{"id":3486,"date":"2025-12-13T19:13:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/2025\/12\/13\/hymn-231-ive-found-a-friend-o-such-lyrics\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T19:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:14:07","slug":"hymn-231-ive-found-a-friend-o-such-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/all-believer-hymn-book\/hymn-231-ive-found-a-friend-o-such-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hymn 231 I&#8217;VE FOUND A FRIEND O SUCH Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Believer Hymn Book<\/p>\n<p>Hymn 231 I&#8217;VE FOUND A FRIEND O SUCH Lyrics<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. I&#8217;ve found a friend, O such a friend!<br \/>\n\tChrist loved me ere I knew Him;<br \/>\n\tHe drew me with the cords of love,<br \/>\n\tAnd thus He bound me to Him;<br \/>\n\tAnd round my heart still closely twine<br \/>\n\tThose ties which naught can sever,<br \/>\n\tFor I am His, and Christ is mine,<br \/>\n\tForever and forever.<\/p>\n<p>\t2. I&#8217;ve found a friend, O such friend!<br \/>\n\tHe bled, He died to save me;<br \/>\n\tAnd not alone the gift of life,<br \/>\n\tBut His own self He gave me;<br \/>\n\tNaught that I have my own I call,<br \/>\n\tI hold it for the giver,<br \/>\n\tMy heart, my strength, my life, my all<br \/>\n\tAre His, and His forever.<\/p>\n<p>\t3. I&#8217;ve found a friend, O such friend!<br \/>\n\tAll power to Him is given,<br \/>\n\tTo guard me on my onward course,<br \/>\n\tAnd bring me safe to heaven:<br \/>\n\tTh&#8217; eternal glories gleam afar<br \/>\n\tTo nerve my faint endeavour,<br \/>\n\tSo now to watch, to work, to war,<br \/>\n\tAnd them to rest forever.<\/p>\n<p>\t4. I&#8217;ve found a friend, O such friend!<br \/>\n\tSo kind and true and tender,<br \/>\n\tSo wise a counselor and guide,<br \/>\n\tSo mighty a defender!<br \/>\n\tFrom Him who loves me now so<br \/>\n\tWell what power my soul can sever?<br \/>\n\tShall life or death or earth or hell?<br \/>\n\tNo; I am His forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Believer Hymn Book Hymn 231 I&#8217;VE FOUND A FRIEND O SUCH Lyrics &nbsp; 1. I&#8217;ve found a friend, O such a friend! Christ loved me ere I knew Him; He drew me with the cords of love, And thus He bound me to Him; And round my heart still closely twine Those ties which [&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-3486","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\/3486","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=3486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4578,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions\/4578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}