Question: what is the difference between debts and trespasses?
Answer: now and for ever. Amen. Alhough Matthew 6:12 uses the term debts, most older English versions of the Lord's Prayer use the term trespasses, while ecumenical versions often use the term sins. ... As early as the third century, Origen of Alexandria used the word trespasses (παραπτώματα) in the prayer.