¹⁶ Give praise without end for you, keeping you in mind in my prayers;

⁸ First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world.

⁹ For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,

¹⁷ Keep on with your prayers.

⁹ For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit,

³ We give praise to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, making prayer for you at all times,

³ It is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, because of the great increase of your faith, and the wealth of your love for one another;

² We give praise to God at all times for you, keeping you in memory in our prayers;

³ I give praise to my God at every memory of you,

⁴ And in all my prayers for you all, making my request with joy,

⁶ I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders, take no rest,

²³ And as for me, never will I go against the orders of the Lord by giving up my prayers for you: but I will go on teaching you the good and right way.

⁸ And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Go on crying to the Lord our God for us to make us safe from the hands of the Philistines.

¹⁴ But keep me in mind when things go well for you, and be good to me and say a good word for me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison: