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24 God is spirit [the Source of life, yet invisible to mankind], and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

23 But a time is coming and is already here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit [from the heart, the inner self] and in truth; for the Father seeks such people to be His worshipers.24 God is spirit [the Source of life, yet invisible to mankind], and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

21 Jesus replied, "Woman, believe Me, a time is coming [when God’s kingdom comes] when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.22 You [Samaritans] do not know what you worship; we [Jews] do know what we worship, for salvation is from the Jews.23 But a time is coming and is already here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit [from the heart, the inner self] and in truth; for the Father seeks such people to be His worshipers.

38 And he said, "Lord, I believe [in You and Your word]!" And he worshiped Him [with reverence and awe].

10 Then Jesus said to him, "Go away, Satan! For it is written and forever remains written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.’ " [Deut 6:13]

8 Jesus replied to him, "It is written and forever remains written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and serve only Him.’ " [Deut 6:13; 10:20]

Dedicated Service

1 *Therefore I urge you, *brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies [dedicating all of yourselves, set apart] as a living sacrifice, holy and well-pleasing to God, which is your rational (logical, intelligent) act of worship.

Dedicated Service

1 *Therefore I urge you, *brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies [dedicating all of yourselves, set apart] as a living sacrifice, holy and well-pleasing to God, which is your rational (logical, intelligent) act of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world [any longer with its superficial values and customs], but be *transformed and progressively changed [as you mature spiritually] by the renewing of your mind [focusing on godly values and ethical attitudes], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His plan and purpose for you].

36 For from Him [all things originate] and through Him [all things live and exist] and to Him are all things [directed]. To Him be glory and honor forever! Amen.

11 For it is written [in Scripture],

"As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me,

And every tongue shall give praise to God." [Is 45:23]

6 O come, let us worship and bow down,

Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker [in reverent praise and prayer].

6 O come, let us worship and bow down,

Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker [in reverent praise and prayer].

A Psalm of Praise.

1 Praise the Lord!

Praise God in His sanctuary;

Praise Him in His mighty heavens.

2 Praise Him for His mighty acts;

Praise Him according to [the abundance of] His greatness. [Deut 3:24; Ps 145:5, 6]

3 Praise Him with trumpet sound;

Praise Him with harp and lyre.

4 Praise Him with tambourine and dancing;

Praise Him with stringed instruments and flute.

5 Praise Him with resounding cymbals;

Praise Him with loud cymbals.

6 Let everything that has breath and every breath of life praise the Lord!

Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

6 Let everything that has breath and every breath of life praise the Lord!

Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

4 Enter His gates with a song of thanksgiving

And His courts with praise.

Be thankful to Him, bless and praise His name.

2 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due His name;

Worship the Lord in the beauty and majesty of His holiness [as the creator and source of holiness].

Praise for God’s Mighty Deeds and for His Answer to Prayer.

1 Shout joyfully to God, all the earth;

2 Sing of the honor and glory and magnificence of His name;

Make His praise glorious.

3 Say to God, "How awesome and fearfully glorious are Your works!

Because of the greatness of Your power Your enemies will pretend to be obedient to You.

4 "All the earth will [bow down to] worship You [in submissive wonder],

And will sing praises to You;

They will praise Your name in song." Selah.

17 I cried aloud to Him;

He was highly praised with my tongue.

9 All nations whom You have made shall come and kneel down in worship before You, O Lord,

And they shall glorify Your name.

10 For You are great and do wondrous works!

You alone are God.

Praise for the Lord’s Mercies.

1 Bless and affectionately praise the Lord, O my soul,

And all that is [deep] within me, bless His holy name.

The Lord’s Wonderful Works in Behalf of Israel.

1 O give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name;

Make known His deeds among the people.

The Thirsting Soul Satisfied in God.

1 O God, You are my God; with deepest longing I will seek You;

My *soul [my life, my very self] thirsts for You, my flesh longs and sighs for You,

In a dry and weary land where there is no water.

3 Because Your lovingkindness is better than life,

My lips shall praise You.

4 So will I bless You as long as I live;

I will lift up my hands in Your name.

11 "Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they exist, and were created and brought into being." [Ps 19:1]

7 and he said with a loud voice, "Fear God [with awe and reverence], and give Him glory [and honor and praise in worship], because the hour of His judgment has come; [with all your heart] worship Him who created the heaven and the earth, the sea and the springs of water."

4 "Who will not fear [reverently] and glorify Your name, O Lord [giving You honor and praise in worship]?

For You alone are holy;

For all the nations shall come and worship before You,

For Your righteous acts [Your just decrees and judgments] have been revealedanddisplayed." [Ps 86:9; Jer 10:7; Phil 2:9-11]

8 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. 9 But he said to me, "Do not do that. I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets and with those who heed and remember [the truths contained in] the words of this book. Worship God."

11 Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and on the earth; Yours is the dominion and kingdom, O Lord, and You exalt Yourself as head over all.

34 O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;

For His lovingkindness endures forever.

35 Then say, "Save us, O God of our salvation;

Gather us together and rescue us from the nations,

That we may give thanks to Your holy name,

And glory in Your praise."

36 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,

Forever and ever.

And all the people said, "Amen," and praised the Lord.

34 O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;

For His lovingkindness endures forever.

9 Sing to Him, sing praises to Him;

Speak of all His wonders.

9 For this reason also [because He obeyed and so completely humbled Himself], God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus *every knee shall bow [in submission], of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, [Is 45:23] 11 and that every tongue will confess and openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord (sovereign God), to the glory of God the Father.

God-pleasing Sacrifices

15 Through Him, therefore, let us at all times offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of lips that thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify His name. [Lev 7:12; Is 57:19; Hos 14:2]

28 Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, and offer to God pleasing service and acceptable worship with reverence and awe; 29 for our God is [indeed] a consuming fire. [Deut 4:24]

19 *Speak to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, [offering praise by] singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;

16 Let the [spoken] word of Christ have its home within you [dwelling in your heart and mind—permeating every aspect of your being] as you teach [spiritual things] and admonish and train one another with all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

25 But about midnight when Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them;

3 Blessed [gratefully praised and adored] be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts and encourages us in every trouble so that we will be able to comfort and encourage those who are in any kind of trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

3 what we have seen and heard we also proclaim to you, so that you too may have fellowship [as partners] with us. And indeed our fellowship [which is a distinguishing mark of born-again believers] is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.

5 Exalt the Lord our God

And worship at His footstool;

Holy is He.

8 My mouth is filled with Your praise

And with Your glory all day long.

4 Sing to God, sing praises to His name;

Lift up a song for Him who rides through the desert—

His name is the Lord—be in good spirits before Him.

5 A father of the fatherless and a judge and protector of the widows,

Is God in His holy habitation.

17 I will give thanks to the Lord according to His righteousness and justice,

And I will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.

22 I will tell of Your name to my countrymen;

In the midst of the congregation I will praise You. [John 20:17; Rom 8:29; Heb 2:12]

23 You who fear the Lord [with awe-inspired reverence], praise Him!

All you descendants of Jacob, honor Him.

Fear Him [with submissive wonder], all you descendants of Israel.

6 I reach out my hands to You;

My throat thirsts for You, as a parched land [thirsts for water]. Selah.

11 Why are you in despair, O my soul?

Why have you become restless and disquieted within me?

Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him,

The *help of my countenance and my God.

2 I said to the Lord, "You are my Lord;

I have no good besides You."

11 Worship the Lordand serve Him with reverence [with awe-inspired fear and submissive wonder];

Rejoice [yet do so] with trembling.

2 I will rejoice and exult in you;

I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

5 You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous (impassioned) God [*demanding what is rightfully and uniquely mine], visiting (avenging) the iniquity (sin, guilt) of the fathers on the children [that is, calling the children to account for the sins of their fathers], to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, [Is 42:8; 48:11]

14 —for you shall not worship any other god; for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous (impassioned) God [demanding what is rightfully and uniquely His]—

9 Whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the doorway of the tent; and the Lord would speak with Moses. 10 When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the tent door, all the people would rise and worship, each at his tent door.

2 "The Lord is my strength and my song,

And He has become my salvation;

This is my God, and I will praise Him;

My father’s God, and I will exalt Him.

11 "Who is like You among the gods, O Lord?

Who is like You, majestic in holiness,

Awesome in splendor, working wonders?

25 You shall serve [only] the Lord your God, and He shall bless your bread and water. I will also remove sickness from among you.

21 He is your praise and glory; He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which you have seen with your own eyes.

7 And there you and your households shall eat before the Lord your God, and rejoice in all to which you put your hand, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.

16 "They provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods [by denying Him the honor and loyalty that is rightfully and uniquely His];

And with repulsive acts they provoked Him to anger.

17 "They sacrificed to demons, not to God,

To gods whom they have not known,

New gods who came lately,

Whom your fathers never feared.

18 "You were unmindful of the Rock who bore you,

And you forgot the God who gave you birth.

16 Beware that your hearts are not deceived, and that you do not turn away [from the Lord] and serve other gods and worship them,

13 Then the Lord said,

"Because this nation approaches [Me only] with their words

And honors Me [only] with their lip service,

But they remove their hearts far from Me,

And their reverence for Me is a tradition that is learned by rote [without any regard for its meaning],

Song of Praise for God’s Favor

1 O Lord, You are my God;

I will exalt You, I will praise and give thanks to Your name;

For You have done miraculous things,

Plans formed long, long ago, [fulfilled] with perfect faithfulness.

42 But God turned away [from them] and handed them over to serve the *host of heaven. As it is written and forever remains written in the book of the prophets, ‘It was not [really] to Me that you offered victims and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, was it, O house of Israel? [Jer 19:13] 43 You also took along the tabernacle (portable temple) of Moloch and the star of the god Rompha, the images which you made to worship; and I will remove you beyond Babylon [carrying you away into exile].’ [Amos 5:25-27]

18 Let no one defraud you of your prize [your freedom in Christ and your salvation] by insisting on mock humility and the worship of angels, going into detail about visions [he claims] he has seen [to justify his authority], puffed up [in conceit] by his unspiritual mind, 19 and not holding fast to the head [of the body, Jesus Christ], from whom the entire body, supplied and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows with the growth [that can come only] from God.

3 Let no one in any way deceive or entrap you, for that day will not come unless the *apostasy comes first [that is, the great rebellion, the abandonment of the faith by professed Christians], and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction [the Antichrist, the one who is destined to be destroyed], [Dan 7:25; 8:25; 1 Tim 4:1] 4 who opposes and exalts himself [so proudly and so insolently] above *every so-called god or object of worship, so that he [actually enters and] takes his seat in the temple of God, publicly proclaiming that he himself is God. [Ezek 28:2; Dan 11:36, 37]

20 Then Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head [in mourning for the children], and he fell to the ground and worshiped [God]. 21 He said,

"Naked (without possessions) I came [into this world] from my mother’s womb,

And naked I will return there.

The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;

Blessed be the name of the Lord."

11 They sang [responsively], praising and giving thanks to the Lord, saying, "For He is good, for His lovingkindness (mercy) toward Israel endures forever." And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the Lord because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.

37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and faithful and His ways are just, and He is able to humiliate and humble those who walk in [self-centered, self-righteous] pride."

22 Therefore You are great, O Lord God; for there is none like You, and there is no God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

2 "There is no one holy like the Lord,

There is no one besides You,

There is no Rock like our God.

5 Then the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah—said, "Stand up and bless (praise, honor) the Lord your God from *everlasting to everlasting.

May Your glorious name be blessed

And exalted above all blessing and praise."

17 Though the fig tree does not blossom

And there is no fruit on the vines,

Though the yield of the olive fails

And the fields produce no food,

Though the flock is cut off from the fold

And there are no cattle in the stalls,

18 Yet I will [choose to] rejoice in the Lord;

I will [choose to] shout in exultation in the [victorious] God of my salvation! [Rom 8:37]

12 Then you will call on Me and you will come and pray to Me, and I will hear [your voice] and I will listen to you.

8 Come close to God [with a contrite heart] and He will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; and purify your [unfaithful] hearts, you double-minded [people].