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Just As I Am
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Sep 29, 2026 updated
The Worship Sessions album
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Song Meaning
MercyMe keeps Charlotte Elliott's 1835 text essentially intact, and its opening line still does something unusual for a hymn of approach — it names exactly what the singer is not bringing: 'without one plea.' No accomplishment, no cleaned-up record, nothing except 'that Thy blood was shed for me' as the entire basis for coming. John 6:37's promise that Jesus will 'in no way throw out' whoever comes to him sits behind that confidence.
The added bridge widens the invitation from one person's private approach to a general call — 'O come you who are weary, O come you who have strayed... lay your sins at the cross and your doubts here at the grave' — separating two different things that often get treated as identical: sin needing forgiveness, and doubt needing somewhere to be set down. 1 John 1:7's promise that Christ's blood 'cleanses us from all sin' answers the first; the second gets no direct scriptural quote, just a place to leave it, which fits a hymn that was never trying to resolve every question before letting someone come 'just as I am.'
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Just as I am without one plea
But that thy blood was shed for me
And that thou bids me come to thee
O lamb of God I come I come
Just as I am and waiting not
To rid my soul of one dark blot
To thee whose blood can cleanse each spot
O lamb of God I come. I come
O come you who are weary
O come you who have strayed
He has come for the lost
Lay your sins at the cross
And your doubts here at the grave
Just as I am though tossed about
With many a conflict; many a doubt
Fighting's and fears within; without
O lamb of God I come I come
O come you who are weary
O come you who are changed
He has come for the lost
Lay your sins at the cross
And your doubts here at the grave
Hallelujah, hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
And he has come for the lost lay your sins at the cross and your doubts here at the grave