376. Jesus, Your Blood and Righteousness

1 Jesus, your blood and righteousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress;
Mid flaming worlds, in these arrayed,
With joy shall I lift up my head.

2 Bold shall I stand in that great day--
Who can a word against me say?
Fully through you absolved I am
From sin and fear, from guilt and shame.

3 Lord, I believe your precious blood,
Which at the very throne of God
Forever will for sinners plead,
For me -- e'en for my soul -- was shed.

4 Lord, I believe were sinners more
Than sands upon the ocean shore,
You have for all a ransom paid,
For all a full atonement made.

5 When from the dust of death I rise
To claim my mansion in the skies,
E'en then this shall be all my plea:
Jesus has lived and died for me.

6 Jesus, be worshiped endlessly!
Your boundless mercy has for me,
For me and all your hands have made,
An everlasting ransom paid.

Text Information
First Line: Jesus, your blood and righteousness
Title: Jesus, Your Blood and Righteousness
Author: Nicolaus L. von Zinzendorf, 1700-60 (abr.)
Translator: John B. Wesley, 1703-91 (alt.)
Meter: LM
Language: English
Publication Date: 1993
Topic: Justification
Tune Information
Name: ST. CRISPIN
Composer: George J. Elvey, 1816-93
Meter: LM
Key: D Major



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