“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. Therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need[b] before you ask him. Therefore you pray in this way:

“Our Father who is in heaven,
may your name be treated as holy.

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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
  2. Matthew 6:8 Literally “of what you have need”