Music In Church

Praise ye Jah! Praise ye God in His holy place, Praise Him in the expanse of His strength. — read the full passage →

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

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

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;

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;

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;

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;'

My lips cry aloud when I sing praise to Thee, And my soul that Thou hast redeemed,

`And his elder son was in a field, and as, coming, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing,

And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them in to Jerusalem, to make the dedication even with gladness, and with thanksgivings, and with singing, <FI>with<Fi> cymbals, psalteries, and with harps;

and David and all the house of Israel are playing before Jehovah, with all kinds of <FI>instruments<Fi> of fir-wood, even with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cornets, and with cymbals.

so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound; — read the full passage →

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? — read the full passage →

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 Miriam answereth to them: --`Sing ye to Jehovah, For Triumphing He hath triumphed; The horse and its rider He hath thrown into the sea!'

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

Turn aside from Me the noise of thy songs, Yea, the praise of thy psaltery I hear not.

I have hated--I have loathed your festivals, And I am not refreshed by your restraints. — read the full passage →

Sing to Jehovah with harp, With harp, and voice of praise,

the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;

Who are lying down on beds of ivory, And are spread out on their couches, And are eating lambs from the flock, And calves from the midst of the stall, — read the full passage →

and four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand giving praise to Jehovah, `with instruments that I made for praising,' <FI>saith David.<Fi>

And David is dancing with all strength before Jehovah, and David is girded with a linen ephod,

through him, then, we may offer up a sacrifice of praise always to God, that is, the fruit of lips, giving thanks to His name;

And the two thanksgiving companies stand in the house of God, and I and half of the prefects with me,

every one who is transgressing, and is not remaining in the teaching of the Christ, hath not God; he who is remaining in the teaching of the Christ, this one hath both the Father and the Son;

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord,

For though ye cause burnt-offerings and your presents to ascend to Me, I am not pleased, And the peace-offering of your fatlings I behold not.

yea, it cometh to pass, as one <FI>are<Fi> trumpeters and singers, to sound--one voice--to praise and to give thanks to Jehovah, and at the lifting up of the sound with trumpets, and with cymbals, and with instruments of song, and at giving praise to Jehovah, for good, for to the age <FI>is<Fi> His kindness, that the house is filled with a cloud--the house of Jehovah,

and he said, `The things impossible with men are possible with God.'

Praise ye Jah! Sing ye to Jehovah a new song, His praise in an assembly of saints.

And these <FI>are<Fi> they whom David stationed over the parts of the song of the house of Jehovah, from the resting of the ark, — read the full passage →

And this same also--all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge, — read the full passage →

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;