Nathan Partain - Jesus Thy Blood And Righteousness

      Title:  Jesus Thy Blood and Righteousness
Words:  Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, 1739.
Translation & Published:  John Wesley, Hymns and Sac­red Po­ems, 1739.
Music:  Nathan Partain, 2010.


VERSE: 1

   G        D         Em      C
Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness

 G        D        Em       C
My beauty is, my glorious dress;

  G              D    Am          G
Midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed,

 G             D Am          C
With joy shall I lift up my head.



VERSE 2:

  G            D       Em         C
Bold shall I stand in that great day,

  G             D          Em     C
Cleansed and redeemed, no debt to pay; 

 G        D       Am            G
Fully absolved through these I am

 G            D          Am         C
From sin and fear, from guilt and shame.


CHORUS:

      G             D             Em       C
So I join with the song with the Lord’s redeemed.

         G              D              Em          C
And I praise with the throngs at the throne of my King!

         G            D             Am          C
Oh the might! Oh the fear! Oh the mercy that’s His,

         G           D            Em             C
In the blood of His Son and the grace that it gives.


VERSE 3:

  G         D          Em      C
Lord, I believe Thy precious blood,

  G           D     Em      C
Which at the mercy seat of God

 G                D       Am  G
Pleads for the captives' liberty,

  G       D      Em      C
Was also shed in love for me.


VERSE 4:

   G           D       Em      C
When from the dust of death I rise

  G          D      Em      C
To claim my mansion in the skies,

  G             D      Am    G
This then shall be my only plea:

  G          D         Em     C
Jesus hath lived and died for me.


CHORUS:

      G             D             Em       C
So I join with the song with the Lord’s redeemed.

         G              D              Em          C
And I praise with the throngs at the throne of my King!

         G            D             Am          C
Oh the might! Oh the fear! Oh the mercy that’s His,

         G           D            Em             C
In the blood of His Son and the grace that it gives.


VERSE 5:

 G             D        Em     C
This spotless robe the same appears,


 G            D      Em      C
When ruined nature sinks in years;


 G           D          Am      G
No age can change its glorious hue,


 G           D         Em   C
The robe of Christ is ever new.


VERSE 6:

 G          D       Em        C
Jesus, be endless praise to Thee,

 G               D     Em      C
Whose boundless mercy hath for me,

  G          D       Am         G
For me, and all Thy hands have made,

 G      D       Em     C
An everlasting ransom paid.


VERSE 7:

G           D      Em         C
O let the dead now hear Thy voice;

 G             D      Em     C

Now bid Thy banished ones rejoice;

  G           D           Am         G

Their beauty this, their glorious dress,

   G         D         Em      C

Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness.



CHORUS:

      G             D             Em       C
So I join with the song with the Lord’s redeemed.

         G              D              Em          C
And I praise with the throngs at the throne of my King!

         G            D             Am          C
Oh the might! Oh the fear! Oh the mercy that’s His,

         G           D            Em             C
In the blood of His Son and the grace that it gives.