Bible Verses about “music and the devil”
The Bible contains 26 verses about music and the devil across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.”
“Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”
“This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,”
“Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,”
“Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”
“Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.”
“nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.”
“Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
“"Be angry, and don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath,”
“Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!”
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.”
“Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!”
“speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;”
“Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!”
“Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre!”
“"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.”
“Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his excellent greatness!”
“Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with resounding cymbals!”
“Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;”
“You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”
“Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?"”
“Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.”
“What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.”
“He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.”
“and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name."”
“It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.”