What never, never more to sin!
When shall I so abide in thee?
Open thine heart and take me in,
Plunge in the depths of deity
A soul that to thy bosom flies
From sin: possest of this high prize,
I ask no other paradise.
What, never, never more to sin
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Whosoever abideth in him, sinneth not.”—[1 John] iii. 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 203.
Publishing: Public Domain