Pentecost Season · Day of Pentecost · Year B
Romans 8:22-27 or Acts 2:1-21
The Spirit Helps Us in Our Weakness
May 16, 2027
Overview & Insights
"The Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans." (Romans 8:26)
Paul pictures all creation groaning as in childbirth while it waits for redemption, and believers waiting in hope for the fullness of adoption. The Spirit sustains them in that waiting, interceding for them when they do not know how to pray.
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Commentary
Romans 8:22-27 Working Preacher
A Luther Seminary commentary on creation's groaning and the Spirit interceding for believers who wait in hope.
Romans 8:22-27 Center for Excellence in Preaching
A Reformed commentary on the quiet work of the Spirit sighing and groaning alongside our own spirits.
Romans 8 Enduring Word · David Guzik
A verse-by-verse evangelical commentary on Romans 8 and the Spirit's intercession in our weakness.
Romans 8:26-27 verse by verse Precept Austin
A deep study page compiling Greek word studies, cross-references, and many expositors on the Spirit's intercession.
Classic commentaries on Romans 8 BibleHub
A classic aggregator collecting historic verse-by-verse commentary on Romans 8:22-27.
Background & Word Study
Romans and Work Theology of Work
A vocational reading of Romans that connects the Spirit's help and creation's renewal to everyday life and labor.
Overview: Romans BibleProject
An animated overview of Romans tracing Paul's argument that frames the Spirit chapter of chapter 8.
Romans 8 interlinear BibleHub
The Greek text of Romans 8 word by word with parsing and Strong's numbers for study of the intercession language.
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