18 Bible Verses About Worship, and What the Word Means Before It Means Music

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  • The Hebrew verb behind most worship passages is shachah, to bow down or prostrate oneself: in Scripture worship is a posture before it is a feeling or a kind of music.
  • Exodus 20 and Matthew 4 both guard where that posture is spent; Jesus answers the wilderness temptation by quoting the command to worship God only.
  • 1 Samuel 15:22 and Micah 6:8 warn that a ceremony can be performed beautifully and still not be what God asked for.
  • Romans 12:1 calls a living body the sacrifice, and Hebrews 13:16 files sharing what you have under the same word.
  • Acts 16:25 shows worship offered from a prison at midnight, with the other prisoners listening.

Before worship in the Bible is a feeling or a kind of music, it is something the body does. The verb behind most of these passages is shachah — to bow down, to go low, to put your face toward the ground. It appears in the Old Testament more than a hundred and seventy times, and it names a posture long before it names a mood. That is worth knowing on the mornings when nothing in us feels like singing.…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

Strong’s Hebrew 7812, שָׁחָה (shachah): to bow down, prostrate oneself, do reverence; 172 occurrences in the Old Testament. biblehub.com/hebrew/7812

Deuteronomy 6:13 and 10:20 stand behind the line Jesus quotes in Matthew 4:10.

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