362. 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,
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
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
Name: ST. CRISPIN
Composer: George J. Elvey, 1816-93
Meter: LM
Key: D Major



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