<P> Anthony C. Deane, Canon of Worcester Cathedral, suggests that the choice of the word "ὀφειλήματα" (debts), rather than "ἁμαρτίας" (sins), indicates a reference to failures to use opportunities of doing good . He links this with the parable of the sheep and the goats (also in Matthew's Gospel), in which the grounds for condemnation are not wrongdoing in the ordinary sense but failure to do right, missing opportunities for showing love to others . </P> <P> "As we forgive ...". Divergence between Matthew's "debts" and Luke's "sins" is relatively trivial compared to the impact of the second half of this statement . The verses immediately following the Lord's Prayer, show Jesus teaching that the forgiveness of our sin / debt (by God) is contingent on how we forgive others . Later, Matthew elaborates with Jesus' parable of the unforgiving servant . In this parable, forgiveness from the king (God) is conditional on the servant's forgiveness of a small debt owed to him . </P> <P> "And lead us not into temptation," </P> <P> Interpretations of the penultimate petition of the prayer--not to be led by God into peirasmos--vary considerably . The range of meanings of the Greek word "πειρασμός" (peirasmos) is illustrated in The New Testament Greek Lexicon . In different contexts it can mean temptation, testing, trial, experiment . Although the traditional English translation uses the word "temptation" and Carl Jung saw God as actually leading people astray, Christians generally interpret the petition as not contradicting James 1: 13--14: "Let no one say when he is tempted,' I am being tempted by God', for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one . But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire ." Some see the petition as an eschatological appeal against unfavourable Last Judgment, a theory supported by the use of the word "peirasmos" in this sense in Revelation 3: 10 . Others see it as a plea against hard tests described elsewhere in scripture, such as those of Job . It is also read as: "Do not let us be led (by ourselves, by others, by Satan) into temptations". Since it follows shortly after a plea for daily bread (i.e., material sustenance), it is also seen as referring to not being caught up in the material pleasures given . A similar phrase appears in Matthew 26: 41 and Luke 22: 40 in connection with the prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane . Joseph Smith, the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, in a translation of the Holy Bible that wasn't completed before his death, used this wording: "And suffer us not to be led into temptation" </P>

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