Bible Verses about “listening to music”
The Bible contains 34 verses about listening to music across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things.”
“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.”
“Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;”
“¶ All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.”
“So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
“‹God› [is] ‹a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship› [him] ‹in spirit and in truth.›”
“Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.”
“Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.”
“I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.”
“This [is] the day [which] the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.”
“Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be content.”
“The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.”
“The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.”
“Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.”
“He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.”
“My help [cometh] from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.”
“¶ A Song of degrees. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.”
“The LORD [is] thy keeper: the LORD [is] thy shade upon thy right hand.”
“The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.”
“The stone [which] the builders refused is become the head [stone] of the corner.”
“[It is] better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.”
“Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.”
“Blessed [be] he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.”
“Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.”
“¶ But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.”
“¶ Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, [and] I will praise the LORD:”
“This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.”
“I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.”
“This is the LORD'S doing; it [is] marvellous in our eyes.”
“God [is] the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, [even] unto the horns of the altar.”
“Thou [art] my God, and I will praise thee: [thou art] my God, I will exalt thee.”
“O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.”
“For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so [is] the laughter of the fool: this also [is] vanity.”