Matthew 6:5

Don't pray to impress people, as the hypocrites do; their reward is only the human admiration they sought. Prayer is communion with God, not a performance.

Cross-references · 31

• Luke 18:10–11“Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.
• Matt 6:2Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
• Luke 18:13But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
• Mark 11:25Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.
• Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
• Jer 29:12You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
• Isa 1:15When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
• Jas 4:6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Matt 7:7–8“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
• Dan 6:10When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
• Luke 20:47who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.”
• Luke 18:1He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
• Eph 6:18with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
• Luke 11:43Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.
• Matt 21:22All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
• Ps 55:17Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.
• Ps 5:2Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for to you do I pray.
• Jas 5:15–16and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
• Dan 9:4–19I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,
• Prov 16:5Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.
• Luke 14:12–14He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.
• Col 4:2–3Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
• Matt 9:38Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest.”
• Mark 12:38In his teaching he said to them, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces,
• 1 Th 5:17Pray without ceasing.
• John 16:24Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
• Matt 23:13“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
• Matt 23:6and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,
• Job 27:8–10For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
• Prov 15:8The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
• Matt 6:16“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

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