Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown turns Jacob’s nighttime wrestling at the Jabbok into a sustained Christian meditation on prayer, weakness, grace, and assurance.
Hymns Based on Romans 5:1
Christian hymns and worship songs connected to Romans 5:1
"Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;"
— Romans 5:1
Theological Significance
This verse has inspired Christian hymns that explore themes of Assurance, Grace, Salvation, Faith, Conversion. Many worship songs connected to Romans 5:1 proclaim these timeless biblical truths and invite believers to reflect on and celebrate the message of this scripture.
Sermon Themes from This Passage
- Assurance
- Grace
- Salvation
- Faith
- Conversion
Suggested Hymns for Worship
Example Worship Flow
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Call to Worship Psalm 100
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Opening Hymn I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
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Scripture Reading Romans 5:1
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Sermon Assurance
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Response Hymn Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown
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Reflection Hymn Heaven Came Down
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Closing Hymn How Can We Name a Love
Hymns Inspired by This Passage
Heaven Came Down is a twentieth-century gospel song built around personal testimony of conversion.
How Can We Name a Love is a modern hymn by Brian Wren that asks how Christians can speak faithfully about a God whose love exceeds any single human description.
How Can We Sinners Know asks one of the central pastoral questions of the Methodist revival: how may a believer have confidence that sins are forgiven and that reconciliation with God is real? The hymn answers by directing attention first to Christ’s saving work and then to the Holy Spirit’s witness within the believer.
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day is the hymnal form of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Christmas Bells, written during the American Civil War.
I Remember When My Burdens Rolled Away is a testimony song built around remembered deliverance.
Let Us Plead for Faith Alone is a compact Charles Wesley hymn about justifying faith that refuses to separate trust in Christ from the transformed life that genuine faith produces.
My Faith Looks Up to Thee is a prayer of personal trust directed to Christ.
My Peace I Give Unto You, commonly indexed as My Peace, is Keith Routledge's short Scripture-based worship song about the distinctive peace Jesus promises in John 14.
Since Jesus Came into My Heart is a first-person gospel testimony about the change associated with conversion to Christ.
Sweet Peace, the Gift of God's Love is a late nineteenth-century gospel hymn centered on the peace believers receive through Jesus Christ.