Verse 1
“But if you needs must work before,
Salvation is of works, not grace:”
Not so; if Christ supplies the power
For my imperfect services,
And gives me on himself t’ attend,
Labouring and suffering to the end.

Verse 2
No thanks to me my Master owes
For works which he himself hath wrought;
Grace only the reward bestows
For every gracious word and thought,
And when I his commands have done,
The praise, I trow, is all his own.

Verse 3
I have but done my duty, Lord,
When answering all thy welcome will,
I cannot speak one boasting word,
But most unprofitable still,
The meanest of thy servants I,
The chief of sinners live and die.