Verse 1:
Who shall the Lord’s elect condemn?
‘Tis God who justifies their souls;
And mercy, like a mighty stream,
O’er all their sins divinely rolls.
Verse 2:
He lives! He lives! and sits above,
Forever interceding there:
Who shall divide us from His love,
Or what should tempt us to despair?
Verse 3:
Shall persecution, or distress,
Famine, or sword, or nakedness?
He who hath loved us bears us through,
And makes us more than conquerors too.
Verse 4:
Not all that men on earth can do,
Nor powers on high, nor powers below,
Shall cause His mercy to remove,
Or wean our hearts from Christ, our Love.