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Matthew 6:9
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So this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, we pray that your name will always be kept holy.
After thys maner therfore praye ye. O oure father which arte in heve halowed be thy name.
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"Pray, then, in this way: 'Our Father, who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.
So when you pray, you should pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name always be kept holy.
After this manner therefore pray: Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be your name.
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
"Pray, then, in this way: 'Our Father, who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.
Pray then like this: "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Pray like this. 'Our Father, who is in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
Thus therefore pray ye, Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
"In this manner therefore pray: `Our Father who art in Heaven, may Thy name be kept holy;
And thus ye schulen preye, Oure fadir that art in heuenes, halewid be thi name;
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
So then, this is how you should pray: 'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name,
You should pray like this: Our Father in heaven, help us to honor your name.
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Let this then be your prayer: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
You, therefore, pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven! May your Name be kept holy.
Thus therefore pray *ye*: Our Father who art in the heavens, let thy name be sanctified,
Thus pray: Our Father who art in the heavens! be sanctified thy Name.
In this manner, therefore, pray ye: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name:
After this maner therefore pray yee: Our father which art in heauen, hallowed be thy name.
Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
"Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, Your name is holy.
"Pray then in this way: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
After this maner therefore pray ye, Our father which art in heauen, halowed be thy name.
Therefore pray in this manner: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thus, therefore pray, ye: Our Father, who art in the heavens, - Hallowed be thy name,
Thus therefore shall you pray: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Pray then like this: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
After this maner therfore pray ye. O our father, which art in heauen, halowed be thy name.
This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven: May your holy name be honored;
“Therefore, you should pray like this:
Pray like this: 'Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
Therefore you pray in this way: "Our Father who is in heaven, may your name be treated as holy.
So, then, you should pray this way: Our Father who is in Heaven, Hallowed be Your name.
thus therefore pray ye: `Our Father who [art] in the heavens! hallowed be Thy name.
After thys maner therfore shall ye praye:O oure father which art in heauen, halowed be thy name.
After this manner do you therefore pray: "Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. thy kingdom come.
So pray this way: Our Father in heaven, may your name be honored,
In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.
This is how you should talk to the Boss, 'Our Boss, who owns the heavenly pastures in the sky, may your name be revered above all others.
"Pray, then, in this way: 'Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.
"Pray, then, in this way:‘Our Father who is in heaven,Hallowed be Your name.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
this: Luke 11:1, Luke 11:2
Our: Matthew 6:1, Matthew 6:6, Matthew 6:14, Matthew 5:16, Matthew 5:48, Matthew 7:11, Matthew 10:29, Matthew 26:29, Matthew 26:42, Isaiah 63:16, Isaiah 64:8, Luke 15:18, Luke 15:21, John 20:17, Romans 1:7, Romans 8:15, Galatians 1:1, Galatians 4:6, 1 Peter 1:17
which: Matthew 23:9, 2 Chronicles 20:6, Psalms 115:3, Isaiah 57:15, Isaiah 66:1
Hallowed: Leviticus 10:3, 2 Samuel 7:26, 1 Kings 8:43, 1 Chronicles 17:24, Nehemiah 9:5, Psalms 72:18, Psalms 111:9, Isaiah 6:3, Isaiah 37:20, Ezekiel 36:23, Ezekiel 38:23, Habakkuk 2:14, Zechariah 14:9, Malachi 1:11, Luke 2:14, Luke 11:2, 1 Timothy 6:16, Revelation 4:11, Revelation 5:12
Reciprocal: Exodus 29:1 - hallow them Leviticus 22:32 - I will Deuteronomy 26:15 - Look down 1 Kings 8:30 - and hear 1 Kings 9:3 - I have hallowed 1 Chronicles 29:10 - our father 2 Chronicles 2:1 - for the name 2 Chronicles 6:21 - thy dwelling place Psalms 20:6 - he will Psalms 57:5 - Be thou Psalms 67:5 - General Psalms 97:6 - all the Psalms 103:13 - Like Psalms 108:5 - thy glory Psalms 123:1 - O thou Psalms 135:13 - Thy name Ecclesiastes 5:2 - for Isaiah 29:23 - sanctify Isaiah 62:7 - till he make Jeremiah 3:19 - Thou shalt Jeremiah 31:9 - for I Ezekiel 38:16 - that the Daniel 2:28 - a God Hosea 14:2 - General Malachi 1:6 - if then Matthew 18:14 - your Mark 14:36 - Abba John 7:18 - seeketh his glory John 16:24 - in John 17:11 - thine Galatians 1:4 - our Ephesians 4:6 - God Philippians 4:20 - unto 1 Thessalonians 3:11 - God 1 Timothy 2:1 - supplications
Cross-References
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
After this manner therefore pray ye,.... That is, in such a concise and short way, without much speaking and vain repetitions; making use of such like words and expressions as the following: not that Christ meant to pin down his disciples to these express words, and no other; for this prayer is not a strict form, but a pattern of prayer, and a directory to it, both as to brevity, order, and matter; for we do not find the disciples ever making use of it in form; and when it is recited by another Evangelist, it is not in the selfsame words as here; which it would have been, had it been designed as an exact form. Besides, Christ does not bid them pray in these very words, but "after this manner"; somewhat like this: not but that it is very lawful to use the very express words of this prayer in any of the petitions here directed to; and which indeed were no other than what good people among the Jews did frequently make use of; and which were collected and singled out by Christ, as what he approved of, in distinction from, and opposition to, other impertinent expressions, and vain repetitions, which some used; as will appear by a particular consideration of them.
Our Father which art in heaven. This may be looked upon as the preface and introduction to the prayer, and regards the object of it, and his character, which is an epithet of God, often to be met with in Jewish writings, and particularly in their prayers; for thus they k say,
"Mymvbv wnyba, "our Father which art in heaven", show mercy "to us, because thy great name is called upon us."
Again l, let the prayers and the requests of all Israel be received by ×××××× ×× ×ש×××, "their Father, which is in heaven". They seem to have a regard to this prayer, when they apply that passage in Proverbs 3:35 "shame shall be the promotion of fools", to the nations of the earth, who, they say m,
"do not consider the glory of the law; and how, say they, "our Father which art in heaven", hear our voice, have mercy on us, and receive our prayer?''
So in confessions, thanksgivings, and sacrifices of praise, they required, and looked upon it, as the main thing, for a man to direct his heart ××××× ×©×ש×××, "to his Father which is in heaven n." By "father", our Lord means the first person in the Trinity, who is the Father of all men by creation, and of the saints by adoption; who are to address him in prayer under the character of "our Father", partly to command a reverential fear of him, and partly to secure boldness and liberty of speech before him; and also to express fiducial confidence in him, faith of interest in him, and relation to him; which arises from some experience of his paternal love, and requires the witnessings of the Spirit of adoption; and inasmuch as the direction is not to say "my Father", but "our Father"; it shows that we should pray for others as well as for ourselves, even for all the dear children of God. It is a rule o with the Jews,
"that a man ought always to join himself in prayer with the church;''
upon which the gloss says,
"let him not pray the short prayer ×××× ××× ××ש×× ×¨×××
××ש××, "in the singular, but in the plural number", that so his prayer may be heard.''
The object of prayer is further described by the place of his residence, "in heaven"; not that he is included in any place, but that the heaven of heavens is the place where he most eminently displays his glory: and this may teach us to look upwards in prayer, and seek those things which are above; and also, that this earth, on which we dwell, is not our native country, but heaven is, where our Father dwells. Next follows the first petition,
hallowed, or sanctified be thy name; so the Jews p in their prayers,
"Kmv vdqty, "let thy name be hallowed", or "sanctified by us", O Lord our God, before the eyes of all living.''
And very often q,
"let his great name be magnified and sanctified in the world, which he hath created according to his will.''
And again r,
"let us sanctify thy name in the world, as they sanctify it in the highest heavens.''
By the "name" of God is meant he himself, the perfections of his nature, and the several names by which he is known, and which we are to think and speak of with holy reverence. By sanctifying his name, is not meant a making him holy, but acknowledging, and declaring him to be holy, and a glorifying him, and all his perfections. He is sanctified by himself, by declaring himself to be holy; by glorifying his perfections in his works; by implanting grace and holiness in the hearts of his people; by restoring the purity of his worship; by diffusing the knowledge of himself in the world; and by taking vengeance on the wicked: and he is sanctified by others, when they fear him, believe in him, call upon his name, use it reverently, submit to his will, acknowledge his mercies, regard his commands aud ordinances, and live a holy life and conversation; all which is earnestly desired by truly gracious souls.
k Seder Tephillot, fol. 4. 2. Ed. Basil. l Ib. fol. 33. 2. m Raya Mehimna in Zohar in Lev. fol. 34. 1. n T. Bab. Shebuot, fol. 15. 1. o T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 30. 1. p Seder Tephillot, fol. 78. 1. Ed. Amstelod. Zohar in Exod. fol. 43. 4. q Seder Tephillot, fol. 17. 2, Ed. Basil. & passim. r Seder Tephillot, fol. 22. 1. & passim.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
This passage contains the Lordâs prayer, a composition unequalled for comprehensiveness and for beauty. It is supposed that some of these petitions were taken from those in common use among the Jews. Indeed some of them are still to be found in Jewish writings, but they did not exist in this beautiful combination. This prayer is given as a âmodel.â It is designed to express the âmannerâ in which we are to pray, evidently not the precise words or petitions which we are to use. The substance of the prayer is recorded by Luke, Luke 11:2-4. In Luke, however, it varies from the form given in Matthew, showing that he intended not to prescribe this as a form of prayer to be used always, but to express the substance of our petitions, or to show what petitions it would be proper to present to God. That he did not intend to prescribe this as a form to be invariably used is further evident from the fact that there is no proof that either he or his disciples ever used exactly this form of prayer, but clear evidence that they prayed often in other language. See Matthew 26:39-42, Matthew 26:44; Luke 22:42; John 17:0; Acts 1:24.
Matthew 6:9
Our Father - God is called a Father,
1.As he is the Creator and the Great Parent of all;
2.The Preserver of the human family and the Provider for their wants, Matthew 5:45; Matthew 6:32;
3.In a special sense he is the Father of those who are adopted into his family; who put confidence in him; who are the true followers of Christ, and made heirs of life, Romans 8:14-17.
Hallowed be thy name - The word âhallowedâ means to render or pronounce holy. Godâs name is essentially holy; and the meaning of this petition is, âLet thy name be celebrated, venerated, and esteemed as holy everywhere, and receive from all people proper honor.â It is thus the expression of a wish or desire, on the part of the worshipper, that the name of God, or that God himself, should be held everywhere in proper veneration.
Matthew 6:10
Thy kingdom come - The word âkingdomâ here means âreign.â Note, Matthew 3:2. The petition is the expression of a wish that God may âreignâ everywhere; that his laws may be obeyed; and especially that the gospel of Christ may be advanced everywhere, until the world shall be filled with his glory.
Thy will be done - The will of God is, that people should obey his law, and be holy. The word âwill,â here, has reference to his law, and to what would be âacceptableâ to him. To pray, then, that his will may be done, on earth as in heaven, is to pray that his âlaw,â his ârevealed will,â may be obeyed and loved. His law is perfectly obeyed in heaven, and his true children most ardently desire and pray that it may also be obeyed on the earth.
The object of these three âfirstâ petitions, is, that Godâs name should be glorified and his kingdom established; and by being placed first, we learn that his glory and kingdom are of more consequence than our wants, and that these should be first in our hearts and petitions before a throne of grace.
Matthew 6:11
Give us this day ... - The word âbread,â here, denotes doubtless everything necessary to sustain life. See the notes at Matthew 4:4. Compare Deuteronomy 8:3. This petition implies our dependence on God for the supply of our wants. As we are dependent on him one day as much as another, it was evidently the intention of the Saviour that prayer should be offered every day. The petition, moreover, is expressed in the plural number - give us - and it is evidently therefore, intended to be used by more than one, or by some community of people. No community or congregation can meet every day for worship but families. It is therefore evident that this prayer contains a strong implied command for daily family prayer. It can nowhere else be used so as fully to come up to the meaning of the original intention; and nowhere else can it be breathed forth with so much propriety and beauty as from the lips of a father, the venerable priest of his household, and the pleader with God for those rich blessings which a parental bosom desires on his beloved offspring.
Matthew 6:12
And forgive us our debts ... - The word âdebtsâ is used here figuratively.
It does not mean âliterallyâ that we are âdebtors to God,â but that our sins have a resemblance to debts. Debtors are those who are bound to others for some claim in commercial transactions; for something which we have had, and for which we are bound to pay according to contract. âLiterallyâ there can be no such transaction between God and us. It must be used figuratively. We have not met the claims of law. We have violated its obligations. We are exposed to its penalty. We are guilty, and God only can forgive, in the same way as none but a âcreditorâ can forgive a debtor. The word âdebtsâ here, therefore, means âsins,â or offences against God - offences which none but God can forgive. In the parallel place in Luke 11:4, the word sins is used. The measure by which we may expect forgiveness is that which we use in reference to others See Psalms 18:25-26; Matthew 18:23; Mark 11:26; Luke 11:4.
This is the invariable rule by which God dispenses pardon He that comes before him unwilling to forgive, harboring dark and revengeful thoughts, how can he expect that God will show him that mercy which he is unwilling to show to others? It is not, however, required that we should forgive âdebtsâ in a pecuniary sense. To them we have a right, though they should not be pushed with an overbearing and oppressive spirit; not so as to sacrifice the feelings of mercy in order to secure the claims of justice. No one has a right to oppress; and when a debt cannot be paid, or when it would greatly distress a debtorâs wife and children, or a widow and an orphan, or when calamity has put it out of the power of an honest man to pay the debt, the spirit of Christianity requires that it should be forgiven. To such cases this petition in the Lordâs prayer doubtless extends. But it was probably intended to refer principally to injuries of character or person which we have received from others. If we cannot from the heart forgive them, we have the assurance that God will never forgive us.
Matthew 6:13
And lead us not into temptation - A petition similar to this is offered by David, Psalms 141:4; âIncline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with the workers of iniquity.â God tempts no man. See James 1:13. This phrase, then, must be used in the sense of âpermitting.â Do not âsufferâ us, or âpermitâ us, to be tempted to sin. In this it is implied that God has such control over the tempter as to save us from his power if we call upon him. The word âtemptation,â however (see the note at Matthew 4:1), means sometimes âtrial, affliction,â anything that âtestsâ our virtue. If this be the meaning here, as it may be, then the import of the prayer is, âDo not afflict or try us.â It is not wrong to pray that we may be saved from suffering if it be the will of God. See Luke 22:42.
Deliver us from evil - The original in this place has the article - deliver us from the evil - that is, as has been supposed, the Evil One, or Satan. He is elsewhere called, by way of eminence, the âEvil One,â Matthew 13:19; 1 John 2:13-14; 1 John 3:12. The meaning here is, âdeliver us from his power, his snares, his arts, his temptations.â He is supposed to be the great parent of evil, and to be delivered from him is to be safe. Or it may mean, âdeliver us from the various evils and trials which beset us, the heavy and oppressive calamities into which we are continually liable to fall.â
Thine is the kingdom - That is, thine is the reign or dominion. Thou hast control over all these things, and canst so order them as to answer these petitions.
Thine is the power - Thou hast power to accomplish what we ask. We are weak, and cannot do it; but thou art Almighty, and all things are possible with thee.
Thine is the glory - That is, thine is the honor or praise. Not for âour honor,â but that thy glory, thy goodness, may be displayed in providing for our wants; thy power exerted in defending us; thy praise be celebrated by causing thy kingdom to spread through the earth.
This âdoxology,â or ascription of praise, is connected with the prayer by the word âfor,â to signify that all these things - the reign, power, and glory of God - will be manifested by granting these petitions. It is not because we are to be benefited, but that Godâs name and perfections may be manifested. His glory is, then, the first and principal thing which we are to seek when we approach him. We are to suffer our concerns to be lost sight of in the superior glory and honor of his name and dominion. We are to seek temporal and eternal life chiefly because the honor of our Maker will be promoted, and his name be more illustriously displayed to his creatures. He is to be âfirst, last, supremest, best,â in our view; and all selfish and worldly views are to be absorbed in that one great desire of the soul that God may be âall in all.â Approaching him with these feelings, our prayers will be answered; our devotions will ascend like incense, and the lifting up our hands will be like the evening sacrifice.
Amen - This is a word of Hebrew origin, from a verb signifying âto be firm, secure, to be true and faithful.â It is a word expressing consent or strong approbation; a word of strong asseveration. It means âverily, certainly, so be it.â It is probable that this word was used by the people in the synagogue to signify their assent to the prayer that was uttered by the minister, and, to some extent, it was probably so used in the Christian Church. See 1 Corinthians 14:16.
It may be proper to remark that this doxology, âfor thine is the kingdom,â etc., is missing in many manuscripts, and that its authenticity is doubtful.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 6:9. After this manner therefore pray ye — Forms of prayer were frequent among the Jews; and every public teacher gave one to his disciples. Some forms were drawn out to a considerable length, and from these abridgments were made: to the latter sort the following prayer properly belongs, and consequently, besides its own very important use, it is a plan for a more extended devotion. What satisfaction must it be to learn from God himself, with what words, and in what manner, he would have us pray to him, so as not to pray in vain! A king, who draws up the petition which he allows to be presented to himself, has doubtless the fullest determination to grant the request. We do not sufficiently consider the value of this prayer; the respect and attention which it requires; the preference to be given to it; its fulness and perfection: the frequent use we should make of it; and the spirit which we should bring with it. "Lord, teach us how to pray!" is a prayer necessary to prayer; for unless we are divinely instructed in the manner, and influenced by the spirit of true devotion, even the prayer taught us by Jesus Christ may be repeated without profit to our souls.
Our Father — It was a maxim of the Jews, that a man should not pray alone, but join with the Church; by which they particularly meant that he should, whether alone or with the synagogue, use the plural number as comprehending all the followers of God. Hence, they say, Let none pray the short prayer, i.e. as the gloss expounds it, the prayer in the singular, but in the plural number. See Lightfoot on this place.
This prayer was evidently made in a peculiar manner for the children of God. And hence we are taught to say, not MY Father, but OUR Father. The heart, says one, of a child of God, is a brotherly heart, in respect of all other Christians: it asks nothing but in the spirit of unity, fellowship, and Christian charity; desiring that for its brethren which it desires for itself.
The word Father, placed here at the beginning of this prayer, includes two grand ideas, which should serve as a foundation to all our petitions:
1st. That tender and respectful love which we should feel for God, such as that which children feel for their fathers.
2dly. That strong confidence in God's love to us, such as fathers have for their children.
Thus all the petitions in this prayer stand in strictest reference to the word Father; the first three referring to the love we have for God; and the three last, to that confidence which we have in the love he bears to us.
The relation we stand in to this first and best of beings dictates to us reverence for his person, zeal for his honour, obedience to his will, submission to his dispensations and chastisements, and resemblance to his nature.
Which art in heaven — The phrase ×××× × ×©×ש×××, abinu sheboshemayim, our Father who art in heaven, was very common among the ancient Jews; and was used by them precisely in the same sense as it is used here by our Lord.
This phrase in the Scriptures seems used to express:
1st. His OMNIPRESENCE. The heaven of heavens cannot contain thee. 1 Kings 8:27: that is, Thou fillest immensity.
2dly. His MAJESTY and DOMINION over his creatures. Art thou not God in heaven, and rulest thou not over all the kingdoms of the heathen? 2 Chronicles 20:6.
3dly. His POWER and MIGHT. Art thou not God in heaven, and in thy hand is there not power and might, so that no creature is able to withstand thee! 2 Chronicles 20:6. Our God is in heaven, and hath done whatsoever he pleased. Psalms 115:3.
4thly. His OMNISCIENCE. The Lord's throne is in heaven, his eyes behold, his eye-lids try the children of men. Psalms 11:4. The Lord looketh down from heaven, he beholdeth all the sons of men. Psalms 33:13-15.
5thly. His infinite PURITY and HOLINESS. Look down from thy holy habitation, c. Deuteronomy 26:15. Thou art the high and lofty One, who inhabiteth eternity, whose name is holy. Isaiah 57:15.
Hallowed — ÎγιαÏθηÏÏ. ÎγιαζÏÎ from a negative, and γη, the earth, a thing separated from the earth, or from earthly purposes and employments. As the word sanctified, or hallowed, in Scripture, is frequently used for the consecration of a thing or person to a holy use or office, as the Levites, first-born, tabernacle, temple, and their utensils, which were all set apart from every earthly, common, or profane use, and employed wholly in the service of God, so the Divine Majesty may be said to be sanctified by us, in analogy to those things, viz. when, we separate him from, and in our conceptions and desires exalt him above, earth and all things.
Thy name. — That is, GOD himself, with all the attributes of his Divine nature-his power, wisdom, justice, mercy, c.
We hallow God's name,
1st. With our lips, when all our conversation is holy, and we speak of those things which are meet to minister grace to the hearers.
2dly. In our thoughts, when we suppress every rising evil, and have our tempers regulated by his grace and Spirit.
3dly. In our lives, when we begin, continue, and end our works to his glory. If we have an eye to God in all we perform, then every act of our common employment will be an act of religious worship.
4thly. In our families, when we endeavour to bring up our children in the discipline and admonition or the Lord instructing also our servants in the way of righteousness.
5thly. In a particular calling or business, when we separate the falsity, deception, and lying, commonly practised, from it buying and selling as in the sight of the holy and just God.
