Psalm 38:9
New Living Translation
9 You know what I long for, Lord;
you hear my every sigh.
Psalm 10:17
New Living Translation
17 Lord, you know the hopes of the helpless.
Surely you will hear their cries and comfort them.
Psalm 6:6
New Living Translation
6 I am worn out from sobbing.
All night I flood my bed with weeping,
drenching it with my tears.
2 Corinthians 5:2
New Living Translation
2 We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing.
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John 1:48
New Living Translation
48 “How do you know about me?” Nathanael asked.
Jesus replied, “I could see you under the fig tree before Philip found you.”
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Psalm 102:5
New Living Translation
5 Because of my groaning,
I am reduced to skin and bones.
Romans 8:26-27
New Living Translation
26 And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. 27 And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers[a] in harmony with God’s own will.
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- 8:27 Greek for God’s holy people.
Romans 8:22-23
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22 For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children,[a] including the new bodies he has promised us.
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- 8:23 Greek wait anxiously for sonship.
Psalm 102:20
New Living Translation
20 to hear the groans of the prisoners,
to release those condemned to die.
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