52 Bible Verses about Celebration

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

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:

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and show ourself glad in him with psalms.

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

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

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.

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

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:

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.

But ye shall sing, as the use is in the night of the holy solemnity. Ye shall rejoice from your heart, as they that come with the pipe, when they go up to the mount of the LORD, unto the rock of Israel.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

And they that dwell upon the earth, shall rejoice over them and be glad, and shall send gifts one to another: for these two prophets vexed them that dwelt on the earth.

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

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.

Then said he to him, "A certain man ordained a great supper, and bade many;

The voice of joy and health is in the dwellings of the righteous, for the righthand of the LORD bringeth mighty things to pass.

Moreover, I will take away all her mirth, her holidays, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts:

For hell praiseth not thee, death doth not magnify thee. They that go down into the grave, praise not thy truth:

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 bestow that money on whatsoever thy soul lusteth after: on oxen, sheep, wine and good drink, and on whatsoever thy soul desireth, and eat there before the LORD thy God and be merry: both thou, and thine household,

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

It is better to go into a house of mourning, than into a banquet house: For there is the end of all men, and he that is living taketh it to heart.

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!

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

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.

"The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain King, which married his son,

that they should yearly receive and hold the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the month Adar,

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.

Behold, upon the mountains come the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, and preacheth peace. O Judah, keep thy holidays, perform thy promises: for Belial shall come no more in thee, he is utterly rooted out.

Then the King came in, to visit the guests, and spied there a man which had not on a wedding garment,

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.

for the LORD thy God is with thee. It is he that hath power to save: he hath a special pleasure in thee, and a marvelous love toward thee: yea he rejoiceth over thee with gladness."

for this my son was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is now found.' And they began to be merry.

And bring hither that fatted calf, and kill him, and let us eat and be merry:

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.

"Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: The fast of the fourth month, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be joy and gladness, and prosperous high feasts unto the house of Judah: Only, love the truth and peace.

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.

and sent forth his servants, to call them that were bid to the wedding: and they would not come.

Upon the fourteenth day of the first month ye shall keep Easter. Seven days shall the feast continue, wherein there shall no sour nor leavened bread be eaten.

And Solomon held that same time a high feast and all Israel with him, a mighty congregation, even from the coasts of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and yet seven days, that is, fourteen days.