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      • We trespass when we wander onto places we aren’t supposed to be; when we cross lines and boundaries, we know we aren’t meant to. Sometimes, this portion of Jesus’s prayer is also translated as debt or sin. Forgive us our debts; forgive us our sins.
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  2. Mar 10, 2021 · What does it mean to pray, “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us”? Or, in other translations, “forgive us our debts,” or “forgive us our sins”? This piece of the Lord’s prayers reminds us that all of the Bible is translation.

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  3. According to Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, the first definition of “trespass” is “a violation of moral or social ethics: transgression: esp: sin.” The meaning used in the English Catholic prayer, therefore, remains true to Matthew’s figurative word for “sins”.

  4. Dec 6, 2023 · Sin separates us from God; we see this concept throughout the Bible. Whenever we take sinful actions against another, this is described as a trespass. Think about the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6:12. “And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.” The hard truth is that we sin against others and others sin ...

  5. In the actual prayer stated by Jesus, he only uses the words "debt" and "debtors". Jesus never used word "trespasses" in the actual prayer. Trespasses was only mentioned after prayer, in Matt. 6:14.

  6. Jan 19, 2018 · So if “trespasses” hits closer to home for us than “debts,” it does no violence to Jesus’s meaning if we pray, Father, forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

  7. Apr 12, 2017 · The Catechism and the RSV translate Gk opheilemata as trespasses in the Lord’s Prayer (Mt 6:12), when it manifestly means debts — both in the NT usage (Rm 4:4) and in the Septuagint (Dt 24:10).

  8. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.

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