The Cry of the Needy
Matthew 6:11
Give us this day our daily bread.


I. It is an utterance of FELT NEED.

II. It is an acknowledgment of entire and constant DEPENDENCE on God.

III. It is the language, of MODERATION.

IV. It breathes a spirit of TRUSTFULNESS.

V. The language implies personal effort to gain the bread.

VI. It is the language of brotherly ANXIETY AND LOVE. VII. The GREAT END for which all bread, temporal and spiritual, should be sought and used — the promotion of God's glory.

(J. Morgan.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Give us this day our daily bread.

WEB: Give us today our daily bread.




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