Hymns Based on 1 John 3:2

Christian hymns and worship songs connected to 1 John 3:2

"Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him just as he is."

— 1 John 3:2

Theological Significance

This verse has inspired Christian hymns that explore themes of Assurance, Heaven, Grace, Eternal life, Hope. Many worship songs connected to 1 John 3:2 proclaim these timeless biblical truths and invite believers to reflect on and celebrate the message of this scripture.

Sermon Themes from This Passage

Assurance
Heaven
Grace
Eternal life
Hope

Suggested Hymns for Worship

Opening Hymn O Could I Speak the Matchless Worth

Response Hymn Sunlight

Reflection Hymn All Saints

Closing Hymn When We All Get to Heaven

Example Worship Flow

1
Call to Worship Psalm 100
2
Opening Hymn O Could I Speak the Matchless Worth
3
Scripture Reading 1 John 3:2
4
Sermon Assurance
5
Response Hymn Sunlight
6
Reflection Hymn All Saints
7
Closing Hymn When We All Get to Heaven

Hymns Inspired by This Passage

All Saints

All Saints is a liturgical collect rather than a metrical hymn.

Blest Feast of Love Divine

Blest Feast of Love Divine is a shortened and altered form of Sir Edward Denny's Communion hymn originally beginning Sweet feast of love divine.

Face to Face with Christ, My Savior

Carrie Ellis Breck's 1898 gospel hymn is a meditation on the Christian hope of seeing Christ without the limitations that characterize present life.

Lord, I Want to Be a Christian

Lord, I Want to Be a Christian is an anonymous African American spiritual shaped as a direct prayer for inward Christian formation.

O Could I Speak the Matchless Worth

This hymn is an extended act of adoration directed to Jesus Christ.

Sing with All the Saints in Glory

Sing with All the Saints in Glory is a nineteenth-century resurrection hymn by Anglican priest William Josiah Irons.

Sunlight

“Sunlight,” beginning “I wandered in the shades of night,” is a late nineteenth-century gospel song of Christian testimony by Judson W.

To God Be the Glory

“To God Be the Glory” is a gospel hymn of praise whose center of gravity is what God has done in Jesus Christ.

When All My Labors And Trials Are O'er

When All My Labors And Trials Are O'er, better known by the title O That Will Be Glory or simply the Glory Song, is a three-stanza gospel hymn about the Christian hope of being with Christ beyond death.

When We All Get to Heaven

When We All Get to Heaven is a late nineteenth-century American gospel song of Christian hope.