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I hear the Savior say,
“Thy strength indeed is small,
Child of weakness, watch and pray,
Find in Me thine all in all.”
“Thy strength indeed is small,
Child of weakness, watch and pray,
Find in Me thine all in all.”
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.
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Lord, now indeed I find
Thy pow’r, and Thine alone,
Can change the leper’s spots,
And melt the heart of stone.
Thy pow’r, and Thine alone,
Can change the leper’s spots,
And melt the heart of stone.
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For nothing good have I
Whereby Thy grace to claim—
I’ll wash my garments white
In the blood of Calv’ry’s Lamb.
Whereby Thy grace to claim—
I’ll wash my garments white
In the blood of Calv’ry’s Lamb.
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And when, before the throne,
I stand in Him complete,
“Jesus died my soul to save,”
My lips shall still repeat.
I stand in Him complete,
“Jesus died my soul to save,”
My lips shall still repeat.
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Nairobi, Kenya
God grace is sufficient. He came for the sinners and no one is greater. Such a blessing song.
Irvine, CA, United States
"Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow."
Thank You Lord Jesus! šš¼
Fairborn, OH, United States
"For nothing good have I
Whereby Thy grace to claim
...
And when, before the throne,
I stand in Him complete."
What a contrast!
Mansfield, Ohio, United States
Jesus paid it all. All to Him I owe. There is no forgiveness of sin without the shedding of blood. So God had to become a man to meet Godās righteousness. He became the perfect ālamb of Godā Selah! His blood washed us white as snow. Since he paid it all there is nothing we can do to accomplish our redemption. Besides nothing good have I to accomplish it. Now there is nothing we can do except present our bodies a living sacrifice . We donāt have to die. Jesus did it all. We just give our life to Him. This is our reasonable service isnāt it?
Conakry, Capitale, Guinea
Qu'il est merveilleux, ce cantique ! Benis soit le Roi des rois!
Storrs, Connecticut, United States
āI Hear the Savior Say, ā is the title of this hymn, also known as āJesus Paid it All. ā
āHow long Pastorās prayer is this morning, ā thought Elvina Hall. Sitting in the choir-loft, Elvinaās mind turned to manās need for salvation, and the price Jesus paid for it. Words began to form themselves. She had to write them down. But she had no paper. She began scribbling on the flyleaf of her hymnbook, she wrote:
I hear the Savior say,
āThy strength indeed is small;
Child of weakness, watch and pray,
Finding Me thine all in all. ā
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.
After the service, she handed the words to her pastor. He connected her with the churchās organist, John Grape, who had recently shared a new tune he had written. Hall and Grape worked together to finish the hymn, and then, at the pastorās urging, they sent the hymn to Professor Theodore Perkins, publisher of the Sabath Carols periodical, where it received its first publication. It has been a favorite of many Christians ever since.
Elvina was a church member for 40 years. Perhaps the pastor may have realized that she was writing instead of listening to him that day but what we do know is that an extraordinary ācoincidenceā occurred at the Monument Street Methodist Church of Baltimore. Organist John Grape had recently written a new tune, and given it to the pastor. The pastor saw that the tune and the poem fit together extremely well. So he united the two and as a result, a most beloved hymn came into being.
Elvina Hall was 45 years old when she wrote this hymn. Born on June 4, 1820, to Captain David Reynolds. She was married first to Richard Hall. They had three children together that lived to adulthood: Agnes, Asenath and Ella, and two that died as infants: Benoni and Ada. When her husband Richard Hall died, she remarried a Methodist minister, Thomas Myers. She died on July 18, 1899. She was buried in the Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore.
Nairobi, Nairobi Municipality, Kenya
Thank you Jesus for your saving grace. Forever grateful that you died for my sins. I am now redeemed and my future assured. Hallelujah.
Murang'a, Kenya
True, were it not for Christ, life would be dull and chaotic. But there is hope in Christ.
Nairobi, Kenya
Yes, JESUS paid it all on the Cross of Calvary for my sins. It reminds me of the suffering our LORD JESUS went through as a ransom. Thank you Jesus Christ for paying my sins through the shedding of your precious blood.
I love this so much because Jesus is the reason while are alive and till eternity