John 15
1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
“Ke nna mofine wa boammaaruri, mme Rara ke ene mmaakanyi wa tshimo.
2 Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
O kgaola kala nngwe le nngwe e e sa ungweng. Mme o ntlafatsa dikala tse di ungwang gore di ungwe thata.
3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
O setse a bile a lo ntlafaditse ka go lo ntlafaletsa mo go ene gore lo nne le nonofo e kgolo thata le tiriso ka ditaolo tse ke di lo neileng.
4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
Elang tlhoko gore lo nne mo go nna, le nna ke nne mo go lona. Gonne ga e kake ya re kala e kgaotswe mo mofineng ya ungwa, le lona ga lo kake lwa ungwa kwa ntle ga me.
5 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.
“Ee, ke mofine; lona lo dikala. Lefa e le mang yo o nnang mo go nna le nna ke nna mo go ene, o tlaa ungwa loungo lo logolo. Gonne ga go na sepe se lo ka se dirang kwa ntle ga me.
6 If a man doesn’t 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.
Fa mongwe a ikgaoganya le nna, o latlhwa jaaka kala e e senang molemo, e omelela, e phuthwa le tse dingwe mme di tshujwe.
7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
Mme fa lo nna mo go nna lo reetsa ditaolo tsa me, lo ka kopa kopo nngwe fela e lo e ratang, mme lo tlaa e newa!
8 “In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
Barutwa ba me ba boammaaruri ba ungwa thobo e kgolo thata. Mme go tlisa kgalalelo e kgolo thata mo go Rre.
9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
“Ke lo ratile fela jaaka Rara a nthatile. Nnang mo loratong lwa me.
10 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.
Fa lo inkobela, lo nna mo loratong lwa me, fela jaaka ke reetsa Rara ebile ke nna mo loratong lwa gagwe.
11 I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
Ke lo boleletse se gore lo tlale boitumelo jwa me. Ee, senwelo sa lona sa boitumelo se tlaa penologa.
12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
Ke batla gore lo ratane fela jaaka ke lo rata.
13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Mme lorato lo lekanngwa jaana, lorato lo logolo lo supega fa motho a ntshetsa ditsala tsa gagwe botshelo jwa gagwe;
14 You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
mme lona lo ditsala tsa me fa lo inkobela.
15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t 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.
Ga ke sa tlhole ke lo bitsa batlhanka gonne mong wa batlhanka ga a ba rerise sepe; lo ditsala tsa me jaanong, gonne go supiwa ke lobaka lwa gore ke lo boleletse sengwe le sengwe se Rara o se mpoleletseng.
16 You didn’t 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.
“Ga lo a ntlhopha! Ke nna ke lo tlhophileng! Ke lo tlhomile go ya go ntsha maungo a mantle malatsi otlhe, gore le fa e le eng se lo se kopang mo go Rara, lo dirisa leina la me, o tlaa se lo neela.
17 “I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
Ke batla gore lo ratane.
18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
“Gonne lo ilwa ke lefatshe thata! Mme nna lefatshe le sale le nkila pele ga lona.
19 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.
Lefatshe le ne le ka lo rata fa lo ne lo le ba lone; mme ga lo ba lone, gonne ke lo tlhophetse go tswa mo lefatsheng, mme jalo le a lo ila.
20 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.
A lo gakologelwa se ke se lo boleletseng? ‘Motlhanka ga a mogolo mo go mong wa gagwe!’ mme ereka ba mpogisitse, le lona fela jalo ba tlaa lo bogisa. Mme fa ba ka bo ba ne ba ntheetsa, ba ne ba tlaa lo reetsa.
21 But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.
Batho ba lefatshe ba tlaa lo bogisa gonne lo ba me, gonne ga ba itse Modimo o e leng one o nthomileng.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
“Ba ka bo ba se molato fa nkabo ke sa tla ka buisanya nabo. Mme jaanong ga ba na seipato ka ntlha ya dibe tsa bone.
23 He who hates me, hates my Father also.
Le fa e le mang yo o nkilang, o ila Rara.
24 If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.
Fa nkabo ke sa dira dikgakgamatso tse dikgolo jaana mo go bone ba ka bo ba sa tsewe ba le molato. Mme jaanong jaaka go ntse, ba bonye dikgakgamatso tse, mme ba re ila rotlhe, Nna le Rara.
25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
Mo go diragatsa se baporofiti ba se buileng ka ga Mesia ba re, ‘Ba nkidile ke sena molato.’
26 “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.
“Mme ke tlaa lo romelela Mogomotsi, Mowa O O Boitshepo, motswedi wa boammaaruri jotlhe. O tlaa tswa kwa go Rara mme o tlaa lo bolelela gotlhe ka ga me.
27 You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
Mme le lona lo tshwanetse go bolelela mongwe le mongwe ka ga me, gonne lo ntse lo na le nna go tswa kwa tshimologong.”
