1 

As the body is the fulness

   To express our life,

So to Christ the Church, His Body,

   Doth express His life.

 2 

E'en as Eve is part of Adam

   Taken out of him,

So the Church is Christ's own increase

   With Himself within.

 3 

As from out the buried kernel

   Many grains are formed,

As the grains together blended

   To a loaf are formed;

 4 

So the Church, of many Christians,

   Christ doth multiply,

Him expressing as one Body,

   God to glorify.

 5 

As the branches of the grapevine

   Are its outward spread,

With it one, abiding, bearing

   Clusters in its stead;

 6 

So the Church's many members

   Christ's enlargement are,

One with Him in life and living,

   Spreading Him afar.

 7 

Fulness, increase, duplication,

   His expression full,

Growth and spread, continuation,

   Surplus plentiful,

 8 

Is the Church to Christ, and thereby

   God in Christ may be

Glorified thru His redeemed ones

   To eternity.

 9 

Thus the Church and Christ together,

   God's great mystery,

Is the mingling of the Godhead

   With humanity.