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Want to know what the Bible says about Dancing? Here are 34 Bible verses about Dancing from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Psalm 149:3 NIV
Let them praise his name with dancing
    and make music to him with timbrel and harp.
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Ecclesiastes 3:4 NIV
    a time to weep and a time to laugh,
    a time to mourn and a time to dance,
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Jeremiah 31:13 NIV
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.
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Psalm 30:11 NIV
You turned my wailing into dancing;
    you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
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Psalm 150:4 NIV
praise him with timbrel and dancing,
    praise him with the strings and pipe,
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Exodus 32:19 NIV
When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain.
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Exodus 15:20 NIV
Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing.
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Job 21:11 NIV
They send forth their children as a flock;
    their little ones dance about.
14
Luke 15:25 NIV
“Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing.
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Judges 11:34 NIV
When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of timbrels! She was an only child. Except for her he had neither son nor daughter.
14
Matthew 11:16-17 NIV
16 “To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:
17 “‘We played the pipe for you,
    and you did not dance;
we sang a dirge,
    and you did not mourn.’
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2 Samuel 6:14-16 NIV
14 Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the Lord with all his might, 15 while he and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouts and the sound of trumpets.
16 As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart.
12
1 Samuel 30:16 NIV
He led David down, and there they were, scattered over the countryside, eating, drinking and reveling because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from Judah.
12
Jeremiah 31:4 NIV
I will build you up again,
    and you, Virgin Israel, will be rebuilt.
Again you will take up your timbrels
    and go out to dance with the joyful.
12
Luke 15:23-25 NIV
23 Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate. 24 For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate.
25 “Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing.
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Lamentations 5:15 NIV
Joy is gone from our hearts;
    our dancing has turned to mourning.
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Exodus 32:6 NIV
So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings. Afterward they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.
10
Mark 6:22 NIV
When the daughter of Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests.
The king said to the girl, “Ask me for anything you want, and I’ll give it to you.”
10
2 Samuel 6:16 NIV
As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart.
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2 Samuel 6:14 NIV
Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the Lord with all his might,
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