Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Matthew 6:13
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from (e) evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
(e) From the devil, or from all adversity.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from (e) evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
(e) From the devil, or from all adversity.
MATTHEW 6:13 ponhrou/) {A} The ascription at the close of the Lord’s Prayer occurs in several forms. In K L W D Q P ¦13 _al_ it is the familiar triple strophic form, whereas the Sahidic and Fayyumic...
Verse Matthew 6:13. _AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION_] That is, _bring us_ _not in to sore trial_. πειρασμον, which may be here rendered _sore_ _trial_, comes from πειρω, _to pierce through_, as with...
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LEAD. bring. Not the same word as in Matthew 4:1. TEMPTATION. trial. Compare James 1:12; James 1:13. DELIVER. rescue. FROM. away from. Greek. _apo._ EVIL. the evil [one]. See App-128....
The Lord's Prayer St Luke 11:2-4, where the prayer is found in a different connection, and is given by our Lord in answer to a request from the disciples to teach them to pray, "even as John taught h...
_lead us not into temptation_ The statement of James, James 1:2, "Count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations," is not really contradictory. The Christian character is strengthened and purif...
The doxology was an early insertion from the liturgy, it is absent from the oldest MSS. (אBD). The receptus reads ὅτι σοῦ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία καὶ ἡ δύναμις καὶ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας�. 13. ΜῊ ΕἸΣΕΝΈΓΚΗΙΣ...
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VER 13. "AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION." Pseudo-Chrys.: As He had above put many high things into men's mouths, teaching them to call God their Father, to pray that His kingdom might come; so now H...
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ΕΊΣΕΝΈΓΚΗΣ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΕΊΣΦΈΡΩ (G1533) вовлекать, вводить. Здесь может быть возвратное значение: "не дай нам стать жертвами" (DA). ΠΕΙΡΑΣΜΌΣ (G3986) искушение, соблазн, ΡΎΣΑΙ _aor. imper. m...
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1 The Pharisees deemed alms-giving, prayer and fasting the three most eminent exhibitions of piety, for alms was the ideal expression of their relation to their neighbor, prayer of their intercourse w...
6:13 evil. (e-11) Or 'the evil one.'...
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_Sixth petition_ : consists of two members, one qualifying or limiting the other. μὴ … πειρασμόν, expose us not to moral trial. All trial is of doubtful issue, and may therefore naturally and innocent...
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13._And lead us not into temptation _Some people have split this petition into two. This is wrong: for the nature of the subject makes it manifest, that it is one and the same petition. The connection...
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AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION,.... Such a petition as this is often to be observed in the prayers of the Jews a, "ynaybt la, "do not lead me" neither into sin, nor into transgression and iniquity,...
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Mat. 6:13. "And lead us not into temptation." This includes _trials_ brought upon us by God's providential hands, as well as the _temptation of lust._ God often leads his children into these, and alwa...
_And lead us not into temptation_ Or, _into trial_, as the word πειρασμος, here used, signifies: see note on Matthew 4:1: that is, into such trial or temptation, as will be too hard for our weakness t...
LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION; keep us from being tempted, or if tempted, deliver us from the temptation, and from all evil. THINE IS THE KINGDOM; the reign, for the coming of which we pray, is thine;...
AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL. There are not many that reach the heights of moral heroism by which they welcome persecutions, Matthew 5:10; James 1:2. For the average Chris...
Verse 1 warns against practicing righteousness (margin) before men to attract their attention. This is self-righteousness, a mere show. How can we expect the Father to reward what we do merely to impr...
9-15 Christ saw it needful to show his disciples what must commonly be the matter and method of their prayer. Not that we are tied up to the use of this only, or of this always; yet, without doubt, i...
The term temptation in the general signifieth a trial, and is sometimes used to express God's trials of his people's faith and obedience, but most ordinarily to express Satan's trials of us, by motion...
Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians and persevering in fasting; beseeching in our supplications the all-seeing God "not to lead us into temptation,"[46] Tertullian De Fuga in Persecutione own po...
Matthew 6:13 And G2532 not G3361 lead G1533 (G5661) us G2248 into G1519 temptation G3986 But G235 deliver...
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And bring us not into testing, But deliver us from evil (or ‘the evil one'). The assumption behind these words is that the world faces positive testing and trial by God, and endures various evils, pa...
Matthew 6:13. AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION (_sixth petition)._ The next clause is reckoned the _seventh_ by many, more from a desire to find in the prayer the sacred number _seven_ than from sound...
Matthew 6:5-15. SECOND EXAMPLE (_Prayer)._...
GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
Our Lord passes from moral to religious duties, enjoining a ‘righteousness' (Matthew 6:1), which exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees (‘hypocrites'), and has regard to the character of our ‘Fathe...
AND BRING US NOT INTO TEMPTATION (κα μη εισενεγκηις εις πειρασμον). "Bring" or "lead" bothers many people. It seems to present God as an active agent in subjecting us to temptation, a thing specific...
Matthew 6:13 Temptation from God and from Satan. I. Speaking of Satan's temptation is in itself a temptation, unless in humble dependence upon God our object is practical, to guard against the enemy,...
Matthew 6:5. _And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men._ We oug...
Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven._ The motive which leads a man to give, will form the tr...
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Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men._ It is a dispute whether alms or righteousness be the true reading. The old copies had righteousness. Chrysostom in one place has righteous...
DO NOT BRING US TO HARD TESTING. The thought is that God may hold us back from temptations that might destroy us. He has promised to do this (1 Corinthians 10:13). But no one can pray this, who does n...
_And lead us not into temptation._ I. God permits us to be tempted for his own glory, to discover the freeness and riches of His grace, that men may be driven the more earnestly to sue out their plac...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:13 LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION. In this sixth and final petition, “temptation” can also indicate testing (see notes on 4:1;...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:9 Jesus gives his disciples an example to follow when praying. The prayer consists of an invocation and six petitions. ⇐...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:5 Prayer was also expected of God’s people. Public prayer was a common practice in NT times. ⇐...
JESUS TEACHES ON PRAYER MATTHEW 6:9-13; LUKE 11:2-4; MATTHEW 6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. L
CHAPTER 6 _Take heed_. &c. Instead of _alms_, some Greek Codices read _δικαιοσύνην, righteousness_, or _justice._ This is the reading of the Syriac and the Latin Vulgate. The Complutensian, Royal, and...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 6:1. ALMS.—_Righteousness_ (R.V.) is probably correct and shows the connection between this chapter and the preceding, better than “alms.” In ch. Matthew 5:20, the disciples a...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 6:1 _The_ _relation of our Lord and his disciples to the religion of the day _(_continued_);_ vide _Matthew 5:17, note. (_b_) Our Lord turns from cases which could be directly dedu...
Tonight let's take a look at Matthew, chapter six. We are in the section of the book of Matthew that is commonly called the Sermon on the Mount because it was delivered to the disciples of Jesus on th...
1 Chronicles 16:36; 1 Chronicles 29:11; 1 Chronicles 4:10; 1 Corinthians 10:13;...
Temptation [π ε ι ρ α σ μ ο ν]. It is a mistake to define this word as only solicitation to evil. It means trial of any kind, without reference to its moral quality. Thus, Genesis 22:1 (Sept.), "God d...
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And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil — Whenever we are tempted, O thou that helpest our infirmities, suffer us not to enter into temptation; to be overcome or suffer loss thereby;...
Why should we pray that God would not lead us into temptation when God cannot tempt anyone? PROBLEM: The Bible says emphatically, “God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone” (Ja...