1.

With your guilty conscience why go on, so ill at ease,
Trying to conceal the things that God so plainly sees,
Suff’ring with a gnawing pain that will not go away?
Why not cleanse your heart this very day?

Chorus:

Be cleansed, then you will have peace!
Freed from guilt—O what release!
Live with a good conscience; don’t reject it.
Be cleansed, then you will have peace!

2.

You feel Satan near you, and he fills your heart with strife,
Plaguing you relentlessly where darkness hides your life.
Bring your life into the light, and he will flee away.
Why don’t you be free of him today?

3.

God bestows His Spirit unto those who Him obey.
Yes, to all obedient souls His grace is great each day.
Time of grace will soon be gone and Judgment Day at hand.
Why not put things right while you still can?

4.

Some won’t let a conscience that is pure in them abide—
Suff’ring shipwreck of their faith by casting it aside;
And they mock the souls who love the light and enter in,
For their minds corrupted are by sin.

5.

Cleanse yourself; the mystery of faith you’ll then perceive.
You’ll learn things the pure alone are able to receive.
Just the pure in heart see God, and blessed souls are they.
Why not heed the Spirit’s call today?

Written in 1937 by Elihu Pedersen (published in 1937)Composed by Elihu PedersenText and melody © Stiftelsen Skjulte Skatters ForlagNorway ⋅ D