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 Vine-grower.
2 Kila tawi ndani yangu ambalo halizai tunda, na husafisha kila tawi ambalo huzaa tunda huliondoa ili kwamba liweze kuzaa zaidi.
Any unfruitful branch in me he takes away, and he cleanses every fruitful branch, that it may bear more fruit.
3 Ninyi tayari mmekuwa safi kwa sababu ya ujumbe ambao nimekwisha waambia.
You are already clean because of the Message that I have given 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.
Remain united to me, and I will remain united to you. As a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains united to the vine; no more can you, unless you remain united to 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, you are the branches. He that remains united to me, while I remain united to him — he bears fruit plentifully; for you can do nothing apart from me.
6 Ikiwa mtu yeyote hatasalia ndani yangu, atatupwa kama tawi na kukauka; watu hukusanya matawi na kuyatupa katika moto, na kuteketea.
If any one does not remain united to me, he is thrown away, as a branch would be, and withers up. Such branches are collected and thrown into the fire, and are burnt.
7 Ikiwa mtadumu ndani yangu, na kama maneno yangu yakidumu ndani yenu, ombeni lolote mtakalo, nanyi mtafanyiwa.
If you remain united to me, and my teaching remains in your hearts, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be yours.
8 Katika hili baba yangu ametukuzwa, kwamba mnazaa matunda mengi na kwamba ni wanafunzi wangu.
It is by your bearing fruit plentifully, and so showing yourselves my disciples, that my Father is honoured.
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; remain in my love.
10 Ikiwa mtashika amri zangu, mtadumu katika pendo langu kama nilivyo shika amri za baba yangu na kudumu katika pendo lake.
If you lay my commands to heart, you will remain in my love; just as I have laid the Father’s commands to heart and remain in his love.
11 Nimesema mambo haya kwenu ili kwamba furaha yangu iwe ndani yenu na ili kwamba furaha yenu ifanyike kuwa timilifu.
I have told you all this so that my own joy may be yours, and that your joy may be complete.
12 Hii ndiyo amri yangu, kwamba mpendane ninyi kwa ninyi kama nilivyo wapenda ninyi.
This is my command — 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.
No one can give greater proof of love than by laying down his life for his friends.
14 Ninyi ni rafiki zangu ikiwa mtafanya yale niwaagizayo.
And you are my friends, if you do what 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.
I no longer call you ‘servants,’ because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have given you the name of ‘friends,’ because I made known to you everything that I learned from my Father.
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.
It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit — fruit that should remain, so that the Father might grant you whatever you ask in my Name.
17 Mambo haya ninawaagiza, kwamba mpendane kila mtu na mwenzake.
I am giving you these commands that you may love one another.
18 Kama ulimwengu utawachukia, mjuwe kwamba ulinichukia mimi kabla haujawachukia ninyi.
If the world hates you, you know that it has first hated me.
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 you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world — that is why 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 what I said to you — ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have laid my Message to heart, they will lay yours to heart also.
21 Watawatendeeni mambo haya yote kwa ajili ya jina langu kwa sababu hawamjui yule aliyenituma.
But they will do all this to you, because you believe in my Name, for they do not know him who 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 to them, they would have had no sin to answer for; but as it is, they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Anichukiaye mimi humchukia Baba pia.
He who 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 such work as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin to answer for; but, as it is, they have 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.'
And so is fulfilled what is said in their Law — ‘They hated me without cause.’
26 Wakati mfariji amekuja, ambaye nitamtuma kwenu kutoka kwa Baba, huyu ndiye, Roho wa kweli, ambaye anatokea kwa Baba, atanishuhudia.
But, when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father — the Spirit of Truth, who comes from the Father — he will bear testimony to me;
27 Ninyi pia mnanishuhudia kwa sababu mmekuwa pamoja nami tangu mwanzo.
yes, and you also are to bear testimony, because you have been with me from the first.
