Give us day by day our daily bread.
Parallel translations
- WEB Give us day by day our daily bread.
- BSB Give us each day our daily bread.
- ESV Give us each 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 6:34Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
- Prov 30:8Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
- Exod 16:15–22And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
- Isa 33:16He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
- John 6:27–33Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
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