Give us today our daily bread.
Parallel translations
- KJV Give us this day our daily bread.
- BSB Give us this day our daily bread.
- NKJV Give us this day our daily bread.
- NASB ‘Give us this day our daily bread.
- NLT Give us today the food we need,
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Quick answer
We ask the Father for our daily bread, depending on him for each day's needs. This teaches humble, ongoing trust in God's provision.
Overview
After the petitions concerning God's name, kingdom, and will, the prayer turns to human need, beginning with daily sustenance. Asking for 'daily bread' echoes Israel's gathering of manna and cultivates a posture of dependence rather than self-sufficient anxiety. It acknowledges God as the giver of every good gift and frees the believer from the worry Jesus addresses later in this chapter.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Prov 30:8Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;
- Luke 11:3Give us day by day our daily bread.
- Matt 4:4But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”
- Ps 34:10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
- John 6:31–59Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’”
- Job 23:12I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
- Ps 33:18–19Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness;
- Isa 33:16he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.
- 1 Tim 6:8But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
- Exod 16:16–35This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: “Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent.”
- 2 Th 3:12Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
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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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