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Green's Literal Translation

Luke 11:3

Give us our needed bread day by day;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Lord's Prayer;   Prayer;   Scofield Reference Index - Miracles;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ask;   Christ;   Church;   Family;   Importunity;   Lord's;   Prayer;   Secret Prayer;   United Prayer;   Unwise Prayers;   Wicked, the;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Paschal Lamb, Typical Nature of;   Time;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Lord's Prayer, the;   Prayer;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Lord's Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bread;   Day;   Manna;   Solomon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Lord's Prayer, the;   Luke, Gospel of;   Prayer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Lord's Prayer;   Luke, Gospel According to;   Matthew, Gospel According to;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Day;   Discourse;   Forgiveness (2);   Gift;   Gospels (Apocryphal);   Lord's Prayer (I);   Lord's Prayer (Ii);   Luke, Gospel According to;   Poverty (2);   Prayer (2);   Sermon on the Mount;   Wealth (2);   Winter ;   1910 New Catholic Dictionary - father, our;   lord's prayer;   noster, pater;   our father;   pater noster;   prayer, lord's;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Lord (2);   Smith Bible Dictionary - Lord's Prayer,;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Bread;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Friend;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Discrepancies, Biblical;   Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);   Lord's Prayer, the;   Prayer;   Prayers of Jesus;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Bread;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Christianity in Its Relation to Judaism;   Devotional Literature;   Jesus of Nazareth;   Lord's Prayer, the;   New Testament;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for November 1;   Every Day Light - Devotion for March 15;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Give us each day our daily bread.
King James Version (1611)
Giue vs day by day our dayly bread.
King James Version
Give us day by day our daily bread.
English Standard Version
Give us each day our daily bread,
New American Standard Bible
-'Give us each day our daily bread.
New Century Version
Give us the food we need for each day.
Amplified Bible
-'Give us each day our daily bread.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Give us each day our daily bread.
Legacy Standard Bible
Give us each day our daily bread.
Berean Standard Bible
Give us each day our daily bread.
Contemporary English Version
Give us each day the food we need.
Complete Jewish Bible
Give us each day the food we need.
Darby Translation
give us our needed bread for each day;
Easy-to-Read Version
Give us the food we need for each day.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Our dayly bread giue vs for the day:
George Lamsa Translation
Give us bread for our needs every day.
Good News Translation
Give us day by day the food we need.
Lexham English Bible
Give us each day our daily bread.
American Standard Version
Give us day by day our daily bread.
Bible in Basic English
Give us every day bread for our needs.
Hebrew Names Version
Give us day by day our daily bread.
International Standard Version
Keep giving us every day our daily bread,our bread from above">[fn]
Etheridge Translation
Give to us the bread of our need every day,
Murdock Translation
give us daily the bread we need;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Our dayly breade geue vs this day.
English Revised Version
Give us day by day our daily bread.
World English Bible
Give us day by day our daily bread.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Give us day by day our daily bread.
Weymouth's New Testament
give us day after day our bread for the day;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Yyue `to vs to dai oure ech daies breed.
Update Bible Version
Give us day by day our daily bread.
Webster's Bible Translation
Give us day by day our daily bread.
New English Translation
Give us each day our daily bread,
New King James Version
Give us day by day our daily bread.
New Living Translation
Give us each day the food we need,
New Life Bible
Give us the bread we need everyday.
New Revised Standard
Give us each day our daily bread.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Our needful bread, be giving us, day by day;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Give us this day our daily bread.
Revised Standard Version
Give us each day our daily bread;
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Oure dayly breed geve vs evermore.
Young's Literal Translation
our appointed bread be giving us daily;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Geue vs this daye oure daylie bred.
Mace New Testament (1729)
give us every day our portion of bread.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Let your outfit get here soon. Give us what we need to eat and

Contextual Overview

1 And it happened as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, one of His disciples said to Him, Lord teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. 2 And He said to them: When you pray, say, Our Father who is in Heaven, hallowed be Your name, let Your kingdom come, let Your will be done on earth as it also is in Heaven. 3 Give us our needed bread day by day; 4 and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil. 5 And He said to them, Who of you shall have a friend, and will come to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves. 6 For a friend of mine arrived to me from a journey, and I do not have what I may set before him. 7 And answering from within that one may say, Do not cause me troubles. The door has already been shut, and my children are in bed with me. I cannot rise up to give to you. 8 I say to you, Even if rising up he will not give to him because he is a friend, yet because of his shameless insisting, rising up he will give him as many as he needs. 9 And I say to you, Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone asking receives, and the one seeking finds, and to the one knocking, it will be opened.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Give: Exodus 16:15-22, Proverbs 30:8, Isaiah 33:16, Matthew 6:11, Matthew 6:34, John 6:27-33

day by day: or, for the day

Reciprocal: Exodus 16:4 - a certain rate every day 1 Kings 8:59 - at all times 2 Kings 25:30 - a daily rate 1 Chronicles 29:10 - our father Jeremiah 52:34 - every day a portion Daniel 1:5 - a daily 2 Corinthians 4:16 - day by 2 Thessalonians 3:12 - eat

Cross-References

Genesis 11:4
And they said, Come, let us build a city and a tower with its head in the heavens, and make a name for ourselves, that we not be scattered on the face of all the earth.
Genesis 11:6
And Jehovah said, Behold, the people is one, and the lip one to all of them, and this they are beginning to do, and now all which they have purposed to do will not be restrained from them.
Genesis 11:7
Come, let Us go down and confuse their language so that they cannot understand one another's speech.
Genesis 11:18
And Peleg lived thirty years and fathered Reu.
Genesis 14:10
And the valley of Siddim was pitted with asphalt pits, and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there. And they that remained fled to the mountain.
Exodus 1:14
And they made their lives bitter by hard service, in clay, and in bricks, and in all work in the field; all their work which they made them do with harshness.
Exodus 2:3
And she was not able to hide him any longer, and she took a basket for him made of papyrus, and she daubed it with bitumen and with pitch. And she put the child in it, and placed it in the reeds by the lip of the Nile.
2 Samuel 12:31
And he brought out the people in it, and put them to the saw, and to sharp tools of iron, and to axes of iron. And he caused them to go over into the brick kiln. And so he did to all the cities ofthe sons of Ammon. And David and all the peoplereturned to Jerusalem.
Psalms 64:5
They make themselves strong in an evil plan; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Walk with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us secretly lurk for the innocent without cause,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Give us day by day our daily bread. Or "for the day"; or "every day", as the Syriac version renders it;

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 6:9-13.

Luke 11:4

For we also forgive ... - This is somewhat different from the expression in Matthew, though the sense is the same. The idea is, that unless we forgive others, God will not forgive us; and unless we come to him “really” forgiving all others, we cannot expect pardon. It does not mean that by forgiving others we “deserve” forgiveness ourselves, or “merit it,” but that this is a disposition or state of mind without which God cannot consistently pardon us.

Every one that is indebted to us - Every one that has “injured” us. This does not refer to pecuniary transactions, but to offences similar to those which “we” have committed against God, and for which we ask forgiveness. Besides the variations in the “expressions” in this prayer, Luke has omitted the doxology, or close, altogether; and this shows that Jesus did nor intend that we should always use just this “form,” but that it was a general direction how to pray; or, rather, that we were to pray for these “things,” though not always using the same words.


 
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