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Matthew 6:12
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10 Your kingdom come.
aYour will be done
On earth bas it is in heaven. 
11 Give us this day our adaily bread. 
12 And aforgive us our debts,
As we forgive our debtors. 
13 aAnd do not lead us into temptation,
But bdeliver us from the evil one.
1For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.  
14 a“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.  
15 But aif you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.  

Fasting to Be Seen Only by God

16 “Moreover, awhen you fast, do not be like the1 hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.  
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Matthew 6:12

Our debts (ta ofeilhmata hmwn). Luke (Luke 11:4) has "sins" (amartiav). In the ancient Greek ofeilhma is common for actual legal debts as in Romans 4:4, but here it is used of moral and spiritual debts to God. "Trespasses" is a mistranslation made common by the Church of England Prayer Book. It is correct in verse Matthew 6:14 in Christ's argument about prayer, but it is not in the Model Prayer itself. See Matthew 18:28, Matthew 18:30 for sin pictured again by Christ "as debt and the sinner as a debtor" (Vincent). We are thus described as having wronged God. The word ofeilh for moral obligation was once supposed to be peculiar to the New Testament. But it is common in that sense in the papyri (Deismann, Bible Studies, p. 221; Light from the Ancient East, New ed., p. 331). We ask forgiveness "in proportion as" (wv) we also have forgiven those in debt to us, a most solemn reflection. Afhkamen is one of the three k aorists (eqhka, edwka, hka). It means to send away, to dismiss, to wipe off.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 6:12:

Mark 11:25
Luke 11:1
Luke 11:1
Luke 13:4
John 17:1
Galatians 5:3
Colossians 3:13

 

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