Bible Discussion Thread

There are two basic ways this text can be translated--"do not lead us into temptation," and "do not lead us into hard trials or testings". When both are considered, the following translation is something like, "Don't lead us into hard trials and temptations" and implied is...hard trials and temptations "which result in sin." It is clear from other scriptures that God often causes the adversary to come with hard trials--but God’s intention is that we grow and become more like Him--(even as God led Jesus to be tested and tempted by satan just two chapters before). Our prayer is that we would never succumb to sin in temptations, and within the trials that God is allowing--this is the end of the prayer--but deliver us from the evil one (Just as Jesus was delivered from the evil one in Matthew chapter 4). So, the translation is, "Do not lead us into hard trials and temptations which result in sin, but deliver us from the evil one (and from evil).