Music by Lowell Mason, words by Albert Midlane
The perfect righteousness of God
Is witnessed in the Savior's blood;
It's in the cross of Christ we trace
His righteousness, His wondrous grace.
God could not pass the sinner by,
Whose sin demands that he must die;
But in the cross of Christ we see
How God can save us righteously.
The sin is on the Savior laid,
It's in His blood sin's debt is paid;
Stern Justice can demand no more,
And Mercy can dispense her store.
The sinner who believes is free,
Can say, "The Savior died for me;"
Can point to the atoning blood,
And say, "This made my peace with God."