Matthew 6:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 5:7

With many dreams come vanities and a multitude of words, but fear God.

Matthew 26:44

So leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words.

Matthew 6:32

For it is the gentiles who seek all these things, and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

Acts 19:34

But when they recognized that he was a Jew, for about two hours all of them shouted in unison, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

Matthew 26:42

Again he went away for the second time and prayed, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.”

Matthew 26:39

And going a little farther, he threw himself on the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me, yet not what I want but what you want.”

Matthew 18:17

If that person refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church, and if the offender refuses to listen even to the church, let such a one be to you as a gentile and a tax collector.