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the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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World English Bible

Luke 11:3

Give us day by day our daily bread.

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.
Literal Translation
Give us our needed bread day by day;
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.
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 It happened, that when he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples." 2 He said to them, "When you pray, say, 'Our Father in heaven, May your name be kept holy. May your kingdom come. May your desire be done on Earth, as it is in heaven. 3 Give us day by day our daily bread. 4 Forgive us our sins, For we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one.'" 5 He said to them, "Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, 6 for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,' 7 and he from within will answer and say, 'Don't bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give it to you'? 8 I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs. 9 I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks 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
They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
Genesis 11:6
Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
Genesis 11:7
Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
Genesis 11:18
Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
Genesis 14:10
Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the mountain.
Exodus 1:14
and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
Exodus 2:3
When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.
2 Samuel 12:31
He brought forth the people who were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln: and thus did he to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
Psalms 64:5
They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; Let's lurk secretly 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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