“Do your best to go in through the narrow (stenēs | στενῆς | gen sg fem) door; for many, I tell you, will try to go in and not be able.

How narrow (stenē | στενή | nom sg fem) is the gate and difficult the way that leads to life, and few are those who find it!

“Enter through the narrow (stenēs | στενῆς | gen sg fem) gate. For wide is the gate and easy the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter through it.

Do (stenazete | στενάζετε | pres act imperative 2 pl) not complain (stenazete | στενάζετε | pres act imperative 2 pl) against one another, my brothers, lest you be judged. Look, the judge is standing at the doors.

Continue to obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who must give an account. Let them do this with joy, and not with groaning (stenazontes | στενάζοντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc), for that would be of no advantage to you.

For while we remain in this tent, we groan (stenazomen | στενάζομεν | pres act ind 1 pl) and are burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

For indeed in this tent we groan (stenazomen | στενάζομεν | pres act ind 1 pl), longing to put on our heavenly dwelling place,

And not only this, but we (stenazomen | στενάζομεν | pres act ind 1 pl) ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan (stenazomen | στενάζομεν | pres act ind 1 pl) inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

Looking up to heaven, he gave a deep sigh (estenaxen | ἐστέναξεν | aor act ind 3 sg) and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (that is, “Be opened”).

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings (stenagmois | στεναγμοῖς | dat pl masc) too deep for words.