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Come, dearest Lord, descend and dwell The love of Christ shed abroad in the heart, Eph. 3. 16 &c

Isaac Watts printed it in 1707 in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book I, no. 135, under Ephesians 3:16.

WRITTEN BY

Isaac Watts 1674–1748

PRINTED

1707 Hymns and Spiritual Songs · no. 135

METRE

Long Metre 8.8.8.8 · 3 stanzas

IN HYMNALS

289 listed at Hymnary.org

The hymn, and the Scripture in it

All 3 stanzas as Watts printed them, with the verses their lines echo beside them. Point at a line to join it to its verse; click to read the passage.

SHARED WORDSthe verse shares the line's wording ECHOproposed by an AI model, confirmed by a separate check Not the author's own notes

2 echoes in 12 lines.

Where Watts found it

Watts printed the hymn under Ephesians 3:16. The line that comes closest to it is marked.

I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, EPHESIANS 3:16 · BEREAN STANDARD BIBLE READ EPHESIANS 3

Come, fill our hearts with inward strength, Make our enlarged souls possess, And learn the height, and breadth, and length Of thine unmeasurable grace. STANZA II

Its place in the book

Book I of the hymn book, “Collected from the Holy Scriptures”, holds these hymns in this order: 179 hymns. This is number 135. Point at a tick to see the hymn; click it to open that hymn.

NO. 135 · ISAAC WATTS · THIS HYMN Come, dearest Lord, descend and dwell

Where hymnals place it

Printed hymnals list, for each hymn, the Bible passages it goes with, so a church can choose a hymn for the day's reading. Gathered from the hymnals Hymnary.org catalogues, editors have tied this hymn to 4 passages in 4 books. One square is one passage; a ringed square is one the hymn's own lines echo. Point at a square to read it; click to open it beside the page.

Psalms 1

Galatians 1

Ephesians 1

1 Peter 1

EPHESIANS 3:16–21ECHOED IN STANZA II, III

16I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, 17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth 19of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. … 2 more verses

a passage hymnals tie it to one its lines echo (1)

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