¹Ini ndiri muzambiringa wechokwadi, uye Baba vangu murimi.

¹`I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman;

²Davi rimwe nerimwe riri mandiri risingabereki chibereko, vanoribvisa; uye rimwe nerimwe rinobereka chibereko, vanorichekerera, kuti riwedzere kubereka chibereko.

²every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;

³Imwi matochena neshoko randataura kwamuri.

³already ye are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you;

⁴Garai mandiri, neni mamuri. Sedavi risingagoni kubereka zvibereko pacharo, kana risingagari mumuzambiringa, saizvozvo nemwi kwete, kana musingagari mandiri.

⁴remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.

⁵Ini ndiri muzambiringa, imwi matavi. Unogara mandiri, neni maari, ndiye unobereka chibereko chakawanda; nekuti kunze kwangu hamugoni kuita chinhu.

⁵`I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

⁶Kana munhu asingagari mandiri, unorashwa kunze sedavi, ndokusvava, vanoaunganidza, ndokukandira mumoto, apiswe.

⁶if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned;

⁷Kana muchigara mandiri, nemashoko angu achigara mamuri, muchakumbira chero zvamunoda, uye muchazviitirwa.

⁷if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

⁸Baba vangu vanokudzwa neizvi, kuti mubereke chibereko chakawanda; uye muchava vadzidzi vangu.

⁸`In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.

⁹Baba sezvavakandida, iniwo ndakakudai; garai murudo rwangu.

⁹According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

¹⁰Kana muchichengeta mirairo yangu, muchagara murudo rwangu, seni ndakachengeta mirairo yaBaba vangu, ndinogara murudo rwavo.

¹⁰if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

¹¹Zvinhu izvi ndazvitaura kwamuri, kuti mufaro wangu ugare mamuri, uye mufaro wenyu uzare.

¹¹these things I have spoken to you, that my joy in you may remain, and your joy may be full.

¹²Uyu ndiwo murairo wangu, kuti mudanane, sezvandakakudai.

¹²`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

¹³Hakuna une rudo rukuru kune urwu, kuti munhu anoradzikira pasi shamwari dzake upenyu hwake.

¹³greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

¹⁴Imwi muri shamwari dzangu, kana muchiita chipi nechipi ini chandinokurairai.

¹⁴ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

¹⁵Handichakuidziizve varanda, nekuti muranda haazivi ishe wake chaanoita; asi ndakuidzai shamwari; nekuti zvose zvandakanzwa naBaba vangu, ndakakuzivisai.

¹⁵no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

¹⁶Imwi hamuna kundisarudza, asi ini ndakakusarudzai, ndikakugadzai, kuti imwi muende mubereke chibereko, uye chibereko chenyu chigare; kuti chipi nechipi chamunokumbira kuna Baba muzita rangu, vakupei.

¹⁶`Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.

¹⁷Izvi zvinhu ndinokurairai, kuti mudanane.

¹⁷`These things I command you, that ye love one another;

¹⁸Kana nyika ichikuvengai, muzive kuti yavenga ini isati yakuvengai imwi.

¹⁸if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

¹⁹Dai maiva venyika, nyika yaida zvayo pachayo; asi nekuti hamusi venyika, asi ini ndakakusarudzai kubva panyika, naizvozvo nyika inokuvengai.

¹⁹if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not — but I chose out of the world — because of this the world hateth you.

²⁰Rangarirai shoko ini randakareva kwamuri: Muranda haasi mukuru kuna ishe wake. Kana vakashusha ini, vachashusha imwiwo; kana vakachengeta shoko rangu vachachengeta renyuwo.

²⁰`Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;

²¹Asi izvi zvose vachakuitirai nekuda kwezita rangu, nekuti havamuzivi wakandituma.

²¹but all these things will they do to you, because of my name, because they have not known Him who sent me;

²²Dai ndisina kuuya ndikataura kwavari, vangadai vasina chivi; asi ikozvino havana manzvengero pachivi chavo.

²²if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin.

²³Unondivenga, unovenga Baba vanguwo.

²³`He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father;

²⁴Dai ndisina kuita pakati pavo mabasa asina umwe wakaaita, vangadai vasina chivi; asi ikozvino vakaona ndokuvenga zvose ini naBaba vangu.

²⁴if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;

²⁵Asi kuti shoko rizadziswe rakanyorwa pamurairo wavo, rinoti: Vakandivenga pasina chikonzero.

²⁵but — that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law — They hated me without a cause.

²⁶Asi kana Munyaradzi auya, ini wandichatumira kwamuri kubva kuna Baba, Mweya wechokwadi, unobuda kuna Baba, uyu uchapupura nezvangu.

²⁶`And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father — the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me;

²⁷Nemwiwo muchapupura, nekuti maiva neni kubva pakutanga.

²⁷and ye also do testify, because from the beginning ye are with me.