Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Adam Clarke
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…
We have come to the last part of this chapter, which consists of Paul's earnest prayer to God in behalf of these Ephesians. We should pray for the persons for whom we give thanks. Our apostle blesses…
Cambridge Bible
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,…
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