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O! for a closer walk with God Walking with GOD. Gen 5:24

William Cowper printed it in 1779 in Olney Hymns, Book I, no. 3, under Genesis 5:24.

WRITTEN BY

William Cowper 1731–1800

PRINTED

1779 Olney Hymns · no. 3

METRE

Common Metre 8.6.8.6 · 6 stanzas

IN HYMNALS

1,472 listed at Hymnary.org

The hymn, and the Scripture in it

All 6 stanzas as Cowper printed them, with the verses their lines echo beside them. Point at a line to join it to its verse; click to read the passage.

SHARED WORDSthe verse shares the line's wording ECHOproposed by an AI model, confirmed by a separate check Not the author's own notes

Where Cowper found it

Cowper printed the hymn under Genesis 5:24. The line that comes closest to it is marked.

Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away. GENESIS 5:24 · BEREAN STANDARD BIBLE READ GENESIS 5

O! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heav’nly frame; A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb! STANZA I

Its place in the book

Book I of Olney Hymns walks through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, one hymn per passage: 141 hymns. This is number 3. Point at a tick to see the hymn; click it to open that hymn.

NO. 3 · WILLIAM COWPER · THIS HYMN O! for a closer walk with God

Where hymnals place it

Printed hymnals list, for each hymn, the Bible passages it goes with, so a church can choose a hymn for the day's reading. Gathered from the hymnals Hymnary.org catalogues, editors have tied this hymn to 12 passages in 7 books. One square is one passage; a ringed square is one the hymn's own lines echo. Point at a square to read it; click to open it beside the page.

Job 1

Psalms 6

Proverbs 1

Jeremiah 1

Micah 1

1 Thessalonians 1

2 John 1

JOB 29:2–3

2“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me, 3when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,

a passage hymnals tie it to one its lines echo (0)

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