Romans 8:26

When we are too weak to know what or how to pray, the Holy Spirit himself prays for us with wordless groanings. We are never left to intercede alone.

Cross-references · 31

• Matt 10:20For it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
• Eph 6:18Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.
• Gal 4:6And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
• John 14:16And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—
• Jude 1:20–21But you, beloved, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
• Eph 2:18For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
• Rom 8:15For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
• Ps 6:9The LORD has heard my cry for mercy; the LORD accepts my prayer.
• Heb 4:15For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.
• Jas 4:3And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
• 2 Cor 12:5–10I will boast about such a man, but I will not boast about myself, except in my weaknesses.
• Rom 15:1We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
• Luke 22:44And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.
• Ps 10:17You have heard, O LORD, the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts. You will incline Your ear,
• Zech 12:10Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
• 2 Cor 5:4So while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life.
• Ps 119:81–82My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.
• Ps 143:4–7My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed inside me.
• Ps 55:1–2For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. Listen to my prayer, O God, and do not ignore my plea.
• Ps 77:1–3For the choirmaster. According to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph. I cried out to God; I cried aloud to God to hear me.
• Ps 88:1–3A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You.
• Ps 42:1–5For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
• 2 Cor 5:2For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling,
• Luke 11:1–13One day in a place where Jesus had just finished praying, one of His disciples requested, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”
• Matt 20:22“You do not know what you are asking,” Jesus replied. “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?” “We can,” the brothers answered.
• Ps 102:5Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones.
• Ps 6:3My soul is deeply distressed. How long, O LORD, how long?
• Rom 7:24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
• Heb 5:2He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and misguided, since he himself is beset by weakness.
• Ps 69:3I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
• Ps 102:20to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,

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