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    "text": "Ten thousand talents once I owed,",
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    "text": "And nothing had to pay;",
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    "text": "But Jesus freed me from the load,",
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    "text": "And wash’d my debt away.",
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    "text": "Yet since the Lord forgave my sin,",
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    "text": "And blotted out my score,",
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    "text": "Much more indebted I have been",
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    "text": "My guilt is cancel’d quite, I know.",
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    "text": "And satisfaction made;",
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    "text": "But the vast debt of love I owe",
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    "text": "The love I owe for sin forgiven,",
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    "text": "For power to believe,",
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    "text": "For present peace and promised heaven,",
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    "text": "No angel can conceive.",
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    "text": "That love of thine, thou sinner’s Friend!",
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    "text": "Witness thy bleeding heart!",
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    "text": "My little all can ne’er extend",
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    "text": "To pay a thousandth part.",
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    "text": "Nay, more; the poor returns I make,",
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    "text": "I first from thee obtain;",
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    "text": "And ’tis of grace that thou wilt take",
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    "text": "Such poor returns again.",
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    "text": "’Tis well⁠—it shall my glory be,",
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    "text": "(Let who will boast their store,)",
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    "text": "In time and to eternity,",
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    "text": "To owe thee more and more.",
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