² And he said to them, ^(A)“When you pray, say:

⁶ But when you pray, ^(A)go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. ^(B)And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

⁷ “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as ^(C)the Gentiles do, for ^(D)they think that they will be heard ^(E)for their many words. ⁸ Do not be like them, ^(F)for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. ^9 (G)Pray then like this:

^14 (S)For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, ^15 (T)but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

^2 [a] Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore ^(A)let your words be few.

¹¹ Now may ^(A)our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, ^(B)direct our way to you, ¹² and may the Lord ^(C)make you increase and abound in love ^(D)for one another and for all, as we do for you, ¹³ so that he may ^(E)establish your hearts blameless in holiness before ^(F)our God and Father, at ^(G)the coming of our Lord Jesus ^(H)with all his saints.

⁶ and said, “O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not ^(A)God in heaven? You ^(B)rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. ^(C)In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.

⁴ Then I saw ^(A)thrones, and ^(B)seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw ^(C)the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those ^(D)who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. ^(E)They came to life and ^(F)reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

³ remembering before ^(A)our God and Father ^(B)your work of faith and labor of ^(C)love and ^(D)steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.