 | Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich Vereshchagin - History - 1899 - 348 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." l As can be easily conceived, we have a different estimation of many things that were explained... | |
 | Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich Vereshchagin - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - 1899 - 314 pages
...blame us for this since Christ Himself has said—• " But when yc 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... | |
 | Marie Corelli - Christian fiction - 1900 - 624 pages
...believe, we must accept His commands ; and they are plain enough. ' When ye pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not we therefore like unto them, for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him.'... | |
 | George Wright Buckley - 1901 - 232 pages
...reward." Observe, too, his censure of long and detailed prayers : " In praying, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do ; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not, therefore, like unto them ;' for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him."... | |
 | Michael John Fitzgerald McCarthy - Church and state - 1902 - 712 pages
...adjured us to do in iwords which a child may understand : — "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.... | |
 | 1902 - 378 pages
...have received their reward. 6:7. When you pray, do not repeat the same tilings over and over, just as the heathen do. For they think they shall be heard For their much speaking. So do not be like them. For your Father knows what you need, Before you ask him. So pray... | |
 | Leo Tolstoy - 1903 - 386 pages
...which, seeth in secret, shall recompense thee. And in praying use not vain repetitions as the Gentiles do : for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not therefore like unto them : for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.'.... | |
 | T. W. S. Jones - Miracles - 1907 - 216 pages
...What did Jesus tell us of the prayer of the pagans ? ' But ye, when ye pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do : for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking.' With this thought of the free access to the throne of mercy in your mind, look out on the... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Sermons, American - 1909 - 264 pages
...yet the Christian prayer in spirit and truth. "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 what things ye have need of before ye ask him." But the Christian... | |
 | John Wilson - Coal miners - 1910 - 332 pages
...synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men." " Use not vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." They got plenty of opportunity to show off before us, both at regular and irregular times,... | |
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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. 
