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Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.
Matthew 6:10 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
  • BSB Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
  • NKJV Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.
  • NASB ‘Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.
  • NLT May your Kingdom come soon. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

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Quick answer

We pray for God's kingdom to come and his will to be done on earth as in heaven. Prayer aligns our hearts with God's reign and purposes.

Overview

These petitions long for the full coming of God's kingdom—his saving rule already inaugurated in Christ and yet to be consummated. To pray that his will be done 'as in heaven, so on earth' is to submit to and yearn for the perfect obedience that heaven already renders. Such prayer trains the disciple to desire God's purposes above personal preference and looks forward to the renewal of all things.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 40

  • Heb 10:36For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
  • Matt 26:42Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”
  • Matt 12:50For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
  • John 4:34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
  • 1 Th 5:18In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
  • John 6:40This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
  • Rom 12:2Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
  • Col 1:9For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
  • Ps 40:8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
  • Eph 6:6not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
  • Matt 7:21Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
  • 1 Pet 2:15For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
  • Ps 103:19–21Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all.
  • Dan 7:27The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
  • Matt 3:2“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”
  • 1 Th 4:3For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
  • Heb 13:21make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
  • John 7:17If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
  • Luke 22:42saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
  • Rev 19:6I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!
  • Dan 2:44In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
  • Acts 21:14When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, “The Lord’s will be done.”
  • Dan 4:35All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?
  • Acts 13:22When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
  • Mark 3:35For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.”
  • Matt 16:28Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom.”
  • Matt 4:17From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
  • Rev 12:10I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
  • 1 Pet 4:2that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
  • Dan 7:13I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
  • Neh 9:6You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.
  • Luke 19:38saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!”
  • Rev 11:15The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”
  • Heb 10:7Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’”
  • Mark 11:10Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
  • Col 1:13who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;
  • Rev 20:4I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
  • Ps 2:6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
  • Zech 9:9Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
  • Luke 19:11As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that God’s Kingdom would be revealed immediately.

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Christ at the center

Matthew presents Jesus as the promised King — son of David, son of Abraham — the new Moses and true Israel in whom every prophecy reaches 'that it might be fulfilled.'

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