Bible Verses About Family Gatherings

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.

When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.

Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.

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

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

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

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.

These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.

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,

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

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

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

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.

And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.

And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,

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

Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.

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

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.

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.

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

Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord,

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.

Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

And gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

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.

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.

But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.

And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites.

The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;