When you pray, don’t babble like the idolaters,[a] since they imagine they’ll be heard for their many words.(A) Don’t be like them, because your Father knows the things you need before you ask Him.(B)

The Model Prayer

“Therefore, you should pray like this:(C)

Our Father in heaven,
Your name be honored as holy.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 6:7 Or Gentiles, or nations, or heathen, or pagans

And when you pray, do not keep on babbling(A) like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.(B) Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need(C) before you ask him.

“This, then, is how you should pray:

“‘Our Father(D) in heaven,
hallowed be your name,

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