Nehemiah 8:10-12
10Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and asend portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” 11So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Be quiet, for this day is holy; do not be grieved.” 12And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because bthey had understood the words that were declared to them.Esther 9:19-22
19Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in cthe rural towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting, as da holiday, and eas a day on which they send gifts of food to one another.The Feast of Purim Inaugurated
20And Mordecai recorded these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, 21obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year, 22as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into fa holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.1 Corinthians 13:6
6it gdoes not rejoice at wrongdoing, but hrejoices with the truth.
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