O take away this evil heart

Verse 1

O take away this evil heart; This heart of unbelief renew; So prone, so eager to depart From Thee, the living God and true.

Verse 2

O crucify this carnal mind, 'Tis enmity, my God, to Thee; I cannot love Thee, till I find The mind that was in Christ in me.

Verse 3

O sanctify this sinful soul; Health to the dying leper give; Thou, if Thou wilt, canst make me whole; Speak but the word, and I shall live.

Verse 4

O disenthrall this captive will, (Free only when Thou mak'st it free,) That I may glory to fulfil Thy perfect law of liberty.

Verse 5

Then, though through life, a worm of earth, In death returning to the clod, I shall become, by second birth, An heir of heaven, a child of God.