Romans 8:26

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Summary

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Infirmities

For we

Matthew 20:22

Luke 11:1

James 4:3

But

With

Bible References

Infirmities

We, the strong, ought to take on our own shoulders the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves.

About such a man I will boast, but about myself I will not boast except as regards my weaknesses.

Our High Priest is not one unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has in every way been tempted, exactly as we have been, but without sinning.

And he is able to sympathize with the ignorant and deluded, since he is himself subject to weakness,

For we

"You do not know what you are asking," was Jesus' answer. "Can you drink the cup that I am to drink?" "Yes," they exclaimed, "we can."

One day Jesus was at a certain place praying, and, when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him: "Master, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."

You ask, yet do not receive, because you ask for a wrong purpose--to spend what you get upon your pleasures.

But

For you did not receive the spirit of a slave, to fill you once more with fear, but the spirit of a son which leads us to cry 'Abba, Our Father.'

For it will not be you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaks within you.

And it is because you are sons that God sent into our hearts the Spirit of his Son, with the cry--'Abba, our Father.'

For it is through him that we, the Jews and the Gentiles, united in the one Spirit, are now able to approach the Father.

Pray in spirit at all times. Be intent upon this, with unwearying perseverance and supplication for all Christ's People- -

But do you, dear friends, build up your characters on the foundation of your most holy Faith, pray under the guidance of the Holy Spirit,

With

Miserable man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body that is bringing me to this Death?

And, as his anguish became intense, he prayed still more earnestly, while his sweat was like great drops of blood falling on the ground.]

Even while in our present body we sigh, longing to put over it our heavenly dwelling,

About this I three times entreated the Lord, praying that it might leave me.