100 Bible Verses about Why We Should Praise God

Psalm 150:1-6 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals! ...

Hebrews 13:15 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.

Psalm 149:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!

Psalm 145:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

James 5:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.

Luke 2:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,

Isaiah 25:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.

Psalm 150:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!

Psalm 119:164 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous rules.

Psalm 100:1-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

A Psalm for giving thanks. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

Psalm 21:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Be exalted, O Lord, in your strength! We will sing and praise your power.

Psalm 7:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

2 Chronicles 20:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And when they began to sing and praise, the Lord set an ambush against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed.

1 Peter 1:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Hebrews 2:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Saying, “I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.”

Acts 16:25-26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were unfastened.

Acts 2:47 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.

Isaiah 43:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Psalm 138:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word.

Psalm 138:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Of David. I give you thanks, O Lord, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing your praise;

Psalm 99:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Exalt the Lord our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he!

Psalm 96:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.

Psalm 68:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the Lord; exult before him!

Psalm 66:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

All the earth worships you and sings praises to you; they sing praises to your name.” Selah

Psalm 61:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So will I ever sing praises to your name, as I perform my vows day after day.

Psalm 51:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.

Psalm 43:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.

Psalm 22:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.

Psalm 18:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.

Psalm 9:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Sing praises to the Lord, who sits enthroned in Zion! Tell among the peoples his deeds!

1 Chronicles 16:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be feared above all gods.

2 Samuel 22:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.

Exodus 15:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.

Revelation 5:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!”

Revelation 4:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”

Revelation 4:8-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!” And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying, “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”

1 John 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Philippians 2:9-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,

Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

John 4:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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.

Luke 2:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

Daniel 4:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.

Daniel 2:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

To you, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for you have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of you, for you have made known to us the king's matter.”

Daniel 2:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might.

Jeremiah 33:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord: “‘Give thanks to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!’ For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For thus says the Lord: “Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, ‘O Lord, save your people, the remnant of Israel.’

Jeremiah 20:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Sing to the Lord; praise the Lord! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

Psalm 150:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!

Psalm 150:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness!

Psalm 147:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting.

Psalm 135:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good; sing to his name, for it is pleasant!

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! ...

Psalm 117:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Praise the Lord, all nations! Extol him, all peoples! For great is his steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 113:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised!

Psalm 111:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Praise the Lord! I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation.

Psalm 109:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

With my mouth I will give great thanks to the Lord; I will praise him in the midst of the throng.

Psalm 106:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Praise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!

Psalm 104:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being.

Psalm 101:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. I will sing of steadfast love and justice; to you, O Lord, I will make music.

Psalm 100:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!

Psalm 99:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for the Lord our God is holy!

Psalm 99:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let them praise your great and awesome name! Holy is he!

Psalm 95:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!

Psalm 92:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath. It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, O Most High;

Psalm 79:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise.

Psalm 71:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more.

Psalm 71:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the day.

Psalm 69:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them.

Psalm 69:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.

Psalm 66:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Bless our God, O peoples; let the sound of his praise be heard,

Psalm 56:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

Psalm 48:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A Song. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain,

Psalm 35:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I will thank you in the great congregation; in the mighty throng I will praise you.

Psalm 34:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

Psalm 34:1-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together!

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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.

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Psalm 33:1-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Shout for joy in the Lord, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright. Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre; make melody to him with the harp of ten strings! Sing to him a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts.

Psalm 30:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,

Psalm 29:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness.

Psalm 28:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Blessed be the Lord! For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.

Psalm 22:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:

Psalm 9:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

James 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Ephesians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,

Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,

1 Corinthians 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Acts 16:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,

Acts 2:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 24:53 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And were continually in the temple blessing God.

Matthew 4:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”

Psalm 150:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp!

Psalm 149:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly!

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