Contemporary Christian Music

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power! — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

saying, “I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.”

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers the singers, with instruments of music, stringed instruments and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy.

who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, in the midst of the ladies playing with tambourines,

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

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.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. — read the full passage →

Praise Yahweh! Sing to Yahweh a new song, his praise in the assembly of the saints. — read the full passage →

Rejoice in Yahweh, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the upright. — read the full passage →

four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made, for giving praise.”

They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

“The house which I build is great; for our God is great above all gods.

Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.

saying, “Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself? — read the full passage →

It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.

to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding; — read the full passage →

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

Sing to Yahweh, all the earth! Display his salvation from day to day. — read the full passage →

You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer. — read the full passage →

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!” — read the full passage →

Leaping up, he stood, and began to walk. He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God. — read the full passage →

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord? — read the full passage →

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — read the full passage →

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. — read the full passage →

“That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’ — read the full passage →

The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. — read the full passage →

As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him; for he refreshes the soul of his masters. — read the full passage →

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me. — read the full passage →

It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High; — read the full passage →

In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel. — read the full passage →

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. — read the full passage →

I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry. — read the full passage →

When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them. — read the full passage →

because it is written, “You shall be holy; for I am holy.”

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder. — read the full passage →

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; — read the full passage →

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God. — read the full passage →

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. — read the full passage →

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

“Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?”

The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. — read the full passage →

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes! — read the full passage →

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it. — read the full passage →

Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him. — read the full passage →

Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. — read the full passage →

Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court. — read the full passage →

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain. — read the full passage →

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Moab and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations;

Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.” — read the full passage →

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes. — read the full passage →

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul. — read the full passage →

Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips. — read the full passage →

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works. — read the full passage →

Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”

know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you. — read the full passage →

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.” — read the full passage →

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; — read the full passage →

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. — read the full passage →