The Prayer of Jesus
1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
Maneno hayo aliyasema Yesu; akainua macho yake kuelekea mbinguni, akasema, Baba, saa imekwisha kufika. Mtukuze Mwanao, ili Mwana wako naye akutukuze wewe;
2 as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
kama vile ulivyompa mamlaka juu ya wote wenye mwili, ili kwamba wote uliompa awape uzima wa milele.
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Na uzima wa milele ndio huu, Wakujue wewe, Mungu wa pekee wa kweli, na Yesu Kristo uliyemtuma.
4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
Mimi nimekutukuza duniani, hali nimeimaliza kazi ile uliyonipa niifanye.
5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Na sasa, Baba, unitukuze mimi pamoja nawe, kwa utukufu ule niliokuwa nao pamoja nawe kabla ya ulimwengu kuwako.
6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
Jina lako nimewadhihirishia watu wale ulionipa katika ulimwengu; walikuwa wako, ukanipa mimi, na neno lako wamelishika.
7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
Sasa wamejua ya kuwa yote uliyonipa yatoka kwako.
8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them , and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
Kwa kuwa maneno uliyonipa nimewapa wao; nao wakayapokea, wakajua hakika ya kuwa nalitoka kwako, wakasadiki ya kwamba wewe ndiwe uliyenituma.
9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
Mimi nawaombea hao; siuombei ulimwengu; bali hao ulionipa, kwa kuwa hao ni wako;
10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
na wote walio wangu ni wako, na walio wako ni wangu; nami nimetukuzwa ndani yao.
11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are .
Wala mimi simo tena ulimwenguni, lakini hawa wamo ulimwenguni, nami naja kwako. Baba mtakatifu, kwa jina lako ulilonipa uwalinde hawa, ili wawe na umoja kama sisi tulivyo.
12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
Nilipokuwapo pamoja nao, mimi naliwalinda kwa jina lako ulilonipa, nikawatunza; wala hapana mmojawapo wao aliyepotea, ila yule mwana wa upotevu, ili andiko litimie.
13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
Na sasa naja kwako; na maneno haya nayasema ulimwenguni, ili wawe na furaha yangu imetimizwa ndani yao.
14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Mimi nimewapa neno lako; na ulimwengu umewachukia; kwa kuwa wao si wa ulimwengu, kama mimi nisivyo wa ulimwengu.
15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
Mimi siombi kwamba uwatoe katika ulimwengu; bali uwalinde na yule mwovu.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Wao si wa ulimwengu, kama mimi nisivyo wa ulimwengu.
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Uwatakase kwa ile kweli; neno lako ndiyo kweli.
18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
Kama vile ulivyonituma mimi ulimwenguni, nami vivyo hivyo naliwatuma hao ulimwenguni.
19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
Na kwa ajili yao najiweka wakfu mwenyewe, ili na hao watakaswe katika kweli.
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
Wala si hao tu ninaowaombea; lakini na wale watakaoniamini kwa sababu ya neno lao.
21 that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Wote wawe na umoja; kama wewe, Baba, ulivyo ndani yangu, nami ndani yako; hao nao wawe ndani yetu; ili ulimwengu upate kusadiki ya kwamba wewe ndiwe uliyenituma.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
Nami utukufu ule ulionipa nimewapa wao; ili wawe na umoja kama sisi tulivyo umoja.
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Mimi ndani yao, nawe ndani yangu, ili wawe wamekamilika katika umoja; ili ulimwengu ujue ya kuwa ndiwe uliyenituma, ukawapenda wao kama ulivyonipenda mimi.
24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
Baba, hao ulionipa nataka wawe pamoja nami po pote nilipo, wapate na kuutazama utukufu wangu ulionipa; kwa maana ulinipenda kabla ya kuwekwa msingi ulimwengu.
25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
Baba mwenye haki, ulimwengu haukukujua; lakini mimi nalikujua, na hao wamejua ya kuwa ndiwe uliyenituma.
26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it : that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Nami naliwajulisha jina lako, tena nitawajulisha hilo; ili pendo lile ulilonipenda mimi liwe ndani yao, nami niwe ndani yao.
