Hymns Based on 1 Peter 2:24

Above the Hills of Time is Thomas Tiplady's hymn of the cross as the enduring disclosure of God's saving love.

“Ah, Holy Jesus” is a Passion hymn that brings the worshiper from contemplation of Christ’s innocence to confession of personal sin, wonder at his self-giving love, and grateful devotion.

“Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed” is Isaac Watts's 1707 Passion hymn of astonishment, repentance, gratitude, and self-offering before the cross of Christ.

At the Cross is the gospel-song form of an Isaac Watts Passion hymn first published in 1707.

Behold the Savior of Mankind is a compact meditation on Christ's crucifixion.

“Blessed Redeemer” is a gospel hymn centered on the crucifixion of Jesus and the redemptive meaning Christians confess in his death.

Come Out the Wilderness is an African American spiritual built around testimony, trust, and the passage from a place of testing into renewed life.

Go to Dark Gethsemane is a Holy Week hymn that turns the Passion narrative into a school of discipleship.

He Never Said a Mumbalin’ Word is an African American spiritual that retells the Passion of Jesus through a sequence of stark, repeated images: crucifixion, nailing to the tree, the pierced side, flowing blood, and death.

How Beauteous Were the Marks Divine is a hymn of contemplation and discipleship drawn from Arthur Cleveland Coxe's longer poem “Hymn to the Redeemer.

How Great Thou Art brings the vastness of creation and the personal meaning of Christian salvation into the same act of praise.

I Stand Amazed in the Presence, also widely known as My Savior’s Love, is an American gospel song centered on wonder at the saving love of Christ.

“Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross” is a gospel hymn that makes the cross of Christ the continuing center of Christian faith rather than only an event to be remembered at particular seasons.

O Love Divine, What Hast Thou Done is Charles Wesley's compact meditation on the cross as the supreme disclosure of divine love.

O Love, How Deep is a sweeping meditation on the love of God made visible in the saving mission of Jesus Christ.

O Sacred Head, Now Wounded is a Passion hymn that brings the worshiper close to the suffering Christ and then turns contemplation into confession, gratitude, and trust.

O Sing a Song of Bethlehem follows the Gospel story through four places that mark the earthly life of Jesus: Bethlehem, Nazareth, Galilee, and Calvary.

“Of Jesus’ Love That Sought Me,” more commonly titled “Sweeter as the Years Go By,” is a 1912 gospel song by Lelia Naylor Morris, who wrote both its text and tune.

Room at the Cross for You is a twentieth-century gospel invitation song by Ira Forest Stanphill, who wrote both its words and music in 1946.

“Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us” is a corporate prayer to Christ that joins the tenderness of shepherd imagery with the stronger language of redemption, confession, grace, and discipleship.

“The Old Rugged Cross” is an American gospel hymn centered on the paradox of the cross: an instrument of Roman execution and public disgrace becomes, for Christians, the place where the saving love of Christ is contemplated and confessed.

There Is a Green Hill Far Away is one of the clearest examples of a children’s hymn becoming a durable hymn for the whole church.