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Come happy souls, approach your God Christ's commission, John 3. 16 17

Isaac Watts printed it in 1707 in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book II, no. 103, under John 3:16–17.

WRITTEN BY

Isaac Watts 1674–1748

PRINTED

1707 Hymns and Spiritual Songs · no. 103

METRE

Common Metre 8.6.8.6 · 6 stanzas

WRITTEN ON

John 3:16–17 the verse printed above it

The hymn, and the Scripture in it

All 6 stanzas as Watts 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

AMONG THE SCRIPTURES

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a line echoes this verse its heading or an echo comes from here

STANZA I

Come happy souls, approach your God

With new melodious songs;

Come, render to almighty grace

The tribute of your tongues.

No line of this stanza quotes a verse closely; it is the hymn's own confession.

Where Watts found it

Watts printed the hymn under John 3:16–17. The line that comes closest to it is marked.

16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. JOHN 3:16–17 · BEREAN STANDARD BIBLE READ JOHN 3

So strange, so boundless was the love That pity'd dying men, The Father sent his equal Son To give them life again. STANZA II

Its place in the book

Book II of the hymn book, “Composed on divine subjects”, holds these hymns in this order: 181 hymns. This is number 103. Point at a tick to see the hymn; click it to open that hymn.

NO. 103 · ISAAC WATTS · THIS HYMN Come happy souls, approach your God

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