music in worship

¹The Praise of a Canticle, of David himself. Come, let us exult in the Lord. Let us shout joyfully to God, our Savior.

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.

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.

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

¹A Psalm of Confession. ²Shout joyfully to God, all the earth. Serve the Lord with rejoicing. Enter into his sight in exultation.

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

³Sing to him a new song. Sing psalms to him skillfully, with loud exclamation.

²⁵Then, in the middle of the night, Paul and Silas were praying and praising God. And those who were also in custody were listening to them.

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

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.”

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

³Let them praise his name in chorus. Let them sing psalms to him with the timbrel and the psaltery.

²⁴God is Spirit. And so, those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”

¹⁸And do not choose to be inebriated by wine, for this is self-indulgence. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit, ¹⁹speaking among yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual canticles, singing and reciting psalms to the Lord in your hearts, ²⁰giving thanks always for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God the Father.

¹⁵But now, bring a musician to me.” And while the musician was playing, the hand of the Lord fell upon him, and he said:

³⁰And after a hymn was sung, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

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.

⁴Praise him with timbrel and choir. Praise him with strings and organ.

³I will rejoice and exult in you. I will sing a psalm to your name, O Most High.