Christ Died for the Ungodly.
WHY, perishing sinners, your hearts will ye harden,
And reject the commandments of God in your pride?
O seek ye from Heaven forgiveness and pardon:
For it is for your sins that the Saviour has died. And will ye live on, still no Saviour revering,
And still refuse Christ as your king and your guide?
O why are you thus in your sins persevering,
When it was for those sins that Christ suffered and died? How sweet to the Christian, in moments of sadness,
To know that there's One in whom to confide!
How oft will this thought fill his spirit with gladness—
That his sins are forgiven, since Jesus hath died! And when the death-bed of the Christian surrounding,
His friends and his kinsmen watch life's ebbing tide,
They rejoice that the Saviour, in mercy abounding,
Has come down from above, and for sinners has died.