Grieve Not the Holy Spirit of God

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Composer
Philip M. Young
Difficulty
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Season
Season After Pentecost General
Voicing(s)
SATB
Instruments
Keyboard [organ/piano]
Category
Anthems
Instrumental Only?
No
Description

SATB and Organ. A gentle and immensely satisfying setting of this text from Ephesians 4:30-32. Especially appropriate in troubling times, this is an anthem that you'll want to do again and again.

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Lyrics

Grieve not the holy Spirit of God,
in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander
be put away from you, with all malice;
and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another,
as God in Christ forgave you.