 | Alfred J. Jolley - Bible - 1893 - 160 pages
...And his disciples said, Lord teach us to pray, and he said, When ye pray use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do ; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them : for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him. But... | |
 | Lewis Beals Fisher - Prayers - 1894 - 92 pages
...thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. But when ye pray use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them; for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him. PRAYER.... | |
 | John J. Pool - India - 1894 - 486 pages
...Thus we can understand what our Saviour meant when He said, " When ye pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." Some of the little hand prayer-wheels are very pretty, and some are even inlaid with precious... | |
 | John J. Pool - India - 1894 - 486 pages
...Thus we can understand what our Saviour meant when He said, " When ye pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." Some of the little hand prayer-wheels are very pretty, and some are even inlaid with precious... | |
 | Edward Thurston Hiscox - Baptism - 1894 - 616 pages
...the thoughts of hearers from the devotion. Especially should not the petitioner " use vain repetition as the heathen do; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." — Matt. 6 : 7. Besides which, the whole style and manner of address should be penitential,... | |
 | "Ritualist". - 1894 - 196 pages
...as exemplified by Christ's words in St. Matt. vi. 7 : " But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do ; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." The very text so often quoted, " Confess your sins one to another," refers to Matt. ix.... | |
 | Amy Carmichael - Missionaries - 1895 - 200 pages
...reach some one, somehow, somewhere. Forceful indeed are the old Bible verses — " Vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking," for example, has a terrible point when one sees the thing being done. After a while we drew... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1896 - 640 pages
...admonition of Christ in the continuation of His sermon on the mount came to me : " Use not vain repetition as the heathen do, for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." I felt a little dismayed when I mentally turned the question over, hoping to get some new... | |
 | Frank Schell Ballentine - 1897 - 816 pages
...And thy Father who seeth in secret, Shall reward thee openly. When ye pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye, therefore, like unto them. For your Father knoweth what ye have need of before ye ask him. After this... | |
 | Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich Vereshchagin - History - 1899 - 312 pages
...can blame us for this since Christ Himself has said— " But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do ; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." 1 As can be easily conceived, we have a different estimation of many things that were explained... | |
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But when ye pray use not vain repetitions as the heathen do ; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them ; for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him. 
