1. Freed from self and Adam's nature,
  Lord, I would be built by Thee
  With the saints into Thy temple,
  Where Thy glory we shall see.
  From peculiar traits deliver,
  From my independent ways,
  That a dwelling place for Thee, Lord,
  We will be thru all our days,
2. By Thy life and by its flowing
  I can grow and be transformed,
  With the saints coordinated,
  Builded up, to Thee conformed;
  Keep the order in the Body,
  There to function in Thy will,
  Ever serving, helping others,
  All Thy purpose to fulfill.
3. In my knowledge and experience
  I would not exalted be,
  But submitting and accepting
  Let the Body balance me;
  Holding fast the Head, and growing
  With His increase, in His way,
  By the joints and bands supplying,
  Knit together day by day.
4. By Thy Spirit daily strengthened
  In the inner man with might,
  I would know Thy love surpassing,
  Know Thy breath and length and height;
  Ever of Thy riches taking,
  Unto all Thy fulness filled,
  Ever growing into manhood,
  That Thy Body Thou may build.
5. In God's house and in Thy Body
  Builded up I long to be,
  That within this corporate vessel
  All shall then Thy glory see;
  That Thy Bride, the glorious city,
  May appear upon the earth,
  As a lampstand brightly beaming
  To express to all Thy worth.