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How is our nature spoiled by sin! Hymn 38 Part 1

Isaac Watts printed it in 1707 in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book I, no. 38.1, under Romans 3:25.

WRITTEN BY

Isaac Watts 1674–1748

PRINTED

1707 Hymns and Spiritual Songs · no. 38.1

METRE

Common Metre 8.6.8.6 · 6 stanzas

WRITTEN ON

Romans 3:25 the verse printed above it

The hymn, and the Scripture in it

All 6 stanzas as Watts printed them, with the verses their lines echo beside them. Point at a line to join it to its verse; click to read the passage.

SHARED WORDSthe verse shares the line's wording ECHOproposed by an AI model, confirmed by a separate check Not the author's own notes

AMONG THE SCRIPTURES

The stanzas at the centre; around them, every book its heading and its echoes come from, Old Testament on the left and New on the right. Choose a stanza or a book.

a line echoes this verse its heading or an echo comes from here

STANZA I

How is our nature spoiled by sin

How is our nature spoiled by sin!

Yet nature ne'er hath found

The way to make the conscience clean,

Or heal the painful wound.

No line of this stanza quotes a verse closely; it is the hymn's own confession.

Where Watts found it

Watts printed the hymn under Romans 3:25. The line that comes closest to it is marked.

God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand. ROMANS 3:25 · BEREAN STANDARD BIBLE READ ROMANS 3

In vain we seek for peace with God By methods of our own: Jesus, there's nothing but thy blood Can bring us near the throne. STANZA II

Its place in the book

Book I of the hymn book, “Collected from the Holy Scriptures”, holds these hymns in this order: 179 hymns. This is number 38.1. Point at a tick to see the hymn; click it to open that hymn.

NO. 38.1 · ISAAC WATTS · THIS HYMN How is our nature spoiled by sin!

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