"Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man" (Psalm 60:11). "Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.... For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but the Word of the Lord endureth forever. And this is the Word by which the Gospel is preached unto you" (1 Peter 1:18-25).
Vain is man's help, his tradition, and power,
All void of the Gospel of grace!
The glory of man, like the grass and its flower
Shall soon be removed from its place.
Corruptible things, such as silver and gold,
Could never accomplish redemption.
The blood of Christ saves us, as prophets foretold,
By grace, and there is no exemption.
Our Lord, as a Lamb without blemish or spot,
By His grace tasted death for each man.
How hopeless the prospect and vain is the thought
Of redemption by some other plan!
Heaven and earth shall very soon pass,
And then we shall stand at God's throne.
All temporal glory shall perish as grass;
We'll stand by Your grace, Lord, alone!
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