'Joyfully' in the Bible
"Because you didn't serve the LORD your God joyfully and wholeheartedly, despite the abundance of everything you have,
Later on, David was informed, "The LORD has blessed the home of Obed-edom and everything he has since he's in possession of the Ark of God." So David went out joyfully and brought up the Ark of God to the City of David from Obed-edom's home.
David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint some of their relatives as musicians; they were to play various instruments, including stringed instruments and cymbals, and to sing loudly and joyfully.
I know, my God, that You test the heart and that You are pleased with what is right. I have willingly given all these things with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.
Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem turned back with Jehoshaphat their leader, returning joyfully to Jerusalem, for the Lord enabled them to rejoice over their enemies.
King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the descendants of Levi to sing praises to the LORD based on psalms that had been written by David and Asaph the seer. So they all joyfully sang praises, bowed low, and worshipped.
The entire assembly then decided to celebrate for seven more days; so they joyfully celebrated for seven more days.
But many of the older priests, Levites, and family leaders, who had seen the first temple, wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this house, but many others shouted joyfully.
At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought out the Levites from all the places they lived to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication joyfully with songs of thanksgiving and songs accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.
Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Have a gallows fifty cubits high made and in the morning ask the king to have Mordecai hanged on it; then go joyfully with the king to the banquet.” And the advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.
Let darkness carry that night away; let it not take its place joyfully among the days of the year; let it not be entered into the calendar.
while the morning stars sang together and all the divine beings shouted joyfully?
The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully,but are her feathers and plumage like the stork’s?
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation;Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.
But I will sing of Your strengthand will joyfully proclaimYour faithful love in the morning.For You have been a stronghold for me,a refuge in my day of trouble.
Just as I am satisfied with the choicest of foods, so my lips will praise you joyfully.
The meadows are clothed with sheep, and the valleys are covered with grain. They shout joyfully, yes, they sing.
For the choir director. A song. A psalm.Shout joyfully to God, all the earth!
Sing joyfully to God, our strength. Raise a shout to the God of Jacob.
North and south, you created them; Tabor and Hermon shout joyfully over your name.
How happy are the people who can worship joyfully! LORD, they walk in the light of your presence.
For You, O Lord, have made me glad by Your works;At the works of Your hands I joyfully sing.
Come, let us shout joyfully to the Lord,shout triumphantly to the rock of our salvation!
Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving,Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.
Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth;Break forth and sing for joy and sing praises.
With trumpets and the sound of the hornShout joyfully before the King, the Lord.
Let [the] rivers clap [their] hands. Let [the] hills sing joyfully together
A Psalm for Thanksgiving.Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth.
Yes, they will sing of the ways of the Lord [joyfully celebrating His wonderful acts],For great is the glory and majesty of the Lord.
They will give a testimony of Your great goodnessand will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
(The Shulammite Bride)“Hurry, my beloved and come quickly,Like a gazelle or a young stag [taking me home]On the mountains of spices.”
You will joyfully draw waterfrom the springs of salvation,
Rejoice and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.
O my threshed people [Judah, who must be judged and trampled down by Babylon], my afflicted of the threshing floor.What I have heard from the Lord of hosts,The God of Israel, I have [joyfully] announced to you [that Babylon is to fall].
They lift their voices and shout joyfully; they praise the majesty of the Lord in the west.
Your dead will come back to life; your corpses will rise up. Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits.
Let the desert and its cities shout out, the towns where the nomads of Kedar live! Let the residents of Sela shout joyfully; let them shout loudly from the mountaintops.
Shout for joy, O heavens, for the Lord has done it!Shout joyfully, you lower parts of the earth;Break forth into a shout of joy, you mountains,O forest, and every tree in it;For the Lord has redeemed JacobAnd in Israel He shows forth His glory.
Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices,They shout joyfully together;For they will see with their own eyesWhen the Lord restores Zion.
Break forth, shout joyfully together,You waste places of Jerusalem;For the Lord has comforted His people,He has redeemed Jerusalem.
And goest joyfully to the king in ointment, And dost multiply thy perfumes, And sendest thine ambassadors afar off, And humblest thyself unto Sheol.
You welcome the one who joyfully does what is right;they remember You in Your ways.But we have sinned, and You were angry.How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?
“Behold, My servants will shout joyfully with a glad heart,But you will cry out with a heavy heart,And you will wail with a broken spirit.
For who dares make light of small beginnings? These seven eyes will joyfully look on the tin tablet in Zerubbabel's hand. (These are the eyes of the Lord, which constantly range across the whole earth.)
At that time Jesus said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth [I openly and joyfully acknowledge Your great wisdom], that You have hidden these things [these spiritual truths] from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants [to new believers, to those seeking God’s will and purpose].
As for what was sown on the stony ground, this is the person who hears the word and accepts it joyfully at once,
Others are like the seeds sown on the stony ground. When they hear the word, at once they joyfully accept it,
The ones on the stony ground are the people who joyfully welcome the word when they hear it. But since they don't have any roots, they believe for a while, but in a time of testing they fall away.
When the Seventy returned, they exclaimed joyfully, "Master, even the demons submit to us when we utter your name."
When he has found it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders,
And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.
Now He came near the path down the Mount of Olives, and the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles they had seen:
Those, therefore, who joyfully welcomed his Message were baptized; and on that one day about three thousand persons were added to them;
For in my inner self I joyfully agree with God’s law.
She finds no pleasure in injustice done to others, but joyfully sides with the truth.
always praying joyfully in every one of my prayers for all of you
So joyfully welcome him in the Lord and make sure you honor such people highly,
being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of all patience and steadfastness, joyfully
For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
Through faith Abraham, as soon as God put him to the test, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had joyfully welcomed the promises was on the point of sacrificing his only son
Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, to tens of thousands of angels joyfully gathered together,
Continue to follow and be submissive to your leaders, since they are watching over your souls as those who will have to give a word of explanation. By doing this, you will be letting them carry out their duties joyfully, and not with grief, for that would be harmful for you.