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B-030What Wondrous Love is This

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B-030What Wondrous Love is This

Hymnal: Bumby Supplement (No. 030) · Tune: WONDROUS LOVE · Meter: 12.9.6.6.12.9 · Key: D (E dorian) Time: 2/2

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Love - Of ChristRedemptionPraise/Adoration - Of ChristChrist - Crucifixion/Death

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Appalachian folk hymn

Composed By

Southern Harmony, 1835

Copyright Information

Words and Music in the Public Domain.

Lyrics

Verse 1

What wondrous love is this,

O my soul, O my soul,

what wondrous love is this,

O my soul!

What wondrous love is this

that caused the Lord of bliss

to bear the dreadful curse

for my soul, for my soul,

to bear the dreadful curse

for my soul!

Verse 2

When I was sinking down,

sinking down, sinking down,

when I was sinking down, sinking down;

when I was sinking down

beneath God's righteous frown,

Christ laid aside his crown

for my soul, for my soul,

Christ laid aside his crown

for my soul!

Verse 3

To God and to the Lamb

I will sing, I will sing,

to God and to the Lamb

I will sing!

To God and to the Lamb,

who is the great I AM,

while millions join the theme,

I will sing, I will sing,

while millions join the theme,

I will sing.

Verse 4

And when from death I'm free,

I'll sing on, I'll sing on,

and when from death I'm free,

I'll sing on!

And when from death I'm free,

I'll sing and joyful be,

and through eternity

I'll sing on, I'll sing on,

and through eternity

I'll sing on.

Scriptural Foundations

Preference: NASB 2020
  • Galatians 3:13

    13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”—

  • John 15:13

    13Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends.

  • 1 John 4:10

    10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

  • Revelation 5:9

    9And they *sang a new song, saying,

    “Worthy are You to take the scroll and to break its seals; for You were slaughtered, and You purchased people for God with Your blood from every tribe, language, people, and nation.

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Recommended by: Jim Duke

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