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I Will Sing Biblical Review

By Don Moen

Year
2001
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Themes
Trust and dependenceSuffering and waitingHope and peace

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Praise Through the Silence

No material concerns

This song becomes a prayer of faithful praise: honest about weakness and distress, yet trusting God’s purposeful care, Christ’s saving love, and the truth of his word. It invites continual, communal worship without treating praise as a guarantee of deliverance.

Central message

Even when God feels distant and prayer falters, we can sing with open hearts, trust his faithful purpose, and praise God and the Lamb.

Strengths

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  • It holds lament and worship together, portraying praise amid severe distress without making praise a guaranteed mechanism for deliverance.

  • It grounds trust in God’s purposeful work, Christ’s self-giving, and grace sufficient in weakness.

  • It calls believers to truthful, thankful, continual, and communal praise.

  1. 1
    personal testimonySupported

    Psalms 13 and 42 portray faithful lament amid felt distance from God. Romans 8:26–27 directly addresses weakness and difficulty in prayer, affirming the testimony’s theological content.

    Psalms 13:1–6
    Related themeMatches in context

    Psalm 13 joins felt abandonment with continued trust, prayer, and hope in God’s salvation.

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    Psalms 13:1–6
    1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me? 3Behold, and answer me, LORD, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death; 4lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;” lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall. 5But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation. 6I will sing to the LORD, because he has been good to me.
    Psalms 42:5–11
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    Psalm 42 portrays despair and perceived divine absence while continuing to remember, pray, and hope in God.

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    Psalms 42:3–11
    3My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?” 4These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day. 5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence. 6My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar. 7Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me. 8The LORD will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life. 9I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” 10As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?” 11Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
    Romans 8:26–27
    Related themeMatches in context

    Romans 8:26–27 explicitly says the Spirit helps believers who do not know how to pray.

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    Romans 8:24–29
    24For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees? 25But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience. 26In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered. 27He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God. 28We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose. 29For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
  2. 2
    devotional responseStrongly supported

    Habakkuk, Acts, and Psalm 34 each portray praise or singing amid severe distress. Together they establish this response without making praise a guaranteed mechanism for deliverance.

    Habakkuk 3:17–19
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    Habakkuk rejoices in the Lord despite crop failure, economic loss, and impending trouble.

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    Habakkuk 3:15–19
    15You trampled the sea with your horses, churning mighty waters. 16I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us. 17For even though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food, the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls, 18yet I will rejoice in the LORD. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation! 19GOD, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.
    Acts 16:25–26
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    Acts records Paul and Silas praying and singing hymns while imprisoned and suffering.

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    Acts 16:23–28
    23When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely. 24Having received such a command, he threw them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks. 25But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. 26Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened. 27The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. 28But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”
    Psalms 34:1–4
    Related themeMatches in context

    Psalm 34 declares continual blessing and praise while recalling deliverance from fear and troubles.

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    Psalms 34:1–6
    1By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless the LORD at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth. 2My soul shall boast in the LORD. The humble shall hear of it and be glad. 3Oh magnify the LORD with me. Let’s exalt his name together. 4I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. 5They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame. 6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
  3. 3
    doctrinal assertionSupported

    Romans 8 presents God’s purposeful work and Christ’s saving gift. Galatians grounds freedom in Christ’s self-giving, while Proverbs commends trust beyond human understanding.

    Galatians 2:20–21
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    Galatians 2:20–21 presents Christ’s self-giving death, grace, and life by faith.

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    Galatians 2:18–21
    18For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker. 19For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God. 20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me. 21I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”
    Romans 8:28–32
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    Romans 8 connects God’s purpose with Christ’s delivered-up Son and the believer’s secure salvation.

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    Romans 8:26–34
    26In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered. 27He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God. 28We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose. 29For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified. 31What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things? 33Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies. 34Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
    Proverbs 3:5–6
    Close paraphraseMatches in context

    Proverbs 3 commands wholehearted trust rather than dependence on human understanding.

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    Proverbs 3:3–8
    3Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. 4So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man. 5Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. 6In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. 7Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear the LORD, and depart from evil. 8It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.
  4. 4
    personal testimonySupported

    Romans 8 addresses weakness in prayer, and 2 Corinthians 12 describes sufficient grace in weakness. Psalm 51 connects open lips with a broken, sincere heart.

    Romans 8:26–27
    Close paraphraseMatches in context

    Romans 8 says the Spirit helps weakness when believers do not know how to pray.

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    Romans 8:24–29
    24For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees? 25But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience. 26In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered. 27He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God. 28We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose. 29For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
    2 Corinthians 12:9–10
    Related themeMatches in context

    Second Corinthians 12 presents Christ’s sufficient grace and power in human weakness.

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    2 Corinthians 12:7–12
    7By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively. 8Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me. 9He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. 10Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong. 11I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing. 12Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.
    Psalms 51:15–17
    Related themeMatches in context

    Psalm 51 joins prayer for opened lips with praise arising from a broken and contrite heart.

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    Psalms 51:13–19
    13Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners will be converted to you. 14Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness. 15Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise. 16For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering. 17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart. 18Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem. 19Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.
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    devotional responseStrongly supported

    Psalm 63 explicitly joins praise and lifted hands. Psalm 119 and John 17 affirm the truthfulness of God’s commandments and word.

    Psalms 63:3–4
    Close paraphraseMatches in context

    Psalm 63 says loving-kindness motivates praise and explicitly mentions lifting hands in God’s name.

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    Psalms 63:1–6
    1A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah. God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water. 2So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory. 3Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you. 4So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name. 5My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips, 6when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.
    Psalms 119:151–152
    Close paraphraseMatches in context

    Psalm 119 declares that the Lord’s commandments are truth and his testimonies endure forever.

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    Psalms 119:149–154
    149Hear my voice according to your loving kindness. Revive me, LORD, according to your ordinances. 150They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law. 151You are near, LORD. All your commandments are truth. 152Of old I have known from your testimonies, that you have founded them forever. RESH 153Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law. 154Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.
    John 17:17–19
    Close paraphraseMatches in context

    Jesus prays, “Your word is truth,” within his prayer for sanctification.

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    John 17:15–21
    15I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one. 16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth. 18As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world. 19For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. 20“Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word, 21that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
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    devotional responseStrongly supported

    Habakkuk, Acts, and Psalm 34 each portray praise or singing amid severe distress. Together they establish this response without making praise a guaranteed mechanism for deliverance.

    Habakkuk 3:17–19
    Close paraphraseMatches in context

    Habakkuk rejoices in the Lord despite crop failure, economic loss, and impending trouble.

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    Habakkuk 3:15–19
    15You trampled the sea with your horses, churning mighty waters. 16I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us. 17For even though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food, the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls, 18yet I will rejoice in the LORD. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation! 19GOD, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.
    Acts 16:25–26
    Related themePartly matches in context

    Acts records Paul and Silas praying and singing hymns while imprisoned and suffering.

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    Acts 16:23–28
    23When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely. 24Having received such a command, he threw them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks. 25But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. 26Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened. 27The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. 28But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”
    Psalms 34:1–4
    Related themeMatches in context

    Psalm 34 declares continual blessing and praise while recalling deliverance from fear and troubles.

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    Psalms 34:1–6
    1By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless the LORD at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth. 2My soul shall boast in the LORD. The humble shall hear of it and be glad. 3Oh magnify the LORD with me. Let’s exalt his name together. 4I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. 5They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame. 6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
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    devotional responseStrongly supported

    Psalm 63 explicitly describes praise and lifted hands. Psalm 119, Hebrews 13, and the surrounding biblical teaching affirm continual praise grounded in God’s truth.

    Psalms 63:3–4
    Close paraphraseMatches in context

    Psalm 63 says, “I will bless you,” and explicitly describes lifting hands in God’s name.

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    Psalms 63:1–6
    1A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah. God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water. 2So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory. 3Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you. 4So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name. 5My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips, 6when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.
    Psalms 119:151–152
    Related themeMatches in context

    Psalm 119 calls the Lord’s commandments truth and his testimonies permanently founded.

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    Psalms 119:149–154
    149Hear my voice according to your loving kindness. Revive me, LORD, according to your ordinances. 150They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law. 151You are near, LORD. All your commandments are truth. 152Of old I have known from your testimonies, that you have founded them forever. RESH 153Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law. 154Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.
    Hebrews 13:15–16
    Close paraphraseMatches in context

    Hebrews 13 calls believers to offer praise continually as the fruit of lips devoted to God’s name.

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    Hebrews 13:13–18
    13Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach. 14For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come. 15Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name. 16But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. 17Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you. 18Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
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    devotional responseStrongly supported

    Psalm 95, Ephesians 5, and Revelation 5 directly portray communal singing, worship, thanksgiving, and praise to God and the Lamb.

    Psalms 95:1–6
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    Psalm 95 repeatedly calls God’s people to sing, shout, worship, bow, and kneel before the Lord.

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    Psalms 95:1–8
    1Oh come, let’s sing to the LORD. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation! 2Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs! 3For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods. 4In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his. 5The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land. 6Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before the LORD, our Maker, 7for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice! 8Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
    Ephesians 5:18–20
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    Ephesians 5 instructs believers to sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to the Lord.

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    Ephesians 5:16–22
    16redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17Therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, 19speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; 20giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father; 21subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ. 22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
    Revelation 5:8–10
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    Revelation 5 depicts heavenly worship through songs of praise to the slain and worthy Lamb.

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    Revelation 5:6–12
    6I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth. 7Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne. 8Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 9They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation, 10and made us kings and priests to our God; and we will reign on the earth.” 11I looked, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. The number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands, 12saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”
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    devotional responseStrongly supported

    Psalm 98 joins thanksgiving and singing to God’s salvation. Colossians and Hebrews affirm thankful, Christ-centered praise as an appropriate Christian response.

    Psalms 98:1–4
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    Psalm 98 calls all the earth to sing joyfully because the Lord has accomplished salvation.

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    Psalms 98:1–6
    1A Psalm. Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him. 2The LORD has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations. 3He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. 4Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises! 5Sing praises to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and the voice of melody. 6With trumpets and sound of the ram’s horn, make a joyful noise before the King, the LORD.
    Colossians 3:15–17
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    Colossians 3 commands thankful singing to the Lord and thanksgiving to God the Father through Christ.

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    Colossians 3:13–19
    13bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do. 14Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection. 15And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful. 16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord. 17Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. 18Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
    Hebrews 13:15–16
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    Hebrews 13 calls for continual praise offered through Christ to God.

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    Hebrews 13:13–18
    13Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach. 14For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come. 15Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name. 16But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. 17Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you. 18Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
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