Yohane 15
1 “Mene nokware bobe no, na mʼAgya ne okuafo no.
I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.
2 Dua mman biara a ɛnsow aba no otwa kyene, na dua mman biara a ɛsow no, oyiyi ho na asow aba bebree.
He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.
3 Me nsɛm a maka akyerɛ mo no ama mo ho afi dedaw.
You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you.
4 Montena me mu na me nso mentena mo mu. Dua mman biara ankasa rentumi nsow aba gye sɛ ɛfam ne dutan no ho. Saa ara nso na morentumi nsow aba gye sɛ mote me mu.
Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me.
5 “Mene bobe no; na mo ne dua mman no. Obiara a ɔte me mu na mete ne mu no bɛsow aba bebree; sɛ mokwati me a, morentumi nyɛ hwee.
I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.
6 Obiara a ɔntena me mu no te sɛ dua mman a wɔatwa atow akyene a so nni mfaso; ɛwo a wɔboaboa ano de gu ogya mu hyew.
If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.
7 Sɛ mote me mu na me nsɛm nso tena mo mu a, ɛno de, biribiara a mopɛ a mubebisa no wɔde bɛma mo.
If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.
8 Wɔn a wɔyɛ mʼasuafo nokware mu no sow aba bebree de hyɛ mʼAgya anuonyam.
Here is my Father's glory, in that you give much fruit and so are my true disciples.
9 “Sɛnea Agya no dɔ me no, saa ara na me nso medɔ mo, Montena me dɔ mu.
Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.
10 Sɛ mudi mʼahyɛde so a mobɛtena me dɔ mu sɛnea madi mʼAgya ahyɛde so na ɛno nti ɔda so dɔ me no.
If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.
11 Maka eyinom nyinaa akyerɛ mo sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a mubenya mʼanigye no bi na ama mo anigye awie pɛyɛ.
I have said these things to you so that I may have joy in you and so that your joy may be complete.
12 Mʼahyɛde ne sɛ monnodɔ mo ho mo ho sɛnea medɔ mo no.
This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.
13 Ɔdɔ biara nsen sɛ obi bewu ama ne nnamfonom.
Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.
14 Sɛ mudi nea mehyɛ mo sɛ monyɛ no so a na moyɛ me nnamfonom.
You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.
15 Memfrɛ mo nkoa bio, efisɛ akoa nnim nea ne wura yɛ. Mmom mefrɛ mo nnamfo, efisɛ maka biribiara a mete fii mʼAgya no nkyɛn akyerɛ mo.
No longer do I give you the name of servants; because a servant is without knowledge of what his master is doing: I give you the name of friends, because I have given you knowledge of all the things which my Father has said to me.
16 Ɛnyɛ mo na mpaw me; me na mepaw mo na memaa mo adwuma sɛ monkɔyɛ na monsow aba; aba a ɛbɛtena hɔ daa, Na biribiara a mode me din bebisa no, Agya no de bɛma mo.
You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.
17 Eyi ne mʼahyɛde: Monnodɔ mo ho mo ho.
So this is my law for you: Have love one for another.
18 “Sɛ wiase tan mo a, monkae sɛ me na ɛtan me kan ansa na ɛretan mo.
If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you.
19 Sɛ mote ase ma wiase a ɛno de wiase bɛdɔ mo sɛ wɔn a wɔyɛ ne dea. Nanso miyii mo fii wiasefo mu; ɛno nti monyɛ wiasefo bio; eyi nti na wiasefo tan mo no.
If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.
20 Monkae asɛm a meka kyerɛɛ mo no: ‘Akoa nsen ne wura.’ Sɛ wɔtan me a, mo nso wɔbɛtan mo; sɛ wotie mʼasɛm a meka no a, mo nso wobetie mo.
Keep in mind the words I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you; if they kept my words, they will keep yours.
21 Esiane sɛ moyɛ me dea nti na wɔbɛtaa mo, efisɛ wonnim Onyankopɔn a ɔsomaa me no.
They will do all this to you because of my name — because they have no knowledge of him who sent me.
22 Sɛ memmɛkaa asɛm biara nkyerɛɛ wɔn a anka wɔrenni bɔne ho fɔ. Afei de, wonni wɔn bɔne ho anoyi biara.
If I had not come and been their teacher they would have had no sin: but now they have no reason to give for their sin.
23 Obiara a ɔtan me no tan mʼAgya nso.
He who has hate for me has hate for my Father.
24 Sɛ manyɛ nnwuma a obiara nyɛɛ bi da no wɔ wɔn mu a anka wɔrenni bɔne ho fɔ; nanso wɔahu nea meyɛe, nso wɔtan me ne mʼAgya.
If I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their hearts for me and my Father.
25 Ɛsɛ sɛ eyi ba mu, sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a nea wɔakyerɛw wɔ wɔn Mmara no mu a ɛka se, ‘Wɔtan me kwa’ no bɛba mu.
This comes about so that the writing in their law may be made true, Their hate for me was without cause.
26 “Mɛsoma ɔboafo a ɔyɛ nokware Honhom a ofi Agya no nkyɛn no aba mo nkyɛn na wabedi me ho adanse akyerɛ mo.
When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father even the Spirit of true knowledge who comes from the Father — he will give witness about me;
27 Na mo nso mubedi me ho adanse, efisɛ me ne mo na ɛwɔ hɔ fi mfiase pɛɛ.”
And you, in addition, will give witness because you have been with me from the first.
