100 Bible Verses about True Worship

Hebrews 13:15 ESV / 3,201 helpful votes

Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.

John 4:23 ESV / 3,169 helpful votes

But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

John 4:23-24 ESV / 2,919 helpful votes

But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

John 4:24 ESV / 2,765 helpful votes

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Romans 12:1 ESV / 2,718 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Isaiah 29:13 ESV / 2,441 helpful votes

And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,

Psalm 95:6 ESV / 2,321 helpful votes

Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!

Job 1:20-21 ESV / 2,226 helpful votes

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Isaiah 25:1 ESV / 2,152 helpful votes

O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 2,128 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Psalm 29:2 ESV / 2,098 helpful votes

Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 2,087 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Psalm 71:8 ESV / 2,072 helpful votes

My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the day.

Psalm 66:4 ESV / 1,953 helpful votes

All the earth worships you and sings praises to you; they sing praises to your name.” Selah

Acts 16:25 ESV / 1,914 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 1,912 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.

Daniel 4:37 ESV / 1,886 helpful votes

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.

Psalm 150:6 ESV / 1,877 helpful votes

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

Psalm 103:1 ESV / 1,876 helpful votes

Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name!

Psalm 63:3-4 ESV / 1,813 helpful votes

Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.

1 Timothy 1:17 ESV / 1,806 helpful votes

To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

Habakkuk 3:17-18 ESV / 1,792 helpful votes

Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.

John 4:21 ESV / 1,780 helpful votes

Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

Psalm 145:3 ESV / 1,752 helpful votes

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.

Romans 14:11 ESV / 1,740 helpful votes

For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”

Psalm 63:1 ESV / 1,723 helpful votes

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Hebrews 12:28-29 ESV / 1,697 helpful votes

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.

Psalm 96:9 ESV / 1,697 helpful votes

Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness; tremble before him, all the earth!

1 Chronicles 16:29 ESV / 1,686 helpful votes

Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; bring an offering and come before him! Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness;

Romans 11:36 ESV / 1,669 helpful votes

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

Isaiah 12:5 ESV / 1,638 helpful votes

“Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously; let this be made known in all the earth.

Hebrews 12:28 ESV / 1,602 helpful votes

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe,

John 4:21-24 ESV / 1,588 helpful votes

Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Philippians 3:3 ESV / 1,571 helpful votes

For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh—

Exodus 23:25 ESV / 1,550 helpful votes

You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

Psalm 99:5 ESV / 1,546 helpful votes

Exalt the Lord our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he!

Psalm 34:1 ESV / 1,539 helpful votes

Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

Luke 4:8 ESV / 1,525 helpful votes

And Jesus answered him, “It is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’”

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV / 1,509 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

John 14:6 ESV / 1,509 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Ephesians 3:20-21 ESV / 1,496 helpful votes

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Psalm 28:7 ESV / 1,473 helpful votes

The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 1,450 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.

Matthew 4:10 ESV / 1,439 helpful votes

Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”

John 17:17 ESV / 1,428 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

Acts 2:46-47 ESV / 1,409 helpful votes

And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.

1 Samuel 2:2 ESV / 1,407 helpful votes

“There is none holy like the Lord: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.

Psalm 42:11 ESV / 1,405 helpful votes

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

1 Chronicles 29:11 ESV / 1,403 helpful votes

Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all.

Philippians 4:20 ESV / 1,386 helpful votes

To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 1,383 helpful votes

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.

Romans 15:7 ESV / 1,381 helpful votes

Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.

Psalm 95:2 ESV / 1,371 helpful votes

Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!

Revelation 4:8-11 ESV / 1,358 helpful votes

And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!” And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying, “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”

Psalm 145:1 ESV / 1,353 helpful votes

A Song of Praise. Of David. I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever.

Matthew 21:9 ESV / 1,350 helpful votes

And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

Psalm 115:1 ESV / 1,349 helpful votes

Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!

Psalm 111:10 ESV / 1,345 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

Philippians 2:9-10 ESV / 1,344 helpful votes

Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

Psalm 149:3 ESV / 1,341 helpful votes

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

Matthew 18:20 ESV / 1,337 helpful votes

For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

Psalm 71:23 ESV / 1,337 helpful votes

My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed.

Psalm 108:3 ESV / 1,335 helpful votes

I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to you among the nations.

Psalm 105:1 ESV / 1,335 helpful votes

Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples!

John 3:16 ESV / 1,330 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.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 1,324 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

1 Chronicles 16:34 ESV / 1,322 helpful votes

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!

Acts 16:1-25:27 ESV / 1,305 helpful votes

Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily. ...

1 Timothy 4:1-6:21 ESV / 1,300 helpful votes

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer. ...

Psalm 68:4-5 ESV / 1,296 helpful votes

Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the Lord; exult before him! Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

John 4:2 ESV / 1,292 helpful votes

(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples),

1 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV / 1,290 helpful votes

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,

Romans 10:1-13:14 ESV / 1,287 helpful votes

Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. ...

Acts 2:1-21:40 ESV / 1,287 helpful votes

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...

Psalm 75:1 ESV / 1,282 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song. We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, for your name is near. We recount your wondrous deeds.

Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 1,262 helpful votes

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

Psalm 66:17 ESV / 1,245 helpful votes

I cried to him with my mouth, and high praise was on my tongue.

Matthew 21:2 ESV / 1,243 helpful votes

Saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me.

Habakkuk 3:3 ESV / 1,237 helpful votes

God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His splendor covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.

Psalm 9:2 ESV / 1,214 helpful votes

I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

Acts 2:2 ESV / 1,204 helpful votes

And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.

Matthew 15:9 ESV / 1,199 helpful votes

In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

Isaiah 58:1-14 ESV / 1,194 helpful votes

“Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God. ‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers. Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high. Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord? ...

Psalm 119:7 ESV / 1,182 helpful votes

I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules.

Psalm 13:5-6 ESV / 1,176 helpful votes

But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

Revelation 19:10 ESV / 1,171 helpful votes

Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God.” For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

1 Peter 2:5 ESV / 1,166 helpful votes

You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Matthew 5:15-16 ESV / 1,152 helpful votes

Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Psalm 68:19 ESV / 1,149 helpful votes

Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. Selah

Exodus 34:14 ESV / 1,147 helpful votes

(for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),

Matthew 5:2 ESV / 1,116 helpful votes

And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:

Matthew 2:11 ESV / 1,115 helpful votes

And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.

Psalm 100:2 ESV / 1,110 helpful votes

Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!

Psalm 86:9-10 ESV / 1,100 helpful votes

All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name. For you are great and do wondrous things; you alone are God.

Revelation 14:7 ESV / 1,074 helpful votes

And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

2 Samuel 7:22 ESV / 1,072 helpful votes

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.

Jeremiah 29:12 ESV / 1,064 helpful votes

Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.

Revelation 4:11 ESV / 1,047 helpful votes

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”

John 1:18 ESV / 1,012 helpful votes

No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 1,006 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,

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