Verse 1
Jesu, friend of sinners, hear,
Yet once again I pray,
From my debt of sin set clear,
For I have nought to pay:
Speak, O speak the kind release,
A poor, backsliding soul restore:
Love me freely, seal my peace,
And bid me sin no more.

Verse 2
For my selfishness, and pride
Thou hast withdrawn thy grace,
Left me long to wander wide
An outcast from thy face,
But I now my sins confess,
And mercy, mercy I implore:
Love me freely, &c.

Verse 3
Though my sins as mountains rise,
And swell, and reach to heaven,
Mercy is above the skies,
I may be still forgiven;
Infinite my sin’s increase,
But greater is thy mercy’s store:
Love me freely, &c.

Verse 4
Sin’s deceitfulness hath spread
An hardness o’er my heart,
But if thou thy Spirit shed,
The stony shall depart:
Shed thy love, thy tenderness,
And let me feel the soft’ning power:
Love me freely, &c.

Verse 5
From th’ oppressive power of sin
My struggling spirit free,
Perfect righteousness bring in,
Unspotted purity:
Speak, and all this war shall cease,
And sin shall give its raging o’er:
Love me freely, &c.

Verse 6
For this only thing I pray,
And this will I require,
Take the power of sin away,
Fill me with chast desire;
Perfect me in holiness,
Thine image to my soul restore:
Love me freely, seal my peace,
And bid me sin no more.