Romans 8:26

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Matthew 10:20

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

Ephesians 6:18

Pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,

Galatians 4:6

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

John 14:16

And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, to be with you for ever,

Ephesians 2:18

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

Romans 8:15

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

Psalm 6:9

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

Hebrews 4:15

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

James 4:3

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Romans 15:1

We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves;

Luke 22:44

Zechariah 12:10

“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of compassion and supplication, so that, when they look on him 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 first-born.

2 Corinthians 5:4

For while we are still in this tent, we sigh with anxiety; not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Psalm 10:17

O Lord, thou wilt hear the desire of the meek; thou wilt strengthen their heart, thou wilt incline thy ear

2 Corinthians 5:2

Here indeed we groan, and long to put on our heavenly dwelling,

Matthew 20:22

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

Psalm 102:5

Because of my loud groaning my bones cleave to my flesh.

Psalm 6:3

My soul also is sorely troubled. But thou, O Lord—how long?

Hebrews 5:2

He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness.

Romans 7:24

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

Psalm 69:3

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

Psalm 102:20

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

Job 37:19

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

Lamentations 3:56

thou didst hear my plea, ‘Do not close thine ear to my cry for help!’