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For we are then led into temptation when such temptations befal us as we are not able to resist. [12] Augustine: When then we say, Lead us not into temptation, what we ask is, that we may not, deserted by His aid, either consent through the subtle snares, or yield to the forcible might, of any temptation. [12]
Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. [Greek 'everyone who is indebted to us'] And lead us not into temptation, [The Greek for 'temptation' can also mean 'testing'.] but deliver us from the evil one. [Or 'from evil'] And lead us not into temptation. [Some manuscripts 'temptation, but deliver us from the evil one']
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In the Lord's Prayer, the clause "Lead us not into temptation" is a humble and trusting petition for God's help to enable people to overcome temptation. Prayer and watchfulness are the chief weapons against temptation. God does not allow man to be tempted beyond his strength.
I thoroughly approve, and not just because of Bible translations into English. The NRSV renders Matthew 6:13a as "And do not bring us to the time of trial" while the NIV has "And lead us not into temptation." According to Dr. Mark Roberts of Fuller Theological Seminary,
On the opposite side, another spiritual tradition of confronting the devil's temptation can be traced back to Jesus going to the desert "to be tempted" (Luke 4:1–13; Matthew 4:1–11). The cenobitic tradition of the Desert Fathers lived out this spiritual warfare by voluntarily facing temptations.
Let us learn that the sons of God are not tempted but when they have gone forth into the desert, but the children of the Devil whose life is in the flesh and the world are then overcome and obey; the good man, having a wife is content; the bad, though he have a wife is not therewith content, and so in all other things.
Vocation of the Apostles, a fresco in the Sistine Chapel by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1481-82. The commissioning of the Twelve Apostles is an episode in the ministry of Jesus that appears in all three Synoptic Gospels: Matthew 10:1–4, Mark 3:13–19 and Luke 6:12–16.