Top 25 Bible Verses About Worldly Music (NIV)

¹⁵ Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

² Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.

¹⁹ Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord,

¹¹ Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

⁵ It is better to heed a wise man's rebuke than to listen to the song of fools.

⁴³ for they loved praise from men more than praise from God.

¹⁶ Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?

⁸ Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.

²⁴ God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."

¹ Praise the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens. ² Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness. ³ Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre, ⁴ praise him with tambourine and dancing, praise him with the strings and flute, ⁵ praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals. ⁶ Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD.

¹⁵ "If you love me, you will obey what I command.

¹ Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship.

³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

⁴ You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

¹⁵ He said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of men, but God knows your hearts. What is highly valued among men is detestable in God's sight.

⁸ Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.

²⁴ Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.

¹⁷ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

³ In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again. "

²⁰ Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

²⁷ Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

⁹ But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

³¹ So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

²³ Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.