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The most powerful, and precise, translation of the key phrase is this: "Let your paradise arrive, let your will thrive, here as it is in heaven."

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Perhaps better still is to include a "let", which is consistent with the original Greek, at the beginning: "Let your paradise arrive, let your will thrive, here as it is in heaven."

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"Thrive" is a strong, action-based word that has been increasing in use since 1980, according to the Online Etymology Dictionary, and increases the power of the Lord's Prayer.

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→‎Personal rather than globalist translation: Or if the near-rhyme ("kingdom come ... will be done") of the KJV is advantageous, then this full rhyme works with the "your" of course referring to God: your paradise arrive, let your will thrive

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personal rendition closer to the Greek, and less globalist

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The issue is that gives the key phrase a globalist rather than a personal meaning. Also, the original Greek terms do not mean "kingdom" and "earth".

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The second half of the prayer is entirely personal, and the first half can be translated with a similar approach.

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Translating Lord's Prayer, the most widely recited in the world, focuses on the use in English of the impersonal terms "kingdom and earth.