24 God is spirit,*and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and in truth."*

23 But an hour is coming, and is now here,*when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and in truth.*Yes, the Father wants such people to worship him.24 God is spirit,*and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and in truth."*

21 Jesus told her, "Believe me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.*23 But an hour is coming, and is now here,*when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and in truth.*Yes, the Father wants such people to worship him.

38 "I believe, Lord! " he said, and he worshiped him.

10 Then Jesus told him, "Go away,*Satan! For it is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him."*,*

8 And Jesus answered him,  *"It is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve*him only."*

1 Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you  * to present your bodies as a living sacrifice,  * holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship.  *

1 Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you  * to present your bodies as a living sacrifice,  * holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship.  *2 Do not be conformed  * to this age,  * but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,  * so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will  * of God.

36 For from him and through him

and to him are all things.  *

To him be the glory forever. Amen.

11 For it is written,

As I live, says the Lord,

every knee will bow to me,*

and every tongue will give praise to God.*,*

6 Come, let’s worship and bow down;

let’s kneel before the  Lord our Maker.  *

6 Come, let’s worship and bow down;

let’s kneel before the  Lord our Maker.  *

1 Hallelujah!

Praise God in his sanctuary.

Praise him in his mighty expanse.  *

2 Praise him for his powerful acts;  *

praise him for his abundant greatness.  *

3 Praise him with the blast of a ram’s horn;  *

praise him with harp and lyre.  *

4 Praise him with tambourine and dance;  *

praise him with strings and flute.  *

5 Praise him with resounding cymbals;

praise him with clashing cymbals.  *

6 Let everything that breathes praise the  Lord.  *

Hallelujah!

6 Let everything that breathes praise the  Lord.  *

Hallelujah!

4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving  *

and his courts with praise.

Give thanks to him and bless his name.  *

2 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;

worship the Lord

in the splendor of his holiness.  *,*

1 Let the whole earth shout joyfully to God!  *

2 Sing about the glory of his name;

make his praise glorious.  *

3 Say to God, "How awe-inspiring are your works!

Your enemies will cringe before you

because of your great strength.  *

4 The whole earth will worship you

and sing praise to you.

They will sing praise to your name."  *Selah

17 I cried out to him with my mouth,

and praise was on my tongue.  *

9 All the nations you have made

will come and bow down before you, Lord,

and will honor your name.  *

10 For you are great and perform wonders;

you alone are God.  *

1 My soul, bless the  Lord,

and all that is within me, bless his holy name.  *

1 Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name;

proclaim his deeds among the peoples.  *

1 God, you are my God; I eagerly seek you.

I thirst for you;

my body faints for you

in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water.  *

3 My lips will glorify you

because your faithful love is better than life.  *

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

at your name, I will lift up my hands.  *

11 Our Lord and God,  *

you are worthy  * to receive

glory and honor and power,  *

because you have created all things,  *

and by your will

they exist and were created.

7 He spoke with a loud voice:  * "Fear God  * and give him glory,  * because the hour of his judgment has come.  * Worship the one who made heaven and earth,  * the sea and the springs of water."

4 Lord, who will not fear

and glorify your name?

For you alone are holy.  *

All the nations will come

and worship before you  *

because your righteous acts

have been revealed.

8 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had shown them to me. 9 But he said to me, "Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you, your brothers the prophets, and those who keep the words of this book. Worship God! "  *

11 Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in the heavens and on earth belongs to you. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom, and you are exalted as head over all.  *

34 Give thanks to the  Lord, for he is good;

his faithful love endures forever.  *

35 And say,  * "Save us, God of our salvation;

gather us and rescue us from the nations

so that we may give thanks to your holy name

and rejoice in your praise.

36 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel  *

from everlasting to everlasting."

Then all the people said, "Amen" and "Praise the Lord."

34 Give thanks to the  Lord, for he is good;

his faithful love endures forever.  *

9 Sing to him; sing praise to him;

tell about all his wondrous works!

9 For this reason God highly exalted him  *

and gave him the name

that is above every name,

10 so that at the name of Jesus

every knee will bow  *  —

in heaven  * and on earth

and under the earth  *  —

11 and every tongue  * will confess

that Jesus Christ is Lord,

to the glory  * of God the Father.

15 Therefore, through him let us continually offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.  *

28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful. By it, we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,  *29 for our God is a consuming fire.  *

19 speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord,

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

25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

3 Blessed be  * the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies  * and the God of all comfort.  *4 He comforts us in all our affliction,  * so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

3 what we have seen and heard we also declare to you, so that you may also have fellowship  * with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father  * and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

5 Exalt the Lord our God;

bow in worship at his footstool.  *

He is holy.  *

8 My mouth is full of praise

and honor to you all day long.  *

4 Sing to God! Sing praises to his name.

Exalt him who rides on the clouds  *  —

his name is the Lord*  — and celebrate before him.  *

5 God in his holy dwelling is

a father of the fatherless

and a champion of widows.  *

17 I will thank the Lord for his righteousness;

I will sing about the name of the  Lord Most High.  *

22 I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters;

I will praise you in the assembly.  *

23 You who fear the Lord, praise him!  *

All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!

All you descendants of Israel, revere him!  *

6 I spread out my hands to you;

I am like parched land before you.  *Selah

11 Why, my soul, are you so dejected?

Why are you in such turmoil?

Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him,

my Savior and my God.  *

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

I have nothing good besides you."  *,*

11 Serve the Lord with reverential awe

and rejoice with trembling.  *

2 I will rejoice and boast about you;  *

I will sing about your name, Most High.  *

5 Do not bow in worship to them, and do not serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God,  * bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children to the third and fourth generations  * of those who hate me,

14 Because the Lord is jealous  * for his reputation, you are never to bow down to another god.  * He is a jealous God.

9 When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and remain at the entrance to the tent, and the Lord would speak with Moses.  *10 As all the people saw the pillar of cloud remaining at the entrance to the tent, they would stand up, then bow in worship, each one at the door of his tent.

2 The Lord is my strength and my song;  *

he has become my salvation.  *

This is my God, and I will praise him,

my father’s God, and I will exalt him.  *

11 Lord, who is like you among the gods?

Who is like you, glorious in holiness,  *

revered with praises, performing wonders?  *

25 Serve the Lord your God, and he  * will bless your bread and your water. I will remove illnesses from you.  *

21 He is your praise and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awe-inspiring works your eyes have seen.

7 You will eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice with your household in everything you do,  * because the Lord your God has blessed you.

16 They provoked his jealousy with different gods;

they enraged him with detestable practices.  *

17 They sacrificed to demons, not God,

to gods they had not known,

new gods that had just arrived,

which your ancestors did not fear.  *

18 You ignored the Rock who gave you birth;

you forgot the God who gave birth to you.

16 Be careful  * that you are not enticed to turn aside, serve, and bow in worship to other gods.  *

13 The Lord said:

These people approach me with their speeches  *

to honor me with lip-service,  *

yet their hearts are far from me,

and human rules direct their worship of me.  *

1 Lord, you are my God;  *

I will exalt you. I will praise your name,

for you have accomplished wonders,

plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.

42 God turned away  * and gave them up to worship  * the stars of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:

House of Israel, did you bring me offerings and sacrifices

for forty years in the wilderness?

43 You took up the tent of Moloch

and the star of your god Rephan,

the images that you made to worship.

So I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.*,*

18 Let no one condemn  * you  * by delighting in ascetic practices  * and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm. Such people are inflated  * by empty notions of their unspiritual  * mind. 19 They don’t hold on to the head, from whom the whole body,  * nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, grows with growth from God.

3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy  * comes first and the man of lawlessness  * is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god  * or object of worship,  * so that he sits  * in God’s temple, proclaiming that he himself is God.

20 Then Job stood up, tore  * his robe, and shaved  * his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped, 21 saying:

Naked I came from my mother’s womb,  *

and naked I will leave this life.  *,*

The Lord gives, and the  Lord takes away.

Blessed be the name of the  Lord.  *

11 They sang with praise and thanksgiving to the Lord: "For he is good; his faithful love to Israel endures forever."  * Then all the people gave a great shout of praise to the Lord because the foundation of the Lord’s house had been laid.  *

37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt, and glorify the King of the heavens, because all his works are true and his ways are just.  * He is able to humble  * those who walk in pride.  *

22 This is why you are great,  * Lord God. There is no one like you, and there is no God besides you,  * as all we have heard confirms.

2 There is no one holy like the  Lord.  *

There is no one besides you!  *

And there is no rock like our God.  *

5 Then the Levites — Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah  *  — said, "Stand up. Blessed be the Lord your God from everlasting to everlasting."  *

Blessed be your glorious name,  *

and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.

17 Though the fig tree does not bud

and there is no fruit on the vines,

though the olive crop fails

and the fields produce no food,

though the flocks disappear from the pen

and there are no herds in the stalls,

18 yet I will celebrate in the  Lord;

I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!  *

12 You will call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.  *

8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.  *