Psalms 100:2
Serve the LORD with gladness; come into His presence with joyful songs.
BSB
ASV
Serve Jehovah with gladness: Come before his presence with singing.
KJV
Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 100:1
"Serve the Lord with gladness," for the kingship of our God and Savior has nothing of the harsh tyranny of the devil; rather, his lordship is mild and loving.
Serve the Lord with gladness. "Glad homage pay with awful mirth." He is our Lord, and therefore he is to be served; he is our gracious Lord, and therefore to be served with joy. The invitation to worship here given is not a melancholy one, as though adoration were a funeral solemnity, but a cheery gladsome exhortation, as though we were bidden to a marriage feast. Come before his presence with singing. We ought in worship to realise the presence of God, and by an effort of the mind to approach him.
Serve the LORD with gladness — worship as joyful approach, not obligation alone
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Philippians 4:4Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
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Rejoice at all times.
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.
Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.
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Psalms 95:2Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him in song.
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Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and bless His name.
Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,
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Deuteronomy 28:47Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,
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and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your…