589- Holy Spirit Gracious Guest
Christian Life: Love for One Another
1
- Holy Spirit, gracious guest,
- Hear and grant our heart's request
- For that gift supreme and best
- Holy heav'nly love.
2
- Faith that mountains could remove,
- Tongues of earth or heaven above,
- Knowledge, all things, empty prove
- If I have no love.
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.
4
- Love is kind and suffers long,
- Love is pure and thinks no wrong;
- Love than death ifself more strong:
- Therefore give us love.
5
- Prophecy will fade away,
- Melting in the light of day;
- Love will ever with us stay:
- Therefore give us love.
6
- Faith and hope and love we see
- Joining hand in had agree-
- But the greatest of the three,
- And the best is love.