NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 6:10

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Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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Verse 10. Those who desire to arrive at the kingdom of heaven, must endeavour so to order their life and conversation, as if they were already conversing in heaven. This petition is also to be understood for the accomplishment of the divine will in every part of the world, for the extirpation of error, and explosion of vice, that truth and virtue may everywhere obtain, and heaven and earth differ no more in honouring the supreme majesty of God. Chry. hom. xx.

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