If I gained the world, but lost the Saviour,
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 Saviour,
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 harbour waiting,
Where my storm-tossed vessel I could steer;
If I gained the world, but lost the Saviour,
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 Saviour
'Mid the sins and sorrows here below!
And eternity, how dark without Him!
Only night and tears and endless woe!
What, tho' I might live without the Saviour,
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.

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若得這世界，但失去救主，
多活一天又有何價值？
在短瞬即逝的人間事物，
豈能叫飢渴心靈安舒？
若得這世界，但失去救主，
我鬥爭一生所得為何？
世上所有享樂怎能相比，
片刻基督充滿的生活？

若財富和愛都豐盛滿盈，
且有遠近崇敬的盛名，
沒有盼望也沒泊岸港口，
漂泊小船可駛往何處？
若得這世界，但失去救主，
為我釘十架受死的主，
世上怎能尋得一庇護所，
在我大難之日可逃往？

噢！若沒有救主，真是空虛！
在這罪惡憂傷的世界！
沒有主的永恆何其黑暗！
只有無窮黑夜與悲傷！
沒有主我或以為可生活，
生命走盡時究竟怎樣？
噢！沒有主面對死蔭幽谷！
沒有主在無盡的永恆！

噢！在主裡有一切真快樂！
醫治破碎心靈的良藥！
無論罪何重但祂能赦免，
無一憂傷祂不能體恤！
若我只有耶穌，獨有耶穌，
在這世界卻一無所有，
噢！那麼在主裡一切屬我，
祂必供給我一切所需。