While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8
Words: Fanny Crosby, in Bright Gems, by Philip Phillips (New York: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1887). Some hymnals give the author as Martha Lankton, one of Fanny’s pseudonyms.
Music: Hainault William J. Kirkpatrick (🔊 pdf nwc).
I will go, I cannot stay
From the arms of love away,
Oh, for strength of faith to say,
Jesus died for me.
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Can it be, oh can it be,
There is hope for one like me?
I will go with this my plea,
Jesus died for me.
Though I long have tried in vain,
Tried to break the tempter’s chain,
Yet tonight I’ll try again,
Jesus, help Thou me.
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I am lost, and yet I know
Earth can never heal my woe;
I will rise at once and go,
Jesus died for me.
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Something whispers in my soul,
Though my sins like mountains roll,
Jesus’ blood will make me whole,
Jesus died for me.
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I obey the Savior’s call,
Now to Him I yield my all,
At His feet, where others fall,
There’s a place for me.
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