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Sep 1, 2023 · Praying “deliver us from evil” is a recognition of our own limited abilities and a means of asking for God to step in and help us. While we can pray for help to overcome temptation and sin, we can also pray that we will not be put in positions where we would face severe temptation.
Rabbi Judah ben Tema is said to have prayed, “Let it be thy good pleasure to deliver us from impudent men, and from impudence: from an evil man and an evil chance; from an evil affection, an evil companion, and an evil neighbor: from Satan the destroyer, from a hard judgment, and a hard adversary.”
May 7, 2015 · So when Jesus prayed, “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,” he clarified in John 17: “Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.” God delivers me and you from evil by saturating us with the word, and we ought to join him in it.
This phrase could mean, "deliver us from the temptations of the evil one." Matthew has described Jesus' temptations from the evil one, the devil, in the wilderness (Matthew 4:1–11). Jesus resisted each temptation by quoting Scripture and finally sending the devil away.
“Deliver us from evil” meaning. We have personal sins that we are reluctant to acknowledge to others, but God knows all about them. And there are enormous, mysterious forces of darkness at work all around us that exceed our imagination and comprehension.
Dec 10, 2019 · But deliver us from evil: The word “deliver” in this verse does not mean what it seems. We are not asking God to deliver us like a pizza from point A to point B. God is not our Uber driver.
But deliver us from evil. This is a prayer to be delivered from all evil—not only from sin, but from its consequences and from the power of Satan in all its forms. This was the prayer of the apostle Paul in 2 Timothy 4:18, “And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for His heavenly kingdom. To Him be glory forever ...
But deliver us from evil — Απο του πονερου, from the evil one, viz., the devil; enabling us to resist and overcome him in all his assaults, of whatever kind they may be.
Amplified Bible. ‘And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.]’.
Oct 30, 2006 · When Jesus asks the Father to lead us not into temptation, He is imploring Him not to allow His people to face an insurmountable test in which our enemy tempts us to sin. The parallel clause “but deliver us from evil” (6:13) further shows this to be true.
