Romans 8:26

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words.

Cross References

Job 37:19

Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.

Psalm 10:17

O Lord, you will hear the desire of the meek; you will strengthen their heart, you will incline your ear

Psalm 102:20

to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die;

Psalm 102:5

Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my skin.

Psalm 6:3

My soul also is struck with terror, while you, O Lord—how long?

Psalm 6:9

The Lord has heard my supplication; the Lord accepts my prayer.

Psalm 69:3

I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.

Lamentations 3:56

you heard my plea, “Do not close your ear to my cry for help, but give me relief!”

Zechariah 12:10

And I will pour out a spirit of compassion and supplication on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that, when they look on the one whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

Matthew 10:20

for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

Matthew 20:22

But Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.”

Luke 22:44

In his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.]

John 14:16

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever.

Romans 15:1

We who are strong ought to put up with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Romans 7:24

Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Romans 8:15

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba! Father!”

2 Corinthians 5:2

For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling—

2 Corinthians 5:4

For while we are still in this tent, we groan under our burden, because we wish not to be unclothed but to be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Galatians 4:6

And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

Ephesians 2:18

for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father.

Ephesians 6:18

Pray in the Spirit at all times in every prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert and always persevere in supplication for all the saints.

Hebrews 4:15

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin.

Hebrews 5:2

He is able to deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is subject to weakness;

James 4:3

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures.