Ephesians 1:16
Ephesians 1:16 (KJV)
Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
Ephesians 1:16 (Rotherham)
Cease not giving thanks in your behalf, making mention in my prayers,
Ephesians 1:16 (Literal)
cease not giving thanks and making mention of you in my prayers,
Ephesians 1:16 (Expanded)
I, at every waking moment and at every thought of you, remembering your believing and love, continually give thanks for you in my prayers,
CONTEXT-Prayer to God by Paul
Ephesians 1:15-23 (Literal)
15 Wherefore I also when I first heard of your believing which is in our Lord Jesus Christ and your love which is to all the saints, 16 cease not giving thanks and making mention of you in my prayers, 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ shall give you full spiritual knowledge and wisdom out of His fullness, 18 the eyes of your heart having been enlightened that your understanding shall be acquainted
with the Hope of God’s calling and the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is God’s superabundant power to us who believe, 20 which He worked in Christ, having raised him out from among the dead and made him to sit at His right hand in the heavenlies, 21 far above all principalities and potential and exercised power and lordship in every name named, not only in this age but in the coming age also. 22 And God put all things under subjection to Jesus Christ and God gave Jesus Christ to be the head over all things in the Church, 23 which indeed is Christ’s Body, being filled to full capacity by Him Who completely perfects all in every one,
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The Structure of Ephesians
A. Salutation and Opening (1:1, 2)
B. All Spiritual Blessings (1:3-14)
C. Prayer to God by Paul (1:15-23)
D. Seated in the Heavenlies (2:1-7)
E. God’s Works (2:8-10)
F. New Man, not Judean or Gentile (2:11-18)
G. The Temple Fitly Framed Together (2:19-22)
H. The Mystery, the One Body (3:1-13)
I. Prayer to the Father (3:14-21)
H. The unity of the One Body (4:1-6)
G. The Body Fitly Joined Together (4:7-16)
F. Putting on the New Man (4:17-32)
E. Man’s Works (5:1—6:9)
D. Standing in the Heavenlies (6:10-18)
C. Prayer to God for Paul (6:19, 20)
B. Making Known the Spiritual Blessings (6:21, 22)
A. Blessing and Closing (6:23, 24)
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