There's Power in the Blood

1  

Would you be free from the burden of sin?  

There's pow'r in the blood, pow'r in the blood;  

Would you o'er evil a victory win?  

There's wonderful pow'r in the blood.  

2  

Would you be free from your passion and pride?  

There's pow'r in the blood, pow'r in the blood;  

Come for a cleansing to Calvary's tide–  

There's wonderful pow'r in the blood. 

3  

Would you be whiter, yes brighter than snow?  

There's pow'r in the blood, pow'r in the blood;  

Sin-stains are lost in its life-giving flow–  

There's wonderful pow'r in the blood. 

4  

Would you do service for Jesus, your King?  

There's pow'r in the blood, pow'r in the blood;  

Would you live daily His praises to sing?  

There's wonderful pow'r in the blood.   

Refrain:  

There is pow'r, pow'r, wonder-working pow'r  

In the blood of the Lamb;  

There is pow'r, pow'r, wonder-working pow'r  

In the precious blood of the Lamb.   

 

Hymn lyrics: Lewis E. Jones (1899)    

Why "pow'r" and not "power"? This is a Southern Gospel song, and if you are from the South, "power" is a one-syllable word that sounds very much like "par"...  

Here's a fun performance of this great old gospel song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNzJf8_ZGTM&list=RDcNzJf8_ZGTM&start_radio=1

Psalm 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.    Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.