CHRISTIAN LIFE >> Love For One Another

SDAH 589

In our work and in our play,
Jesus, ever with us stay;
May be always strive to be
True and faithful unto Thee.

Text

1
Holy Spirit, gracious guest,
Hear and grant our heart’s request
For that gift supreme and best:
Holy heav’nly love.

2
Faith that mountains could remove,
Tongues of earth or heaven above,
Knowledge, all things, empty prove
If I have no love.

3
Though I as a martyr bleed,
Give my goods the poor to feed,
All is vain if love I need:
Therefore give me love.

4
Love is kind and suffers long,
Love is pure and thinks no wrong,
Love than death it self more strong:
Therefore give us love.

5
Prophecy will fade away,
Melting in the light of day;
Love will ever with us stay:
Therefore give us love.

6
Faith and hope and love we see
Joining hand in hand agree-
But the greatest of the three,
And the best is love.

Hymn Info

Biblical Reference
(a) 1 Cor 12:31 (b) 1 Cor 13:1, 2 (c) 1 Cor 13:3 (d) 1 Cor 13:4; Song of Solomon 8:6 (e) 1 Cor 13:8 (f) 1 Cor 13:13

Author
Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885)

Performance Suggestions
When sung as a canon, second part begins here.

Copyright
Music printed by permission of Basil Ramsey Publisher of Music Ltd.

Hymn Tune
GUILDFORD CATHEDRAL

Metrical Number
7.7.7.5.

Composer
Grayston Ives (1948-)

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Notes

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