Our Father Who is in heaven Hallowed by your name Your kingdom come Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our debts As we also forgive our debtors Lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil. The Lord's Prayer - ESV The Lord's Prayer is one of the central passages of Scripture. Jesus, teaching his followers how to pray, says this prayer during the Sermon on the Mount in the book of Matthew. It is, in a way, a summary of the entire Sermon on the Mount. It can be summed up in several points. 1. Glorify God 2. Obey God 3. Trust God Point one is easy. Only God, who is in heaven, deserves to be glorified. We should treat his name with the utmost respect and reverence. Point two is interesting. "Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." We should pray that God's will be done here on earth just as it is in heaven. This means that earth s
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