Romans 8:26 Cross References

Romans 8:26

26: And the Holy Spirit helps us in our distress. For we don't even know what we should pray for, nor how we should pray. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.

Matthew 10:20

  1. For it won't be you doing the talking--it will be the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

Ephesians 6:18

  1. Pray at all times and on every occasion in the power of the Holy Spirit. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all Christians everywhere.

Galatians 4:6

  1. And because you Gentiles have become his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, and now you can call God your dear Father.

Jude 1:20

  1. But you, dear friends, must continue to build your lives on the foundation of your holy faith. And continue to pray as you are directed by the Holy Spirit.
  2. Live in such a way that God's love can bless you as you wait for the eternal life that our Lord Jesus Christ in his mercy is going to give you.

John 14:16

  1. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, who will never leave you.

Ephesians 2:18

  1. Now all of us, both Jews and Gentiles, may come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us.

Romans 8:15

  1. So you should not be like cowering, fearful slaves. You should behave instead like God's very own children, adopted into his family--calling him "Father, dear Father."

Psalms 6:9

  1. The LORD has heard my plea; the LORD will answer my prayer.

Zechariah 12:10

  1. "Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David and on all the people of Jerusalem. They will look on me whom they have pierced and mourn for him as for an only son. They will grieve bitterly for him as for a firstborn son who has died.

Luke 22:44

  1. He prayed more fervently, and he was in such agony of spirit that his sweat fell to the ground like great drops of blood.

James 4:3

  1. And even when you do ask, you don't get it because your whole motive is wrong--you want only what will give you pleasure.

Hebrews 4:15

  1. This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same temptations we do, yet he did not sin.

Romans 15:1

  1. We may know that these things make no difference, but we cannot just go ahead and do them to please ourselves. We must be considerate of the doubts and fears of those who think these things are wrong.

2 Corinthians 12:5

  1. That experience is something worth boasting about, but I am not going to do it. I am going to boast only about my weaknesses.
  2. I have plenty to boast about and would be no fool in doing it, because I would be telling the truth. But I won't do it. I don't want anyone to think more highly of me than what they can actually see in my life and my message,
  3. even though I have received wonderful revelations from God. But to keep me from getting puffed up, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from Satan to torment me and keep me from getting proud.
  4. Three different times I begged the Lord to take it away.
  5. Each time he said, "My gracious favor is all you need. My power works best in your weakness." So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may work through me.

2 Corinthians 5:4

  1. Our dying bodies make us groan and sigh, but it's not that we want to die and have no bodies at all. We want to slip into our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by everlasting life.

Psalms 55:1

  1. Listen to my prayer, O God. Do not ignore my cry for help!
  2. Please listen and answer me, for I am overwhelmed by my troubles.

Matthew 20:22

  1. But Jesus told them, "You don't know what you are asking! Are you able to drink from the bitter cup of sorrow I am about to drink?Oh yes," they replied, "we are able!"

Psalms 143:4

  1. I am losing all hope; I am paralyzed with fear.
  2. I remember the days of old. I ponder all your great works. I think about what you have done.
  3. I reach out for you. I thirst for you as parched land thirsts for rain.
  4. Come quickly, LORD, and answer me, for my depression deepens. Don't turn away from me, or I will die.

Psalms 77:1

  1. I cry out to God without holding back. Oh, that God would listen to me!
  2. When I was in deep trouble, I searched for the Lord. All night long I pray, with hands lifted toward heaven, pleading. There can be no joy for me until he acts.
  3. I think of God, and I moan, overwhelmed with longing for his help.

Psalms 10:17

  1. LORD, you know the hopes of the helpless. Surely you will listen to their cries and comfort them.

Psalms 42:1

  1. As the deer pants for streams of water, so I long for you, O God.
  2. I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and stand before him?
  3. Day and night, I have only tears for food, while my enemies continually taunt me, saying, "Where is this God of yours?"
  4. My heart is breaking as I remember how it used to be: I walked among the crowds of worshipers, leading a great procession to the house of God, singing for joy and giving thanks--it was the sound of a great celebration!
  5. Why am I discouraged? Why so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again--my Savior and

Psalms 88:1

  1. O LORD, God of my salvation, I have cried out to you day and night.
  2. Now hear my prayer; listen to my cry.
  3. For my life is full of troubles, and death draws near.

Psalms 119:81

  1. I faint with longing for your salvation; but I have put my hope in your word.
  2. My eyes are straining to see your promises come true. When will you comfort me?

Luke 11:1

  1. Once when Jesus had been out praying, one of his disciples came to him as he finished and said, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples."
  2. He said, "This is how you should pray: "Father, may your name be honored. May your Kingdom come soon.
  3. Give us our food day by day.
  4. And forgive us our sins--just as we forgive those who have sinned against us. And don't let us yield to temptation. "
  5. Then, teaching them more about prayer, he used this illustration: "Suppose you went to a friend's house at midnight, wanting to borrow three loaves of bread. You would say to him,

Romans 7:24

  1. Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin?

Psalms 69:3

  1. I am exhausted from crying for help; my throat is parched and dry. My eyes are swollen with weeping, waiting for my God to help me.

Psalms 102:20

  1. to hear the groans of the prisoners, to release those condemned to die.

2 Corinthians 5:2

  1. We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long for the day when we will put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing.

Psalms 6:3

  1. I am sick at heart. How long, O LORD, until you restore me?

Hebrews 5:2

  1. And because he is human, he is able to deal gently with the people, though they are ignorant and wayward. For he is subject to the same weaknesses they have.

Psalms 102:5

  1. Because of my groaning, I am reduced to skin and bones.
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