Misc Praise Songs – If I Gained The World But Lost The Savior (Guitar)

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Were my life worth living for a day?

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Could my yearning heart find rest and comfort

                                  C
In the things that soon must pass away?

     F                              C
If I gained the world, but lost the Savior,

                 F         G        C
Would my gain be worth the lifelong strife?

        F                       C
Are all earthly pleasures worth comparing

             F      G             C
For a moment with a Christ-filled life?

C                                G
Had I wealth and love in fullest measure,

                                C
And a name revered both far and near,

                              G
Yet no hope beyond, no harbor waiting,

                                     C
Where my storm-tossed vessel I could steer;

     F                              G
If I gained the world, but lost the Savior,

                F         G        C
Who endured the cross and died for me,

           F                       C
Could then all the world afford a refuge,

               F        G       C
Whither, in my anguish, I might flee?

C                            G
O what emptiness without the Savio’r!

                              C
Mid the sins and sorrows here below!

                               G
And eternity, how dark without Him!

                                 C
Only night and tears and endless woe!

             F                        C
What, though I might live without the Savior,

        F           G            C
When I come to die, how would it be?

      F                              C
O to face the valley’s gloom without Him!

     F          G          C
And without Him all eternity!

C                          G
O the joy of having all in Jesus!

                                C
What a balm the broken heart to heal!

                                        G
Ne’er a sin so great, but He’ll forgive it,

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Nor a sorrow that He does not feel!

       F                    C
If I have but Jesus, only Jesus,

          F           G           C
Nothing else in all the world beside—

        F                     C
O then everything is mine in Jesus;

        F              G          C
For my needs and more He will provide.