Matthew 6:9-15
International Standard Version
9 Therefore, this is how you should pray:
‘Our Father in heaven,
may your name be kept holy.
10 May your kingdom come.
May your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us today our daily bread,
12 and forgive us our sins,[a]
as we have forgiven those who have sinned against us.[b]
13 And never bring us into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.’[c]
14 Because if you forgive people their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive people their offenses,[d] your Father will not forgive your offenses.”
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- Matthew 6:12 Or debts
- Matthew 6:12 Or forgiven our debtors
- Matthew 6:13 Other mss. read evil one. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
- Matthew 6:15 Other mss. lack their offenses
Matthew 7:7-11
International Standard Version
Ask, Search, Knock(A)
7 “Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door[a] will be opened for you. 8 Because everyone who keeps asking will receive, and the person who keeps searching will find, and the person who keeps knocking will have the door[b] opened.
9 “There isn’t a person among you who would give his son a stone if he asked for bread, is there? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, he wouldn’t give him a snake, would he? 11 So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who keep on asking him!
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- Matthew 7:7 Lit. and it
- Matthew 7:8 Lit. have it
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