Dancing

Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.

Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.

Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. — read the full passage →

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.

The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.

And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. — read the full passage →

And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.

And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod. — read the full passage →

And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: — read the full passage →

And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him. — read the full passage →

The king shall joy in thy strength, O Lord; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! — read the full passage →

Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: — read the full passage →

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick. — read the full passage →

And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? — read the full passage →

Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. — read the full passage →

Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. — read the full passage →

Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; — read the full passage →

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. — read the full passage →

Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.

Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.

They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.

And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.

Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. — read the full passage →

And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. — read the full passage →

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. — read the full passage →

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. — read the full passage →

That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. — read the full passage →

Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. — read the full passage →

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. — read the full passage →

Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. — read the full passage →

But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. — read the full passage →

His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires. — read the full passage →

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. — read the full passage →

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun. — read the full passage →

He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms. — read the full passage →

There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: — read the full passage →

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel. — read the full passage →

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord. — read the full passage →

For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. — read the full passage →

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. — read the full passage →

Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments. — read the full passage →

O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. — read the full passage →

In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? — read the full passage →

And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter. — read the full passage →

Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shethar–boznai, and their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so they did speedily. — read the full passage →

And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. — read the full passage →

And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. — read the full passage →

Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought! — read the full passage →

And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: — read the full passage →

Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. — read the full passage →

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. — read the full passage →

Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. — read the full passage →

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. — read the full passage →

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. — read the full passage →

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. — read the full passage →

Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. — read the full passage →

At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus, — read the full passage →

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: — read the full passage →

Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. — read the full passage →

They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord. — read the full passage →

Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. — read the full passage →

Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them. — read the full passage →

In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. — read the full passage →

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness. — read the full passage →

But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: — read the full passage →

Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. — read the full passage →

Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the Lord helped me. — read the full passage →