Matthew 6:12

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This passage contains the Lord’s prayer, a composition unequalled for comprehensiveness and for beauty. It is supposed that some of these petitions...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The fulfilled Law in Relation to the Life of the Pharisees. Mt. only, though the digression on Prayer ( Matthew 6:7-15 ) has parallels in Lk. M...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

our debts. Sin is so called because failure in the obligation involves expiation and satisfaction. we . we also. that is only what we mortals d...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

12. And forgive us our debts Here it may be proper that we should be reminded of what I said a little before, that Christ, in arranging the...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1316 THE LORD’S PRAYER Matthew 6:12 . And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors . THE petitions of men to the Supreme Bein...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And forgive us our debts - Sin is represented here under the notion of a debt, and as our sins a...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And forgive us our debts, &c.— 5. We may observe, that this is the only petition in this prayer upon which our Lord enlarges, and indeed it is...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And forgive us our debts. A vitally important view of sin this-as an offence against God...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Sermon on the Mount (continued) 1. God's approval, not man's, to be sought in all our actions. Jesus does not say that we are to do good expec...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Maxims for prayer, and the Lord's Prayer . Perhaps the most significant v. of this section is Matthew 6:8 , 'Your Father knoweth what things ye hav...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The earthly treasure and the heavenly treasure. When do we lay up 'treasure in heaven'? Whenever we give alms ( Matthew 6:2 ), or pray ( Matthew 6:...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors] RV 'as we also have forgiven our debtors.' No one who has not forgiven his enemies can pray the...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Forgive us our debts. — Duty — i.e., that which we owe, or ought to do — and debts are, it may be noted, only different forms of the same wor...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1-48 ; Matthew 6:1-34 ; Matthew 7:1-29 IT may seem almost heresy to...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

How to Pray and How to Fast Matthew 6:9-18 This might more fitly be termed the “disciples' prayer.” As we tread its stately aisles, we cannot b...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the first verse the Revised Version has substituted the word "righteousness" for "alms," "a reading approved of, almost unanimously, by the great...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. We have here the p...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

FORGIVENESS FOR THE FORGIVING ‘Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.’ Matthew 6:12 It is with the precious promises of God’s Word...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And forgive us our debts ,.... Nothing is more frequent in the Jewish writings than to call sins חובי, "debts"; and the phrase, of forgiving, is use...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. Ver. 12. And forgive us our debts, &c. ] Loose us (saith the original) and let us go fre...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And forgive us our debts , &c. The suffering of punishment for transgressing God's laws is a debt which sinners owe to the divine justice; and “...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Verse 1 warns against practicing righteousness (margin) before men to attract their attention. This is self-righteousness, a mere show. How can we ex...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount. 9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Our Saviour here doth not teach us the order in which we should pray for good things for ourselves, only in three petitions comprehends whatsoever we...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Their Religious Exercises Are To Be Known Only To The Father And Not To Men (6:1-18). We will now, therefore, initially consider together the firs...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

How To Pray - The Lord's Prayer (6:9-15). The Lord's Prayer ( Matthew 6:9-15 ). We should note in using the description ‘The Lord's Prayer' that...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And forgive us our debts, As we also have forgiven our debtors'. ‘Forgive us our debts.' The meaning of this petition, as Luke specifically brings...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 6:1 . Alms .— Righteousness (R.V.) is probably correct and shows the connection between this chapter and the preceding,...
Scofield Reference Notes

we forgive our debtors This is legal ground, (compare ( Ephesians 4:32 ), which is grace. Under law forgiveness is conditioned upon a like spi...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 6:9 , Matthew 6:12 I. The request. (1) We are in debt to God. We have only to listen to the voice of conscience to admit this at once....
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 6:1 . Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. T...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 6:5 . And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners o...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 6:1 . Take heed that ye do not your alms before men. It is a dispute whether alms or righteousness be the true reading. The old copies had...
The Biblical Illustrator

Forgive us our debts. Forgive us our debts There is a twofold debt which man oweth to God. I. A debt of duty, worship, and obedience; II....
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Matthew 6:1-40 The relation of our Lord and his disciples to the religion of the day ( continued ); vide Matthew 5:17 , n...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

One of the greatest spiritual and temporal needs: And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. We daily contract an enormous, an unbelieva...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) Matthew 5:43-48 ; Matthew 6:1-15 INTRODUCTORY WORDS I. A FOURFOLD COMMAND 1. "Love your enemies." Th...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors — Give us, O Lord, redemption in thy blood, even the forgiveness of sins: as thou enablest...

¹² And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

Related Commentaries of Matthew 6:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Matthew 6:12