Hymn 72

Melody
  1. Behold th’amazing gift of love
    the Father has bestowed
    on us, the sinful sons of men,
    to call us sons of God.

  2. Concealed as yet this honour lies;
    ’tis to the world unknown,
    for this world knew not him who came
    as God’s eternal Son.

  3. We are God’s children here and now,
    for he made us his own,
    but what we shall hereafter be,
    that he has not yet shown.

  4. We know that when our Lord appears,
    then we like him shall be,
    for then his face, him as he is,
    we shall in glory see.

  5. Now everyone who has this hope,
    which rests in him secure,
    from evil purifies himself
    as he, our Lord, is pure.