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Want to know what the Bible says about Music? Here are 272 Bible verses about Music from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Psalm 95:2 NIV
Let us come before him with thanksgiving
    and extol him with music and song.
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Daniel 3:15 NIV
Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down and worship the image I made, very good. But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what god will be able to rescue you from my hand?”
117
Amos 5:23 NIV
Away with the noise of your songs!
    I will not listen to the music of your harps.
113
Psalm 150:4 NIV
praise him with timbrel and dancing,
    praise him with the strings and pipe,
109
Exodus 15:1 NIV
Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord:
“I will sing to the Lord,
    for he is highly exalted.
Both horse and driver
    he has hurled into the sea.
107
Psalm 87:7 NIV
As they make music they will sing,
    “All my fountains are in you.”
105
Psalm 144:9 NIV
I will sing a new song to you, my God;
    on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,
105
1 Samuel 16:23 NIV
Whenever the spirit from God came on Saul, David would take up his lyre and play. Then relief would come to Saul; he would feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him.
100
Isaiah 5:12 NIV
They have harps and lyres at their banquets,
    pipes and timbrels and wine,
but they have no regard for the deeds of the Lord,
    no respect for the work of his hands.
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