42 Bible Verses about celebrating

The memorial of thy abundant kindness shall be showed; and men shall sing of thy righteousness.

"Three feasts thou shalt hold unto me in a year.

Yea the LORD hath done great things for us already, whereof we rejoice.

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

And this day shall be unto you a remembrance, and ye shall keep it holy unto the LORD: even throughout your generations after you shall ye keep it holy day, that it be a custom forever.

For the which cause they called this day Purim after the name of Pur, according to all the words of this writing: and what they themselves had seen, and what had happened unto them.

And the feast of Harvest, when thou reapest the first fruits of thy labors which thou hast sown in the field. And the feast of ingathering, in the end of the year: when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field.

Let no man therefore trouble your consciences about meat and drink: or for a piece of a holy day, as the holy day of the new moon, or of the Sabbath day:

Observe the month of Abib, and offer Passover unto the LORD thy God. For in the month of Abib, the LORD thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night:

This is the day which the LORD hath made! Let us rejoice and be glad in it!

Every one that remaineth then of all the people, which came against Jerusalem, shall go up yearly, to worship the King, even the LORD of Hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

A Sabbath of rest it shall be unto you, and ye shall humble your souls. The ninth day of the month at evening, and so forth from evening to evening again, ye shall keep your Sabbath."

Ye observe the days, and months, and times, and years.

Therefore let us keep holiday, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of maliciousness and wickedness - but with the sweet bread of pureness and truth.

Rejoice not thou at the fall of thine enemy; and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth.

The hour is come against thee that dwellest in the land. The time is at hand; the day of sedition is hard by: and no glad tidings upon the mountains.

We will rejoice in thy health, and triumph in the name of the LORD our God! The LORD perform all thy petitions!

"'I hate and abhor your holidays, and whereas ye cense me when ye come together I will not accept it.

And out of them shall go thanksgiving, and the voice of joy. I will multiply them, and they shall not diminish: I shall endue them with honour, and no man shall subdue them.

Be merry with them that are merry. Weep with them that weep.

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

Wherefore let the children of Israel keep the Sabbath, that they observe it throughout their generations, that it be an covenant forever.

But the righteous shall be glad and rejoice before God, they shall be merry and joyful.

Yea, this shall be the sin plague of Egypt and the sin plague of all people that go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

Likewise I say unto you, Joy is made in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth."

Which rejoice in doing evil, and delight in wicked things:

And the fifteenth day of the seventh month shall be a holy day and ye shall do no laborious work therein, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD of seven days long.

And ye shall keep it holy day unto the LORD seven days in the year. And it shall be a law forever unto your children after you, that ye keep that feast in the seventh month.

But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind,

I hate your new holidays and fastings, even from my very heart. I cannot away with such vanity and holding in of the people. They lay upon me as a burden, and I am weary of bearing them!

And when your children ask you, 'What manner of service is this ye do?'

And his sons went and made banquets - one day in one house, another day in another - and sent for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

But David said again to Michal, "I thought to dance before the LORD - which chose me, rather thy father and all his kin, and commanded me to be ruler over all the people of the LORD, even over Israel.

And the eighth day they made a gathering. For they kept the hallowing of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

Serve the LORD in fear, and rejoice unto him in reverence.

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 look: what generation upon earth goeth not up to Jerusalem for to worship the King, even the LORD of Hosts: upon the same shall come no rain.

Therefore said he unto them, "Go your way, and eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send part unto them also that have not prepared themselves: for this day is holy unto our LORD. Be not ye sorry therefore: for the joy of the LORD is your strength."

And it shall come to pass, that from moon to moon, from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, sayeth the LORD.

Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days long, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine.