Luke 11:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

And forgiue vs our sinnes: for euen we forgiue euery man that is indetted to vs: And leade vs not into temptation: but deliuer vs from euill.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἄφες ἡμῖν τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν· καὶ γὰρ αὐτοὶ ἀφίεμεν παντὶ ὀφείλοντι ἡμῖν. Καὶ μὴ εἰσενέγκῃς ἡμᾶς εἰς πειρασμόν· ἀλλὰ ῥῦσαι ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τοῦ πονηροῦ.

Transliteration

And aphes to us the hamartias of us; kai gar ourselves aphiemen to all opheilonti to us. And not eisenegkēs us into peirasmon; but rhysai us from the ponērou.

Grammar Details

• *aphes*: aorist imperative, active, 2nd singular - forgive/remit
• *hamartias*: accusative, feminine, plural - sins/errors
• *kai*: conjunction - and/also
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for/because
• *aphiemen*: present indicative, active, 1st plural - we forgive/release
• *opheilonti*: present participle, active, dative, masculine, singular - owing/indebted
• *eisenegkēs*: aorist subjunctive, active, 2nd singular - lead/bring in
• *peirasmon*: accusative, masculine, singular - temptation/testing
• *rhysai*: aorist imperative, middle, 2nd singular - rescue/deliver
• *ponērou*: genitive, masculine/neuter, singular - evil/evil one

Word Meanings

• *aphes*: forgive/remit/release
• *hamartias*: sins/errors/failures
• *aphiemen*: forgive/release/remit
• *opheilonti*: one owing/being indebted/having obligation
• *eisenegkēs*: lead into/bring into/carry into
• *peirasmon*: temptation/testing/trial
• *rhysai*: rescue/deliver/save
• *ponērou*: evil/evil one/wickedness/malice

Referenced Verses

• Matt 6:12-15 : 12 And forgiue vs our dettes, as we also forgiue our detters. 13 And leade vs not into tentation, but deliuer vs from euill: for thine is the kingdome, and the power, and the glorie for euer. Amen. 14 For if ye doe forgiue men their trespasses, your heauenly Father will also forgiue you. 15 But if ye do not forgiue men their trespasses,, no more will your father forgiue you your trespaces.
• Matt 26:41 : 41 Watch, and praie, that yee enter not into tentation: the spirit in deede is readie, but the flesh is weake.
• Luke 22:46 : 46 And he said vnto them, Why sleepe ye? rise and pray, least ye enter into tentation.
• Matt 18:35 : 35 So likewise shall mine heauenly Father doe vnto you, except ye forgiue from your hearts, eche one to his brother their trespasses.
• 1 Cor 10:13 : 13 There hath no tentation taken you, but such as appertaine to man: and God is faithfull, which will not suffer you to be tempted aboue that you be able, but wil euen giue the issue with the tentation, that ye may be able to beare it.
• 2 Cor 12:7-8 : 7 And lest I should be exalted out of measure through the aboundance of reuelations, there was giuen vnto me a pricke in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet mee, because I should not be exalted out of measure. 8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrise, that it might depart from me.
• Eph 4:31-32 : 31 Let all bitternesse, and anger, and wrath, crying, and euill speaking be put away from you, with all maliciousnesse. 32 Be ye courteous one to another, & tender hearted, freely forgiuing one another, euen as God for Christes sake, freely forgaue you.
• Col 3:13 : 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiuing one another, if any man haue a quarel to another: euen as Christ forgaue, euen so doe ye.
• 2 Thess 3:3 : 3 But the Lord is faithfull, which wil stablish you, and keepe you from euill.
• 2 Tim 4:18 : 18 And the Lorde will deliuer me from euery euil worke, and will preserue me vnto his heauenly kingdome: to whome be praise for euer and euer, Amen.
• Jas 2:13 : 13 For there shalbe condemnation merciles to him that sheweth not mercie, and mercie reioyceth against condemnation.
• 1 John 1:8-9 : 8 If we say that we haue no sinne, we deceiue our selues, and trueth is not in vs. 9 If we acknowledge our sinnes, he is faithfull and iust, to forgiue vs our sinnes, & to clense vs from all vnrighteousnes. 10 If we say we haue not sinned, wee make him a liar, and his word is not in vs.
• Rev 2:10 : 10 Feare none of those things, which thou shalt suffer: beholde, it shall come to passe, that the deuill shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tryed, and ye shall haue tribulation tenne dayes: be thou faithfull vnto the death, and I will giue thee the crowne of life.
• Rev 3:10 : 10 Because thou hast kept the woorde of my patience, therefore I wil deliuer thee from the houre of tentation, which will come vpon all the world, to trie them that dwell vpon the earth.
• Gen 48:16 : 16 The Angel, which hath deliuered me from all euill, blesse the children, and let my name be named vpon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Izhak, that they may growe as fish into a multitude in the middes of the earth.
• 1 Kgs 8:34 : 34 Then heare thou in heauen, and be mercifull vnto the sinne of thy people Israel, and bring them againe vnto the lande, which thou gauest vnto their fathers.
• 1 Kgs 8:36 : 36 Then heare thou in heauen, and pardon the sinne of thy seruants and of thy people Israel (when thou hast taught the the good way wherein they may walke) and giue raine vpon the land that thou hast giuen to thy people to inherite.
• Ps 25:11 : 11 For thy Names sake, O Lord, be merciful vnto mine iniquitie, for it is great.
• Ps 25:18 : 18 Looke vpon mine affliction and my trauel, and forgiue all my sinnes.
• Ps 32:1-5 : 1 A Psalme of Dauid to giue instruction. Blessed is he whose wickednes is forgiuen, and whose sinne is couered. 2 Blessed is the man, vnto whom the Lorde imputeth not iniquitie, and in whose spirite there is no guile. 3 When I helde my tongue, my bones consumed, or when I roared all the day, 4 (For thine hand is heauie vpon me, day and night: and my moysture is turned into ye drought of summer. Selah) 5 Then I acknowledged my sinne vnto thee, neither hid I mine iniquitie: for I thought, I will confesse against my selfe my wickednesse vnto the Lord, and thou forgauest the punishment of my sinne. Selah.
• Ps 51:1-3 : 1 To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid, when the Prophet Nathan came vnto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Haue mercie vpon me, O God, according to thy louing kindnes: according to the multitude of thy compassions put away mine iniquities. 2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquitie, and clense me from my sinne. 3 For I know mine iniquities, and my sinne is euer before me.
• Ps 121:7 : 7 The Lord shall preserue thee from all euil: he shall keepe thy soule.
• Ps 130:3-4 : 3 If thou, O Lord, straightly markest iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? 4 But mercie is with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
• Isa 43:25-26 : 25 I, euen I am he that putteth away thine iniquities for mine owne sake, and will not remember thy sinnes. 26 Put me in remembrance: let vs be iudged together: count thou that thou maist be iustified.
• Dan 9:19 : 19 O Lorde, heare, O Lorde forgiue, O Lorde consider, and doe it: deferre not, for thine owne sake, O my God: for thy Name is called vpon thy citie, and vpon thy people.
• Hos 14:2 : 2 (14:3) Take vnto you words, & turne to the Lord, and say vnto him, Take away all iniquitie, and receiue vs graciously: so wil we render the calues of our lippes.
• John 17:15 : 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou keepe them from euill.
• Luke 8:13 : 13 But they that are on the stones, are they which when they haue heard, receiue ye word with ioy: but they haue no rootes: which for a while beleeue, but in the time of tentation goe away.
• Matt 11:25-26 : 25 At that time Iesus answered, and saide, I giue thee thankes, O Father, Lord of heauen and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and men of vnderstanding, and hast opened them vnto babes. 26 It is so, O Father, because thy good pleasure was such.