Religion

John 15:25: They hated Me without a cause

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 12 (1872)

Religion

Is there such dire malignity
And black ingratitude in man?
Such sin Satanical in me?
With grief and shame I own, I can
Vilest of fiends incarnate prove,
And hate a God whose name is Love.

My mind is hatred against God,
My life rebellion and despite
To Thee, who hast on me bestow'd
Thy Son, Thy soul's supreme delight,
Thus to remove my enmity
As causeless, as Thy love for me.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “John 15:25: They hated Me without a cause.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5952/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “John 15:25: They hated Me without a cause.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5952/.

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