singing
What does the Bible say about singing? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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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.
1A Psalm of Confession. 2Shout joyfully to God, all the earth. Serve the Lord with rejoicing. Enter into his sight in exultation.
1The Praise of a Canticle, of David himself. Come, let us exult in the Lord. Let us shout joyfully to God, our Savior. 2Let us anticipate his presence with confession, and let us sing joyfully to him with psalms.
19speaking among yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual canticles, singing and reciting psalms to the Lord in your hearts,
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.
1Alleluia. Praise the Lord, because the psalm is good. Delightful and beautiful praise shall be for our God.
33I will sing to the Lord with my life. I will sing psalms to my God, as long as I am.
17The Lord your God is the strength in your midst; he will save. He will rejoice over you with gladness. In his love, he will be silent. He will exult over you with praise.
13Is any of you sad? Let him pray. Is he even-tempered? Let him sing psalms.
1The Praise of a Canticle, of David himself. Come, let us exult in the Lord. Let us shout joyfully to God, our Savior.
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.
2Sing to him, and sing psalms to him. Describe all his wonders.
17But I will sing your strength, and I will extol your mercy, in the morning. For you have been my supporter and my refuge in the day of my tribulation.