13 Therefore, if YOU, although being wicked, know how to give good gifts to YOUR children,+ how much more so will the Father in heaven give holy spirit+ to those asking him!”

26 In like manner the spirit+ also joins in with help for our weakness;+ for the [problem of] what we should pray for as we need to we do not know,+ but the spirit+ itself pleads for us with groanings unuttered.*

18 while with every form of prayer+ and supplication YOU carry on prayer on every occasion in spirit.+ And to that end keep awake with all constancy and with supplication in behalf of all the holy ones,