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Blessed Assurance
Hebrews 10:19–28 · with Blessed Assurance
Blessed Assurance — Fanny J. Crosby, 1873; music by Phoebe P. Knapp, 1873. Its root: “the full assurance of faith” — “let us draw near with a true heart” (Hebrews 10:22).
Crosby’s “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine” over Hebrews’ drawing-near: the veil opened by the blood, the true heart, the profession held fast without wavering.
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
And having an high priest over the house of God;
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
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Music: “Blessed Assurance” performed by Sookietex, via the Internet Archive — public domain. The hymn (Crosby and Knapp, 1873) is public domain.