The prayer Jesus taught, line by line
Pray the Lord's Prayer and mean it
Most people learn it before they can explain it. This path takes Matthew 6:9-13 and Luke 11:2-4 one line at a time, so the words you already know start to carry their weight.
Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
What you'll come away with
What this path is for
Not a reading streak. These are the things you should be able to do on your own once you have worked through it.
Know what each line asks
Name, kingdom, will, bread, forgiveness, protection. You will be able to say what each request is actually asking for.
Compare Matthew and Luke
Two versions in two settings. You will see what differs, and why the difference is not a problem.
Use it as a pattern
Jesus says to pray like this. You will learn to use its shape for your own words, not only to recite it.
Slow the familiar words down
After the path, the lines stop running together. You will notice what you are asking while you ask it.
How the tutor works
A tutor, not a search box
The same eight habits run through every path. They are what make this study rather than summary.
Questions first
Every lesson asks before it tells. A few quick questions check what you noticed, then Trinity explains the answer.
Greek and Hebrew, one tap away
Tap a word to see the Greek or Hebrew behind it. See what it can mean and where else it shows up.
Follow the thread
Pick one image, promise, or line. Follow it from Genesis through the prophets into the Gospels.
- Map
Galilee
LetterPhilippians
- From
- Paul, in prison
- To
- the church at Philippi
- Why
- thanks, and joy
TimelineWhere it sits
- Abraham
- Moses
- David
- Exile
- Jesus
Context that clicks
Maps, timelines, and who wrote it to whom. Get the background the first readers already knew.
Genesis
Exodus
Psalms
Beatitudes
John
Hebrews
Lord's Prayer
Parables
Acts
Corinthians
Romans
Revelation
Isaiah
I AM Sayings
Proverbs
26 paths and counting
Walk through a whole book, Genesis to Revelation, or take a short theme like the Beatitudes or the Lord's Prayer.
Bring your doubts
Ask the question you'd never ask out loud. Trinity takes it seriously, no judgment.
Feb5Maya's questions
Added 6w agoWants to know why Jesus calls the poor blessed. Reads on the train.
Apr12Next up
Just addedBeatitudes, lesson 3: the gentle. Her Bible says meek, so start there.
Pick up where you left off
Trinity keeps notes on your questions and where you stopped. Next time, it starts right there.
Every side, fairly told
On baptism, the end times, and more, you get the main views and their best arguments. Disputed questions are labelled as disputed.
The path itself
What you'll study, in order
Each unit builds on the one before it. Lessons live inside Trinity; this is the shape of the ground you will cover.
Before the words
Lord, teach us to pray
Praying in secret
Not many words
Two versions, two settings
Looking up
Our Father
In heaven
Your name kept holy
Your Kingdom come
Your will be done
Daily needs
Daily bread
Debts and sins
As we forgive
Not into temptation
From the evil one
Living it
The closing line of praise
Praying it slowly
Using it as a pattern
Praying it with others
I've led a small group for six years, and honestly I was mostly repeating Sunday's sermon. Trinity kept asking what the passage actually said before it would tell me anything. Our Thursday nights are better for it.
I was baptized in March and still couldn't find anything in the Bible. I asked what a psalm even is, which felt embarrassing to type. It showed me Psalm 13, a man complaining to God. I didn't know that was allowed.
I mostly use it for word study. When I'm stuck on a Greek term, it walks me through what it can mean without pretending the question is settled. It's told me "scholars disagree here" more than once, which I respect.
Forty years in church and I'd never finished the Bible. I'm in Numbers now. Not thrilling, but I'm still going. Most days I read it before the kettle's boiled.
I'm not sure I believe any of it yet. I came in wanting to argue, and I still do. It argues back properly. It names the best objection before I can, and it doesn't sulk when I won't concede.
I ask it what a fifteen-year-old would really ask about a chapter. It gives me the awkward questions, not the tidy ones. Twice now it's sent me off to study properly, which I suppose is the point.
I read on my phone during my eleven-minute break, and it never tries to make it an hour. Last week it caught that I'd misread who was speaking in Job. It was one of the friends, not God. Changed the whole chapter for me.
I work in two languages, so I'm fussy about words. I asked why one Hebrew word is lovingkindness in one place and steadfast love in another. I got a real answer about hesed, not a devotional paragraph.
I worried it would hand my people easy answers to hard chapters. It mostly doesn't. Someone asked it about hell, and it laid out what Christians have held and said plainly which parts are disputed. I can work with that.
I sit with dying people, so I don't have much patience for cheerfulness. I'd been avoiding the lament psalms. It walked me through Psalm 88, which ends in the dark and stays there, and it didn't rush to fix it.
I'd abandoned three reading plans before this one. I went quiet for a while, came back, and it just carried on. No lecture. I'm in Isaiah now.
Before you start
Questions people ask about this path
The earliest manuscripts of Matthew stop at deliver us from the evil one, and Luke has no closing line at all. The ending about the Kingdom, the power and the glory appears in other manuscripts and has long been used in worship. The World English Bible, quoted on this site, includes it in Matthew 6:13.
Matthew says debts, Luke says sins, and many churches say trespasses, the word Jesus uses in the verses right after the prayer in Matthew. They point at the same thing: what we owe God and each other. Trinity shows what each word adds.
Christians have done both from the start. Matthew introduces it as a pattern and Luke as words to say. The path treats it as both: a prayer to pray as it stands and a shape for your own.
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The first unit is free, and you do not need to know anything going in. Trinity will ask what you noticed before it explains a thing.
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