Lutheran Book of Worship ‎#302

302. 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
• Translator: John Wesley, 1703-1791 (alt.)
• Author: Nicolaus L. von Zinzendorf, 1700-1760
• Meter: L M
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1978
• Topic: Justification; Atonement

Tune Information

• Name: O JESU CHRISTE, WAHRES LICHT
• Meter: L M
• Key: G Major
• Source: Gesang-Buch, Nürnberg, 1676
• Copyright: Setting © 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship