Top 25 Bible Verses About Instruments (ESV)

16 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.

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

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

150:1   Praise the LORD!
  Praise God in his sanctuary;
    praise him in his mighty heavens!
2   Praise him for his mighty deeds;
    praise him according to his excellent greatness!
3   Praise him with trumpet sound;
    praise him with lute and harp!
4   Praise him with tambourine and dance;
    praise him with strings and pipe!
5   Praise him with sounding cymbals;
    praise him with loud clashing cymbals!
6   Let everything that has breath praise the LORD!
  Praise the LORD!

16 David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as the singers who should play loudly on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.

12 saying,

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

5 4,000 gatekeepers, and 4,000 shall offer praises to the LORD with the instruments that I have made for praise.”

9 and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written,

  “Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles,
    and sing to your name.”

25 And he stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the commandment of David and of Gad the king’s seer and of Nathan the prophet, for the commandment was from the LORD through his prophets.

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

5   who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp
    and like David invent for themselves instruments of music,

30 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

2 And I heard a voice from heaven like the roar of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps, 3 and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.

15 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.

12   They sing to the tambourine and the lyre
    and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.

5 And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.

8 And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

38 And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

25 “Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

26 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

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

4   Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth;
    break forth into joyous song and sing praises!
5   Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre,
    with the lyre and the sound of melody!
6   With trumpets and the sound of the horn
    make a joyful noise before the King, the LORD!

21 His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.

2   Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre;
    make melody to him with the harp of ten strings!

22   and the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters,
    will be heard in you no more,
  and a craftsman of any craft
    will be found in you no more,
  and the sound of the mill
    will be heard in you no more,