42 Bible Verses about celebrating

They will extol the fame of your abundant goodness, and will sing out loud about your righteousness.

"Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival for me.

The great things that the LORD has done for us gladden us.

Now Hanukkah was taking place in Jerusalem. It was winter,

""This day is to be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a festival to the LORD. You are to celebrate it as a perpetual ordinance from generation to generation.

Therefore these days were called , from the word . Because of all that was written in this letter, because of what they experienced in this matter, and because of what happened to them,

You are to observe the Festival of Harvest, celebrating the first fruits of your work in planting the field, and the Festival of Tabernacles at the end of the year, when you gather the fruit of your work from the field.

Therefore, let no one judge you in matters of food and drink or with respect to a festival, a New Moon, or Sabbath days.

"Observe the month of Abib, keeping the Passover to the LORD your God, because the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt during the night in the month of Abib.

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

"It will come about that all of the survivors of the nations who came against Jerusalem will come there from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, and to observe the Festival of Tents.

It's a Sabbath of rest for you on which you are to humble yourselves starting the evening of the ninth day of the month. You are to observe your Sabbath from evening to evening."

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

So let's keep celebrating the festival, neither with old yeast nor with yeast that is evil and wicked, but with yeast-free bread that is both sincere and true.

Don't rejoice when your enemy falls; don't let yourself be glad when he stumbles.

""Your doom has come to you, you who live in the land. The time has arrived, and the day of confusion is near. There will be no shouts of joy on the mountains.

May we shout for joy at your deliverance and unfurl our banners in the name of our God. May the LORD fulfill all your petitions.

"I hate I despise your festival days, and your solemn convocations stink.

Thanksgiving and the sounds of laughter will come out of them. I'll cause them to increase in numbers and not decrease. I'll honor them and not make them insignificant.

Rejoice with those who are rejoicing. Cry with those who are crying.

Magnify the LORD with me! Let us lift up his name together!

The Israelis are to keep the Sabbath to make the Sabbath observance a perpetual covenant from generation to generation.

But the righteous rejoice and exult before God; they are overwhelmed with joy.

This will be the punishment for Egypt and all nations who do not come to observe the Festival of Tents."

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

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

"You are to hold a sacred assembly on the fifteenth day of the same seventh month. No servile work is to be done. You are to celebrate a festival to the LORD for seven days by

Observe it as a pilgrimage festival in the presence of the LORD for seven days of the year. This is to be an eternal ordinance throughout your generations. Observe the festival during the seventh month.

Instead, when you give a banquet, make it your habit to invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.

As for your New Moons and your appointed festivals, I abhor them. They've become a burden to me; I've grown weary of carrying that burden.

And when your children say to you, "What does this ritual mean?'

His sons used to travel to each other's houses in turn on a regular schedule and hold festivals, inviting their three sisters to celebrate with them.

But David replied to Michal, "It was in front of the LORD, who appointed me to replace your father and his entire household by selecting me as Commander-in-Chief over Israel, the people of the LORD, that I danced in front of the LORD.

On the day after the festival ended, they convened a solemn assembly, because they had been dedicating the altar for seven days and observing the festival for seven days.

Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

On the third day, which just happened to be Pharaoh's birthday, he threw a party for all his servants. He lifted the head of both his senior security advisor and of his head chef in front of his servants

If anyone from the families of the earth will not come to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, there will be no rain for them.

He also told them, "Go eat the best food, drink the best wine, and give something to those who have nothing, since this day is holy to our Lord. Don't be sorrowful, because the joy of the LORD is your strength."

And from New Moon to New Moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all humanity will come to worship before me," says the LORD.

"Celebrate the Festival of Tents for seven days after you harvest from your threshing floor and your wine press.