Music Mondays: “Jesus Paid It All” (arranged by Alex Nifong)

~ Bob Hayton

Jesus Paid it All is on the Everything Glorious CD by the Passion bandMusic Monday posts highlight the music which touched my heart on Sunday. I pray the message of these songs will help us all to live in the spirit of Worship all week long.

For a while now, I’ve really enjoyed a new arrangement of Jesus Paid It All. This hymn has always been one of my favorites. The only change the new arrangement makes (besides the contemporary orchestration) is adding a line on the final chorus. The ending words bring the song to a climax as we give praise to Jesus for paying our debt. This makes the song more personal and encourages a worshipful response to the wonderful theology that is being sung. I hope you are blessed by this song as much as I am.

Jesus Paid It All
by Elvina Hall and John Grape
additional words / arrangement by Alex Nifong

I hear the Savior say,
“Thy strength indeed is small;
Child of weakness, watch and pray,
Find in Me thine all in all.”

Chorus:
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.

Lord, now indeed I find
Thy pow’r, and Thine alone,
Can change the leper’s spots
And melt the heart of stone.

And when before the throne
I stand in Him complete,
I’ll lay my trophies down,
All down at Jesus’ feet.

Ending Chorus:
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.
Oh Praise the One who paid my debt
and raised this life up from the dead (continued repeat)
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Free guitar chord sheets can be found here [pdf] and here [html]. You can listen to the song for free at Rhapsody.com (from the Passion band’s Everything Glorious CD), or you can watch a Youtube video clip of the song. If you like the song, consider purchasing the Everything Glorious CD through Amazon.

The story behind the song (explained in this post), basically consists of Alex Nifong using the song in prayer to God, and spontaneously praising God with those words. Eventually he shared the line with all of us through his arrangement. Check out Alex’s website for more info on him and his songs.

Other great songs we sang Sunday were:

  • Rejoice the Lord Is King (hymn)
  • You are God Alone (Billy & Cindy Foote)
  • The Lord Is (Pat Sczebel & Bob Kauflin)
  • Lord, I Remember (Jason French)
  • O the Deep Deep Love of Jesus (hymn)

4 thoughts on “Music Mondays: “Jesus Paid It All” (arranged by Alex Nifong)”

  3. I hit “submit” too early….whoops.

    I wanted to add that I’m fwd’ing this to my pastor who might be interested in learning this song.

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