Secular Music

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. — read the full passage →

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. — read the full passage →

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →

For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

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

For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; — read the full passage →

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; — read the full passage →

My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. — read the full passage →

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

And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the Lord, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.

Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. — read the full passage →

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

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

Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; — read the full passage →

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. — read the full passage →

And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth–lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons. — read the full passage →

How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. — read the full passage →

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: — read the full passage →

Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. — read the full passage →

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king. — read the full passage →

Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Cesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee. — read the full passage →

Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. — read the full passage →

If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

But ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number. — read the full passage →

And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.

There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.

I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O Lord, will I sing. — read the full passage →

Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: — read the full passage →

For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. — read the full passage →

Neither from a stranger’s hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; — read the full passage →

A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. — read the full passage →

Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works. — read the full passage →

If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die. — read the full passage →

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: — read the full passage →

That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. — read the full passage →

For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. — read the full passage →

Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee. — read the full passage →

Thus saith the Lord God; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen; — read the full passage →

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! — read the full passage →

Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin: — read the full passage →

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? — read the full passage →

The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends. — read the full passage →

The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke. — read the full passage →

At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? — read the full passage →

For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. — 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 →

He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding. — read the full passage →

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; — read the full passage →

Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, — read the full passage →

Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. — 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. — read the full passage →

For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. — read the full passage →

But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. — read the full passage →

Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. — read the full passage →

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — read the full passage →

Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain; so the Lord shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field. — read the full passage →

I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the Lord. — read the full passage →

I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. — read the full passage →

The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. — read the full passage →

And an angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you. — read the full passage →

Know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you. — read the full passage →

Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. — read the full passage →

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: — read the full passage →

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; — read the full passage →

Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. — read the full passage →

O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth–haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. — read the full passage →

Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast. — read the full passage →

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

I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity. — read the full passage →

He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. — read the full passage →

O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? — read the full passage →

Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. — read the full passage →

Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance. — read the full passage →

O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. — read the full passage →

Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world: — read the full passage →

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? — read the full passage →