3We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
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We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. …
I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-8)Here he proceeds to the body of the epistle, and begins with thanksgiving to God for what he had heard concerning them, though he had no personal acquaintance with them, and knew their state and character only by the reports of others. I. He gave thanks to God for them, that they had embraced the gospel of Christ, and given proofs of their fidelity to him. Observe, In his prayers for them he gave…
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