O ’tis a glorious mystery,

’Tis a wonder, a wonder, a wonder;

That I should ever saved be

’Tis a wonder, a wonder, a wonder.

No heart can think or fully tell,

’Tis a wonder, a wonder;

My God has sav’d my soul from hell,

’Tis a wonder, a wonder, a wonder.

Two further stanzas of the text taken from Good Old Songs, No. 511, are:

Great mystery that God should place,