I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,
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...
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...
Verse 16. 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.