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 is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
• Eph 6:18Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
• Gal 4:6And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
• John 14:16And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
• Jude 1:20–21But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
• Eph 2:18For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
• Rom 8:15For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
• Ps 6:9The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
• Heb 4:15For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
• Jas 4:3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
• 2 Cor 12:5–10Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
• Rom 15:1We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
• Luke 22:44And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
• Ps 10:17LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
• Zech 12:10And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
• 2 Cor 5:4For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
• Ps 119:81–82My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
• Ps 143:4–7Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
• Ps 55:1–2Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
• Ps 77:1–3I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.
• Ps 88:1–3O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
• Ps 42:1–5As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
• 2 Cor 5:2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
• Luke 11:1–13And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
• Matt 20:22But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
• Ps 102:5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
• Ps 6:3My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
• Rom 7:24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
• Heb 5:2Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
• Ps 69:3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
• Ps 102:20To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

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