LSB #567 "Not What These Hands Have Done"

Biblical citations in the hymnal:  Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 3:28, 4:5

Ephesians 2:8-9:  "8 For by grace you have been saved through faith.  And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast."

Romans 3:28:  "For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law."

Romans 4:5:  "And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justified the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness"

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The text is public domain:

Not what these hands have done

Can save this guilty soul;

Not what this toiling flesh has borne

Can make my spirit whole.

Not what I feel or do

Can give me peace with God;

Not all my prayers and sighs and tears

Can bear my awful load.

Thy work alone, O Christ,

Can ease this weight of sin;

Thy blood alone, O Lamb of God,

Can give me peace within.

Thy love to me, O God,

Not mine, O Lord, to Thee,

Can rid me of this dark unrest

And set my spirit free.

Thy grace alone, O God,

To me can pardon speak;

Thy pow'r alone, O Son of God,

Can this sore bondage break.

I bless the Christ of God,

I rest on love divine,

And with unfalt'ring lip and heart

I call this Savior mine.

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The hymn text seems to draw from Ephesians 2:8-9 a bit more than from the other two passages, but all three are fairly similar.

The name "Lamb of God" in the third verse comes from John 1:29.