What do we pray for in the sixth petition?

Scripture proofs

• Matthew 6:13

  Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

• Matthew 26:41

  Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

• Psalm 19:13

  Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

• 1 Corinthians 10:13

  No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

• John 17:15

  I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (public domain).