52 Bible Verses about Celebration

They will talk about the fame of your great kindness, and sing about your justice.

Therefore do not let anyone judge you with respect to food or drink, or in the matter of a feast, new moon, or Sabbath days --

Let's enter his presence with thanksgiving! Let's shout out to him in celebration!

"Three times in the year you must make a pilgrim feast to me.

The Lord did indeed accomplish great things for us. We were happy.

"You are also to observe the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors that you have sown in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year when you have gathered in your harvest out of the field.

You are observing religious days and months and seasons and years.

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

This day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a festival to the Lord -- you will celebrate it perpetually as a lasting ordinance.

You will sing as you do in the evening when you are celebrating a festival. You will be happy like one who plays a flute as he goes to the mountain of the Lord, the Rock who shelters Israel.

"I absolutely despise your festivals! I get no pleasure from your religious assemblies!

You must celebrate the Festival of Temporary Shelters for seven days, at the time of the grain and grape harvest.

Then we will shout for joy over your victory; we will rejoice in the name of our God! May the Lord grant all your requests!

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

Out of those places you will hear songs of thanksgiving and the sounds of laughter and merriment. I will increase their number and they will not dwindle away. I will bring them honor and they will no longer be despised.

But when you host an elaborate meal, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.

This is the day the Lord has brought about. We will be happy and rejoice in it.

Magnify the Lord with me! Let's praise his name together!

But the godly are happy; they rejoice before God and are overcome with joy.

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

Serve the Lord in fear! Repent in terror!

And those who live on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate, even sending gifts to each other, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God's angels over one sinner who repents."

For this reason these days are known as Purim, after the name of pur.

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

They celebrate deliverance in the tents of the godly. The Lord's right hand conquers,

I will put an end to all her celebration: her annual religious festivals, monthly new moon celebrations, and weekly Sabbath festivities -- all her appointed festivals.

Indeed Sheol does not give you thanks; death does not praise you. Those who descend into the pit do not anticipate your faithfulness.

He said to them, "Go and eat delicacies and drink sweet drinks and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared. For this day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength."

Then you may spend the money however you wish for cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or whatever you desire. You and your household may eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and enjoy it.

Then came the feast of the Dedication in Jerusalem.

It is better to go to a funeral than a feast. For death is the destiny of every person, and the living should take this to heart.

I hate your new moon festivals and assemblies; they are a burden that I am tired of carrying.

who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;

You must celebrate it as a pilgrim festival to the Lord for seven days in the year. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you must celebrate it in the seventh month.

"The kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.

to have them observe the fourteenth and the fifteenth day of the month of Adar each year

Doom is coming upon you who live in the land! The time is coming, the day is near. There are sounds of tumult, not shouts of joy, on the mountains.

Look! A herald is running on the mountains! A messenger is proclaiming deliverance: "Celebrate your sacred festivals, O Judah! Fulfill your sacred vows to praise God! For never again will the wicked Assyrians invade you, they have been completely destroyed."

But when the king came in to see the wedding guests, he saw a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.

David replied to Michal, "It was before the Lord! I was celebrating before the Lord, who chose me over your father and his entire family and appointed me as leader over the Lord's people Israel.

The Lord your God is in your midst; he is a warrior who can deliver. He takes great delight in you; he renews you by his love; he shouts for joy over you."

because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again -- he was lost and is found!' So they began to celebrate.

Bring the fattened calf and kill it! Let us eat and celebrate,

But if any of the nations anywhere on earth refuse to go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, they will get no rain.

"The Lord who rules over all says, 'The fast of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months will become joyful and happy, pleasant feasts for the house of Judah, so love truth and peace.'

Then all who survive from all the nations that came to attack Jerusalem will go up annually to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, and to observe the Feast of Tabernacles.

He sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the banquet, but they would not come.

"'In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you will celebrate the Passover, and for seven days bread made without yeast will be eaten.

At that time Solomon and all Israel with him celebrated a festival before the Lord our God for two entire weeks. This great assembly included people from all over the land, from Lebo Hamath in the north to the Brook of Egypt in the south.