Scripture Verse

God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:17–18

Introduction

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Fanny Crosby (1820–1915)

Words: Fan­ny Cros­by, in The Gos­pel Awak­en­ing, ed­it­ed by Fran­cis Blac­kmer (Spring­field, Mas­sa­chu­setts: F. A. Black­mer, 1888), num­ber 31.

Music: Fran­cis A. Black­mer (🔊 pdf nwc).

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Black­mer (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),

Lyrics

God so loved the world, that in mer­cy He gave
His Son as a ran­som, lost sin­ners to save;
O thou who hast ne­ver be­lieved on His name,
Remember the truth that the Scrip­tures pro­claim:

Refrain

Condemned! Con­demned! al­rea­dy con­demned!
On Je­sus the Sav­ior thou hast not be­lieved;
Condemned! Con­demned! al­rea­dy con­demned!
The life that He of­fers thou hast not re­ceived.

Already con­demned in the sight of the Lord,
Because thou art turn­ing away from His Word;
Thou choos­est the ev­il, re­ject­est the right;
Thou lov­est the dark­ness far bet­ter than light.

Refrain

Already con­demned, un­believ­er, thou art;
O think what a sen­tence hangs ov­er thy heart;
Yet why wilt thou per­ish when thou canst be free?
If thou wilt ac­cept it, there’s par­don for thee.

Refrain

Already con­demned; wilt thou turn from thy sin?
Then yield to the Spir­it now plead­ing with­in;
Thro’ faith and re­pent­ance give Je­sus thy heart;
Delay not a mo­ment, but come as thou art.

Refrain