We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
(Romans 1:8; 2 Timothy 1:3) The structure here, each successive sentence repeating with greater fullness the preceding, marks Paul's abounding love and thankfulness: words are heaped on words, to convey some idea of his exuberant feelings toward his converts.
We - I, Silvanus, and Timotheus. Romans 1:9 has a different order; and so does not prove Alford's, 'Making mention of you in our prayers without ceasing' (1 Thessalonians 1:3). Rather, "without ceasing," in the third verse, is parallel to "always," in the second. His 'always making mention of them in his prayers' was due to his 'remembering without ceasing their work of faith,' etc.