{"id":8937,"date":"2025-12-14T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/2025\/12\/14\/hymn-327-id-rather-have-jesus-lyrics\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:16:08","slug":"hymn-327-id-rather-have-jesus-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/new-english-seventh-day-adventist-hymnal\/hymn-327-id-rather-have-jesus-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hymn 327 I&#8217;D RATHER HAVE JESUS Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"entry-title\">New English Seventh Day Adventist Hymnal<\/h2>\n<h2>Hymn 327 I&#8217;D RATHER HAVE JESUS Lyrics<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1<br \/>\nI&#8217;d rather have Jesus than silver or gold;<br \/>\nI&#8217;d rather be His than have riches untold;<br \/>\nI&#8217;d rather have Jesus than houses or land;<br \/>\nI&#8217;d rather be led by His nailpierced hand:<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS:<br \/>\nThan to be the king of a vast domain or be held in sin&#8217;s dread sway!<br \/>\nI&#8217;d rather have Jesus than anything this world affords today.<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\nI&#8217;d rather have Jesus than men&#8217;s applause;<br \/>\nI&#8217;d rather be faithful to His dear cause;<br \/>\nI&#8217;d rather have Jesus than worldwide fame;<br \/>\nI&#8217;d rather be true to His holy name:<\/p>\n<p>3<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s fairer than lilies of rarest bloom;<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s sweeter than honey from out the coomb;<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s all that my hungering spirit needs<br \/>\nI&#8217;d rather have Jesus and let Him lead:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New English Seventh Day Adventist Hymnal Hymn 327 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 land; I&#8217;d rather be led by His nailpierced hand: CHORUS: Than to be the king of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-english-seventh-day-adventist-hymnal"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937","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=8937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}