40 Bible Verses about celebrating

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

Let this be a Sabbath of special rest to you, and keep yourselves from all pleasure; on the ninth day of the month at nightfall from evening to evening, let this Sabbath be kept.

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

Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.

Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

And the children of Israel are to keep the Sabbath holy, from generation to generation, by an eternal agreement.

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

This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations who do not go up to keep the feast of tents.

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

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

And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month let there be a holy meeting; do no field-work, and keep a feast to the Lord for seven days;

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.

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

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.

And when your children say to you, What is the reason of this act of worship?

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.

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;

And on the eighth day they had a holy meeting; the offerings for making the altar holy went on for seven days, and the feast for seven days.

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

Now the third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a feast for all his servants; and he gave honour to the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker among the others.

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.

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 it will be, that from new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh will come to give worship before me, says the Lord.

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