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What Shall I Do With Jesus?

What shall I do, then, with Jesus? As said Pontius Pilate of old

Author: H. B. Pender (1922)
Tune: [What shall I do, then with Jesus?] (Cornelius)
Published in 6 hymnals

Printable scores: PDF, Noteworthy Composer
Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 What shall I do, then, with Jesus?
As said Pontius Pilate of old,
The world has so much to please us,
Of honors, of silver and gold.

Refrain:
What shall I do? What shall I do?
The question is old, and ’tis new;
In sickness, in death and the judgment,
O, then, what with me shall He do?

3 What shall I do, then, with Jesus?
Forsaken, and suffering, and sold,
When life is full of diseases,
And I am forsaken and old? [Refrain]

4 What shall I do, then, with Jesus?
Who died on the cross and for sin,
Who else can comfort or lead us,
When billows of death doth roll in? [Refrain]

5 What shall I do, then, with Jesus?
When in the great day I shall stand,
Shall it be with unbelievers?
Or joyfully at His right hand? [Refrain]

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #12653

Author: H. B. Pender

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Text Information

First Line: What shall I do, then, with Jesus? As said Pontius Pilate of old
Title: What Shall I Do With Jesus?
Author: H. B. Pender (1922)
Meter: 8.8.8.8 with refrain
Language: English
Refrain First Line: What shall I do?
Copyright: Public Domain

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The Cyber Hymnal #12653
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The Cyber Hymnal #12653

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