Hymn
All that I Was
All that I was, my sin, my guilt,
My death, was all my own;
All that I am, I owe to Thee,
My gracious God, alone.
The evil of my former state
Was mine, and only mine;
The good in which I now rejoice
Is Thine, and only Thine.
The darkness of my former state,
The bondage, all was mine;
The light of life in which I walk,
The liberty, is Thine.
Thy grace first made me feel my sin,
It taught me to believe;
Then, in believing, peace I found,
And now I live, I live.
All that I am, e'en here on earth,
All that I hope to be
When Jesus comes, and glory dawns,
I owe it, Lord, to Thee.
Amen.
All that I Was — Text from The Hymnal and Order of Service, 1926. Public domain. https://yeshuanow.com/hymns/all-that-i-was
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Questions about this hymn
Who wrote All that I Was?
The words of All that I Was were written by Horatius Bonar; the version here was published in 1926. The library holds 19 more hymns by Horatius Bonar, including I Was A Wandering Sheep and A Few More Years Shall Roll.
Is All that I Was public domain?
Yes. The words here are taken from The Hymnal and Order of Service, published in 1926. Works published before 1931 are out of copyright in the United States, so you can print, project, perform and record this hymn freely. How we source and check every hymn.
What is the metre of All that I Was?
All that I Was is in Common Metre (8.6.8.6). Hymns in the same metre can usually be sung to the same tunes — for example, A Wedding Hymn, Humility and Submission and Soon as I heard my Father say.