Verse 1
Be it according to thy word!
This moment let it be,
O that I now, my dearest Lord,
Might lose my life for thee!

Verse 2
Now, Jesu, let thy powerful death
Into my being come,
Slay the old Adam with thy breath,
The man of sin consume.

Verse 3
Whate’er I have, or can, or am,
I now would fain resign,
And lose my nature, and my name,
O God, to purchase thine.

Verse 4
Withhold whate’er my flesh requires,
Poison my pleasant food,
Spoil my delights, my vain desires,
My all of creature-good.

Verse 5
My old affections mortify,
Nail to the cross my will,
Daily, and hourly bid me die,
Or altogether kill.

Verse 6
Passion, and appetite destroy,
Tear, tear this pride away,
And all my boast, and idle joy,
And all my nature slay.

Verse 7
Jesu, my life, appear within,
And bruise the serpent’s head,
Enter my soul, extirpate sin,
Cast out the cursed seed.

Verse 8
Thou wilt, I know, thou wilt appear,
And end this inward strife,
Thy harbinger proclaims thee near,
And death makes way for life.

Verse 9
Hast thou not made me willing, Lord?
Would I not die this hour?
Then speak the killing, quickening word,
Slay, raise me by thy power.

Verse 10
Slay me, and I in thee shall trust,
With thy dead men arise,
Awake, and sing from out the dust,
Soon as this nature dies.

Verse 11
O let it now make haste to die,
The mortal wound receive;
So shall I live; and yet not I,
But Christ in me shall live.

Verse 12
Be it according to thy word,
This moment let it be,
The life I lose for thee my Lord,
I find again in thee.