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Amazing Grace

Words by John Newton (1725–1807) · Public domain

The words

  1. Stanza 1. Amazing grace! how sweet the soundThat saved a wretch like me!I once was lost, but now am found;Was blind, but now I see.

  2. Stanza 2. ’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,And grace my fears relieved;How precious did that grace appear,The hour I first believed!

  3. Stanza 3. Thro’ many dangers, toils, and snares,I have already come;’Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,And grace will lead me home.

Text as printed in Christ in Song (Revised and Enlarged), 1908, no. 765. Public domain. www.praylock.com/hymnal/amazing-grace

About this text

Words
John Newton, 1725–1807
Source
Christ in Song (Revised and Enlarged) (1908), no. 765. See the 1908 page
Credited in 1908 as
J. Newton
Public domain
Printed in 1908; the writer died in 1807, more than 100 years ago.

Notes on this text

  • The first three of Newton’s six stanzas (Olney Hymns, 1779), as printed in 1908. The well-known “When we’ve been there ten thousand years” stanza is not Newton’s and is not in this book.
  • Stanza 3, line 3: Newton wrote “’Tis grace has brought me safe thus far”; the 1908 book prints “hath”.

Index entry: Hymnary.org. Checked against the page scan on .

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