Celebrations bring joy, gratitude, and togetherness, reflecting our faith’s vibrant spirit. The Bible showcases many occasions where God’s people rejoiced and gave thanks for His blessings. These celebrations honor God’s goodness and strengthen our bonds. As we explore these uplifting 120 Bible verses about celebration, may our hearts be filled with joy, reminding us of the divine reasons to celebrate every day.

Joyful Celebration

• Psalm 118:24 – “This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
• Psalm 150:1-6 – “Praise the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens. Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness. Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre, praise him with timbrel and dancing, praise him with the strings and pipe, praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.”
• Isaiah 25:6 – “On this mountain the Lord Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine—the best of meats and the finest of wines.”
• Luke 15:23-24 – “Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate. For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found. So they began to celebrate.”
• Philippians 4:4 – “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!”
• Ecclesiastes 3:4 – “A time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.”
• Proverbs 17:22 – “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”
• Luke 2:10-11 – “But the angel said to them, ‘Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.'”
• Romans 12:15 – “Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.”
• 1 Peter 1:8-9 – “Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.”

Celebration of God’s Goodness

• Psalm 107:1 – “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.”
• 1 Chronicles 16:34 – “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.”
• Psalm 136:1 – “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever.”
• Nehemiah 12:27 – “At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from where they lived and were brought to Jerusalem to celebrate joyfully the dedication with songs of thanksgiving and with the music of cymbals, harps, and lyres.”
• Exodus 15:20-21 – “Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing. Miriam sang to them: ‘Sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. Both horse and driver he has hurled into the sea.'”
• Psalm 30:11-12 – “You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, that my heart may sing your praises and not be silent. Lord my God, I will praise you forever.”
• 2 Samuel 6:14 – “Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the Lord with all his might.”
• Psalm 149:2-3 – “Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the people of Zion be glad in their King. Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with timbrel and harp.”
• Zephaniah 3:17 – “The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”
• James 1:17 – “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.”

Celebration through Praise and Worship

• Psalm 95:1-2 – “Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.”
• Psalm 149:1 – “Praise the Lord. Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of his faithful people.”
• Revelation 5:12 – “In a loud voice they were saying: ‘Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!'”
• Psalm 34:1 – “I will extol the Lord at all times; his praise will always be on my lips.”
• Ephesians 5:19-20 – “Speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
• Psalm 33:1-3 – “Sing joyfully to the Lord, you righteous; it is fitting for the upright to praise him. Praise the Lord with the harp; make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre. Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy.”
• Hebrews 13:15 – “Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name.”
• Psalm 98:4-6 – “Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music; make music to the Lord with the harp, with the harp and the sound of singing, with trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn—shout for joy before the Lord, the King.”
• Psalm 147:1 – “Praise the Lord. How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and fitting to praise him!”
• 2 Chronicles 5:13 – “The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, they raised their voices in praise to the Lord and sang: ‘He is good; his love endures forever.’ Then the temple of the Lord was filled with the cloud.”

Celebration with Thanksgiving and Gratitude

• Colossians 3:16-17 – “Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”
• Psalm 100:4-5 – “Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.”
• 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 – “Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
• Psalm 28:7 – “The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him.”
• Psalm 69:30 – “I will praise God’s name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving.”
• Philippians 4:6 – “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.”
• Psalm 7:17 – “I will give thanks to the Lord because of his righteousness; I will sing the praises of the name of the Lord Most High.”
• Psalm 92:1-2 – “It is good to praise the Lord and make music to your name, O Most High, proclaiming your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night.”
• Psalm 116:17 – “I will sacrifice a thank offering to you and call on the name of the Lord.”
• Psalm 95:2-3 – “Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. For the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods.”

Celebration of Salvation

• Luke 2:14 – “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”
• Isaiah 12:5 – “Sing to the Lord, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world.”
• Acts 16:34 – “The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God—he and his whole household.”
• Psalm 71:23 – “My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you—I, whom you have delivered.”
• Revelation 7:10 – “And they cried out in a loud voice: ‘Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.'”
• Isaiah 51:11 – “Those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”
• Psalm 13:5 – “But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.”
• Isaiah 61:10 – “I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.”
• Luke 10:20 – “However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
• Romans 5:11 – “Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.”

Festive Gatherings and Celebrations

• Nehemiah 8:10 – “Nehemiah said, ‘Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.'”
• Esther 9:22 – “As the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow to joy and from mourning into a day of celebration; they were to make them days of feasting and joy, of sending presents of food to one another and gifts to the poor.”
• 1 Chronicles 29:22 – “They ate and drank with great joy in the presence of the Lord that day.”
• Luke 14:13-14 – “But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
• Leviticus 23:40 – “On the first day you are to take branches from luxuriant trees—from palms, willows and other leafy trees—and rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.”
• Mark 6:21 – “On his birthday Herod gave a banquet for his high officials and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.”
• Proverbs 15:15 – “All the days of the oppressed are wretched, but the cheerful heart has a continual feast.”
• 1 Corinthians 5:8 – “Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”
• Acts 2:46-47 – “Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.”
• John 2:1-2 – “On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.”

Divine Joy and Celebrations

• Zephaniah 3:14 – “Sing, Daughter Zion; shout aloud, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, Daughter Jerusalem!”
• Luke 15:7 – “I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.”
• Psalm 16:11 – “You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.”
• Romans 14:17 – “For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.”
• Psalm 126:3 – “The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy.”
• Isaiah 55:12 – “You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.”
• Psalm 149:5 – “Let his faithful people rejoice in this honor and sing for joy on their beds.”
• Psalm 32:11 – “Rejoice in the Lord and be glad, you righteous; sing, all you who are upright in heart!”
• Habakkuk 3:18 – “Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.”
• 1 Peter 4:13 – “But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.”

Community Rejoicing and Celebrations

• Deuteronomy 16:14 – “Be joyful at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns.”
• Acts 8:8 – “So there was great joy in that city.”
• Romans 15:10 – “Again, it says, ‘Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.'”
• Psalm 107:22 – “Let them sacrifice thank offerings and tell of his works with songs of joy.”
• Ezra 6:22 – “For seven days they celebrated with joy the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because the Lord had made them joyful and turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.”
• Isaiah 12:6 – “Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.”
• Jeremiah 31:13 – “Then young women will dance and be glad, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into gladness; I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow.”
• Psalm 30:5 – “For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.”
• Nehemiah 12:43 – “And on that day they offered great sacrifices, rejoicing because God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced. The sound of rejoicing in Jerusalem could be heard far away.”
• 1 Chronicles 12:40 – “Also, their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules and oxen. Abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes, raisin cakes, wine, oil, oxen and sheep, for there was joy in Israel.”

Victory Celebrations

• Exodus 15:1-2 – “Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord: ‘I will sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. Both horse and driver he has hurled into the sea. The Lord is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.'”
• 1 Samuel 18:6-7 – “When the men were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out from all the towns of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs and with timbrels and lyres.”
• Psalm 20:5 – “May we shout for joy over your victory and lift up our banners in the name of our God. May the Lord grant all your requests.”
• Revelation 19:1 – “After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting: ‘Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God.'”
• Judges 11:34 – “When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of timbrels!”
• 2 Chronicles 20:27 – “Then, led by Jehoshaphat, all the men of Judah and Jerusalem returned joyfully to Jerusalem, for the Lord had given them cause to rejoice over their enemies.”
• 1 Kings 1:40 – “And all the people went up after him, playing pipes and rejoicing greatly, so that the ground shook with the sound.”
• Psalm 118:15 – “Shouts of joy and victory resound in the tents of the righteous: ‘The Lord’s right hand has done mighty things!'”
• Luke 19:37 – “When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen.”
• Psalm 149:6-7 – “May the praise of God be in their mouths and a double-edged sword in their hands, to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples.”

Musical Joy and Celebrations

• 2 Chronicles 29:28 – “The whole assembly bowed in worship, while the musicians played and the trumpets sounded. All this continued until the sacrifice of the burnt offering was completed.”
• Psalm 98:4 – “Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.”
• Psalm 150:3-5 – “Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre, praise him with timbrel and dancing, praise him with the strings and pipe, praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals.”
• 1 Chronicles 15:16 – “David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their fellow Levites as musicians to make a joyful sound with musical instruments: lyres, harps and cymbals.”
• Psalm 33:2 – “Praise the Lord with the harp; make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre.”
• Psalm 57:7 – “My heart, O God, is steadfast, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and make music.”
• Amos 5:23 – “Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.”
• Isaiah 38:20 – “The Lord will save me, and we will sing with stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the temple of the Lord.”

Celebration of the Fulfillment of Promises

• Joshua 21:45 – “Not one of all the Lord’s good promises to Israel failed; every one was fulfilled.”
• Luke 1:54-55 – “He has helped his servant Israel, remembering to be merciful to Abraham and his descendants forever, just as he promised our ancestors.”
• 2 Samuel 7:12-13 – “When your days are over and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, your own flesh and blood, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.”
• Galatians 3:29 – “If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
• Hebrews 10:23 – “Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.”
• Luke 24:49 – “I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”
• 2 Peter 1:4 – “Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.”
• Romans 4:21 – “Being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.”
• Jeremiah 29:10 – “This is what the Lord says: ‘When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place.'”

Celebration for Renewal and Restoration

• Isaiah 40:31 – “But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”
• Psalm 51:12 – “Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.”
• Lamentations 5:21 – “Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may return; renew our days as of old.”
• Joel 2:25-26 – “I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten—the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm—my great army that I sent among you. You will have plenty to eat, until you are full, and you will praise the name of the Lord your God, who has worked wonders for you; never again will my people be shamed.”
• Revelation 21:5 – “He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!’ Then he said, ‘Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.'”
• Jeremiah 30:17 – “‘But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,’ declares the Lord, ‘because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares.'”
• Psalm 85:6 – “Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?”
• 2 Chronicles 7:14 – “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

Celebration of God’s Faithfulness

• Lamentations 3:22-23 – “Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”
• Deuteronomy 7:9 – “Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.”
• 1 Corinthians 1:9 – “God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.”
• 2 Thessalonians 3:3 – “But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.”
• Psalm 36:5 – “Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.”

Conclusion

Celebration is a beautiful expression of faith and gratitude. The Bible reminds us to rejoice in God’s blessings and goodness. May these 120 Bible verses about celebration inspire a heart full of joy and thankfulness. Let’s celebrate life and faith each day with renewed spirit!