Hymns from scripture
Hymns based on Romans 5
Romans 5 has given hymn writers words for 7 hymns in this library, by writers including Charlotte Elliott, Fanny Crosby and Dorothy A. Thrupp; Henry F. Lyte. Each is listed below with the lines that echo the chapter and the verses they draw on, quoted from the World English Bible, a public-domain modern translation.
The verse these hymns return to most is Romans 5:8: “But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
Hymn writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries knew their Bibles almost by heart, and they wove its phrases into their lines — sometimes as a close paraphrase, as in the metrical psalms, and sometimes as a single image carried into a new setting. Reading the verse beside the line shows what the writer had in mind, and often why a hymn was chosen to be sung alongside a particular reading.
- Just as I Am, Without One Plea — Just as I am, without one plea,Romans 5:1
- Blessed Assurance — Blessed assurance,--Jesus is mine!Romans 5:1
- Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us — Savior, like a shepherd lead us,Romans 5:8
- When Peace, Like a River — When peace,like a river, attendeth my way,Romans 5:1
- And Can It Be, That I Should Gain? — And can it be that I should gainRomans 5:8–10
- What Wondrous Love Is This — What wondrous love is this! O my soul! O my soul!Romans 5:7–11
- From Heaven Above to Earth I Come — From heav'n above to earth I come,Romans 5:8