before you gave us life and breath you numbered all our days you set your gracious love on us and chose us to be saved this fleeting life is passing by with all its joys and pain but we believe to live is christ and death is gain to live is christ to die is gain in every age this truth remains we will not fear were unashamed to live is christ to die is gain and though we grieve for those we love who fall asleep in christ we know theyll see the saviors face and gaze into his eyes so now we grieve yet we dont grieve as those who have no hope for just as jesus rose again hell raise his own to live is christ to die is gain in every age this truth remains we will not fear were unashamed to live is christ to die is gain ooh ooh ooh and now were longing for the day well see the lamb once slain who saved a countless multitude to glorify his name were yearning for the wedding feast of jesus and his bride his nail scarred hands will finally bring us to his side  to live is christ to die is gain in every age this truth remains we will not fear were unashamed to live is christ to live is christ to die is gain to live is christ