Matthew 22

Which worship songs are based on Matthew 22?

  1. The Kingdom of Jesus — The Porter's Gate (2024) Matthew 22:19-21

    The ruler’s portrait on currency recalls Jesus examining Caesar’s image on a coin while distinguishing earthly obligations from allegiance to God.

  2. W.D.Y.K.A.G? — Kings Kaleidoscope (2020) Matthew 22:21

    The song invokes Jesus’ instruction concerning what belongs to Caesar, using it to criticize the church’s accommodation to political power.

  3. Good Neighbor — Evan Craft (2023) Matthew 22:37-39

    The second verse directly invokes Jesus’ summary of the two greatest commandments: wholehearted love for God and love for one’s neighbor as oneself.

  4. Church Hurt — Hannah Kerr (2024) Matthew 22:37-39

    The song invokes Jesus’ summary of the greatest commandments: wholehearted love for God joined with love for one’s neighbor as oneself.

  5. Who Do You Love — Ariel Fitz-Patrick (2024) Matthew 22:37

    The song explicitly invokes Scripture's command to love the Lord with one's soul and mind, closely paraphrasing Jesus' identification of the greatest commandment.

  6. Love God Love People — Danny Gokey (2022) Matthew 22:37-40

    The song’s central command condenses Jesus’ two greatest commandments: wholehearted love for God and love for one’s neighbor. Its insistence that everything reduces to these commands also reflects Jesus’ statement that the Law and the Prophets depend on them.

  7. Without You — RIDERS (2021) Matthew 22:37

    The final vow offers heart, soul, and mind to God, closely echoing Jesus' command to love God with the whole person.

  8. United: The Story Behind the Album (interview with Peter Furler & Michael Tait) — Newsboys (2019) Matthew 22:37-39

    Tait summarizes Jesus' two greatest commandments by joining wholehearted love for God with love for one's neighbor.

  9. Act Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly — Pat Barrett (2021) Matthew 22:37-40

    The opening verse condenses Jesus’ two greatest commandments: wholehearted devotion to God and love for one’s neighbor as oneself.

  10. Falling in Love — Phil Wickham (2021) Matthew 22:37

    The dedication of heart, soul, and mind closely follows Jesus’ command to love God with the whole person.

  11. i'm free — Strings and Heart (2023) Matthew 22:37

    The surrender of heart, mind, and soul closely follows Jesus’ command to love God with the whole person.

  12. The Ark — Corey Mills (2017) Matthew 22:37-40

    The song identifies wholehearted love for God as Jesus' summary of obedience to the law, closely paraphrasing his presentation of the greatest commandment and the law's dependence upon it.

  13. O Holy Night — Victory (2025) Matthew 22:39

    The lyrics express the teaching of Christ to love one another, which echoes the commandment found in Matthew where Jesus instructs to love one's neighbor as oneself.

  14. Hey Man Say Man — 1K Phew (2026) Matthew 22:39

    The second verse invokes Jesus' command to love one's neighbor, adapting the command's traditional biblical wording to the song's street vernacular.

  15. ANGELS — Voices of Fire & Pharrell Williams (2026) Matthew 22:39

    The bridge repeats Jesus' command to love one's neighbor. The song's sustained appeal to Jesus and compassionate action makes Matthew's formulation the most likely immediate context.

  16. Note to Self — Bizzle & Jewell Jones (2021) Matthew 22:39

    The chorus directly adapts Jesus’ command to love one’s neighbor as oneself, applying it to the singer’s divided relationship with his own private self.

  17. Let There Be Peace/Something In The Water (LIVE From HBO Max's MY GIFT: A Christmas Special From Carrie Underwood) — Carrie Underwood (2021) Matthew 22:39

    The singer explicitly adopts Jesus’ command to love one’s neighbor as the standard for practical compassion.

  18. Secrets — Parris Chariz (2020) Matthew 22:39

    The appeal to be loved as a neighbor directly adapts Jesus’ command to love one’s neighbor as oneself, applying that obligation personally to the addressee.

  19. Let There Be Peace — Carrie Underwood (2020) Matthew 22:39

    The singer explicitly expresses a desire to obey Jesus’ command to love one’s neighbor, then describes that love as active service.

  20. Worth Fighting For — Newsboys (2019) Matthew 22:39

    The chorus directly invokes Jesus’ second great commandment, presenting love for one’s neighbor as the proper response to social conflict.

  21. Lit Lit — Bizzle (2018) Matthew 22:39

    Bizzle directly invokes Jesus’ command to love one’s neighbor, applying it to the need to end violence within the community.

Matthew 22 (King James Version)

1 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,

2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,

3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.

4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.

5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:

6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.

7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.

9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.

10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.

11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:

12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.

13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

14 For many are called, but few are chosen.

15 Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.

16 And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.

17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?

18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?

19 Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.

20 And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?

21 They say unto him, Caesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.

22 When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.

23 The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,

24 Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

25 Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:

26 Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.

27 And last of all the woman died also.

28 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.

29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,

32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

33 And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.

34 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.

35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,

36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38 This is the first and great commandment.

39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,

42 Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David.

43 He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,

44 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?

45 If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?

46 And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.