Bible Verses About Secular Music
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for secular music, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,039 votes, led by Ecclesiastes 7:5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Secular Music
Ecclesiastes 7:5532 votes
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Colossians 3:16278 votes
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.
Romans 12:1-2251 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
1 Corinthians 10:31222 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
James 4:4216 votes
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Philippians 4:8176 votes
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.
Romans 14:1-23175 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Proverbs 17:4173 votes
A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
2 Corinthians 6:17152 votes
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
1 Corinthians 6:12113 votes
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.
Ephesians 5:1-33111 votes
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
John 12:4398 votes
For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
Luke 21:3481 votes
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Ecclesiastes 11:9-1067 votes
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Acts 15:28-2962 votes
For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
Psalms 71:2342 votes
My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
Ecclesiastes 12:1-1442 votes
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
Ecclesiastes 5:1-2040 votes
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Ezra 3:1039 votes
And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the Lord, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.
Psalms 150:1-639 votes
Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
Exodus 15:136 votes
Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Psalms 73:1-2836 votes
Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
Psalms 68:2532 votes
The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
Ecclesiastes 7:1-2932 votes
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
1 Corinthians 10:1-3332 votes
Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
What does the Bible say about secular music?
Readers most often cite Ecclesiastes 7:5 on the subject of secular music. Across 4,039 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Colossians 3:16, Romans 12:1-2, 1 Corinthians 10:31. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.