This is the version most people learned growing up and the one prayed in many churches. Some churches say “debts” and “debtors” instead of “trespasses,” and many Catholic churches end after “deliver us from evil.” Any of these is the Lord’s Prayer.
The prayer Jesus taught, for when you don’t know what to say. Here are the words in full, what each line means, and when to pray it.
Open Grace →The Lord’s Prayer, also called the Our Father, is the prayer Jesus gave his followers when they asked him how to pray. It appears in the Bible in Matthew 6:9–13, as part of the Sermon on the Mount, and in a shorter form in Luke 11:2–4. It is prayed by Christians of almost every tradition around the world.
This is the version most people learned growing up and the one prayed in many churches. Some churches say “debts” and “debtors” instead of “trespasses,” and many Catholic churches end after “deliver us from evil.” Any of these is the Lord’s Prayer.
A note on the ending: the closing line, “For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,” isn’t in the oldest surviving manuscripts of Matthew. It was added early in church worship and is kept in the King James Version and in many churches today.
Sometimes you say the words and still feel far away. Sometimes it helps to say out loud what’s actually going on first: what happened, what you’re carrying, what you’re afraid of.
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