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God Understands Your Heart
Commentators emphasize that "he that searcheth the hearts" is God the Father. This verse offers profound comfort: even when your prayers are just formless "groanings" (v. 26), God perfectly understands them. He knows the "mind of the Spirit" who is interceding within you, meaning your deepest, unspoken needs and desires are heard and accepted by the Father.
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Albert Barnes
On Romans 8:27
18th Century
Theologian
And he that searches the hearts. This is God. To search the heart is one of his attributes which cannot be communicated to a creature ([Re…
AT Robertson
On Romans 8:27
He that searcheth (ο εραυνων). God (1 Samuel 16:7).
According to the will of God (κατα θεον). …
Charles Ellicott
On Romans 8:27
19th Century
Bishop
God recognizes the voice of His own Spirit, because the prayers that the Spirit prompts are in strict accordance with His will.
What …
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Charles Spurgeon
On Romans 8:27
19th Century
Preacher
And he who searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Romans 8:27
At length Paul arrives at the final ministry of the Spirit mentioned in this chapter, his work of intercession. “In the same way” seems to link thi…
John Calvin
On Romans 8:27
16th Century
Theologian
But he who searches hearts, etc. This is a remarkable reason for strengthening our confidence that we are heard by God when we pr…
John Gill
On Romans 8:27
17th Century
Pastor
And he that searcheth the hearts
This is peculiar to God, and a "periphrasis" of him; angels, neither good nor bad, …
Matthew Henry
On Romans 8:26–27
17th Century
Minister
Though the infirmities of Christians are many and great, so that they would be overpowered if left to themselves, yet the Holy Spirit supports them…