concerning you,” and the phrase “we do not cease praying [προσευχόμενοι, proseuchomenoi] and asking” in verse 9 appears to be a direct development of the wording about “praying” here in verse 3 (so Schweizer 1982: 32), it seems a bit more likely that “always” modifies “praying.”4 Thus the idea is not that Paul prays every second of the day but that he does so regularly, as he would have been used to doing as a Jew (following the prayer tradition of Dan. 6:10–11; cf. Acts 3:1; 10:30; see Garland 1998: