The admission. Help from the Spirit is in the praying believers’ weakness. For, this weakness, by Paul’s admission, is in this, believers do not know “what [ti] to pray” as “we should,” that is, what would be “according to [the will of] God” (v. 27). Paul does not say we do not know “how to pray,” for he does not use the word pos, “how.” His point is that believers can pray desiring God’s will, but in weakness not know what the Spirit’s perfect knowledge perceives is the best, God’s will. Paul faced
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