1 Peter 1:20-23: "20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you 21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
"22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, 23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God"
Hebrews 7:25: "Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them."
John 13:34-35: "34 'A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.'"
John 17:20-21: "20 'I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.'"
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The text is public domain:
1 Son of God, eternal Savior,Source of life and truth and grace,Word made flesh, whose birth among usHallows all our human race,You our Head, who, throned in glory,For Your own will ever plead:Fill us with Your love and pity,Heal our wrongs, and help our need.2 As You, Lord, have lived for others,So may we for others live.Freely have Your gifts been granted;Freely may Your servants give.Yours the gold and Yours the silver,Yours the wealth of land and sea;We but stewards of Your bountyHeld in solemn trust will be.3 Come, O Christ, and reign among us,King of love and Prince of Peace;Hush the storm of strife and passion,Bid its cruel discords cease.By Your patient years of toiling,By Your silent hours of pain,Quench our fevered thirst of pleasure,Stem our selfish greed of gain.4 Son of God, eternal Savior,Source of life and truth and grace,Word made flesh, whose birth among usHallows all our human race:By Your praying, by Your willingThat Your people should be one,Grant, O grant our hope's fruition:Here on earth Your will be done.
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1 Peter 1:20-21 seems to appear in the first half of the first verse (repeated as the first half of the fourth verse), although the hymn text bears a stronger resemblance to other Biblical passages, such as John 1:14 ("And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.") and John 14:6 ("Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'"). 1 Peter 1:22 is combined with John 13:34-35 at the beginning of the second verse: "As You, Lord, have lived for others, / So may we for others live."
The intercession in Hebrews 7:25 is referred to in the first verse: "Your our Head, who, throned in glory, / For Your own will ever plead."
John 17:20-21 is alluded to in the fourth verse: "By Your praying, by Your willing / That Your people should be one."
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Perhaps just coincidentally, the line "Yours the gold and Yours the silver" in the second verse bears some resemblance to Haggai 2:8: "The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the LORD of hosts."
The title Prince of Peace in the third verse comes from Isaiah 9:6: "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."
The line "Here on earth Your will be done" at the end of the fourth verse echoes Matthew 6:10: "'Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.'"
