The Lord's Prayer Bible Quiz
Five questions on the prayer in Matthew 6 — including the line most people say in the other Gospel's wording.
5 questions · Matthew 6:9-13 · King James Version · about 3 minutes
Matthew 6 · Bible quiz
How does the prayer begin?
Choose one answer.
Answer · Matthew 6:9
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name — “After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.” The prayer opens by naming who is addressed before asking for anything.
Read the chapter“After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.”
Matthew 6:9 · King James VersionMatthew 6 · Bible quiz
Where is God's will asked to be done?
Choose one answer.
Answer · Matthew 6:10
In earth, as it is in heaven — “Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” Heaven is the pattern and earth is the place the petition is about — the order matters.
Read the chapter“Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.”
Matthew 6:10 · King James VersionMatthew 6 · Bible quiz
What does the prayer ask for “this day”?
Choose one answer.
Answer · Matthew 6:11
Our daily bread — “Give us this day our daily bread.” The request is for one day's worth, which is the only place in the prayer where a timeframe is named.
Read the chapter“Give us this day our daily bread.”
Matthew 6:11 · King James VersionMatthew 6 · Bible quiz
In Matthew's wording, what does the prayer ask to be forgiven?
Choose one answer.
Answer · Matthew 6:12
Our debts — Matthew 6:12 says “forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” “Trespasses” entered the familiar English wording through later prayer books, and Luke's parallel version at 11:4 says “sins.”
Read the chapter“And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.”
Matthew 6:12 · King James VersionMatthew 6 · Bible quiz
What immediately follows “lead us not into temptation”?
Choose one answer.
Answer · Matthew 6:13
but deliver us from evil — “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” The closing “For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory” comes next in the King James Version, but it is absent from the earliest manuscripts.
Read the chapter“And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.”
Matthew 6:13 · King James Version
Questions and answers
All 5 questions with their answers, the reason behind each one, and the verse it rests on.
How does the prayer begin?
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name — “After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.” The prayer opens by naming who is addressed before asking for anything.
“After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.”
Matthew 6:9 · KJVWhere is God's will asked to be done?
In earth, as it is in heaven — “Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” Heaven is the pattern and earth is the place the petition is about — the order matters.
“Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.”
Matthew 6:10 · KJVWhat does the prayer ask for “this day”?
Our daily bread — “Give us this day our daily bread.” The request is for one day's worth, which is the only place in the prayer where a timeframe is named.
“Give us this day our daily bread.”
Matthew 6:11 · KJVIn Matthew's wording, what does the prayer ask to be forgiven?
Our debts — Matthew 6:12 says “forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” “Trespasses” entered the familiar English wording through later prayer books, and Luke's parallel version at 11:4 says “sins.”
“And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.”
Matthew 6:12 · KJVWhat immediately follows “lead us not into temptation”?
but deliver us from evil — “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” The closing “For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory” comes next in the King James Version, but it is absent from the earliest manuscripts.
“And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.”
Matthew 6:13 · KJV
About the Lord's Prayer
The prayer arrives in the middle of a passage about not making a performance of prayer. Jesus has just warned against praying to be seen and against “vain repetitions,” and then gives a model that takes about twenty seconds to say. The brevity is part of the instruction, not an accident of transmission.
Its shape is worth noticing. Three petitions come first and none of them is about the person praying: your name, your kingdom, your will. Only then does it turn to bread, forgiveness and testing. Nothing in the first half asks for anything the speaker needs, and nothing in the second half apologises for asking.
Two lines regularly get remembered in a different version. Matthew's wording is “forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors”; the familiar “trespasses” comes from later English prayer books, and Luke's parallel at 11:4 says “sins.” And the closing doxology — “For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory” — is present in the King James Version at Matthew 6:13 but absent from the earliest manuscripts, which is why many modern translations set it apart or drop it.
Written and checked against the King James text by Random Bible. Last reviewed September 17, 2026.
The Lord's Prayer: common questions
Where is the Lord's Prayer in the Bible?
Matthew 6:9–13, inside the Sermon on the Mount. A shorter version appears in Luke 11:2–4, given when a disciple asks Jesus to teach them to pray.
Is it “debts” or “trespasses”?
Matthew 6:12 in the King James Version says “debts… debtors.” “Trespasses” comes from later English prayer books and is what many congregations say aloud; Luke 11:4 uses “sins.” All three are translating the same idea of what is owed and forgiven.
Why do some Bibles leave out “For thine is the kingdom”?
The closing doxology is in the King James Version at Matthew 6:13 but is missing from the earliest surviving manuscripts, so many modern translations move it to a footnote or set it apart.
How long is the Lord's Prayer?
Five verses, and about twenty seconds to say. Its shortness is deliberate — it directly follows a warning against long, repetitive prayer in Matthew 6:7.