Ephesians 1:16

King James Version (1611 Edition)

Cease not to giue thankes for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I never stop giving thanks for you as I remember 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

¹⁵ Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Iesus, and loue vnto all the Saints, ¹⁶ Cease not to giue thankes for you, making mention of you in my prayers, ¹⁷ That the God of our Lord Iesus Christ the Father of glorie, may giue vnto you the Spirit of wisedome and reuelation in the knowledge of him: ¹⁸ The eyes of your vnderstanding being inlightned: that yee may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glorie of his inheritance in the Saints: ¹⁹ And what is the exceeding greatnesse of his power to vs-ward who beleeue, according to the working of his mightie power: ²⁰ Which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his owne right hand in the heauenly places, ²¹ Farre aboue all principalitie, and power, and might, and dominion, and euery name that is named, not onely in this world, but also in that which is to come: ²² And hath put all things vnder his feete, and gaue him to be the head ouer all things to the Church, ²³ Which is his body, the fulnesse of him that filleth all in all.

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
And God made the firmament; and diuided the waters, which were vnder the firmament, from the waters, which were aboue the firmament: and it was so.

Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament, Heauen: and the euening and the morning were the second day.

Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered together vnto one place, and let the dry land appeare: and it was so.

Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought foorth grasse, and herbe yeelding seed after his kinde, and the tree yeelding fruit, whose seed was in it selfe, after his kinde: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there bee lights in the firmament of the heauen, to diuide the day from the night: and let them be for signes and for seasons, and for dayes and yeeres.

Deuteronomy 4:19
And lest thou lift vp thine eyes vnto heauen, and when thou seest the sun, and the moone, and the starres, euen all the hoste of heauen, shouldest be driuen to worship them, and serue them, which the Lord thy God hath diuided vnto all nations vnder the whole heauen.

Job 31:26
If I beheld the Sunne when it shined, or the Moone walking in brightnesse:

Job 38:7
When the morning starres sang together, and all the sonnes of God shouted for ioy.

Psalms 8:3
When I consider thy heauens, the worke of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordained;

Psalms 19:6
His going forth is from the end of the heauen, and his circuite vnto the ends of it: and there is nothing hidde from the heat thereof.

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.