Recordings

Live recording:

Orchestra demo recording:

Description

This is a scripture song that combines Matthew 4:4, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, and Psalm 119:18, 20, 33. Special thanks to the Madrigal Singers of PCC and their director for performing it for recording. (The accompaniment is just the piano part rather than full orchestra unfortunately.) I wrote the main theme the summer after my sophomore year of college (2002). Then two or three years later I added the middle section and orchestration to make it a complete piece.

Lyrics

Man shall not live by bread a-lone,
Man shall not live by bread a-lone,
but by ev-ery word, by ev-ery word
that pro-ceed-eth out of the mouth of God.

All scrip-ture is giv-en by in-spir-a-tion of God,
All scrip-ture is giv-en by in-spir-a-tion of God,
and is prof-it-a-ble for doc-trine,
for re-proof, for cor-rec-tion,
for in-struc-tion in right-eous-ness, in-struc-tion in right-eous-ness
That the man of God may be per-fect, through-ly fur-nished un-to all good works.

Man shall not live by bread a-lone,
Man shall not live by bread a-lone,
but by ev-ery word, by ev-ery word
that pro-ceed-eth out of the mouth of God.

O-pen thou mine eyes, that I may be-hold won-drous things out of thy law.
My soul break-eth for the long-ing that it hath un-to thy judg-ments at all times.
Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy stat-utes;
and I shall keep it un-to the end.

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