LiturgyTools.net: Hymns for the 4th Sunday after Epiphany, Year C

A selection of hymns and song suggestions, based on themes from the Revised Common lectionary for the fourth Sunday after Epiphany, Year C.

Most are free-to-use (ie public domain or copyright-free) meaning the words can be copied and sung to at least one tune with no concerns about copyright or performance licensing. Many such hymns are old/traditional - but where possible a variety of styles / genres are included. A selection hymns which are still copyright may be included, where these are particularly appropriate.

Suggestions about other hymns that could be included are welcome: leave a message in the Comments box near the bottom of the page.

3rd Sunday of Epiphany, Year C

5th Sunday of Epiphany, Year C

Readings

First: Jeremiah 1:4-10 - Before I formed you ... I knew you. I have appointed you as a prophet. I am with you.

Psalm: Psalm 71 - In you O Lord I take refuge

Second: I Corinthians 13:1-13 - Love is patient and kind ... faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love.

Gospel: Luke 4: 21-30 - Jesus speaks in the synagogue - a prophet is never accepted in his own country.

Themes

The role of the prophet - trusting in God. The complementary nature of love and prophecy.

Free-use artworks

See lectionary art for this Sunday for suggested pictures and art-works based on today's readings.

Free-use hymns

A Charge to keep I Have - Wesley
A Mighty Fortress is Our God - Hedge, trans from Luther
All my Hope On God is Founded
Be Thou my Vision
Blessed be the Ties that Bind / Blest be the Tie that Binds
Blest are the Poor in Heart
Bright the Vision that Delighted - Mant (1776-1848)
Christ For the World we Sing - Wolcott
Christ is our Corner-Stone - Chandler
Come Down O Love Divine
Come Holy Ghost our Souls Inspire (And lighten with celestial fire) - Cosin
Come let us Sing of a Wonderful Love - Walmsley

Dear Jesus in Whose Life I See - Hunter
Draw Me Nearer (I am Thine, O Lord, I have heard Thy voice) - Crosby
Draw us in the Spirit’s Tether
Fairest Lord Jesus - Unknown
Fill Thou my Life - Horatius Bonar (1808-1889)
Give Me the Faith Which Can Remove - Wesley
Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken
God be in my Head (the Sarum Prayer)
God is Love His the Care
God is love the Heavens tell It - John Willard Peterson (1921-2006)
God is Love: Let Heaven Adore Him - Rees (1874-1939)
God of Grace and God of Glory - Fosdick (1878-1969) - free use in the USA
God, whose Almighty Word - Marriott
Gracious Spirit Holy Ghost - Wordsworth

Hail Thou Once Despised Jesus - Toplady
Hail to the Lord's Anointed
He Came Down - Unknown
Help us to Help Each Other Lord - Wesley
Here O my Lord I See Thee Face to Face - Bonar
How Firm A Foundation - Keith / Keen
How Lovely Is Your Church, O Lord - Gillette
How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds
I Will Sing of the Mercies of the Lord - James Henry Fillmore (1849-1936)
I'm Not Ashamed To Own my Lord - Watts
In Christ there is no East or West
Jerusalem the Golden - John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
Jesus Calls us O’er the Tumult - Alexander
Jesus Lover of my Soul - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
Jesus Shall Reign Where’er the Sun - Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
Jesus United By Thy Grace - Wesley

Lead on O King Eternal - Shurtleff (1862-1917)
Lift Every Voice and Sing - John R Johnson (1873–1954), adapt from James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)
Lord I Want to be A Christian - Unknown - Afro/American
Lord, Speak to Me that I May Speak - Havergal
Love Came Down at Christmas
Love Consecrates the Humblest Act - S. B. McManus (1845-1917)
Love Divine all Loves Excelling
Loving Shepherd of Thy Sheep / The Good Shepherd - Leeson
May the Mind of Christ my Saviour - Wilkinson
Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone - Shepherd
My God I Love Thee (My Eternal King) - St. Francis Xavier's Hymn of Love - Edward Caswall (1814-1878)
My God, How Wonderful Thou Art - Faber
My Heart is Full of Christ - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
Nothing Between my Soul and my Savior - Tindley

O Come Divine Messiah
O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing - Wesley
O God Our Help in Ages Past
O Jesus I Have Promised
O Love How Deep How Broad How High - Webb, trans from á Kempis
O Love that Wilt Not Let Me Go - Matheson
O Master Let me Walk with Thee (You) - Gladden
O Perfect Love all Human Thought Transcending - Gurney
O the Deep Deep Love of Jesus - Francis (1834-1925)
O Word of God Incarnate - How
O Young and Fearless Prophet - Harlow (1885-1972) - free use in the USA
Oh I Know the Lord's Laid His Hands on Me - Unknown
On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry
Rejoice the Lord is King
Son of God Eternal Savior - Lowry
Speak Lord in the Stillness - Crawford (1864-1927)
Standing in the Need of Prayer - Unknown

Teach Me my God and King - Herbert
The God of Abraham Praise - Olivers
The People that in Darkness Walked - Morison
The Voice of God is Calling - Holmes (1879-1964) - free use in the USA
There's a Song in the Air - Holland
There's a Wideness in God's Mercy (Souls of men, why will ye scatter) - Faber
This is my Commandment | Love One Another | That your Joy may be Filled - Unknown
This Little Light of Mine - Unknown
Thou Hidden Source of Calm Repose - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
Thy Words to Me - Martin (1865-1937)
We'll Understand It Better By and By - Charles Albert Tindley (1851-1933)
What Shall we Offer Our Good Lord - Wesley, trans from Spangenberg
Where He Leads me I Will Follow - Blandly (1849-?)

Hymns that may still be copyright

A New Commandment
Although I Speak With Angel's Tongue - Andrew Donaldson (b. 1951)
As Gentle as Silence / Oh the love of my Lord is the essence - Estelle White
Before the Sun Burned Bright - Daniel Schutte
Centre of my Life - Paul Inwood (b. 1947)

Go Tell Everyone (God's Spirit is in my Heart) - Dale / Richards - Dale / Richards
Go Walk with God - Gillette
God Bless the Poet’s Heart and Hand - Gillette
God Hath Spoken by His Prophets - Briggs (1875-1959)
God Whose Love is Always Stronger - Gillette
Have you Heard God’s Voice - Jones
He Comes to Us as One Unknown - Timothy Dudley-Smith (1926-2024)
Here I am Lord (I the Lord of Sea and Sky) - Schutte
Here in Christ we Gather (God is Love) - James Quinn (1919-2010)
How Shall They Hear the Word of God - Perry (1942-1996)

In the Heart Where Love is Abiding God is in that Heart - Wigmore
Into One we all are Gathered (Where charity and love are) - Michael Cockett (b 1938)
Lay Your Hands Gently Upon Us - Landry - Landry
Let There be Love Shared Among Us - Bilborough
Listen for God - Andrew Brown (b, 1948)
Live in Charity (Ubi Caritas) - Les Presses de Taize
Lord You Give the Great Commission - Rowthorn (1934)
Love (If I am lacking love) - Lundy
Loving Spirit, Loving Spirit - Murray (1931 -2020)