Lord's Prayer

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningMatthew 6:9–13Luke 11:2–4

The passages, in Bible order (2)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Matthew 6:9–13

   So then, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.

   ›Commentary on Matthew 6:9–132 voices

   “I THINK there is room for very great doubt, whether our Saviour intended the prayer, of which our text forms a part, to be used in the manner in which it is commonly employed among professing Christians. It is the custom of many persons to repeat it as their morning prayer, and they think that when they have repeated these sacred words they have done enough. I believe that this prayer was never intended for universal use.

   “Did it consist only of hints or directions for prayer, it could only be used as a directory; but seeing it is an actual prayer--designed, indeed, to show how much real prayer could be compressed into the fewest words, but still, as a prayer, only the more incomparable for that--it is strange that there should be a doubt whether we ought to pray that very prayer.

   Everything gathered on Matthew 6:9–13→

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2. Luke 11:2–4

   So Jesus told them, “When you pray, say: ‘Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.

   ›Commentary on Luke 11:2–42 voices

   “These verses contain the prayer commonly called the Lord's Prayer . Few passages of Scripture perhaps are so well known as this. The most benighted Roman Catholic can tell us that there is a prayer called the "Pater Noster." The most ignorant English child has heard something about the "Our Father." The importance of the Lord's Prayer appears in the simple fact, that our Lord Jesus Christ delivered it twice with very slight variations. He who never spoke a word without good reason, has thought fit to teach us this prayer upon two distinct occasions.

   “When ye pray, say - And what he said to them is undoubtedly said to us also. We are therefore here directed, not only to imitate this in all our prayers, but to use this very form of prayer.

   Everything gathered on Luke 11:2–4→

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