Hymn 35

1. If God is on our side, against us shall be none.
   He did not spare his own, his well-beloved Son,
   but gave him up for us, that he might save us truly.
   Will he with him not give us all things free and fully?
   Who then will yet accuse those whom he has elected?
   ‘Tis God who justifies in Christ, the Resurrected.
   
   
2. None will condemn us now! Christ Jesus, he who died –
   yes, rather, who was raised – sits at his Father’s side
   and intercedes for us; he will forsake us never.
   Who from the love of Christ shall separate us ever?
   Shall persecution, shall distress, or tribulation,
   or nakedness, or sword, or peril, or starvation?
   
   
3. ’Tis written, “For your sake they kill us all day long;
   we are considered sheep by haters fierce and strong;
   we’re being put to death and driven to the slaughter.”
   All day we are disgraced, we are poured out like water,
   but yet in all these things we are more than victorious
   through him who loved his own, our Saviour great and glorious.
   
   
4. I am convinced that neither powèrs, death, nor life,
   nor angels, things to come, things present, princes, strife,
   nor height, nor depth, nor any other thing created
   will from the love of God now keep us separated –
   his love in Jesus Christ, the Saviour whom he gave us,
   that through his precious blood he might redeem and save us.