1 Not to ourselves again,
Not to the flesh we live;
Not to the world henceforth shall we
Our strength, our being give.

2 The past time past of our lives
Sufficeth to have wrought
The fleshly will, which only ill
Has to us ever brought.

3 No longer is our life
A thing unused or vain;
To us, now here, to live is Christ,
To us to die is gain.

4 Our life is hid with Christ,
With Christ in God above;
Upward our heart would go to Him,
Whom, seeing not, we love.

5 When He who is our life
Appears, to take the throne,
We too shall be revealed and shine
In glory like His own.

6 He liveth, and we live!
His life for us prevails;
His fullness fills our mighty void,
His strength for us avails.

7 Life worketh in us now,
Life is for us in store;
So death is swallowed up of life;
We live for evermore.

8 Shine as the sun shall we
In that bright kingdom then,
Our sky without a cloud or mist,
Ourselves without a stain.

9 Like Him we then shall be.
Transformed and glorified;
For we shall see Him as He is
And in His light abide.

10 Not to ourselves we live,
Not to ourselves we die;
Unto the Lord we die or live,
With Him are we on high.

11 We seek the things above,
For we are only His;
Like Him we soon shall be, for we
Shall see Him as He is.