Unless stated otherwise, my source for hymn texts and tunes is The Lutheran Service Book.

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

LSB #591 "This Is the Spirit's Entry Now"

Biblical citations in the hymnal:  Ephesians 5:25b-27, Romans 6:3-9

Ephesians 5:25b-27:  "as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish."

Romans 6:3-9:  "3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?  4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

"5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.  6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.  7 For one who has died has been set free from sin.  8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.  9 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him."

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The text from Ephesians appears in the first verse (specifically in the phrase "the water and the Word") and in the fourth (last) verse ("That washes us through all our days; / Lord, cleanse again this hour").

The text from Romans appears at the end of the second verse ("Our life comes through Christ's death") and perhaps even into the third verse.