Ye are not your own; Ye are bought with a price,
By blood have your souls been bought;
The blood of a spotless sacrifice,
That has opened the portal of Paradise
To creatures worse than naught.
Ye are not your own: ye have been redeemed
From the grasp of the monster fell,
By the Son of the Highest, so disesteemed,
So scorned, rejected, despised, blasphemed,
Whose sorrows no tongue can tell.
Ye are not your own: for naught ye were sold,
And by sin and by Satan chained,
But by better than silver, ay, or gold,
By wrath that over your Saviour rolled,
Your ransom has been obtained.
Ye are not your own: ye are brought to God
From the grasp of the gloomy grave,
By Him who came from His bright abode,
And took on Himself the heavy load
Of our sins, our souls to save.
Ye are not your own: ye are His thro
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