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 with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

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. — read the full passage →

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

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

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

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; — read the full passage →

My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you!

Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil. — read the full passage →

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

When the builders laid the foundation of Yahweh’s temple, they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, according to the directions of David king of Israel.

Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. — read the full passage →

The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, in the midst of the ladies playing with tambourines,

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

Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; — read the full passage →

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. — read the full passage →

Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.” — read the full passage →

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

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

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world. — read the full passage →

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit. — read the full passage →

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.” — read the full passage →

saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’ — read the full passage →

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

“But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny; — read the full passage →

Through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and he shall destroy many in their security. He shall also stand up against the prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises. — read the full passage →

Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. — read the full passage →

For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it. — read the full passage →

Neither shall you offer the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner of any of these; because their corruption is in them. There is a defect in them. They shall not be accepted for you.’”

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →

Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked. — read the full passage →

Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works. — read the full passage →

If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” — read the full passage →

As it is written, “There is no one 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 perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’” — read the full passage →

Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech. — read the full passage →

Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you. — read the full passage →

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Moab and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations; — read the full passage →

How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become tributary! — read the full passage →

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, — read the full passage →

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he? — read the full passage →

The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends. — read the full passage →

The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats. — read the full passage →

In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” — read the full passage →

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed. — read the full passage →

Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel. — read the full passage →

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding. — read the full passage →

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

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

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

accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward. — read the full passage →

saying, “I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.” — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

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

But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. — read the full passage →

Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early, and encamped beside the spring of Harod: and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. — read the full passage →

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field. — read the full passage →

I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh. — read the full passage →

I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High. — read the full passage →

Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you: — read the full passage →

know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you. — read the full passage →

You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field. — read the full passage →

“‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled. — read the full passage →

They rose up early on the next day, 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 →

The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk. — read the full passage →

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

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

yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortionists, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world. — read the full passage →

“Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem; for evil looks out from the north, and a great destruction. — read the full passage →

Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols are on the animals, and on the livestock: the things that you carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary. — read the full passage →

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

I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure”; and behold, this also was vanity. — read the full passage →

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy. — read the full passage →

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture? — read the full passage →

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

Son of man, they who inhabit those waste places in 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 →

Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation! — read the full passage →

Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world, — read the full passage →

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment? — read the full passage →