42 Bible Verses about celebrating

They shall abundantly utter the memory of your great goodness, and shall sing of your righteousness.

Three times you shall keep a feast unto me in the year.

The LORD has done great things for us; and we are glad.

And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.

And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and you shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.

Therefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,

And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of your labors, which you have sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labors out of the field.

Let no man therefore judge you in food, or in drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD your God: for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.

This is the day which the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

And it shall come to pass, that everyone that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and you shall humble yourselves: in the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening unto evening, shall you celebrate your sabbath.

You observe days, and months, and times, and years.

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles:

The morning has come unto you, O you that dwell in the land: the time has come, the day of trouble is near, and not the rejoicing upon the mountains.

We will rejoice in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfill all your petitions.

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not take delight in your solemn assemblies.

And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.

Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.

This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents.

Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of the wicked;

And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no regular work, and you shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:

And you shall keep it as a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations: you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

But when you give a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing them.

And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean you by this service?

And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one on his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, who chose me before your father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I make merry before the LORD.

And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they observed the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.

And it shall be, that whosoever will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.

Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet wine, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be you grieved; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, says the LORD.

You shall observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that you have gathered in your grain and your wine: