My Jesus, I love thee (Jonathan Adkins)

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• (Posted 2025-09-29)  CPDL #86922: 

Editor: Rev Jonathan Adkins (submitted 2025-09-29).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 186 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: SATB + piano arrangement suitable for church choir or community ensemble. The composer releases this piece into the public domain.

General Information

Title: My Jesus, I Love Thee
Composer: Jonathan Adkins
Lyricist: William R. Featherston
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem   Meter: 11 11. 11 11

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 2008
Description: A new composition taken from the text of the familiar Christian hymn of 19th-century North America.

Original text and translations

English text

1. My Jesus, I love thee, I know thou art mine;
for thee all the follies of sin I resign;
my gracious Redeemer, my Savior art thou;
if ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.

2. I love thee because thou hast first loved me
and purchased my pardon on Calvary's tree;
I love thee for wearing the thorns on thy brow;
if ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.

3. I'll love thee in life, I will love thee in death,
and praise thee as long as thou lendest me breath,
and say when the deathdew lies cold on my brow:
If ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.

4. In mansions of glory and endless delight,
I'll ever adore thee in heaven so bright;
I'll sing with the glittering crown on my brow:
If ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.