Yohana 15
1 Mimi ni mzabibu wa huu kweli, na baba yangu ni mkulima wa mzabibu.
I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
2 Kila tawi ndani yangu ambalo halizai tunda, na husafisha kila tawi ambalo huzaa tunda huliondoa ili kwamba liweze kuzaa zaidi.
Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, he purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3 Ninyi tayari mmekuwa safi kwa sababu ya ujumbe ambao nimekwisha waambia.
Now all of you are clean through the word (logos) which I have spoken unto you.
4 Mkae ndani yangu, na mimi ndani yenu. Kama tawi lisivyoweza kuzaa peke yake lisipo kuwa katika mzabibu, kadhalika nayi, msipo kaa ndani yangu.
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can all of you, except all of you abide in me.
5 Mimi ni mzabibu; ninyi ni matawi. Adumuye ndani yangu na mimi ndani yake, mtu huyu huzaa matunda mengi, kwa kuwa pasipo mimi hamuwezi kufanya jambo lolote.
I am the vine, all of you are the branches: He that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me all of you can do nothing.
6 Ikiwa mtu yeyote hatasalia ndani yangu, atatupwa kama tawi na kukauka; watu hukusanya matawi na kuyatupa katika moto, na kuteketea.
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 Ikiwa mtadumu ndani yangu, na kama maneno yangu yakidumu ndani yenu, ombeni lolote mtakalo, nanyi mtafanyiwa.
If all of you abide in me, and my words (rhema) abide in you, all of you shall ask what all of you will, and it shall be done unto you.
8 Katika hili baba yangu ametukuzwa, kwamba mnazaa matunda mengi na kwamba ni wanafunzi wangu.
Herein is my Father glorified, that all of you bear much fruit; so shall all of you be my disciples.
9 Kama baba yangu alivyonipenda mimi, mimi pia nimewapenda ninyi; dumuni katika pendo langu.
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you: continue all of you in my love. (agape)
10 Ikiwa mtashika amri zangu, mtadumu katika pendo langu kama nilivyo shika amri za baba yangu na kudumu katika pendo lake.
If all of you keep my commandments, all of you shall abide in my love; (agape) even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. (agape)
11 Nimesema mambo haya kwenu ili kwamba furaha yangu iwe ndani yenu na ili kwamba furaha yenu ifanyike kuwa timilifu.
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
12 Hii ndiyo amri yangu, kwamba mpendane ninyi kwa ninyi kama nilivyo wapenda ninyi.
This is my commandment, That all of you love one another, as I have loved you.
13 Hakuna mtu aliye na upendo mkuu kuliko huu, kwamba ayatoe maisha yake kwa ajiliya rafiki zake.
Greater love (agape) has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
14 Ninyi ni rafiki zangu ikiwa mtafanya yale niwaagizayo.
All of you are my friends, if all of you do whatsoever I command you.
15 Siwaiti watumwa, kwa kuwa mtumwa hajui kile afanyacho bwana wake. Nimewaita ninyi marafiki, kwa sababu nimewajulisheni mambo yote ambayo nimesikia kutoka kwa Baba.
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
16 Hamkunichagua mimi, bali mimi niliwachagua ninyi na kuwaweka mwende mazae matunda, na tunda lenu lipate kukaa. Hii liko hivi ili kwamba chochote muombacho kwa Baba kwa jina langu, atawapeni.
All of you have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that all of you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever all of you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
17 Mambo haya ninawaagiza, kwamba mpendane kila mtu na mwenzake.
These things I command you, that all of you love one another.
18 Kama ulimwengu utawachukia, mjuwe kwamba ulinichukia mimi kabla haujawachukia ninyi.
If the world hate you, all of you know that it hated me before it hated you.
19 Kama mngekuwa wa ulimwengu, ulimwengu ungewapenda kama wa kwao; Lakini kwa sababau ninyi sio wa ulimwengu na kwa sababu niliwachagua kutoka katika ulimwengu, ni kwa ajili hii ulimwengu huwachukia.
If all of you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because all of you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
20 Kumbukeni neno ambalo niliwaambia, 'Mtumwa si mkuu kuliko bwana wake.' Ikiwa walinitesa mimi, watawateseni ninyi pia; Kama walishika neno langu, wangelishika la kwenu pia.
Remember the word (logos) that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, (logos) they will keep your also.
21 Watawatendeeni mambo haya yote kwa ajili ya jina langu kwa sababu hawamjui yule aliyenituma.
But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
22 Kama nisingekuja na kuwaambia waambia, wasingalikuwa wamefanya dhambi; lakini sasa hawana udhuru kwa dhambi yao.
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
23 Anichukiaye mimi humchukia Baba pia.
He that hates me hates my Father also.
24 Ikiwa sijafanya kazi miongoni mwao ambayo hapana mmoja aliyeifanya, wangelikuwa hawana dhambi; lakini sasa wamefanya yote mawili wameona na wamenichukia mimi na Baba yangu.
If I had not done among them the works which no other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 Hili linatokea ili kwamba neno litimie ambalo limeandikwa katika sheria yao: 'Wananichukia mimi bila sababu.'
But this comes to pass, that the word (logos) might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
26 Wakati mfariji amekuja, ambaye nitamtuma kwenu kutoka kwa Baba, huyu ndiye, Roho wa kweli, ambaye anatokea kwa Baba, atanishuhudia.
But when the Comforter has come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit (pneuma) of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me:
27 Ninyi pia mnanishuhudia kwa sababu mmekuwa pamoja nami tangu mwanzo.
And all of you also shall bear witness, because all of you have been with me from the beginning.
