1  Death cannot hold the resurrection life,

    The life of God eternal manifest;

    'Tis uncreated, indestructible,

    'Tis Christ Himself, unconqu'rable, expressed.

 2  Death cannot hold the resurrection life,

    Though all its force against it may combine;

    Death only gives it opportunity

    To show the boundless pow'r of life divine.

 3  Death cannot hold the resurrection life,

    The more interred, the more it multiplies;

    All kinds of suff'ring only help it grow

    And fruits of life abundant realize.

 4  Death cannot hold the resurrection life,

    Thru every block and barrier it breaks;

    Conqu'ring the pow'r of darkness and of hell,

    It swallows death and victory partakes.

 5  Death cannot hold the resurrection life,

    All of God's fulness it will manifest;

    God's righteousness and holiness it yields,

    His glorious image by it is expressed.

 6  Oh, may I know this resurrection life,

    In every kind of death its pow'r outpoured,

    In my experience ever realize

    This life is nought but Christ my living Lord.