Luke 11:4

Jesus teaches us to seek forgiveness, extend it to others, and ask to be kept from temptation and evil. Prayer addresses our deepest spiritual needs.

Cross-references · 29

• Matt 6:12–15Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
• Matt 26:41Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
• Isa 43:25–26I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
• 2 Th 3:3But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.
• Matt 18:35So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”
• Col 3:13bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
• Jas 2:13For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
• 1 Jn 1:8–10If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• 2 Tim 4:18And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
• Eph 4:31–32Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
• 2 Cor 12:7–8By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
• John 17:15I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.
• Rev 2:10Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
• Luke 22:46and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”
• Rev 3:10Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
• Luke 8:13Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.
• Ps 121:7Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.
• Ps 51:1–3For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
• Ps 25:18Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.
• Ps 130:3–4If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
• Dan 9:19Lord, hear; Lord, forgive; Lord, listen and do; don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.
• 1 Cor 10:13No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
• Matt 11:25–26At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
• Gen 48:16the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”
• 1 Kgs 8:34then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.
• 1 Kgs 8:36then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
• Ps 25:11For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
• Ps 32:1–5By David. A contemplative psalm. Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
• Hos 14:2Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.

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