Luke 11

2 So He said to them: "Whenever you pray, say:

Our Father who is in the heavens,

your name must be reverenced.*The verbs are Imperative, not Subjunctive, which is why I render ‘must’ rather than ‘may’.

Your Kingdom must come.

Your will must be done on earth as it is in heaven.*Why ‘must’? I take the point to be that we are not trying to overcome any reluctance on God’s part; we are declaring our personal commitment to these things. When I declare that God’s Kingdom must come, I am agreeing to whatever part I am supposed to have in bringing it about.

3 Give us day by day our daily bread.

4 Also, forgive us our sins,

because we also forgive everyone indebted to us.

And, do not lead us into testing,

but deliver us from the malignant one."*Most modern versions, following a mere 1% of the Greek manuscripts, of objectively inferior quality, seriously truncate this prayer by omitting: "Our … who is in the heavens … Your will must be done on earth as it is in heaven … but deliver us from the malignant one." Some versions, like NIV and NASB, have a footnote saying that "some manuscripts" add this material. How can any honest person use ‘some’ to refer to 99% (1,600 X 16)? ‘The malignant one’ refers to Satan.