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Matthew 6:13 — What Changed in the Bible Text

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What the source readsAnd lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

What this version readsAnd lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

The closing doxology of the Lord's Prayer is absent from the earliest manuscripts; it grew in the Byzantine liturgical tradition and the KJV kept it. Familiar to every churchgoer, yet a later addition.

Translation choice · documented

What the source readse non ci indurre in tentazione (the Greek mḕ eisenénkēs, 'do not lead us in'; so the Vulgate ne nos inducas, and every older Italian — Diodati, Martini, CEI 1974)

What this version readse non abbandonarci alla tentazione (CEI 2008 — 'do not abandon us to temptation')

The Greek verb literally means 'bring / lead into', and every older version rendered it so. The CEI 2008 rewrote this line of the Lord's Prayer to 'do not abandon us to temptation' — a pastoral reading resting on the fact that God tempts no one (James 1:13), openly debated and approved for the liturgy in 2020. A genuine rendering change of the modern edition; the motive is stated, not hidden — which is why it sits here as documented, not as a 'manipulation'. Verified against the official CEI 2008 text.

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