This version of Jesus Paid It All was recorded by the Newsboys and included on a recent compilation of hymn reinterpretations recorded by a variety of contemporary Christian musicians entitled Jesus – Firm Foundation.
I’m presently messing around with it.
No surprises that there’s a missing verse that I’d like to include in this.
It’s unusual for an added refrain to come at the end of the song, usually I’d expect it to come before the third verse and be repeated again after it, (with maybe a final chorus to finish.)
I think what they’ve done here works quite well.
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
2.
Lord, now indeed I find
Thy power and thine alone
Came and changed the leper’s spots
And it melt the heart of stone
Chorus
Jesus paid it all,
All to him I owe
Sin had left a crimson stain
He washed it white as snow
3.
And when before the throne
I stand in him complete
Jesus died my soul to save
My lips shall still repeat
Chorus
Jesus paid it all
All to him I owe
Sin had left a crimson stain
He washed it white as snow
Refrain
Oh, praise the one who paid my debt
And rises life up from the dead
Oh, praise the one who paid my debt
And rises life up from the dead
Oh, praise the one who paid my debt
And rises life up from the dead
Jesus Paid It All (Lyrics). (P) (C) 2013 Sparrow Records.
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