Colossians 4:2

Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man."[205]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V "Continue in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving."[116]

Tertullian On Fasting

, at which they entered the temple: why should we not understand that, with absolutely perfect indifference, we must pray[79]

Cyprian Epistle VII

Let us therefore strike off and break away from the bonds of sleep, and pray with urgency and watchfulness, as the Apostle Paul bids us, saying, "Continue in prayer, and watch in the same."[15]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

In the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians: "Be instant in prayer, and watch therein."[824]