But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

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“But when you[a] pray, do not babble repetitiously like the pagans, for they think that because of their many words they will be heard.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 6:7 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“pray”) which is understood as temporal