We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,
making mention of you in our prayers: Paul is the only New Testament writer to use the word "mention," sometimes translated remembrance and in each of the seven instances it is used in connection with prayer. The word suggests that Paul is in the habit of calling the individual names of those for whom he prays. Instead of a general request that the congregation as a whole would be blessed of God, Paul seems to address the individual needs of individual Christians in his petitions to the throne of grace.