50 Bible Verses about Celebration

For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:

Let us come before his face with praises; and make melody with holy songs.

Three times in the year you are to keep a feast to me

And the feast of the grain-cutting, the first-fruits of your planted fields: and the feast at the start of the year, when you have got in all the fruit from your fields.

You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years.

Take note of the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God: for in the month of Abib the Lord your God took you out of Egypt by night.

And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever.

You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and you will be glad in heart, as when they go with music of the pipe to the mountain of the Lord, the Rock of Israel.

Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.

You are to keep the feast of tents for seven days after you have got in all your grain and made your wine:

We will be glad in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will put up our flags: may the Lord give you all your requests.

Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.

And from them will go out praise and the sound of laughing: and I will make them great in number, and they will not become less; and I will give them glory, and they will not be small.

But when you give a feast, send for the poor and the blind and those who are broken in body:

This is the day which the Lord has made; we will be full of joy and delight in it.

O give praise to the Lord with me; let us be witnesses together of his great name.

But let the upright be glad; let them have delight before God; let them be full of joy.

His sons regularly went to one another's houses, and every one on his day gave a feast: and at these times they sent for their three sisters to take part in their feasts with them.

Give worship to the Lord with fear, kissing his feet and giving him honour,

And those who are on the earth will have pleasure and delight over them; and they will send offerings one to another because these two prophets gave great trouble to all on the earth.

Even so, I say to you, There is joy among the angels of God, when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing.

So these days were named Purim, after the name of Pur. And so, because of the words of this letter, and of what they had seen in connection with this business, and what had come to them,

And he said to them, A certain man gave a great feast, and sent word of it to a number of people.

The sound of joy and salvation is in the tents of the upright; the right hand of the Lord does works of power.

And I will put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her regular meetings.

For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.

Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.

And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;

Then came the feast of the opening of the Temple in Jerusalem: it was winter;

It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them.

Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

And let this feast be kept before the Lord for seven days in the year: it is a rule for ever from generation to generation; in the seventh month let it be kept.

The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king, who made a feast when his son was married,

Ordering them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and the fifteenth day of the same month, every year,

The crowning time has come on you, O people of the land: the time has come, the day is near; the day will not be slow in coming, it will not keep back.

See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.

But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a guest's robe;

And David said to Michal, I was dancing before the Lord, who put me over your father and all his sons, to make me a ruler over the people of the Lord, over his people Israel: and I will go on playing before the Lord;

The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.

For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy.

And get the fat young ox and put it to death, and let us have a feast, and be glad.

And it will be that if any one of all the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, on them there will be no rain.

This is what the Lord of armies has said: The times of going without food in the fourth month and in the fifth and the seventh and the tenth months, will be for the people of Judah times of joy and happy meetings; so be lovers of good faith and of peace.

And it will come about that everyone who is still living, of all those nations who came against Jerusalem, will go up from year to year to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, and to keep the feast of tents.

And sent out his servants to get in the guests to the feast: and they would not come.

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you are to have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread is to be your food.

So Solomon and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, (for the people had come together from the way into Hamath to the river of Egypt,) kept the feast at that time before the Lord our God, for two weeks, even fourteen days.