Ach bleib mit deiner Gnade

"Ach bleib mit deiner Gnade" (Ah, abide with your grace) is a hymn with text by Josua Stegmann written in 1627. The melody is taken from "Christus, der ist mein Leben", a 1609 song by Melchior Vulpius that became one of the key melodies in Protestant hymnody. It is part of several current hymnals, the Protestant Evangelisches Gesangbuch as EG 347, the Catholic Gotteslob as GL 436 and the Mennonitisches Gesangbuch as MG 149. It belongs to the ecumenical hymns.