Bible Verses About Music And Musical Instruments

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.

Direct New Testament support for psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.

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

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

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

raise a song and strike timbrel

And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.

David and Israel played before the Lord with instruments.

Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.

Praise with timbrel, dance, and stringed instruments.

Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.

Praise with trumpet, psaltery, and harp.

Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.

Harp and psaltery praise in the psalms.

And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

David and Israel with singing and instruments before God.

The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.

Singers and instrument players in procession.

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

Ten-stringed psaltery and harp in praise.

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

Sing to the Lord with the harp.

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

New song with skillful strings.

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

Make melody to God on the lyre.

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

Congregational new song praise.

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

songs in the house of pilgrimage

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

Joyful noise with psalms.

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

Come sing to 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 in mouth for praise.

And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.

Direct temple music passage with instruments and joy.

And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

Prophetic warning about feasting music and neglect of God.

That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

General music analogy about distinct sounds.

Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image:

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

Music as part of the human scene of joy.

And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;

Shows misuse of instruments in careless song.