42 Bible Verses about celebrating

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

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

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

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

‘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.

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,

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.

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—

“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.

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

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.

It is to be a sabbath of complete rest to you, and you shall humble your souls; on the ninth of the month at evening, from evening until evening you shall keep your sabbath.”

You observe days and months and seasons and years.

Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,
And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;

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.

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.

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

‘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.

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

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

So the sons of Israel shall observe the sabbath, to celebrate the sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.’

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

This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

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

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

‘Then on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work, and you shall observe a feast to the Lord for seven days.

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.

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

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

And when your children say to you, ‘What does this rite mean to you?’

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.

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.

On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar they observed seven days and the feast seven days.

Worship the Lord with reverence
And rejoice with trembling.

Thus it came about on the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

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.

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.”

“And it shall be from new moon to new moon
And from sabbath to sabbath,
All mankind will come to bow down before Me,” says the Lord.

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