Ephesians 1:16

Ephesians 1:16. Cease not to give thanks for you. Eadie: ‘As one giving thanks I cease not.' In the O. T. confession precedes thanksgiving, but the Apostle almost invariably begins his Epistles with thanksgiving, which befits the privileged condition of Christians. ‘For you,' lit, ‘over you,' with the idea of protecting them.

Making mention of you. The best authorities omit ‘of you,' which, however, is the necessary sense, though some would supply in thought ‘your faith and love.' This specifies when and how he gives thanks.

In my prayers. When at my prayers and in my prayers; it being impossible to separate the temporal and local senses of the preposition used. ‘No thanksgiving without petition, so long as perfection and completion are not yet there' (Stier).