Give us each day our daily bread.
Parallel translations
- WEB Give us day by day our daily bread.
- KJV Give us day by day our daily bread.
- NKJV Give us day by day our daily bread.
- NASB ‘Give us each day our daily bread.
- NLT Give us each day the food we need,
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Quick answer
Jesus teaches dependence on God for daily provision, asking for bread day by day. Believers trust the Father for their ongoing needs.
Overview
The petition for daily bread expresses humble, continual reliance on God for life's necessities. It guards against both anxious hoarding and prideful self-sufficiency. Like Israel's daily manna, it trains the heart to depend on the Father one day at a time.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Matt 6:11Give us this day our daily bread.
- Matt 6:34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own.
- Prov 30:8Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.
- Exod 16:15–22When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
- Isa 33:16he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.
- John 6:27–33Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”
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