Day 10 · Matthew 6:5–15 · Berean Standard Bible
When you pray
Jesus teaches that prayer is not a performance for other people and not a way to overwhelm God with words. The Father already knows what we need. Jesus then gives a pattern: honor God, welcome His kingdom and will, ask for today's provision, seek and extend forgiveness, and ask for protection from temptation and evil. You may pray these words directly or use their movement to form an honest prayer of your own.
Matthew 6:5–15
5 And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
6 But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
7 And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard.
8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.
9 So then, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.
10 Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
14 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive yours.