Bible Verses About Worldly Music
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for worldly music, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,037 votes, led by 1 John 2:15. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Worldly Music
1 John 2:15213 votes
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Colossians 3:16189 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 12:2163 votes
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.
Ecclesiastes 7:5136 votes
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ephesians 5:11124 votes
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Ephesians 5:19120 votes
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
John 12:43106 votes
For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
Romans 8:884 votes
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
1 Corinthians 3:1679 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
John 4:2468 votes
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Psalms 150:1-667 votes
Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
James 4:466 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.
John 14:1562 votes
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Romans 12:161 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.
Matthew 6:3357 votes
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Luke 16:1556 votes
And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Isaiah 5:2051 votes
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Philippians 4:850 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.
2 Corinthians 5:1747 votes
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Galatians 5:2445 votes
And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
1 Peter 2:945 votes
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
John 3:343 votes
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
James 1:2742 votes
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
1 Corinthians 10:3140 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Amos 5:2338 votes
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
What does the Bible say about worldly music?
Readers most often cite 1 John 2:15 on the subject of worldly music. Across 3,037 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Colossians 3:16, Romans 12:2, Ecclesiastes 7:5. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.