¹Ini ndiri muzambiringa wechokwadi, uye Baba vangu murimi.

¹I 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.

²[As to] every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it away; and [as to] every one bearing fruit, he purges it that it may bring forth more fruit.

³Imwi matochena neshoko randataura kwamuri.

³Ye are already clean by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.

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

⁴Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine, thus neither [can] ye unless ye abide in me.

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

⁵I am the vine, ye [are] the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, *he* bears much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.

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

⁶Unless any one abide in me he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

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

⁷If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall come to pass to you.

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

⁸In this is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and ye shall become disciples of mine.

⁹Baba sezvavakandida, iniwo ndakakudai; garai murudo rwangu.

⁹As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love.

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

¹⁰If ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

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

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

¹²Uyu ndiwo murairo wangu, kuti mudanane, sezvandakakudai.

¹²This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

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

¹³No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.

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

¹⁴Ye are my friends if ye practise whatever I command you.

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

¹⁵I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made 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.

¹⁶Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and have set you that ye should go and [that] ye should bear fruit, and [that] your fruit should abide, that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he may give you.

¹⁷Izvi zvinhu ndinokurairai, kuti mudanane.

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

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

¹⁸If the world hate you, know that it has hated me before you.

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

¹⁹If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on account of this the world hates you.

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

²⁰Remember the word which I said unto you, The bondman is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep also yours.

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

²¹But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they have not known him that 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 had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

²³Unondivenga, unovenga Baba vanguwo.

²³He that hates me hates 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 had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they had not had sin; but 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 written in their law might be fulfilled, They hated me without a cause.

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

²⁶But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes forth from with the Father, *he* shall bear witness concerning me;

²⁷Nemwiwo muchapupura, nekuti maiva neni kubva pakutanga.

²⁷and ye too bear witness, because ye are with me from [the] beginning.