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Matthew 6:13

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

KJV

καὶ μὴ εἰσενέγκῃς ἡμᾶς εἰς πειρασμόν, ἀλλὰ ῥῦσαι ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τοῦ πονηροῦ.

Greek NT

Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.

Vulgate

And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

ASV

And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
εἰσφέρω
eisphero
verb · 8×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
πειρασμός
peirasmos
noun · 21×
πονηρός
poneros
adjective · 77×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ῥύομαι
ruomai
verb · 17×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: πονηροῦ | WH/Treg/NIV: πονηροῦ | RP: + Ὅτι σοῦ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία καὶ ἡ δύναμις καὶ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοῦς αἰῶνας Ἀμήν
  • πονηροῦ — SBLGNT
  • πονηροῦ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + Ὅτι σοῦ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία καὶ ἡ δύναμις καὶ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοῦς αἰῶνας Ἀμήν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
The doxology of the Lord's Prayer: 'For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.' This liturgical addition is absent from the earliest and best manuscripts and was likely added from liturgical practice. The Didache (late 1st/early 2nd century) contains a similar but shorter doxology, suggesting early liturgical use that eventually made its way into the manuscript tradition.
  • καὶ μὴ εἰσενέγκῃς ἡμᾶς εἰς πειρασμόν, ἀλλὰ ῥῦσαι ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τοῦ πονηροῦ. — Codex Sinaiticus (01/ℵ); Codex Vaticanus (03/B); Codex Bezae (05/D); Most Old Latin MSS; Vulgate; Origen; Tertullian; Cyprian
  • ...ἀλλὰ ῥῦσαι ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τοῦ πονηροῦ. ὅτι σοῦ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία καὶ ἡ δύναμις καὶ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας. ἀμήν. — Codex Washingtonianus (032/W); Majority of Byzantine MSS; Didache; Apostolic Constitutions
source: curated

Themes

Historic Christian voices

12 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1434The interior penance of the Christian can be expressed in many and various ways. Scripture and the Fathers insist above all on three forms, fasting, prayer, and almsgiving,31 which express conversion in relation to oneself, to God, and to others. Alongside the radical purification brought about by Baptism or martyrdom they cite as means of obtaining forgiveness of sins: effort …
§1969The New Law practices the acts of religion: almsgiving, prayer and fasting, directing them to the "Father who sees in secret," in contrast with the desire to "be seen by men."24 Its prayer is the Our Father.25
§2759Jesus "was praying at a certain place, and when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, 'Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.'"1 In response to this request the Lord entrusts to his disciples and to his Church the fundamental Christian prayer. St. Luke presents a brief text of five petitions,2 while St. Matthew gives a more developed version of seven petit…
2. Then He says what is even greater than this, lifting up your mind; And no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, but the Son. Which seems indeed to the ignorant unconnected with what went before, but has full accordance therewith. As thus: having said, All things are delivered unto me of my Father, He adds, And what marvel, so He speaks, if I be…
But let not your fasts be with the hypocrites; for they fast on the second and fifth day of the week; but fast ye on the fourth day and the Preparation. Neither pray as the hypocrites; but as the Lord commanded in His Gospel, thus pray: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily br…
Large Catechism · 2 passages
And lead us not into temptation. We have now heard enough what toil and labor is required to retain all that for which we pray, and to persevere therein, which, however, is not achieved without infirmities and stumbling. Although we have received forgiveness and a good conscience, yet our life is so constituted that one stands today and tomorrow falls. We are attacked on all si…
But deliver us from evil. Amen. In the Greek text this petition reads: Deliver or preserve us from the Evil One, or the Malicious One; and it looks as if He were speaking of the devil, as though He would comprehend everything in one, so that the entire substance of all our prayer is directed against our chief enemy. For it is he alone who obstructs everything for which we pray.
Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen. God certainly gives daily bread to everyone without our prayers, even to all evil people, but we pray in this petition that God would l…
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven. This is the comprehensive prayer which our Lord taught His disciples. In saying "Our Father" we acknowledge Him as our Creator, Preserver, and Governor, and ourselves as His children by adoption and grace. In saying "which art in heaven" we lift our hearts above the earth to where He is.
Q. What is this prayer? A. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 4:10 — And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may
  • 1Chr 4:10 — And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may
  • 1Chr 16:36 — Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.
  • 1Chr 29:11 — Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exa
  • 1Chr 29:11 — Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exa
  • 1Cor 10:13 — There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to esca
  • 1Cor 14:16 — Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
  • 1Cor 16:24 — My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
  • 1John 3:8 — He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
  • 1John 5:18 — We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
  • 1John 5:21 — Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
  • 1Kgs 1:36 — And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: the LORD God of my lord the king say so too.
  • 1Pet 3:11 — Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
  • 1Pet 4:11 — If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be p
  • 1Pet 5:8 — Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
  • 1Sam 29:8 — And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the kin
  • 1Thess 1:10 — And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
  • 1Tim 1:17 — Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
  • 1Tim 1:17 — Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
  • 1Tim 6:15 — Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
  • 1Tim 6:21 — Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
  • 2Chr 20:6 — And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withs
  • 2Cor 1:20 — For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
  • 2Cor 12:7 — And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above mea
  • 2Pet 2:9 — The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
  • 2Thess 3:3 — But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
  • 2Thess 3:3 — But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
  • 2Tim 4:17 — Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
  • 2Tim 4:18 — And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
  • Dan 4:25 — That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven ti
  • Dan 4:34 — And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever,
  • Dan 6:26 — I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed,
  • Dan 7:18 — But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
  • Deut 8:2 — And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep
  • Deut 8:16 — Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
  • Deut 27:15 — Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and sa
  • Eph 1:17 — That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
  • Eph 3:16 — That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
  • Eph 3:21 — Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
  • Eph 6:24 — Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.