Text:Jesus! what a Friend for sinners!
Author:J. Wilbur Chapman
Tune:HYFRYDOL
Composer:Rowland Hugh Prichard

432. Jesus! what a Friend for sinners!

1 Jesus! what a Friend for sinners!
Jesus! Lover of my soul;
Friends may fail me, foes assail me,
He, my Saviour, makes me whole.

Refrain:
Hallelujah! what a Saviour!
Hallelujah, what a Friend!
Saving, helping, keeping, loving,
He is with me to the end.

2 Jesus! what a strength in weakness!
Let me hide myself in him;
Tempted, tried, and sometimes failing,
He, my strength, my vict'ry wins. [Refrain]

3 Jesus! what a help in sorrow!
While the billows o'er me roll,
Even when my heart is breaking,
He, my comfort, helps my soul. [Refrain]

4 Jesus! what a guide and keeper!
While the tempest still is high,
Storms about me, night o'ertakes me,
He, my pilot, hears my cry. [Refrain]

5 Jesus! I do now receive him,
More than all in him I find,
He hath granted me forgiveness,
I am his, and he is mine. [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: Jesus! what a Friend for sinners!
Author: J. Wilbur Chapman
Meter: 8. 7. 8. 7. D.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1961
Scripture: ;
Topic: Christ: Comforter; Christ: Friend; Christ: Praise of (2 more...)
Tune Information
Name: HYFRYDOL
Composer: Rowland Hugh Prichard (1855)
Meter: 8. 7. 8. 7. D.
Key: F Major



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