What can harm the friends of God?

Verse 1
What can harm the friends of God?
Us who on thy love depend,
Us the purchase of thy blood
Wilt thou not thro’ life defend?
Yes; we dwell secure from ill,
Safe, tho’ fire and sword be near:
Yet the world our bodies kill,
God, and none beside we fear.

Verse 2
Man may soul and body part,
Still they both are join’d to Thee,
Thou of both the Saviour art,
Christ our immortality:
Who thy nature here receive,
We the darts of death defy,
We who in thy death believe
One with God can never die.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body &c.'—[Luke 12,] v. 4.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 135.
Publishing: Public Domain