The
Lord's Prayer, also called the
Our Father and the
Pater Noster, is a venerated
Christian prayer that, according to the
New Testament, was taught by
Jesus to his
disciples. Two forms of it are recorded in the
New Testament: a longer form in the
Gospel of Matthew as part of the
Sermon on the Mount, and a shorter form in the
Gospel of Luke as a response by
Jesus to a request by "one of his disciples" to teach them "to pray as
John taught his disciples" concludes with "deliver us from evil" in
Matthew, and with "lead us not into temptation" in
Luke. The first three of the seven petitions in
Matthew address God; the other four are related to human needs and concerns. The
liturgical form is the Matthean. Some Christians, particularly
Protestants, conclude the prayer with a
doxology, a later
addendum appearing in some
manuscripts of
Matthew.
- The prayer as it occurs in
- Our Father in heaven,
- hallowed be 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 have forgiven our debtors.
- And lead us not into temptation,
- but deliver us from evil.