My Hope Is Built

Words and music by Edward Mote · 1834

Key of C · 100 BPM · 4/4 · Assurance,Atonement,Blood · 1Pt 2:5-8

Verse 1

My hope is built on nothing less Than Jesus' blood and
righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest frame, But
wholly trust in Jesus' Name. On Christ the solid

Verse 2

When darkness veils His lovely face, I rest on His unchanging
changing grace. In every high and stormy gale, My
anchor holds within the veil.

Verse 3

His oath, His covenant, His blood, Support me in the
whelming flood. When all around my soul gives way, He
then is all my hope and stay.

Verse 4

When He shall come with trumpet sound, Oh may I then in
Him be found. Dressed in His righteousness alone, Faultless
less to stand before the throne.

Chorus

Rock I stand, All other ground is sinking sand.

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