Christ, from whom all blessings flow

Verse 1
Christ, from whom all blessings flow, (Eph. 1:3)
Perfecting the saints below, (Heb. 10:14)
Hear us, who thy nature share, (II Pet. 1:4)
Who thy mystic body are: (I Cor. 12:12, I Cor. 12:27, Eph. 4:12-16, Eph. 5:30)

Join us, in one spirit join, (Eph. 4:3)
Let us still receive of thine,
Still for more on thee we call,
Thee, who fillest all in all. (Eph. 1:22-23, Col. 3:11)

Verse 2
Closer knit to thee our head, (Col. 1:18, Col. 2:19, Eph. 4:15-16)
Nourish us, O Christ, and feed, (John 6:35, Eph. 5:29-30)
Let us daily growth receive,
More and more in Jesus live:

Jesu! We thy members are,
Cherish us with kindest care,
Of thy flesh, and of thy bone: (Eph. 5:30, Gen. 2:23)
Love, forever love thine own.

Verse 3
Move, and actuate, and guide,
Diverse gifts to each divide; (I Cor. 12:4-6)
Plac’d according to thy will, (I Cor. 12:15-18)
Let us all our work fulfil, (Col. 4:17)

Never from our office move,
Needful to the others prove, (I Cor. 12:21-24, Eph. 4:16)
Use the grace on each bestow’d, (Eph. 4:7, Rom. 12:6)
Temper’d by the art of God.

Verse 4
Sweetly now we all agree,
Touch’d with softest simpathy,
Kindly for each other care:
Every member feels its share: (I Cor. 12:26)

Wounded by the grief of one,
All the suffering members groan; (Rom. 12:15)
Honour’d if one member is
All partake the common bliss. (I Cor. 12:26)

Verse 5
Many are we now, and one, (I Cor. 12:13)
We who Jesus have put on: (Gal. 3:27)
There is neither bond nor free,
Male nor female, Lord, in thee. (Gal. 3:28)

Love, like death, hath all destroy’d,
Render’d all distinctions void:
Names, and sects, and parties fall;
Thou, O Christ, art ALL in ALL! (I Cor. 15:28, Col. 3:11, Eph. 1:23)