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don`t cease to give thanks for you, making mention in my prayers,
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Pray Specifically by Name
Commentators highlight that Paul's phrase "making mention of you" implies he specifically named the Ephesians in his prayers. Charles Spurgeon uses this to encourage believers to be specific and intentional, even suggesting keeping a list of people to pray for by name. This models a prayer life that is personal and persistent, not just general.
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Ephesians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Cease not to give thanks for you. In the prosperity of the church at Ephesus, he could not help but feel the deepest interest, and he neve…
I do not cease (ου παυομα). Singular present middle, while in Col 1:9 Paul uses the plural (literary, or including Timothy), ου πα…
19th Century
Anglican
Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers.—Almost all St. Paul’s Epistles are introduced by t…
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Baptist
Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love to all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you, making mentio…
Paul assures the Ephesians of his unremitting remembrance of them in his prayers—both thankfulness and intercession. He had already taken on simila…
16th Century
Protestant
Making mention of you. To thanksgiving, as is his custom, he adds prayer, in order to encourage them to additional progress. It was necess…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Cease not to give thanks for you On account of their faith and love; which were gifts of grace bestowed upon them, a…
God has stored up spiritual blessings for us in His Son, the Lord Jesus; but requires us to draw them out and obtain them by prayer. Even the best …
