Matthew 6:7 - New International Version (Anglicised)

⁷ And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ 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

⁷ 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)

⁷ 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

⁷ “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

⁷ 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

⁷ 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

Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore fear God.

Matthew 18:17

If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

Matthew 26:39

Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, ‘My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.’

Matthew 26:42

He went away a second time and prayed, ‘My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done.’

Matthew 26:44

So he left them and went away once more and prayed the third time, saying the same thing.

Matthew 6:32

For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

Acts 19:34

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