CeCe Winans
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
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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
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“Alabaster Box”
CeCe Winans
Sing it as testimony, not as a report. The scene is Luke 7 and the song has its details right, but Luke never names this woman, and the name the chorus gives her comes from a different anointing.✓ It leaves her sin unnamed, exactly as Luke does. The passage calls her a sinner and stops there, and so does the song.
⚠ The chorus names the jar Mary's. Luke does not name the woman at all, in this passage or anywhere else.
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“Believe For It”
CeCe Winans
Sing it. It quotes nothing and misstates nothing about God's power. Just bring the other half of Mark 9 with you: the father who got his miracle said out loud that his faith was not enough.✓ Never says it is quoting: no verse is cited, no words are framed as scripture, and the publisher's own chord chart lists no scripture reference field
⚠ What to believe for is never named. The object is left open for the singer to fill in, and the song supplies no test for what belongs there
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“Great Is Thy Faithfulness”
CeCe Winans
Sing it. It never says it is quoting, though the refrain is verse 23's King James wording. What it does not carry is the ruin the verse is recalled from. Read Lamentations 3:17-24 alongside it.✓ Never says it is quoting: no chapter or verse cited, nothing framed as scripture, no appeal to what the Bible says
⚠ No translation is named, so a listener who recognises the phrase has nothing to check it against