John 14:6: "Jesus said to him [Thomas], 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'"
1 Timothy 2:5: "For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus"
Acts 4:12: "And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
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You are the way; through You alone
Can we the Father find;
In You, O Christ, has God revealed
His heart and will and mind.
You are the truth; Your Word alone
True wisdom can impart;
You only can inform the mind
And purify the heart.
You are the life; the empty tomb
Proclaims Your conqu'ring arm,
And those who put their trust in You
Not death nor hell shall harm.
You are the way, the truth, the life;
Grant us that way to know,
That truth to keep, that life to win
Whose joys eternal flow.
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John 14:6 is the main source for the hymn. The first three verses each detail one element of "the way, and the truth, and the life," and the last verse lists all three together. "Through You alone / Can we the Father find" in the first verse is a paraphrase of "'No one comes to the Father except through me.'"
1 Timothy 2:5 reiterates "'No one comes to the Father except through me.'" Acts 4:12 is also similar, but the salvation mentioned there seems to appear in the hymn's third verse: "And those who put their trust in You / Not death nor hell shall harm."
1 Timothy 2:5 reiterates "'No one comes to the Father except through me.'" Acts 4:12 is also similar, but the salvation mentioned there seems to appear in the hymn's third verse: "And those who put their trust in You / Not death nor hell shall harm."
