 In Bach's typical format of the chorale cantata cycle, the text of the outer stanzas is retained unchanged, while an unknown librettist paraphrased the inner stanzas, in this case to three movements, two arias framing a recitative.According to Wolff, the librettist may have been Andreas Stübel, writing previously in 1724/25.The theme of the chorale is connected to the gospel in a general way