Every deed, and word, and thought
Shall be into judgment brought:
Wherefore then should we conceal
What the day will soon reveal?
Let us in our Father’s sight
Walk as children of the light,
Now prevent the general doom,
Triumph when the judge is come.
Every deed and word and thought
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “There is nothing covered that shall not be revealed.”—[Matt.] x. 26. 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 238.
Publishing: Public Domain