Bible Verses About Hymns And Christian Worship

Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

Parallel Bible text for singing in worship

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Key Bible text for Christian singing

And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.

Narrative example of singing hymns in prayer

Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.

Psalm about singing a new song in the assembly

Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.

Praise in the assembly and congregation.

Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.

Sing a new song and play skillfully.

And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.

Shows worship with singers and trumpeters in the temple.

Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.

General praise text often used for worship singing

Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.

Christ singing praise in the assembly.

Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

Praise in the assembly of the elders.

Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:

Sing with thanksgiving and melody.

My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

Praise in the great assembly.

Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.

Praise with harp and psalm.

Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

Call to come before God with psalms

O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

Call to sing unto the Lord

And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

New song language echoed by early writers

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

Praise as sacrifice language

Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

Sing with gladness before God

It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.

General worship-and-singing passage.

O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

Praise from the mouth

Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

Use of psalm with instruments.

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.

Shows Jesus and the disciples singing an hymn

And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.

Parallel Gospel account of the hymn

Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works.

Sing psalms and tell of God's works

How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.

Shows a hymn as part of gathered church life

Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.

They sang His praise