Complex sentence: The work takes its title from the hymn "Jesu, meine Freude", with its chorale melody by Johann Crüger, interspersed with passages from the Epistle to the Romans.
Split into simpler sentences: The work takes its title from the hymn "Jesu, meine Freude", with its chorale melody by Johann Crüger. Movements based on the hymn are interspersed others based on passages from the Epistle to the Romans.