Charity Gayle
2 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 2 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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“Thank You Jesus for the Blood”
Charity Gayle
Sing it. Nothing in it is quoting scripture. It thanks Christ for a ransom, which is 1 Peter's picture too. The verse adds what you were ransomed from: an inherited empty way of life.✓ The blood in the song is a lamb's, and the writers have said the Passover was in mind. That is the same image 1 Peter 1:19 uses
⚠ Peter's verse works by saying what the ransom was not paid with, perishable things, silver or gold. The song has nothing that does that job, so the negation that drives the verse is not in the song
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“New Name Written Down in Glory”
Charity Gayle
Sing it. Nothing here is quoting scripture, and what it celebrates is true. Just know the famous line is a 1910 hymn refrain, and the new name is Revelation's promise rather than Luke's sentence.✓ Never says it is quoting at any point: no reference in the song, none printed on the official chart, none in the publisher's song metadata
⚠ The title line is a hymn phrase, not a Bible phrase. No translation renders Luke 10:20, or Revelation 2:17, in those words