Matthew 6:13

Lead us not into temptation.

The sixth petition. The spirit of this clause is that God may preserve us from temptations that might lead us astray. No man can pray these words who does not try to keep out of temptation. He who asks the Lord to keep him from temptation, and yet rushes headlong into it, mocks when he offers this prayer. The language implies conscious weakness, earnest desire to keep out of temptation, and confidence in the strong hand of the heavenly Father to deliver.

But deliver us from evil.

The Revision says "the evil one," or from the power of the devil. This asks that we be kept from all sinning. The two last petitions combined ask for freedom from temptation and entire deliverance from all the power of sin. He who is thus delivered will be able to reach the full stature of the perfect man in Christ Jesus.

For thine is the kingdom.

This clause, called the doxology, is wanting in the oldest and best manuscripts and is undoubtedly an addition by men. It was evidently inserted after churches began to adopt rituals and this prayer had become. part of the ritual service. It contains nothing that is not proper, but it is praise instead of prayer and was not spoken by our Lord.