Verse 1
Loving my friends, I freely pay
The debt that nature owes,
But how shall I thy word obey,
And love my mortal foes?

Verse 2
Hard strugling to comply in vain,
Throughout my soul I feel
This to an unregenerate man
Is quite impossible.

Verse 3
Doth Justice then to man injoin
The thing which cannot be?
It cannot, but thro’ grace divine,
Thro’ Jesus strength in me.

Verse 4
If Thou the power of faith impart,
Lord, I can all things do,
And love my foes with all my heart,
When Thou hast made it new.

Verse 5
If still my heart be unrenew’d,
The fault is all my own:
One drop of thy redeeming blood
Can melt the hardest stone:

Verse 6
The balm for every soul-disease
Ready Thou art t’ apply,
And when I call for grace and peace,
Thou answerest “Here am I!”

Verse 7
Come then with all thy wounds confest
My Saviour from above,
And pour into my vanquish’d breast
Thy sweet, forgiving love:

Verse 8
Then when I feel thy Spirit mine,
The mighty change I know,
And can, like Thee, my life resign,
To save my deadliest foe.