For Us

1O Love! how deep, how broad, how high!
It fills the heart with ecstacy,
That God, the Son of God, should take Our mortal form for mortals' sake.

2For us He was baptized, and bore His holy fast, and hungered sore;
For us temptations sharp He knew;
For us the tempter overthrew.

3For us He prayed, for us He taught,
For us His daily works He wrought,
By words, and signs, and actions thus Still seeking not Himself but us.

4For us to wicked men betrayed,
Scourged, mocked, in purple robe arrayed,
He bore the shameful cross and death;
For us at length gave up His breath.

5For us He rose from death again,
For us He went on high to reign,
For us He sent His Spirit here To guide, to strengthen, and to cheer.

6To Him whose boundless love has won Salvation for us through His Son,
To God the Father, glory be,
Both now and through eternity.