Take Up Your Cross (Lyrics and Chords)

 Song Title: "Take Up Your Cross" (Lyrics and Chords)

F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Category: Entrance, Lent

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Verse 1

G                     C            D         Em7

Take up your cross, the Savior said, 

    D                        A        D

if you would my disciple be;

D7  G                        C          D

Deny yourself, the world forsake,

      G           C           D7    G

and humbly follow after me.

Verse 2

Take up your cross, let not its weight

fill your weak spirit with alarm;

His strength shall bear your spirit up,

Shall brace your heart and nerve your arm.

Verse 3

Take up your cross, then in his strength,

and ev'ry danger calmly brave,

To guide you to a better home,

and vict'ry over death and grave.

Verse 4

Take up your cross and follow Christ,

nor think till death to lay it down;

For only he who bears the cross may

hope to wear the glorious crown.

Verse 5

To you, great Lord, the One in three,

all praise forever more ascend;

O grant us here below to see

the heav'nly life that knows no end.

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