Hymns Based on Romans 8:38

By Gracious Powers is Fred Pratt Green's five-stanza English versification of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's seven-stanza German poem Von guten Mächten, written in a Berlin prison in December 1944.

“Children of the Heavenly Father” is a hymn of assurance built around the identity of believers as God’s children.

Hark! Ten Thousand Harps and Voices is Thomas Kelly's hymn of praise to the exalted Christ.

His Love Is Far Better Than Gold is an early twentieth-century gospel song by Alfred Henry Ackley, who wrote both its words and music.

I've Found a Friend, O Such a Friend is a hymn of Christian assurance built around a striking claim: the believer discovers in Jesus not an abstract religious ideal but a Savior whose friendship is defined by prior love, self-giving sacrifice, faithful guidance, and enduring protection.

If Death My Friend and Me Divide is Charles Wesley’s compact meditation on Christian grief.

“In Christ Alone” is a modern creedal hymn that places Christian confidence in the person and saving work of Jesus Christ.

In Thee Is Gladness is not chiefly a hymn about cheerful circumstances.

Jesu, Thy Boundless Love to Me is a prayer that asks Christ’s love to occupy the whole life of the believer.

Jesus Loves Me began not in a hymnal but in a Victorian novel, where a teacher sings to a gravely ill child.

Jesus Priceless Treasure is the English form most closely associated with Catherine Winkworth's translation of Johann Franck's German hymn Jesu, meine Freude.

“Nothing Between” is a gospel hymn of consecration.

Now I Belong to Jesus is Norman J.

O For a Heart to Praise My God is Charles Wesley’s prayer for the inward renewal that makes a life of praise possible.

O Love of God Most Full is a compact prayer that asks for divine love to become an experienced, governing reality rather than a merely stated doctrine.

O Love of God, How Strong and True is Horatius Bonar's expansive meditation on divine love as something far greater than religious sentiment.

“O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go” is a hymn of surrender grounded in the conviction that God’s love is more steadfast than the believer’s strength.

“Of Jesus’ Love That Sought Me,” more commonly titled “Sweeter as the Years Go By,” is a 1912 gospel song by Lelia Naylor Morris, who wrote both its text and tune.

Stand By Me is a gospel hymn of petition and trust in which Charles Albert Tindley places the believer’s troubles within the larger reality of God’s sustaining presence.

Under His Wings is a gospel hymn of refuge and assurance built around one of Scripture’s most tender images for divine protection.

Your Love, O God is an English translation of Anders Frostenson's 1968 Swedish hymn Guds kärlek är som stranden och som gräset.