Hymn
The Triumph of Faith
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.
He lives! He lives! and sits above,
Forever interceding there:
Who shall divide us from His love,
Or what should tempt us to despair?
Shall persecution, or distress,
Famine, or sword, or nakedness?
He who hath loved us bears us through,
And makes us more than conquerors too.
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.
The Triumph of Faith — Text from Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-book, 1918. Public domain. https://yeshuanow.com/hymns/the-triumph-of-faith
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Questions about this hymn
Who wrote The Triumph of Faith?
The words of The Triumph of Faith were written by Isaac Watts; the version here was published in 1918. The library holds 248 more hymns by Isaac Watts, including Heaven Invisible and Holy and The Lord's Day.
Is The Triumph of Faith public domain?
Yes. The words here are taken from Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-book, published in 1918. Works published before 1931 are out of copyright in the United States, so you can print, project, perform and record this hymn freely. How we source and check every hymn.
What is the metre of The Triumph of Faith?
The Triumph of Faith is in Long Metre (8.8.8.8). Hymns in the same metre can usually be sung to the same tunes — for example, It Is Finished, The Christian Race and An Evening Hymn.