Bible Verses About Family Celebrations

Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.

For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the Lord, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.

And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.

And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

And there ye shall eat before the Lord your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.

Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the Lord is your strength.

What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?

And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the Lord.

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.

And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.

For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;

Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose: because the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.

And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.

Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the Lord thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.

Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:

Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:

For ye are our glory and joy.

Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,

But thou must eat them before the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.

But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation: