JESUS, THY BLOOD AND RIGHTEOUSNESS
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.Ā
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Bold shall I stand in Thy great day,
For who aught to my charge shall lay?
Fully absolved through these I am,
From sin and fear, from guilt and shame.
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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.
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Jesus, be endless praise to Thee,
Whose boundless mercy hath for me,
For me a full atonement made,
An everlasting ransom paid.
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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, hath died, for me.
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O let the dead now hear Thy voice;
Now bid Thy ransomed ones rejoice;
Their beauty this, their glorious dress,
Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness.
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by Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf, 1739; translated by John Wesley
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