52 Bible Verses about Celebration

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

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.

Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!

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

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

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.

You observe days and months and seasons and years!

"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 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.

You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth.

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

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,

But he said to him, "A man once gave a great banquet and invited many.

Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous: "The right hand of the LORDdoes valiantly,

And I will put an end to all her mirth, her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.

For Sheol does not thank you; death does not praise you; those who go down to the pit do not hope for your faithfulness.

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."

and spend the money for whatever you desire--oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household.

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

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart.

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

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

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.

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

obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year,

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.

Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows, for never again shall the worthless pass through you; he is utterly cut off.

"But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment.

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.

The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.' And they began to celebrate.

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

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.

"Thus says the LORD of hosts: The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.

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.

and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.

"In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall celebrate the Feast of the Passover, and for seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten.

So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days.