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6 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 6 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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“Only a Holy God”
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Sing it. Nothing here is offered as a quotation. The questions are the songwriters' own, cast in Isaiah 40's shape, and every answer the song gives is one the chapter supports.✓ Borrows Isaiah 40's method rather than its wording: repeated comparison questions whose only available answer is nobody
⚠ In Isaiah 40:25 the question is God's own, spoken in the first person. In the song it is ours, spoken about Him. The form survives the move; the force of it changes
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“It Was Finished Upon That Cross”
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Sing it. Nothing here is offered as a quotation, and the refrain's changed grammar makes that plain. What John 19:30 records Jesus saying, the song says about Him, and says it accurately.✓ Never says it is quoting, anywhere: no verse cited, no translation named, nothing framed as scripture on the recording, on the official chart, or on the publisher's listing
⚠ The refrain places the finishing at the cross. John 19:30 gives the word and the chapter puts the saying at the cross, but the sentence tying the two together is the song's, not the verse's
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“Christ Is Mine Forevermore”
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Sing it. It quotes nothing and never says it is scripture it cannot carry, and it is clear that your failures are settled by Christ. For the righteousness credited in their place, read Philippians 3:9 alongside it.✓ Never says it is quoting: no verse cited on the song page, on the chord charts, or in the official upload's own description
⚠ The song closes at a settled account. Philippians 3:9 goes one clause further, to a righteousness from God that the singer never owns, and the song does not state it
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“His Glory and My Good”
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Sing it. It quotes nothing and cites nothing, but it reads Romans 8:28 the way the chapter reads it: the good is God's purpose worked out in you, not the trial being taken away.✓ The song keeps the definition Romans 8:29 gives to the word good. The second verse names a thorn that God helps the singer carry rather than remove, and the outcome it sings is a heart turned toward God, not a changed circumstance
⚠ The bounding clause is never sung. Romans 8:28 states the promise for those who love God and are called according to His purpose, and the song carries the promise without carrying the condition
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“Ancient of Days”
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Sing it. It names no verse, and the title it sings is one scripture itself uses for God. Read Daniel 7 once so the name carries its scene: a court where an empire ends and the kingdom that cannot fall is given.✓ The title is scripture's own, used in the sense the text gives it: the eternal God whose throne outlasts every kingdom
⚠ The vision never appears and no reference is given, so the song will not send anyone to Daniel 7, and the title can be heard as songwriter poetry when it is the opposite
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“Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me”
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Sing it. It quotes nothing, and it does not need to: what it says is what Galatians 2:20 says, and the song keeps returning the credit to Christ rather than to the singer.✓ Never says it is quoting, and needs none: the doctrine is carried in the songwriters' own words
⚠ No reference is given anywhere in the lyric, so a listener will not be sent to Galatians 2 by the song itself