Church Hymnal for Lutheran Services ‎#39

39. Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness

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 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."

3 Bold shall I stand in Thy great day,
For who aught to my charge shall lay?
Fully through these absolved I am
From sin and fear, from guilt and shame.

4 This spotless robe the same appears,
When ruined nature sinks in years;
No age can change its glorious hue;
Thy blood preserves it ever new.

5 And when the dead shall hear Thy voice,
Thy banished children shall rejoice;
Their beauty this, their glorious dress,
Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness!

Text Information

• First Line: Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness
• Author: Zinzendorf
• Translator: J. Wesley
• Meter: L. M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1911
• Topic: General Hymns; Redemption and Justification
• Notes: Now Public Domain.

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