Worldly Music

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.

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.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

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

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

Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

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.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

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.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

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.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

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

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names. — read the full passage →

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

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

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, — read the full passage →

proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

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

Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

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

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

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

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, — read the full passage →

Abstain from every form of evil.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

“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.

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord; — read the full passage →

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek. — read the full passage →

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

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 →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

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, — read the full passage →