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If I gained the world, but lost the Savior
Were my life worth living for a day?
Could my yearning heart find rest and comfort
In the things that soon must pass away?
If I gained the world, but lost the Savio,
Would my gain be worth the lifelong strife?
Are all earthly pleasures worth comparing
For a moment with a Christ-filled life?

Had I wealth and love in fullest measure
And a name revered both far and near
Yet no hope beyond, no harbor waiting
Where my storm-tossed vessel I could steer;
If I gained the world, but lost the Savior
Who endured the cross and died for me
Could then all the world afford a refuge
Whither, in my anguish, I might flee?

O what emptiness! without the Savior
'Mid the sins and sorrows here below!
And eternity, how dark without Him!
Only night and tears and endless woe!
What, though I might live without the Savior
When I come to die, how would it be?
O to face the valley’s gloom without Him!
And without Him all eternity!

O the joy of having all in Jesus!
What a balm the broken heart to heal!
Ne'er a sin so great, but He'll forgive it
Nor a sorrow that He does not feel!
If I have but Jesus, only Jesus
Nothing else in all the world beside
O then everything is mine in Jesus;
For my needs and more He will provide.

About the Gospel Song If I Gained The World

The lyrics to "If I Gained The World" are by Anna Ölander.