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Hymnal Number
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Keys included:
D
About this Hymn
In Isaiah the Lord describes our sin as being as red as scarlet. Red is a color used often to describe sin and guilt in the Bible. Red dye in a cloth could never be removed. But the Lord goes on to say that our sins would become as white as snow. This image is used in the Bible to describe purity and being clean. Only Jesus, through his death on the cross, could make us pure again from the red stain of sin and make our hearts white like snow. He took our red stains on himself so that we could be made pure.
Lyrics
Verse 1
I hear the Savior say, "Thy strength indeed is small. Child of weakness, watch and pray; find in me thine all in all."
Chorus
Jesus paid it all; all to him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain— he washed it white as snow.
Verse 2
Lord, now indeed I find thy pow'r and thine alone can change the leper's spots and melt the heart of stone.
Verse 3
For nothing good have I whereby thy grace to claim; I'll wash my garments white in the blood of Calv'ry's Lamb.
Verse 4
And when before the throne I stand in him complete, "Jesus died, my soul to save," my lips shall still repeat.
I hear the Savior say, "Thy strength indeed is small. Child of weakness, watch and pray; find in me thine all in all."
Chorus
Jesus paid it all; all to him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain— he washed it white as snow.
Verse 2
Lord, now indeed I find thy pow'r and thine alone can change the leper's spots and melt the heart of stone.
Verse 3
For nothing good have I whereby thy grace to claim; I'll wash my garments white in the blood of Calv'ry's Lamb.
Verse 4
And when before the throne I stand in him complete, "Jesus died, my soul to save," my lips shall still repeat.
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Attribution & Copyright
Words: Elvina M. Hall, 1865
Music: John T. Grape, 1868
Music: John T. Grape, 1868