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Jesus, Your Blood and Righteousness

The same words as 2 hymnals printed them. Pick two versions to see every change between them: words added, dropped or altered, and verses left out.

22 words changed · 1 stanza only in Hymns and Tunes 1886 #346 · 2 stanzas only in SDA Hymnal #177 · tune 167, 336, 562. → Germany

Verse 1

Jesus, thy blood and righteousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress;
Mid hosts of sins, in these arrayed,
My soul shall never be afraid.

Verse 1

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

Not in this version

Verse 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.

Verse 2

Lord, I believe thy precious blood,
Which at the mercy-seat of God
Forever doth for sinners plead,
Can cleanse my guilty soul, indeed.

Verse 3

Lord, I believe Your precious blood,
Which at the mercy seat of God
Forever does for sinners plead,
For me, even for my soul, was shed.

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Verse 4

When from the dust of death I rise
To claim my mansion in the skies,

Then shall I be fulfilled in these,

And sin and I will Jesus' be.

Verse 3

Lord, I believe were sinners more Than sands upon the ocean shore,
Thou hast for all a ransom paid, For all a full provision made.

Not in this version