Wherefore also we pray always for you,.... Not only observe the above things to your comfort, to support you under sufferings, but we add our prayers, and not only now, but always, that you may be among them in whom Christ will be glorified and admired; in order to which we most sincerely pray,that our God would count you worthy of this calling.
The Syriac version reads, "your calling", as in 1Co 1:26. The Vulgate Latin reads, "his own calling", meaning their effectual calling.