This Is the Threefold Truth

1This is the threefold truth
On which our faith depends;
And with this joyful cry
Worship begins and ends;

RefrainChrist has died! Christ is risen!
Christ will come again!

2By this we are upheld
When doubt and grief assails
Our Christian fortitude,
And only grace avails.

3This is the threefold truth
Which, if we hold it fast,
Changes the world and us
And brings us home at last.