don’t cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
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don’t cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
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cease not to geve thankes for you makynge mencion of you in my prayers
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I cease not to giue thankes for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
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Passages linked to Ephesians 1:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Romans 1:8-9 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world. For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
- Colossians 1:9 For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
- Colossians 1:3 We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
- 2 Thessalonians 1:3 We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,
- 1 Samuel 12:23 Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
- Philippians 1:3-4 I thank my God whenever I remember you, always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,
- 1 Samuel 7:8 The children of Israel said to Samuel, “Don’t stop crying to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.”
- Isaiah 62:6 I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
- 1 Thessalonians 1:2 We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,
- 1 Thessalonians 5:17 Pray without ceasing.
- Genesis 40:14 But remember me when it is well with you. Please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 16. Making mention of you. To thanksgiving, as his…
16. Making mention of you. To thanksgiving, as his custom is, he adds prayer, in order to excite them to additional progress. It was necessary that the Ephesians should understand that they had entered upon the proper course. But it was equally necessary that they should not turn aside to any new scheme of doctrine, or become indifferent about proceeding farther; for nothing is more dangerous than to be satisfied with that measure of spiritual benefits which has been already obtained. Whatever, then, may be the height of our attainments, let them be always accompanied by the desire of something higher.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making…
16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
Ver. 16. Making mention of you] Whether a minister shall do more good to others by his prayers or preaching, I will not determine (saith a grave divine), but he shall certainly by his prayers reap more comfort to himself.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Cease not to give thanks for you; for your…
Cease not to give thanks for you; for your faith and love, and all the spiritual blessings God hath bestowed upon you.
Making mention of you in my prayers; I not only acknowledge what ye have received, but pray that what is yet lacking in you may be made up.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Cease not to give thanks for you,.... On account…
Cease not to give thanks for you,.... On account of their faith and love; which were gifts of grace bestowed upon them, and not the produce of their own free will and power; and therefore thanks are given to God for them:
making mention of you in my prayers; which shows the apostle to be a praying person, and that he was constant at the throne of grace, where he prayed for others as well as for himself; and it points out the time and way, when, and in which he gave thanks to God for them; and is mentioned, not only to testify his great affection for them, but also to excite them, by his example, to the practice of those duties themselves.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain I cease not - In all my solemn addresses…
I cease not - In all my solemn addresses to God. To give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers - So he did of all the churches, Col. i, 9.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 16. Cease not to give thanks] The apostle…
Verse 16. Cease not to give thanks] The apostle intimates, so fully satisfied was he of the genuineness of their conversion, and of their steadiness since their conversion, that it was to him a continual cause of thanksgiving to God, who had brought them into that state of salvation; and of prayer, that they might be preserved blameless to the end.
Making mention of you] While praying for the prosperity of the Christian cause generally, he was led, from his particular affection for them, to mention them by name before God.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Cease not to give thanks for you - In…
Cease not to give thanks for you - In the prosperity of the church at Ephesus he could not but feel the deepest interest, and their welfare he never forgot.
Making mention of you in my prayers - Paul was far distant from them, and expected to see them no more. But he had faith in prayer, and he sought that they might advance in knowledge and in grace. What was the particular subject of his prayers, he mentions in the following verses.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain (Col 1:9).
(Col 1:9).
of you--omitted in the oldest manuscripts. Then the translation may be as English Version still, or as ALFORD, "making mention of them" (your "faith and love").
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 16. Cease not—This implies three things: 1. That the…
16. Cease not—This implies three things: 1. That the apostle was incessant in prayer. 2. That individual objects dear to his heart were specially introduced into his prayers; and, 3. That his Ephesians were, after his hearing of their faith had aroused his interest and hope, among those special objects.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. cease not, &c.] For similar thanksgivings cp. Rom_1:8;…
16. cease not, &c.] For similar thanksgivings cp. Rom_1:8; 1Co_1:4; Php_1:3; Col_1:3; 1Th_1:2; 1Th_2:13; 2Th_1:3; 2Th_2:13; Phm_1:4. The thanks were literally “unceasing” in principle, and, in practice, came out on every fit occasion.
making mention of you] For parallels, see the contexts of the passages just quoted, and 2Ti_1:3. The phrase implies the expression of individual remembrance. It might be literally “by name,” or not. How much of the Apostle’s work for his converts consisted in the holy labour of special intercessory prayer, with thanksgiving! In his Roman lodging this was the case, perhaps, even more than ever.
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The recorded prayers of St Paul form in themselves one of the richest of Scripture studies. Most observable in them is their almost invariable intercessory direction. He thinks of others, not of self, upon his knees.—On that which now follows Bengel remarks, “Argumentum precum pro veris Christianis,” “heads of prayer for true Christians.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (16) Cease not to give thanks for you, making…
(16) Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers.—Almost all St. Paul’s Epistles are introduced by this union of thanksgiving and prayer, which is, indeed, characteristic of the right harmony of all Christian worship. (See Rom_1:8-9; Php_1:3-4; Col_1:3-4; 1Th_1:2-3; 2Ti_1:3; Phm_1:4.) In the Galatian Epistle the omission of both is characteristic; in the two Epistles to the Corinthians thanksgiving alone is explicit, though prayer may be implied. But the proportion of the two elements varies. Here the thanksgiving has already been offered, although in the widest generality. Accordingly all that follows is prayer. In the parallel Colossian Epistle (Col_1:3-13), which has no corresponding preface of thanksgiving, both elements are co-ordinate, with perhaps a slight predominance of thanksgiving.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Cease not to give thanks for you. This clause…
Cease not to give thanks for you. This clause expresses the continuation of a former action the giving thanks for them had begun before the hearing of their faith and love from the days, in short, of his personal intercourse. We notice as a remarkable feature of Paul"s personal religion, as well as his pastoral care, the frequency of his thanksgiving, indicating the prevalence in him of a bright, joyous state of mind, and tending to increase and perpetuate the same. Constantly to recognize God"s goodness in the past begets a larger expectation of it in the future. Making mention of you in my prayers. This seems additional to his giving thanks. "Prayers" (proseucwn) refers more to supplication and entreaty. While thankful for them, his heart was not satisfied regarding them; he wished them to forget the things behind, and reach forth to those before. The apostle"s prayers for his spiritual charge are always remarkable. They are very short, but wonderfully deep and comprehensive; very rich and sublime in aspiration; powerful in their pleas, whether expressed or implied; and exhaustive in the range of blessings which they implore.
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 16. Cease not to give thanks. Because he heard…
16. Cease not to give thanks. Because he heard so favorable a report.
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William B. Godbey 1900 · Public Domain 16. “Do not cease giving thanks in your behalf,…
16. “Do not cease giving thanks in your behalf, making mention of you in my prayers.” The globe of salvation contains two hemispheres; i.e., faith, which is the human side; and love, the Divine. Faith is the only human condition of salvation; it is the only hand competent to receive the things of God, — repentance on the part of the sinner, to put him on believing ground for justification by faith, while entire consecration is the sine qua non indispensable to put the Christian on believing ground, where he can be sanctified by faith. The sinner can not exercise faith for pardon unless he is on believing ground, which is the utter and eternal abnegation of all his sins; while it is equally true that no Christian can be sanctified by faith till he gets on believing ground, which is a radical and unequivocal consecration of all to God for time and eternity. “Love” here is agape, divine love, in contradistinction to philia, human love, which is peculiar to fallen humanity, and destitute of saving grace. The rich man had it in hell; so he wanted to send a missionary to his brothers, to keep them out of that awful doom. This love is the Divine nature (1Jn 4:16), and is only native in the heart of God, transmitted to us by the Holy Ghost by regeneration. (Rom 5:5.) Hence this love is exotic in the human heart, while the philia is indigenous. Popular religion stops with this human love, which is utterly destitute of salvation, and lets the people fall into hell like Dives. It is utterly impossible for any one to possess this Divine love till the Holy Ghost pours it out in the heart.
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