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Want to know what the Bible says about Musical Instruments In Church? Here are 91 Bible verses about Musical Instruments In Church 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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2 Samuel 6:5 NIV
David and all Israel were celebrating with all their might before the Lord, with castanets, harps, lyres, timbrels, sistrums and cymbals.
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Revelation 18:22 NIV
The music of harpists and musicians, pipers and trumpeters,
    will never be heard in you again.
No worker of any trade
    will ever be found in you again.
The sound of a millstone
    will never be heard in you again.
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Joel 2:1 NIV
Blow the trumpet in Zion;
    sound the alarm on my holy hill.
Let all who live in the land tremble,
    for the day of the Lord is coming.
It is close at hand
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Nehemiah 12:27 NIV
At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from where they lived and were brought to Jerusalem to celebrate joyfully the dedication with songs of thanksgiving and with the music of cymbals, harps and lyres.
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Psalm 18:49 NIV
Therefore I will praise you, Lord, among the nations;
    I will sing the praises of your name.
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1 Chronicles 16:5-6 NIV
5 Asaph was the chief, and next to him in rank were Zechariah, then Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom and Jeiel. They were to play the lyres and harps, Asaph was to sound the cymbals, 6 and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests were to blow the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.
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1 Chronicles 15:16 NIV
David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their fellow Levites as musicians to make a joyful sound with musical instruments: lyres, harps and cymbals.
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Romans 15:4 NIV
For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.
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Mark 14:26 NIV
When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
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Psalm 33:2 NIV
Praise the Lord with the harp;
    make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre.
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Luke 15:25 NIV
“Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing.
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Matthew 9:23 NIV
When Jesus entered the synagogue leader’s house and saw the noisy crowd and people playing pipes,
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Psalm 149:3 NIV
Let them praise his name with dancing
    and make music to him with timbrel and harp.
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2 Chronicles 7:6 NIV
The priests took their positions, as did the Levites with the Lord’s musical instruments, which King David had made for praising the Lord and which were used when he gave thanks, saying, “His love endures forever.” Opposite the Levites, the priests blew their trumpets, and all the Israelites were standing.
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Psalm 68:25 NIV
In front are the singers, after them the musicians;
    with them are the young women playing the timbrels.
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Romans 12:1 NIV
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
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Psalm 150:4 NIV
praise him with timbrel and dancing,
    praise him with the strings and pipe,
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Judges 11:34 NIV
When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of timbrels! She was an only child. Except for her he had neither son nor daughter.
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John 4:24 NIV
God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
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