Now Thank We All Our God
NUN DANKET6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6
Words: Martin RinkartTranslated by Catherine Winkworth, 1856Music: NUN DANKET, Johann Crüger, 1647
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Words
Now thank we all our God,
with heart and hands and voices,
Who wondrous things has done,
in Whom this world rejoices;
Who from our mothers' arms
has blessed us on our way
With countless gifts of love,
and still is ours today.
O may this bounteous God
through all our life be near us,
With ever joyful hearts
and blessed peace to cheer us;
And keep us in His grace,
and guide us when perplexed;
And free us from all ills,
in this world and the next!
All praise and thanks to God
the Father now be given;
The Son and Him Who reigns
with Them in highest Heaven;
The one eternal God,
Whom earth and Heav'n adore;
For thus it was, is now,
and shall be evermore.
Scripture
The Bible passages this hymn draws on, in the King James Version.
Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
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