The Didache

J. B. Lightfoot · Translated text

Did. 8

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And let not your fastings be with the hypocrites, for they fast on the second and the fifth day of the week; but do ye keep your fast on the fourth and on the preparation (the sixth) day.

Neither pray ye as the hypocrites, but as the Lord commanded in His Gospel, thus pray ye:

Our Father, which art in heaven,

hallowed be Thy name;

Thy kingdom come;

Thy will be done,

as in heaven, so also on earth;

give us this day our daily bread;

and forgive us our debt,

as we forgive our debtors;

and lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from the evil one;

for Thine is the power and the glory for ever and ever.

Three times in the day pray ye so.