The church's one foundation is Jesus Christ her Lord

She is His new creation by water and the word

From heav'n He came and sought her to be His holy bride

With His own blood He bought her, and for her life He died

Elect from ev'ry nation yet one o'er all the earth

Her charter of salvation, one Lord, one faith, one birth

One holy name she blesses, partakes one holy food

And to one hope she presses, with ev'ry grace endued

'Mid toil and tribulation, and tumult of her war

She waits the consummation of peace for evermore

'Til with the vision glorious her longing eyes are blessed

And the great church victorious shall be the church at rest