42 Bible Verses about celebrating

They shall pour forth the fame of your abundant goodness and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

"Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me

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

At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter,

"This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.

Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term Pur. Therefore, because of all that was written in this letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had happened to them,

You shall keep the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.

Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.

"Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.

It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict yourselves. On the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening shall you keep your Sabbath."

You observe days and months and seasons and years!

Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,

Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting on the mountains.

May we shout for joy over your salvation, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May the LORD fulfill all your petitions!

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

Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving, and the voices of those who celebrate. I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will make them honored, and they shall not be small.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together!

Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever.

But the righteous shall be glad; they shall exult before God; they shall be jubilant with joy!

This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.

Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil,

"On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days.

You shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,

Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.

And when your children say to you, 'What do you mean by this service?'

His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

And David said to Michal, "It was before the LORD, who chose me above your father and above all his house, to appoint me as prince over Israel, the people of the LORD--and I will make merry before the LORD.

And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for they had kept the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days.

Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

On the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, he made a feast for all his servants and lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain on them.

Then he said to them, "Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength."

From new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, declares the LORD.

"You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress.