John 15

1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.

1 “我是真葡萄树，我父是栽培的人。

2 He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.

2 属于我的枝子如果不结果子，祂就把它剪掉；如果结果子，祂便修剪它，让它结更多果子。

3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

3 因着我对你们讲的道，你们已经洁净了。

4 Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.

4 你们要常在我里面，我就常在你们里面。枝子若离开葡萄树，就不能结果子。同样，你们若不常在我里面，也不能结果子。

5 I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.

5 “我是葡萄树，你们是枝子。常在我里面的，我也常在他里面，他就会多结果子，因为你们离了我什么都不能做。

6 If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.

6 不常在我里面的人就像扔在外面枯干的枝子，最后只有被人拾起来扔进火里烧掉。

7 If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

7 你们若常在我里面，我的话也常在你们里面，无论你们求什么，都会得到应允。

8 This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.

8 你们多结果子，证明自己是我的门徒，就会给我父带来荣耀。

9 As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.

9 父怎样爱我，我也怎样爱你们。你们要常在我的爱中。

10 If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.

10 你们若遵守我的命令，就必常在我的爱中，正如我遵守了父的命令，常在父的爱中一样。

11 I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.

11 “我把这些事告诉你们，是要叫你们心里有我的喜乐，让你们的喜乐满溢。

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

12 你们要彼此相爱，像我爱你们一样，这就是我的命令。

13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

13 为朋友舍命是最伟大的爱了。

14 You are My friends if you do what I command you.

14 你们如果照我的吩咐去做，就是我的朋友。

15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.

15 我不再称你们为奴仆，因为奴仆不知道主人的事。我称你们为朋友，因为我把从父那里听见的一切都告诉了你们。

16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

16 不是你们拣选了我，而是我拣选了你们，并且派你们出去结长存的果子。这样，你们奉我的名无论向父求什么，祂都会赐给你们。

17 This is My command to you: Love one another.

17 我把这些事吩咐你们，是要叫你们彼此相爱。

18 If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.

18 “如果世人恨你们，要知道，他们恨你们以前已经恨我了。

19 If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.

19 如果你们属于这个世界，世人一定会爱你们。可是你们不属于这世界，我已经把你们从世上拣选出来，因此世人恨你们。

20 Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.

20 你们要记住我说的话，‘奴仆不能大过主人。’ 他们如果迫害我，也必迫害你们；他们如果遵行我的话，也必遵行你们的话。

21 But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.

21 世人将因为我的名而这样对待你们，因为他们不认识差我来的那位。

22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.

22 我如果没有来教导他们，他们就没有罪了，但现在他们的罪无可推诿。

23 Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.

23 恨我的，也恨我的父。

24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.

24 我如果没有在他们当中行过空前的神迹，他们就没有罪了。然而，他们亲眼看见了，却还是恨我和我的父。

25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’

25 这是要应验他们律法书上的话，‘他们无故地恨我。’

26 When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me.

26 “我要从父那里为你们差护慰者来，祂就是从父而来的真理之灵。祂来了要为我做见证。

27 And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

27 你们也要为我做见证，因为你们从开始就与我在一起。