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 you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
• Eph 6:18with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
• Gal 4:6And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”
• John 14:16I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever, —
• Jude 1:20–21But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
• Eph 2:18For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
• Rom 8:15For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
• Ps 6:9Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.
• Heb 4:15For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
• Jas 4:3You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
• 2 Cor 12:5–10On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.
• Rom 15:1Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
• Luke 22:44Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
• Ps 10:17Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
• Zech 12:10I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
• 2 Cor 5:4For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
• Ps 119:81–82My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.
• Ps 143:4–7Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
• Ps 55:1–2For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David. Listen to my prayer, God. Don’t hide yourself from my supplication.
• Ps 77:1–3For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph. My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.
• Ps 88:1–3A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Suffering of Affliction.” A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite. Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
• Ps 42:1–5For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.
• 2 Cor 5:2For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;
• Luke 11:1–13When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”
• Matt 20:22But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”
• Ps 102:5By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.
• Ps 6:3My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh — how long?
• Rom 7:24What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
• Heb 5:2The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.
• Ps 69:3I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
• Ps 102:20to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

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