The Lord’s Prayer · piece 22 of 26
The Seventh Request
From Luther’s Small Catechism, 1529
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But set us free from the Evil One. (Matthew 6:13)
What does this mean?
We pray in this request, as a summary, that our Father in Heaven will save us from every kind of evil that threatens body, soul, property and honor. We pray that when at last our final hour has come, He will grant us a blessed death, and, in His grace, bring us to Himself from this valley of tears.
In plain words
This request sums up the whole prayer. You ask the Father to save you from every kind of evil, to your body, soul, belongings, and good name. You also ask God to give you a blessed death when your life ends. Then you ask God to bring you to be with God.
Our summary of Luther’s explanation, for reading after his words, not instead of them.
Where Jesus says it
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John 17:15 Jesus prays that the Father will keep his followers safe from the evil one.
Read John 17:15
15 I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.
World English Bible, public domain. The whole chapter on Free Scripture → · Read in the NRSVue, the ELCA’s standard translation →
Translated by Robert E. Smith for Project Wittenberg (revised 2004) and placed in the public domain by the translator. How we checked it, and the whole Catechism on one page