- *Kai*
- conjunction - and/also
- *gar*
- conjunction - for/because [explanatory]
- *ontes*
- present active participle, nominative masculine plural - being/existing
- *skēnei*
- noun, dative neuter singular - tent/tabernacle
- *stenazomen*
- present active indicative, 1st person plural - we groan/sigh
- *baroumenoi*
- present passive participle, nominative masculine plural - being burdened/weighed down
- *eph*
- preposition - upon/because
- *thelomen*
- present active indicative, 1st person plural - we wish/desire/want
- *ekdysasthai*
- aorist middle infinitive - to unclothe/put off
- *ependysasthai*
- aorist middle infinitive - to put on over/clothe upon
- *katapothē*
- aorist passive subjunctive, 3rd person singular - might be swallowed up/absorbed
- *thnēton*
- adjective, nominative neuter singular - mortal/subject to death
- *zōēs*
- noun, genitive feminine singular - life