Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Romans 8:26, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Matthew 10:20
For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
- Ephesians 6:18
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
- Galatians 4:6
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
- John 14:16
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
- Jude 1:20
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
- Ephesians 2:18
For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
- Romans 8:15
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
- Psalms 6:9
The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
- Hebrews 4:15
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without …
- James 4:3
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
- 2 Corinthians 12:5
Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
- Romans 15:1
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
More to meet God in Romans
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.