Matthew 6:7:
And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
(NIV)
And when you pray, do not heap up phrases (multiply words, repeating the same ones over and over) as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard for their much speaking. [I Kings 18:25-29.](AMP)
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
(KJV)
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1 Corinthians 5:1:
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man has his father's wife.
(NIV)
IT IS actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, impurity of a sort that is condemned and does not occur even among the heathen; for a man has [his own] father's wife. [Deut. 22:30; 27:20.](AMP)
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
(KJV)
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3 John 1:7:
It was for the sake of the Name that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans.
(NIV)
For these [traveling missionaries] have gone out for the Name's sake (for His sake) and are accepting nothing from the Gentiles (the heathen, the non-Israelites).
(AMP)
Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.
(KJV)
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1 Thessalonians 4:5:
Not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God
(NIV)
Not [to be used] in the passion of lust like the heathen, who are ignorant of the true God and have no knowledge of His will
(AMP)
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
(KJV)
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