Bible verses about "celebration" | Living_Oracles

¹ Jesus continuing to discourse to them in parables, said, ² The Administration of Heaven resembles the conduct of a king, who having made a marriage feast for his son, ³ sent his servants to call them, who had been invited; but they would not come. ⁴ Then he sent other servants, saying, Tell those who are invited I have prepared my feast; my bullocks and fatlings are slain, and all is ready; come to the marriage. ⁵ But they turned away with indifference, one to his farm, another to his merchandize. ⁶ And the rest seizing his servants, abused and killed them. ⁷ When the king heard this, being enraged, he sent his soldiers, destroyed those murderers, and burnt their city. ⁸ Then he said to his servants, The entertainment is ready; but they who were invited were not worthy: ⁹ go therefore, into the public roads, and all that you can find, invited to the marriage. ¹⁰ Accordingly they went into the highways, and assembled all that they found, good and bad, so that the hall was furnished with guests. ¹¹ When the king came in to see the guests, observing one who had not on a wedding garment, ¹² he said to him, Friend, how came you here without a wedding garment? And he was speechless. ¹³ Then the king said to the attendants, Bind him hand and foot, and thrust him out into darkness, where will be weeping and gnashing of teeth; ¹⁴ for there are many called, but few chosen. ¹⁵ Then the Pharisees retired, and having consulted how they might entrap him in his words, ¹⁶ sent to him some of their disciples, and some Herodians, who being instructed by them, said, Rabbi, we know that you are sincere, and faithfully teach the way of God, without partiality, for you respect not the person of men. ¹⁷ Tell us, therefore, your opinion: Is it lawful to give tribute to Cesar, or not? ¹⁸ Jesus, perceiving their malice, said, Dissemblers, why would you entangle me? ¹⁹ Show me the tribute money. And they reached him a denarius. ²⁰ He asked them, Whose image and inscription is this? ²¹ They answered, Cesar's. He replied, Render, then, to Cesar that which is Cesar's, and to God that which is God's. ²² And admiring his answer, they left him, and went away. ²³ The same day Sadducees, who say that there is no future life, came to him and addressed him: ²⁴ Rabbi, Moses has said, if one die, and have no children, his brother shall marry his widow, and raise issue to the deceased. ²⁵ Now there lived among us seven brothers; the eldest married and died without issue, leaving his wife to his brother. ²⁶ Thus also the second, and the third, and so to the seventh. ²⁷ Last of all the woman died also. ²⁸ Now, at the resurrection, whose wife shall she be of the seven; for they all married her? ²⁹ Jesus answering, said to them, You err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God; ³⁰ for in that state, they neither marry, nor give in marriage: they resemble the angels of God. ³¹ But as to the revival of the dead, have you not read what God declared to you, saying, ³² "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?" God is not a God of the dead, but of the living. ³³ Now, the people who heard this, were struck with awe at his doctrine. ³⁴ Meantime, the Pharisees hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, flocked about him. ³⁵ Then, one of them, a lawyer, trying him, proposed this question, ³⁶ Rabbi, which is the greatest commandment in the law? ³⁷ Jesus answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind." ³⁸ This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ The second is like it, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." ⁴⁰ On these two commandments the whole law and the prophets depend. ⁴¹ While the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus asked them, ⁴² saying, What do you think of the Messiah? Who son should he be? They answered, David's. ⁴³ He replied, How then does David, speaking by inspiration, call him his Lord? ⁴⁴ "The Lord," says he, "said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand until I make your foes your footstool." ⁴⁵ If the Messiah were David's son, would David call him his Lord? ⁴⁶ To this none of them could answer; and from that day no person presumed to interrogate him.

¹¹ I give you these admonitions, that I may continue to have joy in you, and that your joy may be complete.

⁴⁵ And happy is she who believed that the things which the Lord has promised her, shall be performed.

¹ Receive him who is weak in the faith, without regard to differences of opinions. ² One, indeed, believes he may eat everything; but he who is weak eats herbs only. ³ Let not him who eats, despise him who eats not; and let not him who eats not, condemn him who eats: for God has received him. ⁴ Who are you that condemn another man's servant? By his own master he stands or falls; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand. ⁵ One, indeed, thinks one day more holy than another: but another thinks every day alike. Let every one be convinced in his own mind. ⁶ He who observes the day, observe it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day to the Lord, does not observe it: he who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. ⁷ For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. ⁸ But whether we live, we live to the Lord; and whether we die, we die to the Lord: whether we live, therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. ⁹ For to this end, Christ both dies and rose, and lives again, that he might rule over both the dead and the living. ¹⁰ But you, why do you condemn your brother? and you, also, why do you despise your brother? for we shall all be placed before the judgment seat of Christ. ¹¹ For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, surely every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God." ¹² Well, then, every one of us shall give an account of himself to God. ¹³ Let us, therefore, no more judge one another; but let us decide, rather, not to lay an occasion of stumbling before a brother, or a cause of falling. ¹⁴ I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself; yet, to him who accounts anything to be unclean, to that man it is unclean. ¹⁵ Now, if your brother be hurt through your meat, you no longer walk as love requires. Do not destroy him with your meat for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ Let not your good, then, be an evil spoken of. ¹⁷ For the Reign of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace, and joy, in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ And he who, by these things, serves Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved by men. ¹⁹ Well, then, let us strive after peace, and mutual edification. ²⁰ Do not, for the sake of meat, destroy the work of God. All meats, indeed, are clean; but that meat is hurtful to the man who eats to occasion stumbling. ²¹ It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything by which your brother is made to stumble, or to fall, or is weakened. ²² You have faith: keep it to yourself, in the sight of God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves. ²³ For he who discerns a difference, between meats is condemned, if he eat; because he eats not from faith: for what is not from faith is sin.

¹ I recommend to you Phebe, our sister, who is a deaconess of the congregation at Cenchrea, ² that you may receive her in the Lord, as becomes saints, and assist her, in whatever business she may have need of you: for, indeed, she has been a helper of many, and especially of me. ³ Salute Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow-laborers in Christ Jesus. ⁴ These persons, for my life, laid down their own neck; to whom not only I give thanks, but even all the congregations of the Gentiles. ⁵ Likewise, salute the congregation which is in their house. Salute Epenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruit of Asia to Christ. ⁶ Salute Mary, who labored much for us. ⁷ Salute Andronicus, and Junias, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the Apostles, and who were in Christ before me. ⁸ Salute Amplias, my beloved in the Lord. ⁹ Salute Urbanas, our fellow-laborer in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved. ¹⁰ Salute Appelles, the approved in Christ. Salute those who are of the family of Aristobulus. ¹¹ Salute Herodion, my kinsman. Salute those of the family of Narcissus, who are in the Lord. ¹² Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, who labored much in the Lord. ¹³ Salute Rufus, the chosen in the Lord, and her who is the mother both of him and of me. ¹⁴ Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren with them. ¹⁵ Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them. ¹⁶ Salute one another with a holy kiss. The congregations of Christ salute you. ¹⁷ Now, I beseech you, brethren, mark them who make separations and occasions of falling, contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; and avoid them. ¹⁸ For they who are such, do not serve out Lord Jesus, but their own belly; and by flattery and fair speeches, deceive the hearts of the simple. ¹⁹ Now your obedience is reported to all men. I therefore rejoice on your account; nevertheless, I wish you, indeed, to be wise with respect to good; and simple with respect to evil. ²⁰ May the God of peace bruise Satan under your feet soon! The favor of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. ²¹ Timothy, my fellow-laborer, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you. ²² I, Tertius, who wrote this letter, salute you in the Lord. ²³ Gaius, my host, and of the whole congregation, salutes you. Erastus, the chamberlain of the city, salutes you, and Quartus, your brother. ²⁴ The favor of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all! Amen. ²⁵ Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the secret, concealed in the times of the ages, ²⁶ (but is now made manifest by the prophetic writings, and by the commandment of the eternal God is made known to all the Gentiles, in order to the obedience of faith:) ²⁷ to the wise God alone, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever. Amen.

¹¹ And being come into the house, they found the child with Mary his mother; and, prostrating themselves, did him homage. Then opening their caskets, they offered, as presents to him, gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

³ Then he addressed this similitude to them: ⁴ What man, amongst you, who has a hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the desert, to go after that which is lost, till he find it? ⁵ And having found it, does he not joyfully lay it on his shoulders, ⁶ and when he is come home, convene his friends and neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost? ⁷ Thus, I assure you, there is greater joy in heaven for one sinner who reforms, than for ninety-nine righteous persons, who need no reformation. ⁸ Or what woman, who has ten drachmas, if she lose one, does not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and search carefully till she find it? ⁹ And having found it, does she not assemble her female friends and neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost! ¹⁰ Such joy, I assure you, have the angels of God, when any sinner reforms.

⁵ One, indeed, thinks one day more holy than another: but another thinks every day alike. Let every one be convinced in his own mind. ⁶ He who observes the day, observe it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day to the Lord, does not observe it: he who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks.

⁸ Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness: but with unleavened sincerity and truth.

²³ bring also the fatted calf, and kill it, and let us eat, and be merry; ²⁴ for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. So they began to be merry.

³¹ Whether, then, you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.