Bible Verses about “music in church”
The Bible contains 30 verses about music in church across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.”
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.”
“Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.”
“Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;”
“¶ Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.”
“Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.”
“Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.”
“Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.”
“Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.”
“‹It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you,› [they] ‹are spirit, and› [they] ‹are life.›”
“¶ How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.”
“‹Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.›”
“¶ What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.”
“So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.”
“And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?”
“For if I pray in an [unknown] tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.”
“Wherefore let him that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue pray that he may interpret.”
“Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.”
“For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?”
“And that the Gentiles might glorify God for [his] mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.”
“‹But in vain they do worship me, teaching› [for] ‹doctrines the commandments of men.›”
“And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.”
“Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.”
“And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of [instruments made of] fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.”
“My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.”
“¶ And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, [with] cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.”
“Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.”
“Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.”
“¶ I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.”
“Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept [them]: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.”