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

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Infirmities

As for us who are strong, our duty is to bear with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not seek our own pleasure.

Of such a one I will boast; but of myself I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

For we have not a High Priest who is unable to feel for us in our weaknesses, but one who was tempted in every respect just as we are tempted, and yet did not sin.

and must be one who is able to bear patiently with the ignorant and erring, because he himself also is beset with infirmity.

For we

"None of you know what you are asking for," said Jesus; "can you drink out of the cup from which I am about to drink?" "We can," they replied.

At one place where He was praying, when He rose from His knees one of His disciples said to Him, "Master, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples."

or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.

But

You have not for the second time acquired the consciousness of being--a consciousness which fills you with terror. But you have acquired a deep inward conviction of having been adopted as sons--a conviction which prompts us to cry aloud, "Abba! our Father!"

for it is not you who will speak: it will be the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of His Son to enter your hearts and cry "Abba! our Father!"

because it is through Him that Jews and Gentiles alike have access through one Spirit to the Father.

Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting occasion in the Spirit, and be always on the alert to seize opportunities for doing so, with unwearied persistence and entreaty on behalf of all God's people,

But you, my dearly-loved friends, building yourselves up on the basis of your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,

With

(Unhappy man that I am! who will rescue me from this death-burdened body?

while He--an agony of distress having come upon Him--prayed all the more with intense earnestness, and His sweat became like clots of blood dropping on the ground.

For in this one we sigh, because we long to put on over it our dwelling which comes from Heaven--

As for this, three times have I besought the Lord to rid me of him;