 | Dean Rockwell Wickes - Bible - 1912 - 81 pages
...the spirit of the insertion probably made by Matthew in 6:7-8: "When ye pray use not vain repetitions as the heathen do; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking; be not therefore like them; for your Father knows what things ye need before ye ask him" (principle 4). Luke... | |
 | Japan - 1914 - 799 pages
...afford an illustration of the propriety of Christ's direction: ' When ye pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking.' The Nichiren sect employs the Chinese transliteration, Namiwnid-ho-ren-ge-kyd — 'Hail... | |
 | Rose Cross Order - Rosicrucians - 1916 - 208 pages
...seest in secret shall reward thee openly." "But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathens do: for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." "Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knowest what things ye have need of, before ye ask him."... | |
 | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - 1908
...the prayer of faith, not the prayer of form. "When ye pray," said Jesus, "use no vain repetitions, as the heathen do; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye like to them, for your father knoweth » hat things ye have need of before ye ask him." "Prayer is the soul's... | |
 | Dmitri Royster - Religion - 1992 - 128 pages
...attention to us? (On Matthew, Homily 19) But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathens 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 (vv.... | |
 | 1906
...Father, whose "eyes are too pure to behold iniquity"? Did not Jesus declare, "Use not vain repetition as the heathen do, for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking"? Do you ask, "Who are the heathen?" Merely those who have not the true knowledge of God —... | |
 | Bible - 1998 - 67 pages
...surely comes under Christ's condemnation of vain repetition. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking (Matthew 6:7). Second, only verse two is expressed in English. The other three verses are... | |
 | Mary Alice Chrnalogar - Religion - 2000 - 298 pages
...prayer was backed up by a discipler who quoted Matthew 6:7: "But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]: for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking" (KJV). It is not the repetition about which Jesus was complaining, but the vain repetition.... | |
 | T. T. Crabtree - Religion - 2007 - 412 pages
...JULY30 Title: The Spirit of the Disciples' Prayer Text: "But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking" (Matt. 6:7). Introduction An intense study of the Lord's Prayer will reveal that a very definite... | |
 | Lucien Gregoire - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 320 pages
...will be in the next life. When ye pray, speak to me, do not ask of me. And use not vain repetitions as the heathen do; for they think they shall be heard for their speaking in public places . . .' 2 "Christ knew his followers would become the very people he so often... | |
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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. 
