The words to the song “Jesus Paid It All” was written by Elvina Hall in 1865. Being prompted by his wife, John T. Grape wrote the score. However it was Grape’s Pastor, Rev. George W. Schrek who believed the score and Hall’s words should be paired together. The song appeared in a hymnal for the first time in 1868. For a song that is almost 150 years old, it still touches hearts and souls everywhere. Especially mine. I have listened to this song at least a hundred times and never tire of it. It is, to me, the best song EVER written. Watch & listen. REALLY listen.
“Thy strength indeed is small.
Child of weakness, watch and pray,
Find in Me thine all in all.”
CHORUS
’Cause Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe.
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.
Lord, now indeed I find
Thy pow’r and Thine alone,
Can change the leper’s spots,
And melt the heart of stone.
And when before the throne
I stand in Him complete,
Jesus died my soul to save
My lips shall still repeat.
BRIDGE
Oh, praise the One who paid my debt,
And raised this life up from the dead!
