52 Bible Verses about Celebration

They will utter the renown of your abundant goodness, and they will proclaim with joy your righteousness.

Therefore do not let anyone judge you with reference to eating or drinking or participation in a feast or a new moon or a Sabbath,

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; with songs let us shout joyfully to him.

" 'Three times in the year you will hold a festival for me

Yahweh has done great [things] for us; we are glad.

And [you will keep] the Feast of Harvest, [with] the firstfruits of your work, what you sow in the field. And [you will keep] the Feast of Harvest Gathering when the year goes out, when you gather your work from the field.

You carefully observe days and months and seasons and years.

"Observe the month of Abib, and you shall keep [the] Passover to Yahweh your God, for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out from Egypt [by] night.

"And this day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a religious feast for Yahweh throughout your generations; you will celebrate it as a lasting statute.

{You shall have a song} as [in] [the] night when a holy festival is kept, and a gladness of heart like one who goes with the flute, to go to the mountain of Yahweh, to the rock of Israel.

"I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your assemblies.

"You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths for yourselves seven days {at the gathering in of the produce} from your threshing floor and from your press;

May we shout for joy over your victory, and in the name of our God may we set up banners. May Yahweh fulfill all your requests.

Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

And thanksgiving and [the] sound of merrymakers will come out from them, and I will make them numerous, and they will not be few. And I will make them honored, and they will not be lowly.

But whenever you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,

This [is] the day Yahweh has worked; let us rejoice and be glad in him.

Magnify Yahweh with me, and let us exalt his name together.

But [the] righteous will be glad; they will exalt before God, and will rejoice with joy.

And his sons used to go and hold a feast {at each other's house} on his day, and they would send, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

And those who live on the earth will rejoice over them, and will celebrate and will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who live on the earth.

In the [same] way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

Therefore they called these days Purim, because of the name Pur. Thus because of all the words of this letter, and of what they faced concerning this, and of what had happened to them,

But he said to him, "A certain man was giving a large banquet and invited many.

[The] sound of rejoicing and salvation [is] in [the] tents of [the] righteous; the right hand of Yahweh [has] done valiantly.

And I will put an end to all her mirth, her festivals, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her appointed festivals;

For Sheol cannot praise you; death [cannot] praise you. Those who go down [to the] pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

Then he said to them, "Go, eat festive food and drink sweet drinks, and send a share to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our lord. Do not be grieved because the joy of Yahweh is your refuge."

You may spend the money for anything {that you desire}, for oxen or for sheep or for wine or for strong drink or for anything {that you desire}, and you shall eat [it] there {before} Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

Then the feast of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter,

Better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for [death is] the end of every person, and the living should take [it] to his heart.

Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become to me like burden, I am not able to bear [them].

those who are happy to do evil, [for] they delight in [the] deviousness of evil,

And you must hold it [as] a festival for Yahweh [for] seven days in the year; [it shall be] a {lasting statute} throughout your generations; in the seventh month you must hold it.

"The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man--a king--who gave a wedding celebration for his son.

to impose on them to keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and the fifteenth [day], {every year},

Doom is coming against you, the dweller of the land; the time comes, the day [is] near, panic and not joy [is] on the mountains.

Look! On the mountains! The feet of the one who brings good tidings, the one who proclaims peace! "Celebrate [a festival], O Judah, Fulfill your vows! For he will not invade you again; the wicked one is cut off completely!"

But [when] the king came in to see the {dinner guests}, he saw a man there not dressed [in] wedding clothes.

So David said to Michal, "[In the] presence of Yahweh who chose me {over} your father and {over} his household, to appoint me [as] leader over the people of Yahweh, over Israel, I have celebrated before Yahweh.

Yahweh your God [is] in your midst; a mighty warrior who saves. He shall rejoice over you with joy; he renews you in his love; he will exult over you with singing.

because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again! He was lost and is found!' And they began to celebrate.

And bring the fattened calf--kill [it] and let us eat [and] celebrate,

{And then} whoever of the clans of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the king, Yahweh of hosts, it will not rain on them.

"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'The fast of the fourth [month], the fifth [month], the seventh [month], and the tenth [month] will be for the house of Judah jubilation and joy and merry festivals; therefore love truth and peace.'

{And then} every survivor from all those nations coming against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship [the] king, Yahweh of hosts, and celebrate the Feast of Booths.

And he sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the wedding celebration, and they did not want to come.

In the first [month], on the {fourteenth} day of the month, you shall have the Passover, feast [lasting for] {seven days}, [when] you shall eat unleavened breads.

Solomon held the festival at that time and all of Israel with him, a great assembly from Lebo Hamath up to the wadi of Egypt before Yahweh our God, for seven days [and] seven days, [a total of] fourteen days.