala kwange.
As the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you.
10 Bwe munaagonderanga ebiragiro byange olwo munaabanga munyweredde mu kwagala kwange, nga nange bwe ŋŋondera ebiragiro bya Kitange ne mbeera mu kwagala kwe.
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.
11 Mbategeezezza ebyo mulyoke mujjule essanyu lyange. Era essanyu lyammwe liryoke lituukirire.
These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be filled.
12 Kye mbalagira kye kino nti mwagalanenga nga Nze bwe mbaagala.
This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you.
13 Tewali kwagala kusinga okw’omuntu awaayo obulamu bwe olwa mikwano gye.
Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
14 Muba mikwano gyange bwe mukola bye mbalagira.
You are my friends, if you do the things that 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 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.
16 Si mmwe mwannonda! Wabula Nze nabalonda, mulyoke mubale ebibala ate ebibala eby’olubeerera. Olwo buli kye munaasabanga Kitange mu linnya lyange anaakibawanga.
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.
17 Kye mbalagira kye kino nti mwagalanenga.
These things I command you, that you love one another.
18 “Ensi bw’ebakyawanga mumanye nti yasooka kukyawa nze.
If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you.
19 Singa mubadde ba nsi, yandibaagadde, naye temuli ba nsi, kubanga nabalonda muve mu nsi, kyeva ebakyawa.
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.
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 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.
21 Ebyo byonna balibibakola ku lw’erinnya lyange, kubanga eyantuma tebamumanyi.
But all these things they will do to you for my name’s sake: because they know not him who 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 would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Buli ankyawa aba akyawa ne Kitange.
He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.
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 that no other man hath done, they would not have 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 may be fulfilled which is written in their law: They hated me without cause.
26 “Kyokka mmwe ndibatumira Omubeezi okuva eri Kitange, Omwoyo ow’amazima ava eri Kitange era alibategeeza buli ekinfaako.
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.
27 Era nammwe mulinjulira, kubanga mubadde nange okuva ku lubereberye.”
And you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the beginning.
