Serving Friends

Tune: St Anne [Series: Hymns to Saints Tunes 21]

('O God our help in ages past')

John 15 v.12-17

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This is Jesus' command, that we

Love one another, see

Greater love has no one than this

What be it? It not miss

It is that one their life down lay

For their friends, said that day

When Jesus said too, You my friends

Be, loved unto the end

We are His friends, if we so do

What He commands, e'en you

Henceforth servants He calls us not

But friends, happy our lot

For servants know not what their lord

Does, but Jesus His word

Has spoken from the Father to

Us, His friends, even you

We have not chosen Him, but He

Has chosen us, so be

And appointed us, that we go

And bear fruit, it is so

And that our fruit, it should remain

What we ask Father plain

In Jesus' name, He shall it give

Love one another, live