As you may know, I am teaching 1st year Koine Greek, and we are working on getting the lectures up on YouTube as well as on my website.  Something that has been a blessing has been having my students sing passages from the Greek New Testament.  The verse-songs we have sung in class are ones I have also been singing at home.  For the Christian who knows or is learning Greek, singing the New Testament is a great way to memorize God’s Word and have the Holy Spirit effect His transforming work within through the Word.  You can see how we do it by watching the beginning and end of the lectures (starting in lecture #3, I believe; we sing the Greek alphabet to the tune of the Greek national anthem in class #2, though, if you want to learn the Greek alphabet).  Here are some of the songs we have sung, in Greek and then translated into English.  If you know Greek or are learning Greek, I commend these verse songs to you.  If you teach Greek, I commend them to both you and your students.

Please also feel free to add more in the comment section if you have done something like this yourself.

The Greek font below is the one for Accordance Bible software’s Greek text, in case it does not appear clearly on your computer.

Praise of the blessed and most holy Trinity:

1 John 5:6-9

Tune: “Holy, holy, holy”

ou∞to/ß e˙stin oJ e˙lqw»n di∆ u¢datoß

kai« aiºmatoß, ∆Ihsouvß oJ Cristo/ß:

oujk e˙n twˆ◊ u¢dati mo/non aÓll∆ e˙n twˆ◊ u¢dati kai« twˆ◊
aiºmati.

kai« to Pneuvma¿ e˙sti to marturouvn,

o¢ti to Pneuvma¿ e˙stin hJ aÓlh/qeia.

o¢ti trei√ß ei˙si«n

oi˚ marturouvnteß

e˙n twˆ◊ oujranwˆ◊, (2x)

oJ path/r, oJ lo/goß,

kai« to ›Agion Pneuvma:

kai« ou∞toi oi˚ trei√ß eºn ei˙si. . . .

au¢th e˙sti«n hJ marturi÷a touv Qeouv . . .

oJ path/r, oJ lo/goß, kai« to ›Agion Pneuvma:

This is he that came by water

and blood, even Jesus Christ;

not by water only, but by water and blood.

And it is the Spirit that beareth witness,

because the Spirit is truth.

For there are three

that bear record in heaven, (2x)

the Father, the Word,

and the Holy Ghost:

and these three are one. . . .

This is the witness of God . . .

the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost.

Praise of God and the Lamb:

Revelation 4:11; 5:12, 13

Tune: Guide me, O thou great Jehovah

⁄Axioß
ei•, Ku/rie,

labei√n
thn do/xan

kai« thn
timhn kai« thn du/namin: o¢ti su e¶ktisaß

ta»
pa¿nta, kai« dia»

to
qe÷lhma¿ sou

ei˙si«
kai« e˙kti÷sqhsan. . . .

⁄Axio/n
e˙sti to aÓrni÷on to e˙sfagme÷non labei√n

thn
du/namin kai« plouvton

kai«
sofi÷an kai« i˙scun

kai«
timhn kai« do/xan kai« eujlogi÷an. . . . ei˙ß touß ai˙w◊naß tw◊n ai˙w¿nwn.

Thou art worthy, O Lord,

to receive glory

and honour and power: for thou hast created

all things, and for

thy pleasure [“will”]

they are and were created. . . .

Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive

power, and riches,

and wisdom, and strength,

and honour, and glory, and blessing . . . for ever and
ever.

Praise of the incarnate Son:

TDR