Matthew 6:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

When you pray, don’t babble like the Gentiles, since they imagine they’ll be heard for their many words.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And when you pray, do not heap up phrases (multiply words, repeating the same ones over and over) as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard for their much speaking. [I Kings 18:25-29.]

American Standard Version (1901)

And in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Common English Bible

“When you pray, don’t pour out a flood of empty words, as the Gentiles do. They think that by saying many words they’ll be heard.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And when praying, do not choose many words, as the pagans do. For they think that by their excess of words they might be heeded.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And when you are praying, speak not much, as the heathens. For they think that in their much speaking they may be heard.

Matthew 6:7 Tagairtí Cros

Ecclesiastes 5:7

For many dreams bring futility; so do many words.  Therefore, fear God.

Matthew 18:17

If he doesn’t pay attention to them, tell the church.   , If he doesn’t pay attention even to the church, let him be like a Gentile and a tax collector to you.

Matthew 26:39

Going a little further,  he fell face down and prayed, ‘My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.’

Matthew 26:42

Again, a second time, he went away and prayed, ‘My Father, if this   cannot pass   unless I drink it, your will be done.’

Matthew 26:44

After leaving them, he went away again and prayed a third time, saying the same thing once more.

Matthew 6:32

For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

Acts 19:34

But when they recognised that he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison for about two hours, ‘Great is Artemis of the Ephesians! ’