Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need(A) before you ask him.

“This, then, is how you should pray:

“‘Our Father(B) in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom(C) come,
your will be done,(D)
    on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us today our daily bread.(E)
12 And forgive us our debts,
    as we also have forgiven our debtors.(F)
13 And lead us not into temptation,[a](G)
    but deliver us from the evil one.[b](H)

14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.(I) 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.(J)

Fasting

16 “When you fast,(K) do not look somber(L) as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 17 But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, 18 so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.(M)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 6:13 The Greek for temptation can also mean testing.
  2. Matthew 6:13 Or from evil; some late manuscripts one, / for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;

18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

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