Yohane 15
1 Ame njame citondo ca vaini, nomba Bata ebalimi.
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
2 Nabo bakute kutimbula misampi iliyonse mulinjame itaseme bisepo. Nomba misampi ikutekusema bisepo Bata bakute kwibambilila cena kwambeti ikate bisepo bingi.
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
3 Amwe mulapenselwa kayi mulaswepe kendi pacebo ca maswi ngondalamwambila.
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
4 Kamwikalililani mulinjame kayi nenjame ninkekalilile muli njamwe. Kuliyawa musampi wabulakwikata kucinyina welakwikata bisepo. Copeleco nenjamwe nkamwela kwikata bisepo nankamulekalilinga muli njame.
Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
5 Ame njame citondo cancine ncine ca vaini nomba amwe njamwe misampi. Muntu uliyense eshakekalilile mulinjame, nenjame mulyendiye nakekate bisepo bingi. Weco kwakubula njame kuliyawa ncomwela kwinsa.
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 Namuntu nkalekalanga mulinjame, nakawalwe kunseti misampi yatemwa, ikute kuyuma. Misampi yamushoboyo ikute kubunganishiwa nekuwalwa mumulilo nekutentwa.
If a man does not 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 Namulekala mulinjame, kayi maswi akame ekala mulinjamwe, ngamunsenga ciliconse ncomwela kuyanda, nimukapewe.
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 Bata bakute kulemekeshewa namulekata bisepo bingi, kayi cikute kulesheti njamwe beshikwiya bakame bancine ncine.
“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
9 Mbuli Bata ncobansuni, nenjame ndimusuni amwe. Mwikalenga mu lusuno lwakame.
Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
10 Namukonkelenga milawo yakame, nimwikalenga mulusuno lwakame, mbuli ame nconkute kukonkela milawo ya Bata nekwikalilila mulusuno lwabo.
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 “Ndamwambili ibi kwambeti kukondwa kwakame kube muli njamwe kayi kwambeti kukondwa kwenu kube kwakwana.
I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
12 Mulawo wakame niwakwambeti musunanenga mbuli ncondimusuni.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
13 Kuliya muntu ukute lusuno lwapita ulu lwakutaya buyumi bwakendi pacebo cabanendi.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
14 Namulakonkelenga kwiyisha kwakame ekwambeti njamwe mobaname.
You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
15 Nteshi ndimukuwengeti basebenshi sobwe pakwinga musebenshi nkakute kwinshiba bilenshinga mwami wakendi. Nsombi ndamukungeti baname, pacebo cakwambeti byonse mbyondalanyumfwa kuli Bata ndalamwambila.
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not 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 Ntamwe mwalansala sobwe, nsombi njame ndalamusala. Kayi ndalamupatula kwambeti mukekate bisepo bitalobo. Neco ciliconse ncoshimukasenge kuli Bata mulina lyakame nibakamupe.
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; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
17 Neco mulawo wakame niwakwambeti musunanenga.
“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
18 “Na cishi capanshi cikamupate, mukanuke kwambeti calatatikila kupata njame.
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
19 Nemwekalangeti bantu bamucishi nebalamusuna, nomba pacebo cakwambeti ntamwe bamucishi capanshi sobwe. Nomba bamupela pakwinga ame ndalamusala pakati pabo, weco ntamwe banabo sobwe.
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 Kamwanukanga maswi asa ngondalamwambileti, ‘Musebenshi nkapiti mwami wakendi.’ Na balampensha, nenjamwe nibakamupenshe. Na balanyumfwa maswi akame, nibakanyumfwe maswi enu.
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 Nsombi nibakamwinshile bintu mbyobalenshila kulinjame, pakwinga nkabamwinshi walantuma.
But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they do not know him who sent me.
22 Nendalabula kwisa kubeyisha, nebalabula kuba nemulandu. Nomba lino paliyawa mpobela kukanina mulandu wabo.
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 Muntu lapatananga nenjame, lapatananga neBata.
He who hates me, hates my Father also.
24 Nendalabula kwinsa bintu pakati pabo bitana binshiwapo nemuntu uliyense, cakubinga nebalakabulu kuba nemulandu. Nomba pakwinga balabibona, nsombi bapata ame neBata.
If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.
25 Nomba byalenshika mushoboyo mbuli ncecalembwa mulibuku lyabo lya milawo kwambeti, ‘Balapatana nenjame kwakubula mulandu.’
But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
26 “Shikumunyamfwa lakesanga, uyo ni Mushimu weshukayubulule cancine ncine cilambanga shaBata, Ninkamutumine, nendi uyo akesa nakambele bukamboni.
“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 Nenjamwe nimukambele bukamboni, pakwinga mulekala nenjame kufuma kumatatikilo.”
You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
