Johani 15
1 Ini ndiri muzambiringa wechokwadi, uye Baba vangu murimi.
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
2 Davi rimwe nerimwe riri mandiri risingabereki chibereko, vanoribvisa; uye rimwe nerimwe rinobereka chibereko, vanorichekerera, kuti riwedzere kubereka chibereko.
Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
3 Imwi matochena neshoko randataura kwamuri.
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
4 Garai mandiri, neni mamuri. Sedavi risingagoni kubereka chibereko pacharo, kana risingagari mumuzambiringa, saizvozvo nemwi kwete, kana musingagari mandiri.
Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
5 Ini ndiri muzambiringa, imwi matavi. Anogara mandiri, neni maari, ndiye anobereka chibereko chakawanda; nokuti kunze kwangu hamugoni kuita chinhu.
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
6 Kana munhu asingagari mandiri, anoraswa kunze sedavi, ndokusvava, vanoaunganidza, ndokukandira mumoto, apiswe.
If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 Kana muchigara mandiri, nemashoko angu achigara mamuri, muchakumbira chero zvamunoda, uye muchazviitirwa.
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
8 Baba vangu vanokudzwa neizvi, kuti mubereke chibereko chakawanda; uye muchava vadzidzi vangu.
“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
9 Baba sezvavakandida, iniwo ndakakudai; garai murudo rwangu.
Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
10 Kana muchichengeta mirairo yangu, muchagara murudo rwangu, seni ndakachengeta mirairo yaBaba vangu, ndinogara murudo rwavo.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
11 Zvinhu izvi ndazvitaura kwamuri, kuti mufaro wangu ugare mamuri, uye mufaro wenyu uzare.
I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
12 Uyu ndiwo murairo wangu, kuti mudanane, sezvandakakudai.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
13 Hakuna ane rudo rukuru kune urwu, kuti munhu anoradzikira pasi shamwari dzake upenyu hwake.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
14 Imwi muri shamwari dzangu, kana muchiita chipi nechipi ini chandinokurairai.
You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
15 Handichakuidziizve varanda, nokuti muranda haazivi ishe wake chaanoita; asi ndakuidzai shamwari; nokuti zvese zvandakanzwa naBaba vangu, ndakakuzivisai.
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
16 Imwi hamuna kundisarudza, asi ini ndakakusarudzai, ndikakugadzai, kuti imwi muende mubereke chibereko, uye chibereko chenyu chigare; kuti chipi nechipi chamunokumbira kuna Baba muzita rangu, vakupei.
You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
17 Izvi zvinhu ndinokurairai, kuti mudanane.
“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
18 Kana nyika ichikuvengai, muzive kuti yavenga ini isati yakuvengai imwi.
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
19 Dai maiva venyika, nyika yaida zvayo pachayo; asi nokuti hamusi venyika, asi ini ndakakusarudzai kubva panyika, naizvozvo nyika inokuvengai.
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
20 Rangarirai shoko ini randakareva kwamuri: Muranda haasi mukuru kuna ishe wake. Kana vakashusha ini, vachashusha imwiwo; kana vakachengeta shoko rangu vachachengeta renyuwo.
Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
21 Asi izvi zvese vachakuitirai nekuda kwezita rangu, nokuti havamuzivi wakandituma.
But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.
22 Dai ndisina kuuya ndikataura kwavari, vangadai vasina chivi; asi ikozvino havana manzvengero pachivi chavo.
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Anondivenga, anovenga Baba vanguwo.
He who hates me, hates my Father also.
24 Dai ndisina kuita pakati pavo mabasa asina umwe wakaaita, vangadai vasina chivi; asi ikozvino vakaona ndokuvenga zvese ini naBaba vangu.
If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.
25 Asi kuti shoko rizadziswe rakanyorwa pamurairo wavo, rinoti: Vakandivenga pasina chikonzero.
But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
26 Asi kana Munyaradzi auya, ini wandichatumira kwamuri kubva kuna Baba, Mweya wechokwadi, unobuda kuna Baba, uyu achapupura nezvangu.
“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.
27 Nemwiwo muchapupura, nokuti maiva neni kubva pakutanga.
You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
