Carrie Underwood

3 songs checked against the passages they lean on. Each one was graded on its own, against what that song does with the text.

How the 3 checks landed

NOT A QUOTE 3

This is a count, not a verdict. We grade songs, one at a time, against what each one does with the text. A tally of those checks describes a catalogue. It is not a judgment of the people who wrote or sang it, and no number here puts anyone on or off The List. Most drift is craft pressure, not deception. Read the proofs, not the arithmetic.

The songs

NOT A QUOTE “Blessed Assurance” Carrie Underwood Hebrews 10:22 Sing it as what it says it is, a testimony. It names no verse, and what it says of God is what scripture says. Just let Hebrews, not the feeling, define what holds assurance up.

✓ The first stanza grounds its confidence in God's acts, purchase, new birth by the Spirit, washing in His blood, before any experience is described. The testimony rests on doctrine first

⚠ The later stanzas measure the assured life in experiences: completed surrender, visions, rest. Hebrews 10:22 asks for none of that, and a singer who lacks the visions has lost nothing the verse promises

NOT A QUOTE “Nothing But the Blood of Jesus” Carrie Underwood Hebrews 9:22 Sing it. Nothing in it is quoting. The question-and-answer refrain compresses Hebrews 9 and 10 in the direction the chapters themselves run, from the law's rule about blood to the blood of Jesus alone.

✓ The 1876 publication printed its source text underneath the title, Hebrews 9:22, which is the citation habit this site exists to encourage

⚠ The blood in Hebrews 9:22 is the law's animal blood. The step to Jesus' blood alone is the argument of the surrounding chapters, not of the verse under the title

NOT A QUOTE “How Great Thou Art” Carrie Underwood Psalm 8:3-4 Sing it. It quotes nothing and never says it is scripture it cannot support. It is a hymn of praise that starts where Psalm 8 starts. Read verses 4 to 6 for the question the hymn does not ask.

✓ Never says it is quoting, anywhere. No verse cited, no scripture framing, nothing presented as the Bible's words

⚠ Hymnal indexes list it under Psalm 8, but the hymn never cites the psalm. The link is a resemblance someone else noticed, not something the hymn says