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How Can You Live Without Jesus?

O how can you live without Jesus, my friend

Tune: [O how can you live without Jesus, my friend]
Published in 4 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 O how can you live without Jesus, my friend,
That Saviour so tender and true,
Whose love knows no measure, no change, and no end,
Who offers it freely to you?

Refrain:
How can you? how can you?
O how without Him can you live or die?
O come; believe; salvation receive;
And praise Him forever on high.

2 O how can you live without Jesus alone?
‘Tis He bears our burdens away;
No other escape; His own blood must atone;
His life must your penalty pay. [Refrain]

3 He’s all that you need; He entreats you to come;
He calls you in mercy today;
Tomorrow may seal your eternity’s doom;
There’s danger and death in delay. [Refrain]

Source: Sacred Songs No. 1: compiled and arranged for use in gospel meetings, Sunday schools, prayer meetings and other religious services #89

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Text Information

First Line: O how can you live without Jesus, my friend
Title: How Can You Live Without Jesus?
Language: English
Refrain First Line: How can you? how can you?
Copyright: Public Domain
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Christian Endeavor Edition of Sacred Songs No. 1 #89

Christian Endeavor Edition of Sacred Songs No. 1 #89
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One Hundred Choice Hymns #28

One Hundred Choice Hymns #28
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One Hundred Choice Hymns #36

One Hundred Choice Hymns #36
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Sacred Songs No. 1 #89

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