ELHB Hymn 326

Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness

Nicolaus Ludwig, Graf von Zinzendorf (1739)

Hymn Text

326. Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness

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1 Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness,
My beauty are, my glorious dress,
'Midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed,
With joy shall I lift up my head.
2 Bold shall I stand in that great day,
For who aught to my charge shall lay?
Fully through these absolved I am
From sin and fear, from guilt and shame.
3 The holy, meek, unspotted Lamb,
Who from the Father's bosom came,
Who died for me, e'en me to atone,
Now for my Lord and God I own.
4 Lord, I believe Thy precious blood
Which at the mercy-seat of God
Forever doth for sinners plead,
For me--e'en for my soul--was shed.
5 Lord, I believe were sinners more
Than sands upon the ocean shore,
Thou hast for all a ransom paid,
For all a full atonement made.
6 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 hath lived, and died, for me.

Source noted on Hymnary: Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-book #326