Jesus gives a model prayer beginning, "Our Father in heaven" and including requests for God’s name to be hallowed, daily bread, forgiveness, and deliverance from evil Matthew 6:9–13. The teaching appears in the context of warning against showy or empty prayer Matthew 6:5–8.
In Matthew 6:9–15, Jesus gives a pattern for prayer that starts with God—his honor, reign, and will—and then turns to human needs: food for today, forgiveness, and protection from testing and evil. The prayer links asking for forgiveness with choosing to forgive others. This passage sits in the middle of Jesus’ teaching about everyday devotion within the larger Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5–7).
Jesus presents a model prayer that begins with God: God’s name being treated as holy, God’s reign arriving, and God’s will being done on earth as it is in heaven (verses 9–10). Only after that does it move to human needs: daily provision, forgiveness, and protection from testing and evil (verses 11–13).
A careful answer keeps the immediate passage, the book's argument, and the whole-Bible storyline together, so the question is answered in context instead of as a detached idea.
Start with Matthew 6:9-13, then read the surrounding section so the answer stays connected to the passage's flow.
9Pray like this. `Our Father, who is in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
10May your kingdom come. May your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.
11Give us this day our daily bread.
12Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
13Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever. Amen.`