There once was a monk named Martin Luther,

Who by God’s grace loved and taught scripture.

God used him to reform the church,

Which to false doctrine did shamefully lurch.

He taught that scripture was the only authority

And thereby disproved the pope’s infallibility.

God gave us the Bible, his perfect word

As the two-edged sword with which we are girt.

Luther taught that Christ alone saved us from sin

And won the victory we could not win.

Further, he taught that we can do nothing

But fall deeper in the sin that our old man is craving.

The doctrines that Luther taught in his way

Were attacked just as they are today.

With God’s strength alone, we can advance

And, as Martin Luther, take a battle stance.