I Will Sing for Jesus

I will sing for Jesus, With His blood He bought me

Author: Ellen M. H. Gates
Tune: SING FOR JESUS
Published in 58 hymnals

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Representative Text

1 I will sing for Jesus,
With his blood he bought me,
And all along my pilgrim way
His loving hand has brought me.

Chorus:
Oh, help me sing for Jesus,
Help me tell the story,
Of him who did redeem us,
The Lord of life and glory

2 Can there overtake me
Any dark disaster
While I can sing for Jesus,
My blessed, blessed Master? [Chorus]

3 I will sing for Jesus,
His name alone prevailing,
Shall be my sweetest music,
When heart and flesh are failing. [Chorus]

Source: Laudes Domini: a selection of spiritual songs, ancient and modern for use in the prayer-meeting #381

Author: Ellen M. H. Gates

Gates, Ellen, née Huntingdon, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, is the author of several popular pieces in the American Mission and Sunday School hymn-books. Of these the following have passed from the American books into Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos:— 1. Come home, come home, you are weary at heart. Invitation. 2. I am now a child of God. Saved through Jesus. 3. I will sing you a song of that beautiful land. Concerning Heaven. 4. O the clanging bells of time. Yearning for Heaven. 5. Say, is your lamp burning, my brother. Watching and Waiting. Concerning her poem which is used as a hymn in America, "If you cannot on the ocean" (Duty), Duffield says her account of its origin is as follows:—"The lines were written upo… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: I will sing for Jesus, With His blood He bought me
Title: I Will Sing for Jesus
Author: Ellen M. H. Gates
Language: English
Refrain First Line: O, help me sing for Jesus
Notes: Spanish translation: See "A Cristo doy mi canto"
Copyright: Public Domain

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The Cyber Hymnal #12244
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