This be the genuine proof of mine,
If God I love indeed,
To do whate’er his laws injoin,
In Jesu’s steps to tread,
To perfect holiness below,
Yet still on Christ depend;
And walking after him, I know
My walk in heaven shall end.
This be the genuine proof of mine
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “This is love, that we walk after his commandments.”—[2 John] 6. 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 213.
Publishing: Public Domain