Lord's Prayer
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The Lord's Prayer, is the best known prayer in the Christian religion. It is also known as the Our Father (because these are the first two words of the prayer) or Pater noster (which is Latin for "Our Father").
The Lord's Prayer is the prayer that Jesus taught the people to say when praying to God. It can be found in two places in the New Testament: one in the Gospel of Matthew (Chapter 6, verses 9-13) which is part of the Sermon on the Mount, and the other in the Gospel of Luke (Chapter 11: verses 2-4).
The Bible has been translated into English several times. Therefore, there are slightly different versions that are used. The traditional and best-known version is the translation from the Book of Common Prayer (1662):
- Our Father, which art in heaven,
- hallowed be thy name;
- thy kingdom come;
- thy will be done,
- in earth as it is in heaven.
- Give us this day our daily bread.
- And forgive us our trespasses,
- as we forgive them that trespass against us.
- And lead us not into temptation;
- but deliver us from evil.
- For thine is the kingdom,
- the power, and the glory,
- For ever and ever.
- Amen.