Jesus! What a Friend for Sinners

Jesus! what a Friend for sinners!Jesus! Lover of my soul!Friends may fail me, foes assail me,He, my Savior, makes me whole.

Refrain, after each verseHallelujah! what a Savior!Hallelujah! what a Friend!Saving, helping, keeping, loving,He'll be with me to the end.

Jesus! what a strength in weakness!Let me hide myself in him;Tempted, tried, and sometimes failing,He, my strength, my vict'ry wins.

Jesus! what a help in sorrow!While the billows o'er me roll,Even when my heart is breaking,He, my comfort, helps my soul.

Jesus! what a Guide and Keeper!While the tempest still is high,Storms about me, night o'ertakes me,He, my Pilot, hears my cry.

Jesus! I do now receive him,More than all in him I find;He hath granted me forgiveness;I am his, and he is mine.