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Psa 63:3 Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, My lips shall praise You.
Psa 63:4 Thus I will bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.
Psa 63:5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, And my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips. ----------------
(And my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips; calls for abundant thankfulness; which is here signified by the mouth praising the Lord, and doing this with lips of singing, expressions of joy, songs of praise.)

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Psa 138:1 A Psalm Of David. I will praise You with my whole heart; Before the gods I will sing praises to You. ---------("before thee, O God, will I sing praise"; or I will sing praise to thee, the Son the Messiah.)

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1Co 14:15 What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding. ------------singing vocally only; nor with his own Spirit, with his heart engaged in the work, with grace in it, in the lively exercise of faith, hope, and love, with much spiritual light, knowledge, experience, and judgment, which are very necessary to the due discharge of this duty. (John Gill)

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Col 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. ------(Giving instruction, or causing to understand; these psalms, and the singing of them, being appointed as an ordinance, of God to teach, instruct, admonish, and edify the saints.)

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Eph 5:19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord-------------(Singing, is a distinct thing from prayer, so from giving of thanks, which is mentioned in Eph_5:20 as another duty; it is not a mental praising of God, for it is called speaking, and teaching, and admonishing, but it is a praising of God with the modulation of the voice; and is rightly performed, when the heart and voice agree; when there is a melody in the heart, as well as in the tongue; for singing and making melody in the heart, is singing with, or from the heart.)

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Joh 4:23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. -------- (He must be worshiped with the heart, in spirit and in truth. Spiritual worship can be offered in any land, wherever the soul can humble itself before God.)