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

General references

Leviticus 2:16

Bible References

Infirmities

And we ought -- we who are strong -- to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;

Of such an one I will boast, and of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities,

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but one tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin;

able to be gentle to those ignorant and going astray, since himself also is compassed with infirmity;

For we

And Jesus answering said, 'Ye have not known what ye ask for yourselves; are ye able to drink of the cup that I am about to drink? and with the baptism that I am baptized with, to be baptized?' They say to him, 'We are able.'

And it came to pass, in his being in a certain place praying, as he ceased, a certain one of his disciples said unto him, 'Sir, teach us to pray, as also John taught his disciples.'

ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it.

But

for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, 'Abba -- Father.'

The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend,

And I have poured on the house of David, And on the inhabitant of Jerusalem, A spirit of grace and supplications, And they have looked unto Me whom they pierced, And they have mourned over it, Like a mourning over the only one, And they have been in bitterness for it, Like a bitterness over the first-born.

for ye are not the speakers, but the Spirit of your Father that is speaking in you.

and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, 'Abba, Father!'

because through him we have the access -- we both -- in one Spirit unto the Father.

through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints --

And ye, beloved, on your most holy faith building yourselves up, in the Holy Spirit praying,

With

A wretched man I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

And my soul hath been troubled greatly, And Thou, O Jehovah, till when?

To the Overseer. -- An Instruction. By sons of Korah. As a hart doth pant for streams of water, So my soul panteth toward Thee, O God.

To the Overseer with stringed instruments. -- An instruction, by David. Give ear, O God, to my prayer, And hide not from my supplication.

I have been wearied with my calling, Burnt hath been my throat, Consumed have been mine eyes, waiting for my God.

To the Overseer, for Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of Asaph. My voice is to God, and I cry, my voice is to God, And He hath given ear unto me.

A Song, a Psalm, by sons of Korah, to the Overseer, 'Concerning the Sickness of Afflictions.' -- An instruction, by Heman the Ezrahite. O Jehovah, God of my salvation, Daily I have cried, nightly before Thee,

From the voice of my sighing Hath my bone cleaved to my flesh.

Kaph. Consumed for Thy salvation hath been my soul, For Thy word I have hoped.

And my spirit in me is become feeble, Within me is my heart become desolate.

and having been in agony, he was more earnestly praying, and his sweat became, as it were, great drops of blood falling upon the ground.

for also in this we groan, with our dwelling that is from heaven earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves,

Concerning this thing thrice the Lord did I call upon, that it might depart from me,

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and the priest hath made perfume with its memorial from its beaten out corn, and from its oil, besides all its frankincense -- a fire-offering to Jehovah.