Sunday Devotional: Matthew 6:12
And forgive us our debts, as also we ourselves have forgiven those who owe us. The Greek of this petition uses the words opheilêma and opheiletês in reference to “debts” and “debtors.” The similarity...
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Sunday Devotional: Matthew 6:11
Give to us today the food we need. The petitions switch now to the first person plural: “us,” “we.” Jesus is shifting focus from the global to the personal. From things we want the...
Sunday Devotional: Matthew 6:10b
Let your will come to pass, as in heaven [so] also on earth; The next petition of the Lord’s Prayer is for God’s will to be accomplished (the Greek verb I have translated “come...
