Instruments In The Church

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;

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

and I saw, and lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb hath stood as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the Seven Spirits of God, which are sent to all the earth, — read the full passage →

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

yet the things without life giving sound--whether pipe or harp--if a difference in the sounds they may not give, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped?

and the nations for kindness to glorify God, according as it hath been written, `Because of this I will confess to Thee among nations, and to Thy name I will sing praise,'

And at midnight Paul and Silas praying, were singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were hearing them,

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;

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

and he said to them, `These <FI>are<Fi> the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.'

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy, — read the full passage →

and in vain do they worship Me, teaching teachings--commands of men.'