Tune: Serenity
(\'Immortal love, for ever full\')
1 John 3 v.16-19
For St John\'s Day - Dec 27.
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Hereby we do God\'s love perceive
And all may it receive
Because He in His Son He gave
His life, us all to save
And we ought to our lives down lay
In this our age and day
For one another, world\'s goods share
Show practical love there
For if we can help, and see need
Provide, or others feed
If we shut up our compassion
Not help the needy one
How then in us does God\'s love dwell?
What deeds can others tell
Of us, if we not love in deed
But only to words heed?
Let it be actions, not only
Words, thus we love truly
And can know we of the truth are
In loving near and far