Once I Was Dead in Sin HE LOVED ME—Philip Paul Bliss Once I Was Dead in Sin 1 Once I was dead in sin, And hope within me died; But now I’m dead to sin— With Jesus crucified. Chorus And can it be that “He loved me, And gave himself for me?” 2 Oh height I cannot reach, Oh depth I cannot sound, Oh, love, O boundless love, In my Redeemer found! 3 O cold, ungrateful heart That can from Jesus turn, When living fires of love Should on His altar burn. 4 I live—and yet not I, But Christ that lives