6 Bible Verses about Chanting

And when you pray, do not repeat empty phrases as the heathen do, for they imagine that their prayers will be heard if they use words enough.

Whatever anyone may say in the way of worthless arguments to deceive you, these are the things that are bringing God's anger down upon the disobedient. Therefore have nothing to do with them. For once you were sheer darkness, but now, as Christians, you are light itself. You must live like children of light,read more.
for light leads to perfect goodness, uprightness, and truth; you must make sure what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the profitless doings of the darkness; expose them instead. For while it is degrading even to mention their secret practices,

Timothy, guard what has been intrusted to you. Keep away from the worldly, empty phrases and contradictions of what they falsely call knowledge,

and speak to one another in psalms, hymns, and sacred songs. Sing praise to God with all your hearts;

After singing the hymn they went out of the city and up the Mount of Olives.

Then what is the right course, brothers? When you meet together, suppose every one of you has a song, a teaching, a revelation, an ecstatic utterance, or an explanation of one; it must all be for the good of all.