Contemporary Music

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

Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy!

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

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

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

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

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom: — read the full passage →

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.

If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” — read the full passage →

“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.

I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish. — read the full passage →

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

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” — read the full passage →

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. — read the full passage →

A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth. — read the full passage →

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down. — read the full passage →

As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear. — read the full passage →

A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent. — read the full passage →

The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall. — read the full passage →

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching. — read the full passage →

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: — 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 →