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Matthew 6:7
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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This chapter in the commentary 2 Nephi 28 — False Churches in the Latter Days — The Lull of Carnal Security, the Few Stripes, the Line upon Line 2 Nephi 32 — Feast Upon the Words of Christ — Angels, the Holy Ghost, and the Doctrine of Pray Always 3 Nephi 13 — Where Your Treasure Is — Secret Devotion and the Undivided Heart Alma 3 — The Mark and the Curse — the Amlicites Self-Marked, the Word of God Fulfilled, and Every Man Receiveth Wages of Him Whom He Listeth to Obey Alma 31 — The Rameumptom — Worship Turned Inside Out, and the Prayer of a Sorrowing Heart Alma 33 — Then Cast About Your Eyes — Zenos, Zenock, and the Brazen Serpent, or How to Plant the Seed Alma 34 — The Great and Last Sacrifice — Amulek on the Infinite Atonement, the Mediator, and the Time to Prepare to Meet God Enos 1 — Enos's Wrestle — The Hunt That Became a Prayer, Intercession for Brethren and Enemies, the Promise of Preservation Ether 8 — Built Up to Get Power and Gain — The Secret Combination of Akish, and Moroni's Warning to Our Nation Helaman 13 — The Lamanite on the Wall — Samuel and the Curse of Slippery Riches Jacob 2 — Tender Feelings Wounded — Jacob's Temple Sermon on Pride, Riches, and the David-Solomon Sin Jarom 1 — Jarom — A Short Book on Purpose: Keeping the Law of Moses While Looking Forward to Christ, and the Prophets Who Kept a Hard People Alive Mormon 8 — I Even Remain Alone — Moroni Takes Up the Record, and Sees Our Day Mosiah 4 — Fallen as Dead — The Cry for Mercy, Retaining a Remission, Are We Not All Beggars, and Watch Yourselves Mosiah 8 — The Twenty-Four Plates and the Doctrine of the Seer — Interpreters, Urim and Thummim, and a Gift Greater Than Prophecy Mosiah 11 — King Noah and the First Cry of Abinadi — A King Whose Heart Is Set on Riches, a Prophet Who Comes Among the People to Say Repent or Be Brought Into Bondage Mosiah 18 — Waters of Mormon — The Baptismal Covenant, the Mourning-with-Them-that-Mourn, and the First Nephite Church Mosiah 24 — Burdens Made Light — Amulon's Authority, the Forbidden Prayer, the Voice of the Lord in Their Affliction, the Deep Sleep upon the Lamanites, and the Valley Named Alma Mosiah 26 — The Rising Generation, Alma's Intercession, and the Doctrine of 'As Often As' Mosiah 29 — The Reign of the Judges Established — Mosiah's Epistle on the Voice of the People, the Danger of the Unrighteous King, How Much Iniquity One Wicked King Causes, and Alma the Younger Chosen Chief Judge Doctrine and Covenants 11 — Seek Not to Declare My Word — First Seek to Obtain It Doctrine and Covenants 14 — Thou Art David — Called to Assist Doctrine and Covenants 25 — An Elect Lady Doctrine and Covenants 56 — The Rich and the Poor Doctrine and Covenants 64 — Of You It Is Required to Forgive All Men Doctrine and Covenants 65 — The Stone Cut Without Hands Doctrine and Covenants 82 — I, the Lord, Am Bound Doctrine and Covenants 106 — A Light upon a Hill Doctrine and Covenants 111 — More Treasures Than One Doctrine and Covenants 117 — The More Weighty Matters 1 Kings 17 — The Word That Shuts Heaven — Elijah Appears, the Ravens of Cherith, the Widow's Last Meal, and the Soul That Came Back 1 Kings 18 — The God That Answereth by Fire — Obadiah's Hidden Hundred, the Question on Carmel, the Drenched Altar, and the Cloud Like a Man's Hand 2 Kings 4 — Borrow Not a Few — The Oil That Stopped at the Last Vessel, the Great Woman of Shunem, Death in the Pot, and the Bread That Was Left Over 2 Kings 17 — Removed Out of His Sight — Israel's Last King, the Three Years at Samaria's Gates, the Sermon That Explains a Kingdom's Fall, and the People Who Feared the LORD and Served Their Own Gods 2 Kings 19 — The Letter Spread Before the LORD — Hezekiah's Sackcloth, the Prayer Between the Cherubims, the Remnant That Takes Root Downward, and the Angel in the Camp of Assyria 2 Kings 20 — The Fifteen Borrowed Years — Tears the Lord Saw, the Shadow That Climbed Backward, and the Treasures Shown to Babylon Ezra 6 — The House Finished — A Scroll Found in the Archive, a King Who Funds His Enemies' Work, and a Passover of Joy Job 39 — The LORD's Bestiary — The Wild Goats, the Untamed Ass, the Unicorn Who Will Not Serve, the Foolish Ostrich, the War-Horse Clothed in Thunder, and the Eagle on the Crag Nehemiah 5 — The Enemy Inside the Wall — A Great Cry, the Usury of Brethren, the Governor Who Would Not Eat His Bread Nehemiah 6 — I Am Doing a Great Work — Nehemiah on the Wall, the Plain of Ono, the Hired Prophet, and the Fear That Would Not Land Psalms 8 — What Is Man — The Excellent Name, the Work of Thy Fingers, and the Crown Set on a Little Lower Than the Gods Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge via openbible.info (CC BY) and from this project’s own chapter essays. Read Matthew 6:7 in context .
