52 Bible Verses about Celebration

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

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:

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

You shall have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

This is the day which the LORD has made; we will 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 rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.

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.

Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

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

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,

Then said he unto him, A certain man gave a great supper, and bade many:

The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly.

I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.

For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth.

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 you shall bestow that money for whatsoever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever your soul desires: and you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you, and your household,

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

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

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

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

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.

The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, who made a marriage for his son,

To establish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

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.

Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace! O Judah, keep your solemn feasts, perform your vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through you; he is utterly cut off.

And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a wedding garment:

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.

The LORD your God in the midst of you is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over you with joy; he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.

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

And bring here the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:

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.

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 joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.

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.

And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not 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.

And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.