Living out Love

Tune: Regent Square

('Light's abode, celestial Salem')

1 Peter 1 v.22-25

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Seeing you have purified your

Souls in obeying truth sure

Through the Spirit unto sincere

Love of one another here

See that you love with a pure heart

Fervently in every part

Being born again from above

Through God your Father, His love

To you incorruptible see

Planted in you, there no weed

Born again through God's word spoken

In Him new life for all men

And His word abides for ever

Perishes, decay never

For all flesh is as grass, glory

Of man as the flower be

Th grass withers, the flower fades

Here man's little life displayed

But the word of the Lord endures

For ever, e'en evermore

And this is the same word which by

The gospel comes to you nigh

Follow after things eternal

Living in the Spirit full