11 Bible Verses about lent
Most Relevant Verses
And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what thanks have you? sinners also lend to sinners, to receive back as much again.
But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat not are we worse, nor if we eat are we better.
Hear another parable: There was a man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and made a hedge around it, and dug a wine vat in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.
For, as a man going abroad called his servants, and delivered to them his estates;
And you ought then to have given my money to the brokers, and at my coming, I should have received my own with interest.
being tempted by the devil forty days. And he eat nothing in those days; and when they were completed he was hungry.
Go and learn what this means: I wish for mercy and not a sacrifice; for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.
And the lord of that servant having compassion on him released him, and forgave him the debt.
