Romans 8:26

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 8:26

Romans 8:26 The Spirit the Help to Prayer. The highest gift of God is that which is for all alike. We need the Spirit for all the works we have to do. We can speak no true, honest, sound word unless we ask Him to teach us what we shall say and how we shall say it. I. What are we to do when we feel as if we could not pray? as if that were the greatest difficulty of all? It is the Spirit who helps us, not only to think and to do, but also to pray who draws out our desires towards God, who speaks... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 8:26-27

Romans 8:26-27 The word "likewise" with which my text begins institutes a comparison between what is set forth in the text and what had been said before. To grasp this comparison fully we must go back to the eighteenth verse. The Apostle there sets out with a declaration, the peculiar wording of which is meant to show that he is speaking, not with the exaggeration of eloquent appeal or excited feeling, but with the sobriety of simple and deliberate calculation. "For I reckon that the sufferings... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Romans 8:26

DISCOURSE: 1876THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT IN STRENGTHENING MEN FOR SUFFERING OR DUTYRomans 8:26. 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 its with groanings which cannot be uttered.A HOPE of eternal happiness is as an anchor to the troubled soul; it enables a person to bear up under the heaviest afflictions; but the mind of a believer would soon faint, if it were not strengthened from above.... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Romans 8:26-27

The Holy Spirit's Intercession -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Sermon (No. 1532) Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, April 11th, 1880, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should what pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Romans 8:1-39

Let's turn to the eighth chapter of Romans. Fasten your seatbelts as we take off.In the seventh chapter of the book of Romans, Paul has come to the realization that the law is spiritual. While he was a Pharisee he thought of the law as physical, intended to control man's outward actions. But when he came to the realization that the law was spiritual, then he realized that the law actually condemned him to death because, though he had physically kept the law, spiritually he had violated it.So he... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Romans 8:1-39

The first four verses of this chapter belong to the preseding one, and deduce the just conclusions therefrom, that the state of fallen man is a state of condemnation and legal bondage that he cannot extricate himself by any unavailing efforts of legal obedience that God has done for us by Jesus Christ what we could not do for ourselves that this liberation is obtained by union with Christ, which exempts us from condemnation and that those who are thus united to him, walk not after the flesh,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 8:26-27

Romans 8:26-27Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities; for we know not what we should pray for as we ought. God’s sympathies with man’s infirmitiesI. What is meant by infirmities. There is a wide difference between an infirmity and a sin. Sin is the deliberate choice of wrong. A man’s failure to comply with a Divine command is not always a sin. The failure may arise from inherent weakness or ignorance.1. Men and women come into life with physical infirmities. Some are born blind, some... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Romans 8:26

26 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. Ver. 26. Helpeth our infirmities ] Lifts with us and before us in our prayers. Or helpeth us as the nurse helpeth her little child, upholding it by the sleeve. ( συναντιλαμβανεται . Beza.) For we know not what, &c. ] The flesh with her murmurings maketh such a din that we can hardly hear the... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Romans 8:26

infirmities: Romans 15:1, 2 Corinthians 12:5-2 Samuel :, Hebrews 4:15, Hebrews 5:2 for we: Matthew 20:22, Luke 11:1-1 Chronicles :, James 4:3 but: Romans 8:15, Psalms 10:17, Zechariah 12:10, Matthew 10:20, Galatians 4:6, Ephesians 2:18, Ephesians 6:18, Jude 1:20, Jude 1:21 with: Romans 7:24, Psalms 6:3, Psalms 6:9, Psalms 42:1-Deuteronomy :, Psalms 55:1, Psalms 55:2, Psalms 69:3, Psalms 77:1-Leviticus :, Psalms 88:1-Leviticus :, Psalms 102:5, Psalms 102:20, Psalms 119:81, Psalms 119:82,... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Romans 8:26

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.Likewise the Spirit — Nay, not only the universe, not only the children of God, but the Spirit of God also himself, as it were, groaneth, while he helpeth our infirmities, or weaknesses. Our understandings are weak, particularly in the things of God our desires are weak; our prayers are weak.We know not —... read more

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