Prayer

The Lord's Prayer

Matthew 6:9–13

The prayer Jesus gives his disciples as a model, preserved in a longer Matthean and a shorter Lukan form.

How the passage moves

1
Address
God is addressed as Father, with the hallowing of the name first.
Matthew 6:9
2
Kingdom and bread
Petitions move from God's reign to daily provision.
Matthew 6:10-11
3
Forgiveness and testing
Debt language, then a request about temptation and deliverance.
Matthew 6:12-13
4
Two versions
Luke's form is shorter; the closing doxology is absent from the earliest manuscripts.
Luke 11:2-4

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