{"id":3404,"date":"2025-12-13T19:10:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/2025\/12\/13\/hymn-161-id-rather-have-jesus-lyrics\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T19:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:10:45","slug":"hymn-161-id-rather-have-jesus-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/all-believer-hymn-book\/hymn-161-id-rather-have-jesus-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hymn 161 I&#8217;D RATHER HAVE JESUS Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Believer Hymn Book<\/p>\n<p>Hymn 161 I&#8217;D RATHER HAVE JESUS Lyrics<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. I&#8217;d rather have Jesus than silver or gold;<br \/>\n\tI&#8217;d rather be his than have riches untold;<br \/>\n\tI&#8217;d rather have Jesus than houses or lands.<br \/>\n\tI&#8217;d rather be led by his nail pierced hand.<\/p>\n<p>\tChorus:<br \/>\n\tThan to be the king of a vast domain<br \/>\n\tOr be held in sin&#8217;s dread sway.<br \/>\n\tI&#8217;d rather have Jesus than anything<br \/>\n\tThis world affords today.<\/p>\n<p>\t2. I&#8217;d rather have Jesus than men&#8217;s applause;<br \/>\n\tI&#8217;d rather be faithful to His dear cause;<br \/>\n\tI&#8217;d rather have Jesus than world wide frame.<br \/>\n\tI&#8217;d rather be true to His Holy name.<\/p>\n<p>\t3. He&#8217;s fairer than lilies of rarest bloom;<br \/>\n\tHe&#8217;s sweeter than honey from out the comb;<br \/>\n\tHe&#8217;s all that my hungering spirit needs.<br \/>\n\tI&#8217;d rather have Jesus and let Him lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Believer Hymn Book Hymn 161 I&#8217;D RATHER HAVE JESUS Lyrics &nbsp; 1. I&#8217;d rather have Jesus than silver or gold; I&#8217;d rather be his than have riches untold; I&#8217;d rather have Jesus than houses or lands. I&#8217;d rather be led by his nail pierced hand. Chorus: Than to be the king of a vast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-believer-hymn-book"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4385,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions\/4385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}