What Does the Bible Say About Hip Hop Music?

Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Psalm 150:1-6 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals! ...

Romans 1:16 ESV / 16 helpful votes

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Psalm 150:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens!

James 4:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

John 3:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Psalm 149:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 9 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Psalm 100:1-5 ESV / 9 helpful votes

A Psalm for giving thanks. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Psalm 23:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Romans 10:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?

John 16:33 ESV / 7 helpful votes

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

John 14:27 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 7 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Psalm 57:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Hebrews 11:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.

1 Corinthians 1:27-29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Psalm 150:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!

John 3:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

Proverbs 14:17-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated. The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge. The evil bow down before the good, the wicked at the gates of the righteous. The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the rich has many friends. Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor. ...

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Titus 1:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.

1 Thessalonians 5:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not quench the Spirit.

1 Peter 5:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.

James 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

2 Timothy 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As I remember your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy.

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...

Philippians 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

Romans 10:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Acts 3:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate to ask alms of those entering the temple. Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive alms. And Peter directed his gaze at him, as did John, and said, “Look at us.” And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them. ...

John 16:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.

John 14:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And you know the way to where I am going.”

Luke 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

That you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught.

Matthew 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Daniel 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: Daniel he called Belteshazzar, Hananiah he called Shadrach, Mishael he called Meshach, and Azariah he called Abednego.

Isaiah 41:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.

Proverbs 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live.

Proverbs 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.

Psalm 150:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!

Psalm 150:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp!

Psalm 150:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness!

Psalm 149:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To execute on them the judgment written! This is honor for all his godly ones. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 68:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The singers in front, the musicians last, between them virgins playing tambourines:

Psalm 57:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts— the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

Nehemiah 4:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the place where you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us.”

Ezra 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord, according to the directions of David king of Israel.

65 Bible Verses about Hip Hop Music

Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 36 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 150:1-6 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 1:16 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 150:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 4:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 149:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 23:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 10:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 16:33 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:27 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:37 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Psalm 57:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 11:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 1:27-29 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 150:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 14:17-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 1:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 5:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 5:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Colossians 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 10:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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John 16:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Luke 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 41:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Psalm 150:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Psalm 68:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Nehemiah 4:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezra 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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