Instruments In The Church

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

Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre! — read the full passage →

When the spirit from God was on Saul, David took the harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.

Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house.

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.

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

David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all kinds of instruments made of fir wood, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with castanets, and with cymbals.

I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth. — read the full passage →

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

Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they didn’t give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped?

Let our lord now command your servants who are before you, to seek out a man who is a skillful player on the harp. It shall happen, when the evil spirit from God is on you, that he shall play with his hand, and you shall be well.”

and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.”

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

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

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.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

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

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, — read the full passage →

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. — read the full passage →

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”