Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isaiah 1:18
Words: L. N., in Sunshine for Sunday Schools, by Philip P. Bliss (Cincinnati, Ohio & Chicago, Illinois: John Church and George Root & Sons, 1873), page 21.
Music: Philip P. Bliss (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know the author’s name, or where to get a good photo of him (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
What! lay my sins on Jesus?
God’s well belovèd Son!
No! ’tis a truth most precious,
That God even that has done.
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Hallelujah, Jesus saves me,
He makes me white as snow.
Hallelujah, Jesus saves me,
He makes me white as snow.
Yes, ’tis a truth most precious,
To all who do believe,
God laid our sins on Jesus,
Who did the load receive.
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What! bring our guilt to Jesus?
To wash away our stains;
The act is passed that freed us,
And naught to do remains.
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