John 15
1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
我是真葡萄樹，我父是園丁。
2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
凡在我身上不結實的枝條，他便剪掉；凡結實的，他就清理，使他結更多的果實；
3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
你們因我對你們所講的話，已是清潔的了。
4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
你們住在我內，我也住在你們內。正如枝條若不留在葡萄樹上，憑自己不能結實；你們若不住在我內，也一無所能。
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.
我是葡萄樹，你們是枝條；那住在我內，我也住在他內的，他就結許多的果實，因為離了我，你們什麼也不能做。
6 If a man does not 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.
誰若不住在我內，便彷彿枝條，丟在外面而枯乾了，人便把它拾起來，投入火中焚燒。
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.
你們如果住在我內，而我的話也存在你們內，如此，你們願意什麼，求罷！必給你們成就。
8 “In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
我父受光榮，即在於你們多結果實，如此你們就成為我的門徒。
9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
正如父愛了我，同樣我也愛了你們；你們應存在我的愛內。
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.
如果你們遵守我的命令，便存在我的愛內，如我遵守了我父[命令而存在他的愛內一樣。
11 I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
我對你們講論了這些事，為使我的喜樂存在你們內，使你們的喜樂圓滿無缺。」
12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
這是我的命令: 你們該彼些相愛，如同我愛了你們一樣。
13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
人若為自己的朋友捨掉性命，再沒有比這更大的愛情了。
14 You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
你們如果實行我所命令你們的，你們就是我的朋友。
15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not 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.
我不再稱你們為僕人，因為僕人不知道他主人所做的事。我稱你們為朋友，因為凡由我父聽來的一切，我都顯示給你們了。
16 You did not 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.
不是你們揀選了我，而是我揀選了你們，並派你們去結果實，去結常存的果實；如此，你們因我的名無論向求什麼，他必賜給你們。
17 “I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
這就是我命令你們的：你們應該此相愛。」
18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
「世界若恨你們，你們該知道，在你們以前，它已恨了我。
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.
若是你們屬於世界，世界必喜愛你們，有如屬於自己的人；但因你們不屬於世界，而是我從世界中揀選了你們，為此，世界才恨你們。
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.
你們要記得我對你們所說過的話：沒有僕人大過主人的；如果人們迫害了我，也要迫害你們；如果他們遵守了我的話，也要遵守你們的。
21 But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they do not know him who sent me.
但是，他們為了我名字的緣故，要向你們做這一切，因為他們不認識那派遣我來的。
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.
假使我沒有來，沒有教訓他們，他們就沒有罪；但現在他們對自己的罪，是無可推諉。
23 He who hates me, hates my Father also.
恨我的，也恨我的父。
24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.
假使我在他們中沒有做過其他任何人從未做過的事業，他們便沒有罪；然而，現在他們看見了卻仍恨了我和我父。
25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
但這是為應驗他們法律上所記載的話: 『他們無故地惱恨了我。』
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.
當護慰者，就是我從父那裏要給你們派遣的，那發於父的真理之神來到時，他必要為我作證；
27 You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
並且你們也要作證，因為你們從開始就和我在一起。」
