What will it profit me to know,
That others know their sins forgiven,
And on to full perfection go,
And live on earth the life of heaven:
Unpardon’d if I still remain,
Nor serve my Lord with loving zeal,
My light will aggravate my pain,
And lead me to the darkest hell.
What will it profit me to know
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “That servant which knew his lord’s will, and did not according to it, shall be beaten with many stripes.”—[Luke] xii. 47. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 215.
Publishing: Public Domain