Lord's Prayer

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The Lord's Prayer, also known by its incipit Our Father (Greek: Πάτερ ἡμῶν, romanized: Páter ēmôn; Latin: Pater Noster), is a central Christian prayer attributed to Jesus. It contains petitions to God focused on God's holiness, will, and kingdom, as well as human needs, with variations across manuscripts and Christian traditions. Most scholars regard the Lord's Prayer, as recorded in the New Testament gospels of Matthew and Luke, as deriving authentically from the historical Jesus. The prayer survives in two different versions, however, and the relationship between the Matthean and Lukan forms remains the subject of scholarly debate. The first-century text Didache (at chapter VIII) reports a version closely resembling that of Matthew and the modern prayer. It ends with the Minor Doxology. Theologians broadly view the Lord's Prayer as a model that aligns the soul with God's will, emphasizing praise, trust, and ethical living. The prayer is used by most Christian denominations in their worship...

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