Give us this day our daily bread.
Parallel translations
- WEB Give us today 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 vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
- Luke 11:3Give us day by day our daily bread.
- Matt 4:4But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
- Ps 34:10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
- John 6:31–59Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
- Job 23:12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
- Ps 33:18–19Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
- 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.
- 1 Tim 6:8And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
- Exod 16:16–35This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
- 2 Th 3:12Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
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