52 Bible Verses about Praise, Reasons For

Sing to God, ye kingdoms of the earth. O sing praises to LORD (Selah),

But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for an acquired possession, so that ye might broadly proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

And a voice came forth from the throne, saying, Praise ye our God, all his bondmen and those who fear him, the small and the great.

Sing praise to LORD, O ye sanctified of his, and give thanks to his holiness.

Let everything that has breath praise LORD. Praise ye LORD.

Sing to LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of the heavenly, and the earthly, and the sub-earthly, and that every tongue should acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

He is thy praise, and he is thy God, who has done for thee these great and awesome things, which thine eyes have seen.

For great is LORD, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods.

I am LORD. That is my name, and I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to graven images.

All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing to thee. They shall sing to thy name. Selah.

The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. The right hand of LORD does valiantly. The right hand of LORD is exalted. The right hand of LORD does valiantly. I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of LORD.read more.
LORD has chastened me greatly, but he has not given me over to death. Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to LORD. This is the gate of LORD. The righteous shall enter into it. I will give thanks to thee, for thou have answered me, and have become my salvation.

Let them praise the name of LORD, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.

Thou are worthy, our Lord and God, the Holy, to take the glory and the honor and the power, because thou created all things, and because by thy will they are, and were created.

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving, and it will please LORD better than an ox, [or] a bullock that has horns and hoofs.

Praise ye LORD, for LORD is good. Sing praises to his name, for it is pleasant.

Praise ye LORD, for it is good to sing praises to our God. For it is pleasant, [and] praise is comely.

The beasts of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen, the people whom I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.

I will greatly rejoice in LORD. My soul shall be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, so lord LORD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

For as the sash clings to the loins of a man, so I have caused to cling to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says LORD, that they may be to me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory

Sing praises to LORD, who dwells in Zion. Declare among the people his doings.

Therefore I will give thanks to thee, O LORD, among gentiles, and will sing praises to thy name.

I will bless LORD at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in LORD. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad. O magnify LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.

Let them give glory to LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.

through the evidence of this service, glorifying God at the subjection of your confession toward the good-news of the Christ, and at the generosity of the participation, for them and for all,

For I will proclaim the name of LORD. Ascribe ye greatness to our God.

Praise him for his mighty acts. Praise him according to his excellent greatness.

And Ezra blessed LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with the lifting up of their hands. And they bowed their heads, and worshipped LORD with their faces to the ground.

Bless LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou are very great. Thou are clothed with honor and majesty,

But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled, and glorified God, who gave such authority to men.

Let the floods clap their hands. Let the hills sing for joy together before LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are truth, and his ways justice. And he is able to abase those who walk in pride.

I will give thanks to thee, O LORD, among the peoples. I will sing praises to thee among the nations. For thy loving kindness is great to the heavens, and thy truth to the skies.

I will worship toward thy holy temple, and give thanks to thy name for thy loving kindness and for thy truth. For thou have magnified thy word above all thy name.

And he said, Blessed be LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying, Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there, but I chose David to be over my people Israel. Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of LORD, the God of Israel.read more.
But LORD said to David my father, Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house for my name, thou did well that it was in thy heart. Nevertheless thou shall not build the house, but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name. And LORD has established his word that he spoke, for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of LORD, the God of Israel.

I will sing of the loving kindness of LORD forever. With my mouth I will make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

But I will sing of thy strength. Yea, I will sing aloud of thy loving kindness in the morning. For thou have been my high tower, and a refuge in the day of my distress.

LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song I will praise him.

Sing aloud to God our strength. Make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.

And Jethro said, Blessed be LORD, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

LORD lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation, even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me. He rescues me from my enemies. Yea, thou lift me up above those who rise up against me. Thou deliver me from the violent man.

And blessed be God Most High, who has delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And [Abram] gave him a tenth of all.

And when the people saw him, they praised their god, for they said, Our god has delivered into our hand our enemy, and the destroyer of our country who has slain many of us.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against a profane nation. O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. For thou are the God of my strength. Why have thou cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? O send out thy light and thy truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.read more.
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise thee upon the harp, O God, my God.

If it had not been LORD who was on our side, let Israel now say, if it had not been LORD who was on our side when men rose up against us, then they would have swallowed us up alive when their wrath was kindled against us,read more.
then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul, then the proud waters would have gone over our soul. Blessed be LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth. Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

Blessed be LORD, because he has heard the voice of my supplications.

But truly God has heard. He has attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his loving kindness from me.

Blessed is Lord, the God of Israel, because he came to help, and made ransom for his people. And he raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his boy David,

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly things in Christ.

And the agent said to them, Fear not, for behold, I bring you good-news of great joy that will be to all the people, because to you was born today in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ Lord. And this is the sign to you: Ye will find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a feed trough.read more.
And suddenly there came to be with the agent a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill among men.

and they were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Truly.

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who begot us again according to his abundant mercy for a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, for an inheritance imperishable, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heavens for you, men being kept by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.read more.
In which ye greatly rejoice, although made sorrowful in various trials. Since it is now necessary for a little while,