Matthew 6

3 songs checked against Matthew 6. Each proof shows the passage, what the song does with it, and whether you can sing it. Read the whole chapter: Bible Gateway ↗ · Bible Hub ↗

Matthew 6:9-10 · “Build Your Kingdom Here” · Rend Collective

NOT A QUOTE “Build Your Kingdom Here” Rend Collective Matthew 6:9-10 Sing it. It is a prayer, not a quotation, and every request in it is addressed to God rather than promised by the singers. Just carry the measure Matthew gives with you: on earth as it is in heaven.

✓ Every request in the chorus is addressed to God. The song asks God to build his kingdom. It does not commit the singers to building it, which is the opposite of how the title is often read

⚠ The measure clause is not there. "As it is in heaven" appears zero times across four published texts of the lyric, including the rights holder's own licensed sheet. Heaven appears once in the whole song, and not as a standard

Matthew 6:9-13 · “The Lord's Prayer” · JJ Heller

~ FAITHFUL “The Lord's Prayer” JJ Heller Matthew 6:9-13 Sing it. It is the Lord's Prayer in King James English, unaltered. The closing line about the kingdom and the power is in the King James and footnoted in most modern Bibles, for reasons older than either.

✓ The words are the prayer and only the prayer, with no verses of the songwriter's own attached and nothing inserted between the petitions

⚠ No translation is named on the recording or in its description, so the King James has to be recognised rather than verified

Matthew 6:31-33 · “Seek Ye First” · Karen Lafferty

~ FAITHFUL “Seek Ye First” Karen Lafferty Matthew 6:31-33 Sing it. Stanza one is Matthew 6:33 almost exactly, in King James wording. Just know that the later stanzas were added by other people from other chapters, and no translation is ever named.

✓ Stanza one follows Matthew 6:33 in the King James wording, with nothing altered or reordered

⚠ No translation is named, so the King James wording has to be recognised rather than checked

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