The Lord that I sincerely love
My hate of sin alone can prove;
But in my unregenerate state
Evil alas, I cannot hate;
Yet drawn by him, he knows I would
Evil abhor, and cleave to good,
And God who gives me these desires,
Will give whate’er himself requires.
The Lord that I sincerely love
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “O ye that love the Lord, see that ye hate the thing which is evil.”—[Psalm] xcvii. 10. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 317.
Publishing: Public Domain