The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Amen.
— Matthew 6:9-13
Thank you for praying today.
Where this prayer comes from
Jesus gave this prayer to his disciples as a model for how to pray. Centuries later, it remains one of the most recited texts in Christianity, translated into nearly every language and prayed across denominations.
Reading the Our Father in Full
Known as both the Lord’s Prayer and the Our Father, this is the prayer Jesus taught directly to his followers, recorded in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. It’s said daily in churches and homes across Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox traditions alike, whether as private devotion or as part of a church service.
Come back to this page any time you want the full text in front of you, to read quietly or say aloud.
Do all Christian traditions pray it exactly the same way?
The heart of the prayer is shared everywhere, but some traditions add a closing line (“For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory”) that others leave out, and the exact wording shifts a little from translation to translation.
What language did Jesus actually say this prayer in?
The New Testament records it in Greek, but Jesus himself most likely taught it in Aramaic, the everyday language of his followers at the time.
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