addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,
Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving; make melody to our God on the lyre!
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.
Sing to him, sing praises to him; tell of all his wondrous works! Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!
But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. Selah
behold, my servants shall sing for gladness of heart, but you shall cry out for pain of heart and shall wail for breaking of spirit.
I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever.
And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm! God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.
“‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
Unless otherwise indicated, all content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Contact me: openbibleinfo (at) gmail.com.