Matthew 4

Which worship songs are based on Matthew 4?

  1. I Looked Up — Sons Of Sunday (2025) Matthew 4:1-11

    The song references spending forty days in the wilderness, which directly alludes to Jesus' time of testing and temptation, highlighting themes of struggle and divine support.

  2. Breathe — Byron Cage (2014) Matthew 4:4

    By identifying God’s spoken word as sustaining nourishment, the song echoes Jesus’ declaration that human life depends not merely on bread but on what God speaks.

  3. Devoted to You — Allies (2011) Matthew 4:4

    The narrator's dependence on every divine word closely paraphrases Jesus' teaching that human life is sustained not merely by bread but by God's speech. Jesus draws this teaching from Deuteronomy 8:3.

  4. Living Word — Jeremy Camp (2014) Matthew 4:4

    The bridge closely adapts Jesus’ declaration that physical food alone cannot sustain human life; nourishment also comes from what God speaks. Jesus gives this answer during his wilderness temptation, drawing on Deuteronomy 8:3.

  5. Reckoner (An Axe Laid at the Root) — Jon Guerra (2025) Matthew 4:4

    The song directly quotes the biblical teaching that humans do not live by bread alone, emphasizing the necessity of spiritual nourishment from God's word.

  6. Pure Thing (Live) — UPPERROOM & Raffi Greco (2025) Matthew 4:4

    The lyrics convey the concept of God providing real food for the soul, paralleling the teaching in Matthew 4:4 that man does not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

  7. There's Nobody — David Leonard (2019) Matthew 4:4

    The second verse closely reproduces Jesus’ answer to Satan concerning dependence on God’s spoken word rather than physical food alone.

  8. LIFT MY HANDS — Forrest Frank (2023) Matthew 4:4

    The song closely repeats Jesus’ declaration during his wilderness temptation that human life depends on more than physical bread. Jesus’ statement itself draws from Deuteronomy 8:3.

  9. Heaven — Stryper (2015) Matthew 4:10

    The singer directly confronts the Devil and orders him to depart, echoing Jesus’ dismissal of Satan during the wilderness temptation. The connection rests on that specific command to the adversary, rather than on spiritual warfare generally.

  10. We Worship You — Fred Hammond (2013) Matthew 4:10

    The pairing of worship with a commitment to serve God alone closely paraphrases the command Jesus cites when rejecting Satan’s temptation. The song adopts that command as a communal declaration of allegiance.

  11. SORI — Anendlessocean (2024) Matthew 4:10

    The singer’s declaration of exclusive service to God closely parallels Jesus’ command to worship God and serve him alone, which itself draws on Deuteronomy 6:13.

  12. Keys to the Kingdom — Group 1 Crew (2008) Matthew 4:17

    The first verse closely reproduces Jesus’ announcement that heaven’s kingdom has drawn near. Its explicit attribution to Jesus supports this passage rather than John the Baptist’s similar proclamation.

  13. There’s a Highway — Neal Morse (2019) Matthew 4:17

    Jesus begins his ministry with Matthew's proclamation that people must repent because the kingdom of heaven has drawn near.

  14. Fire Emoji — 808 BEEZY (2018) Matthew 4:18-19

    The image of casting a net to reach people directly evokes Jesus calling fishermen to gather people for his kingdom.

  15. Follow Me — ApologetiX (2010) Matthew 4:18-22

    The opening adapts Jesus’s call of fishermen beside the Sea of Galilee, specifically identifying James as the disciple who follows him. It combines the invitation to fish for people with the subsequent calling of James and John.

  16. This Is Now — Casting Crowns (2014) Matthew 4:18-20

    The opening recalls Jesus calling Peter and Andrew beside the Sea of Galilee and their immediate abandonment of their fishing nets to follow him.

  17. On the Banks — Chris Renzema (2018) Matthew 4:18-22

    The abandonment of fishing nets and family recalls Peter, Andrew, James, and John immediately leaving their work and, in the latter pair's case, their father to follow Jesus.

  18. Galilee — Chuck Girard (2010) Matthew 4:18-22

    The song retells Jesus calling fishermen beside the Sea of Galilee, closely reproducing His invitation to follow Him and His promise to transform their vocation into gathering people. Its references to abandoning nets and to Peter, James, and John explicitly identify the calling of the first disciples.

  19. Fishin' on a Pier — ApologetiX (2011) Matthew 4:18-22

    The song explicitly invokes Jesus' calling of fishermen through Simon, James, John, their nets, and the family fishing business. It then applies Jesus' fishing metaphor for gathering people to the band's evangelistic work; both Gospel accounts are cited in the supplied lyrics.

  20. Follow Me — Casting Crowns (2014) Matthew 4:19

    The first verse combines Jesus’ instruction to lower the fishing nets and His announcement of the disciples’ new vocation in Luke with the wording of His invitation to the fishermen in Matthew.

  21. Fishers of Men — Newsboys (2013) Matthew 4:19

    The chorus directly reproduces Jesus’ promise to transform the fishermen He calls into people who gather others into discipleship. The bridge reinforces this connection by repeating His invitation to follow Him.

  22. Oowee — Torey D'Shaun (2024) Matthew 4:19

    The description of fishing for souls through online outreach adapts Jesus' image of his disciples becoming fishers of people.

  23. JESUS DOWN IN FLORIDA — Zauntee (2025) Matthew 4:19

    The lyrics contain a direct quotation of Jesus' call to discipleship, 'Come and follow Me,' which is a pivotal moment in the Gospels where Jesus invites His followers to leave their past lives and follow Him.

Matthew 4 (King James Version)

1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,

6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;

9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

12 Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee;

13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:

14 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,

15 The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;

16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

18 And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.

19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

20 And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.

21 And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.

22 And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.

23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.

25 And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan.