Matthew 6:7
But when you pray, do not use vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
Romans 1:21
because, when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful; but they became perverse in their reasonings, and their wicked heart was darkened;
1 Peter 1:18
because you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain mode of life received by tradition from your fathers,
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For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Customs
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Customs
Matthew 6:7
But when you pray, do not use vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
Romans 1:21
because, when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful; but they became perverse in their reasonings, and their wicked heart was darkened;
1 Peter 1:18
because you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain mode of life received by tradition from your fathers,
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Acts 16:21
and they teach customs which it is not lawful for us, who are Romans, to receive or to observe.