Kantate, BWV 101 "Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott"

Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott (Take away from us, Lord, faithful God), BWV 101, in Leipzig for the tenth Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 13 August 1724. It is based on the seven stanzas of the hymn of the same name by Martin Moller (1584), which is sung to the tune of "Vater unser im Himmelreich", Luther's metred paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer. The tune is featured prominently in six of the work's seven movements.

Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott belongs to Bach's chorale cantata cycle, the second cycle during his tenure as Thomaskantor that began in 1723. The text retains the first and last stanza of the chorale unchanged; the text of the third and fifth stanza is retained but interspersed with contemporary lines by an unknown librettist, who also paraphrased stanzas 2, 4 and 6 into aria texts. The first movement is a chorale fantasia, while the middle solo movements alternate arias and recitative. The work is closed by a four-part chorale setting.