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.