Text: | Jesus, Your Blood and Righteousness |
Author: | Nicolaus L. von Zinzendorf, 1700-60 |
Translator: | John Wesley, 1703-91 |
Tune: | ST. CRISPIN |
Composer: | George J. Elvey, 1816-93 |
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,
Cleansed and redeemed, no debt to pay;
For by your cross, absolved I am
From sin and guilt, from fear and shame.
3 Lord, I believe your precious blood,
Which at the mercy seat of God
Pleads for the captives' liberty,
Was also shed in love for me.
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,
This then shall be my only plea:
Christ Jesus lived and died for me.
6 Then shall I praise you and adore
Your blessed name forevermore,
Who once, for me and all you made,
An everlasting ransom paid.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Jesus, your blood and righteousness |
Title: | Jesus, Your Blood and Righteousness |
Author: | Nicolaus L. von Zinzendorf, 1700-60 |
Translator: | John Wesley, 1703-91 (alt.) |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1982 |
Topic: | Atonement; Church Triumphant; Eternal Life(2 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. CRISPIN |
Composer: | George J. Elvey, 1816-93 |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | D Major |