Contemporary Christian Music

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

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

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

God <FI>is<Fi> a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

saying, `I will declare Thy name to my brethren, in the midst of an assembly I will sing praise to Thee;' and again, `I will be trusting on Him;'

and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, <FI>is<Fi> abomination before God;

and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, — read the full passage →

What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up;

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I--I will not be under authority by any;

for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.

Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; sufficient for the day <FI>is<Fi> the evil of it.

What then is it? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing psalms with the spirit, and I will sing psalms also with the understanding;

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

and they sing, as it were, a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the elders, and no one was able to learn the song except the hundred forty-four thousands, who have been bought from the earth; — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

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

saying, `Amen! the blessing, and the glory, and the wisdom, and the thanksgiving, and the honour, and the power, and the strength, <FI>are<Fi> to our God--to the ages of the ages! Amen!'

Doth any one suffer evil among you? let him pray; is any of good cheer? let him sing psalms;

so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,

And having sung a hymn, they went forth to the mount of the Olives;

for it is sanctified through the word of God and intercession. — read the full passage →

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice; — read the full passage →

and springing up, he stood, and was walking, and did enter with them into the temple, walking and springing, and praising God; — read the full passage →

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

Am not I an apostle? am not I free? Jesus Christ our Lord have I not seen? my work are not ye in the Lord? — read the full passage →

And we ought--we who are strong--to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves; — read the full passage →

and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us. — read the full passage →

`And that servant having come, told to his lord these things, then the master of the house, having been angry, said to his servant, Go forth quickly to the broad places and lanes of the city, and the poor, and maimed, and lame, and blind, bring in hither. — read the full passage →

`And when they may finish their testimony, the beast that is coming up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them, — read the full passage →

because it hath been written, `Become ye holy, because I am holy;'

thou--thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they shudder! — read the full passage →

for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God <FI>is<Fi> witness!)

not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul, — read the full passage →

for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God. — read the full passage →

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

so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.

`Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?'

And the third day a marriage happened in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there, — read the full passage →

`And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

for there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they shall give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, also the chosen.

`Woe to the world from the stumbling-blocks! for there is a necessity for the stumbling-blocks to come, but woe to that man through whom the stumbling-block doth come! — read the full passage →

`Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide <FI>is<Fi> the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it; — read the full passage →

be ye not therefore like to them, for your Father doth know those things that ye have need of before your asking him; — read the full passage →