Ephesians 1:16

Christian Standard Bible ®

I never stop giving thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers.

Parallel Translations

King James Version (1611)
Cease not to giue thankes for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

King James Version
Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

English Standard Version
I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,

New American Standard Bible
do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers;

New Century Version
I have not stopped giving thanks to God for you. I always remember you in my prayers,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers;

Legacy Standard Bible
do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers:

Berean Standard Bible
I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,

Contemporary English Version
So I never stop being grateful for you, as I mention you in my prayers.

Complete Jewish Bible
I have not stopped giving thanks for you. In my prayers I keep asking

Darby Translation
do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention [of you] at my prayers,

Geneva Bible (1587)
I cease not to giue thankes for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

George Lamsa Translation
Never cease to give thanks for your sakes and to mention you in my prayers;

Good News Translation
I have not stopped giving thanks to God for you. I remember you in my prayers

Lexham English Bible
do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention in my prayers,

Literal Translation
I also do not cease giving thanks on your behalf, making mention of you in my prayers,

Amplified Bible
I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers;

American Standard Version
cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

Bible in Basic English
Give praise without end for you, keeping you in mind in my prayers;

Hebrew Names Version
don't cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

International Standard Version
I never stop giving thanks for you as I mention you in my prayers.Romans 1:9; Philippians 1:3-4; Colossians 1:3; 1 Thessalonians 1:2; 2 Thessalonians 1:3;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
have not ceased to give thanks on your behalf, and to remember you in my prayers;

Murdock Translation
cease not to give thanks on your account, and to remember you in my prayers;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ceasse not to geue thankes for you, makyng mention of you in my prayers:

English Revised Version
cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

World English Bible
don't cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

Weymouth's New Testament
offer never ceasing thanks on your behalf while I make mention of you in my prayers.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
ceesse not to do thankyngis for you, makynge mynde of you in my preieris;

Update Bible Version
do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention [of you] in my prayers;

Webster's Bible Translation
Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

New English Translation
I do not cease to give thanks for you when I remember you in my prayers.

New King James Version
do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers:

New Living Translation
I have not stopped thanking God for you. I pray for you constantly,

New Life Bible
Since then, I always give thanks for you and pray for you.

New Revised Standard
I do not cease to give thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Cease not giving thanks in your behalf, making mention in my prayers,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Cease not to give thanks for you, making commemoration of you in my prayers,

Revised Standard Version
I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
cease not to geve thankes for you makynge mencion of you in my prayers

Young's Literal Translation
do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
ceasse not to geue thankes for you, and make mencion of you in my prayers,

Mace New Testament (1729)
I continually give thanks upon your account, making mention of you in my prayers;

Simplified Cowboy Version
I have been thanking God for bringing you in. I'm always praying for y'all.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵This is why, since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, ¹⁶I never stop giving thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers. ¹⁷I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, would give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. ¹⁸I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the mighty working of his strength. ²⁰He exercised this power in Christ by raising him from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavens— ²¹far above every ruler and authority, power and dominion, and every title given, not only in this age but also in the one to come. ²²And he subjected everything under his feet and appointed him as head over everything for the church, ²³which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cease: Romans 1:8, Romans 1:9, 1 Samuel 7:8, 1 Samuel 12:23, Philippians 1:3, Philippians 1:4, Colossians 1:3, 1 Thessalonians 5:17, 2 Thessalonians 1:3

making: Genesis 40:14, Isaiah 62:6, 1 Thessalonians 1:2

Reciprocal: John 16:24 - in Romans 6:17 - But Ephesians 3:14 - I Ephesians 5:4 - but Ephesians 6:18 - Praying Colossians 1:9 - since 2 Thessalonians 1:11 - we pray 2 Timothy 1:3 - I thank Philemon 1:4 - General 3 John 1:3 - when

Cross-References

Genesis 1:7
So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above the expanse. And it was so.

Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse “sky.” Evening came and then morning: the second day.

Genesis 1:9
Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:12
The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:14
Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night. They will serve as signs for seasons and for days and years.

Deuteronomy 4:19
When you look to the heavens and see the sun, moon, and stars—all the stars in the sky—do not be led astray to bow in worship to them and serve them. The Lord your God has provided them for all people everywhere under heaven.

Job 31:26
if I have gazed at the sun when it was shiningor at the moon moving in splendor,

Job 38:7
while the morning stars sang togetherand all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Psalms 8:3
When I observe your heavens,the work of your fingers,the moon and the stars,which you set in place,

Psalms 19:6
It rises from one end of the heavensand circles to their other end;nothing is hidden from its heat.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 throne of grace, where he prayed for others as well as for himself; and it points out the time and way, when, and in which he gave thanks to God for them; and is mentioned, not only to testify his great affection for them, but also to excite them, by his example, to the practice of those duties themselves.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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. What was the particular subject of his prayers, he mentions in the following verses.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 16. 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 of thanksgiving to God, who had brought them into that state of salvation; and of prayer, that they might be preserved blameless to the end.

Making mention of you — While praying for the prosperity of the Christian cause generally, he was led, from his particular affection for them, to mention them by name before God.