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Therefore don`t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.
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Your Father Already Knows
Commentators explain that Jesus' command to avoid repetitive prayer is rooted in the character of God. Unlike pagan gods who supposedly needed to be informed or persuaded, our Heavenly Father is omniscient and already knows our needs. Therefore, prayer is not a transaction to get God's attention but an expression of a relationship with a Father who already cares.
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Matthew
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19th Century
Anglican
Your Father knows — This truth is rightly made the ground of prayer in one of the noblest collects of the Book of Common Prayer of…
Baptist
To repeat a form of prayer a very large number of times has always seemed to the ignorantly religious to be a praiseworthy thing, but assuredly it …
Matthew 6:7–15 digresses from the three chief acts of Jewish piety. Yet the content of these verses is certainly relevant to the issue …
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16th Century
Protestant
For your Father knoweth. This single remedy is sufficient for removing and destroying the superstition condemned here. For from where does…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Be not you therefore like to them . Do not be imitators of them, and follow their ways, who have only the dim light …
Presbyterian
It is taken for granted that all who are disciples of Christ pray. You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian wh…
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13th Century
Catholic
And when you pray. Above, regarding the work of almsgiving, the Lord showed that it ought not to be done for human glory.…
