This passage comes from the wider catalog — a broader, more lightly curated list than the core set. Both readings are shown as peers; GEBible takes no side.
2Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.
3Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.
5For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.
The counter-reading
How this passage is read within its own context.
The critical reading holds that the pericope tells against the claim, especially in the cited Matthean form. In Mark 10:18 and Luke 18:19 Jesus deflects the address 'good teacher' by reserving goodness to God alone; Matthew 19:17 recasts the saying so that Jesus asks why he is questioned about the good and directs the man to the commandments. Critics read Matthew's wording as a redactional softening of the earlier form's implication that Jesus declines the attribute. On either reading, they argue, the text does not establish that the psalm's divine goodness belongs to Jesus.
The fulfillment reading
How this passage is read as pointing to the Messiah.
The messianic-fulfillment reading holds that Psalm 100:5's declaration of YHWH's goodness is echoed in the rich-man pericope, where Jesus links goodness exclusively to God. Proponents argue that by reserving goodness to God, Jesus implicitly invites the questioner to recognize his own divine goodness — the response reveals rather than denies it. On this reading the psalm's attribute of divine goodness is precisely the quality Jesus points to, and applies to himself by implication.
How the New Testament uses this passage
Each entry names how the New Testament author draws on the passage — a direct quotation, an allusion, an echo, or a typological reading. An echo or an allusion is not the same as a prediction; the label says which is which.
