Mark 12:41-44: "41 And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. 42 And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny. 43 And he called his disciples to him and said to them, 'Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. 44 For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.'"
Hebrews 10:4-12: "4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
"5 Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, 'Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; 6 in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. 7 Then I said, "Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book."' 8 When he said above, 'You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings' (these are offered according to the law), 9 then he added, 'Behold, I have come to do your will.' He does away with the first in order to establish the second. 10 And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
"11 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God"
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The text from Mark is paraphrased in the first three verses of the hymn (roughly, the hymn's first verse corresponds to verse 41; the second to verse 42; and the third to verses 43-44). The text from Hebrews, especially verse 10, is the basis for the hymn's fourth verse.
