Yohane 15
1 “Mene nokware bobe no, na mʼAgya ne okuafo no.
“I am the vine, the true one, and my Father is the vinedresser.
2 Dua mman biara a ɛnsow aba no otwa kyene, na dua mman biara a ɛsow no, oyiyi ho na asow aba bebree.
Any branch in me which does not produce fruit He lifts up, and every one producing fruit He prunes, so that it may produce more fruit.
3 Me nsɛm a maka akyerɛ mo no ama mo ho afi dedaw.
You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to 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.
Abide in me and I in you. Just as a branch is incapable of producing fruit by itself, except it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide 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, and you are the branches. The one who abides in me and I in him, he is the one who produces much fruit, because apart from me you are incapable of doing anything.
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 anyone does not abide in me he is thrown out, like a branch, and dries up; well they gather such and throw them into the fire, and he is burned up.
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 abide in me and my sayings abide in you, you will ask whatever you desire and it will happen for you.
8 Wɔn a wɔyɛ mʼasuafo nokware mu no sow aba bebree de hyɛ mʼAgya anuonyam.
My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit; and you will become disciples to me.
9 “Sɛnea Agya no dɔ me no, saa ara na me nso medɔ mo, Montena me dɔ mu.
“Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you; abide 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 commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in His love.
11 Maka eyinom nyinaa akyerɛ mo sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a mubenya mʼanigye no bi na ama mo anigye awie pɛyɛ.
I have spoken these things to you so that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
12 Mʼahyɛde ne sɛ monnodɔ mo ho mo ho sɛnea medɔ mo no.
This is my commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you.
13 Ɔdɔ biara nsen sɛ obi bewu ama ne nnamfonom.
No one has greater love than this, that someone should lay down 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 whatever I command you.
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.
“I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his owner is doing; rather I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I heard from my Father.
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.
It was not you who chose me but I who chose you, and I appointed you so that you should go and produce fruit, and that your fruit should endure, so that whatever you may ask the Father in my name He may give you.
17 Eyi ne mʼahyɛde: Monnodɔ mo ho mo ho.
These things I command you so that you love one another.
18 “Sɛ wiase tan mo a, monkae sɛ me na ɛtan me kan ansa na ɛretan mo.
“When the world hates you, you can be sure that it has hated me first.
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, the world would be fond of its own. So because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, that is why the world hates you.
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.
Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his owner.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
21 Esiane sɛ moyɛ me dea nti na wɔbɛtaa mo, efisɛ wonnim Onyankopɔn a ɔsomaa me no.
Now they will do all of these things to you because of my name, in that they do not know the One 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 spoken to them, they would not be having sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Obiara a ɔtan me no tan mʼAgya nso.
The one who hates me hates my Father too.
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 that no one else has done, they would not be having sin; but now they have both seen and hated both 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.
However, this was so that the statement written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated me 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.
“Now when the Enabler comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of the Truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify concerning me.
27 Na mo nso mubedi me ho adanse, efisɛ me ne mo na ɛwɔ hɔ fi mfiase pɛɛ.”
And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
