42 Bible Verses about celebrating

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

"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.

Then came the feast of the Dedication in Jerusalem.

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.

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

"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.

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 --

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

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.

It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must humble yourselves on the ninth day of the month in the evening, from evening until evening you must observe your Sabbath."

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

So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and when he stumbles do not let your heart rejoice,

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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

The Israelites must keep the Sabbath by observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.

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

This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

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

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

"'On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work, and you must keep a festival to the Lord for seven days.

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.

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

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

When your children ask you, 'What does this ceremony mean to you?' --

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.

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.

On the eighth day they held an assembly, for they had dedicated the altar for seven days and celebrated the festival for seven more days.

Serve the Lord in fear! Repent in terror!

On the third day it was Pharaoh's birthday, so he gave a feast for all his servants. He "lifted up" the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker in the midst of his servants.

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.

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."

From one month to the next and from one Sabbath to the next, all people will come to worship me," says the Lord.

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