music in church

¹Alleluia. Praise the Lord in his holy places. Praise him in the firmament of his power. ²Praise him for his virtues. Praise him according to the multitude of his greatness. ³Praise him with the sound of the trumpet. Praise him with psaltery and stringed instrument. ⁴Praise him with timbrel and choir. Praise him with strings and organ. ⁵Praise him with sweet-sounding cymbals. Praise him with cymbals of jubilation. ⁶Let every spirit praise the Lord. Alleluia.

¹⁹speaking among yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual canticles, singing and reciting psalms to the Lord in your hearts,

¹³Is any of you sad? Let him pray. Is he even-tempered? Let him sing psalms.

²⁶What is next, brothers? When you gather together, each one of you may have a psalm, or a doctrine, or a revelation, or a language, or an interpretation, but let everything be done for edification.

¹⁵What is next? I should pray with the spirit, and also pray with the mind. I should sing psalms with the spirit, and also recite psalms with the mind.

¹⁶Let the word of Christ live in you in abundance, with all wisdom, teaching and correcting one another, with psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing to God with the grace in your hearts.

²³My lips will exult, when I sing to you, and also my soul, which you have redeemed.

¹²“I will announce your name to my brothers. In the midst of the Church, I will praise you.”

²⁵But his elder son was in the field. And when he returned and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

²⁷Now at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought the Levites from all their places, so that they might bring them to Jerusalem, and so that they might keep the dedication, and rejoice with thanksgiving, and with singing, and with cymbals, psalteries, and lyres.

⁵But David and all of Israel played before the Lord on every kind of musical instrument made of wood, and on harps, and lyres, and timbrels, and bells, and cymbals.

¹²So it is with you also. And since you are zealous for what is spiritual, seek the edification of the Church, so that you may abound. ¹³For this reason, too, whoever speaks in tongues, let him pray for the interpretation. ¹⁴So, if I pray in tongues, my spirit prays, but my mind is without fruit. ¹⁵What is next? I should pray with the spirit, and also pray with the mind. I should sing psalms with the spirit, and also recite psalms with the mind.

⁹and that the Gentiles are to honor God because of his mercy, just as it was written: “Because of this, I will confess you among the Gentiles, O Lord, and I will sing to your name.”

⁷Even those things that are without a soul can make sounds, whether it is a wind or a stringed instrument. But unless they present a distinction within the sounds, how will it be known which is from the pipe and which is from the string? ⁸For example, if the trumpet made an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for battle? ⁹So it is with you also, for unless you utter with the tongue in plain speech, how will it be known what is said? For then you would be speaking into the air.

²¹And she prophesied, saying: “Let us sing to the Lord, for he has been gloriously magnified. The horse and its rider, he has thrown into the sea.”

²³Take away from me the tumult of your songs, and I will not listen to the canticles of your lyre.

²¹I hate and have rejected your feasts; and I will not accept the odor from your gatherings. ²²For if you offer me holocausts and your gifts, I will not receive them; and I will not look upon the vows of your fatness. ²³Take away from me the tumult of your songs, and I will not listen to the canticles of your lyre.

⁵Sing psalms to the Lord with stringed instruments, with strings and the voice of a psalmist,

⁹For in vain do they worship me, teaching the doctrines and commandments of men.’ ”

⁶³Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending to where he was before?