52 Bible Verses about Celebration

They shall eagerly utter the memory of Your abundant goodness
And will shout joyfully of Your righteousness.

Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day—

Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving,
Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.

“Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me.

The Lord has done great things for us;
We are glad.

Also you shall observe the Feast of the Harvest of the first fruits of your labors from what you sow in the field; also the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year when you gather in the fruit of your labors from the field.

You observe days and months and seasons and years.

“Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

‘Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance.

You will have songs as in the night when you keep the festival,
And gladness of heart as when one marches to the sound of the flute,
To go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.

“I hate, I reject your festivals,
Nor do I delight in your solemn assemblies.

“You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths seven days after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and your wine vat;

We will sing for joy over your victory,
And in the name of our God we will set up our banners.
May the Lord fulfill all your petitions.

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

‘From them will proceed thanksgiving
And the voice of those who celebrate;
And I will multiply them and they will not be diminished;
I will also honor them and they will not be insignificant.

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

This is the day which the Lord has made;
Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

O magnify the Lord with me,
And let us exalt His name together.

But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God;
Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

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.

Worship the Lord with reverence
And rejoice with trembling.

And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate; and they will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell 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 after the name of Pur. And because of the instructions in this letter, both what they had seen in this regard and what had happened to them,

But He said to him, “A man was giving a big dinner, and he invited many;

The sound of joyful shouting and salvation is in the tents of the righteous;
The right hand of the Lord does valiantly.

“I will also put an end to all her gaiety,
Her feasts, her new moons, her sabbaths
And all her festal assemblies.

“For Sheol cannot thank You,
Death cannot praise You;
Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

Then he said to them, “Go, eat of the fat, drink of the sweet, and send portions to him who has nothing prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

You may spend the money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, or whatever your heart desires; and there you shall eat in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household.

At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem;

It is better to go to a house of mourning
Than to go to a house of feasting,
Because that is the end of every man,
And the living takes it to heart.

“I hate your new moon festivals and your appointed feasts,
They have become a burden to Me;
I am weary of bearing them.

Who delight in doing evil
And rejoice in the perversity of evil;

You shall thus celebrate it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son.

obliging them to celebrate the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same month, annually,

Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come, the day is near—tumult rather than joyful shouting on the mountains.

Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news,
Who announces peace!
Celebrate your feasts, O Judah;
Pay your vows.
For never again will the wicked one pass through you;
He is cut off completely.

“But when the king came in to look over the dinner guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed in wedding clothes,

So David said to Michal, “It was before the Lord, who chose me above your father and above all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel; therefore I will celebrate before the Lord.

“The Lord your God is in your midst,
A victorious warrior.
He will exult over you with joy,
He will be quiet in His love,
He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.

for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’ And they began to celebrate.

and bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat and celebrate;

And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, there will be no rain on them.

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘The fast of the fourth, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth months will become joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts for the house of Judah; so love truth and peace.’

Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

And he sent out his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, and they were unwilling to come.

“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

So Solomon observed the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, for seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days.