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26 In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

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26 So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance.

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29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 8:29 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

29 For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was [a]aware and [b]loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 8:29 H.A.W. Meyer, cited by Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  2. Romans 8:29 John Murray, The Sovereignty of God.