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Holy Spirit, gracious guest

Representative text

As printed in The Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal (1985), no. 589.

Verse 1

Holy Spirit, gracious guest, Hear and grant our heart’s request For that gift supreme and best: Holy heav’nly love.

Verse 2

Faith that mountains could remove, Tongues of earth or heaven above, Knowledge, all things, empty prove If I have no love.

Verse 3

Though I as a martyr bleed, Give my goods the poor to feed, All is vain if love I need: Therefore give me love.

Verse 4

Love is kind and suffers long, Love is pure and thinks no wrong, Love than death it self more strong: Therefore give us love.

Verse 5

Prophecy will fade away, Melting in the light of day; Love will ever with us stay: Therefore give us love.

Verse 6

Faith and hope and love we see Joining hand in hand agree— But the greatest of the three, And the best is love.

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