11 Bible Verses about lent

And if you lend to them from whom you hope to receive, what thanks have you? for even sinners lend to sinners, that they may receive the same.

Or, who has first given to him, and received from him a recompense?

But meat commends us not to God; for, neither if we eat are we better, nor, if we eat not, are we worse.

But do you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face;

Hear another parable: There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around it, and rigged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and let it out to vine-dressers, and went into another country.

Give to him that asks of you; and from him that would borrow of you, turn not away.

For as a man, on leaving his country, called his own servants, and delivered to them his goods:

Therefore, you ought to have put my money with the bankers; and, when I came, I could have received my own with interest.

and was there forty days, to be tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days; and when they were ended, he was afterward hungry.

But go and learn what this means: I desire mercy, and not sacrifice. For I came not to call righteous men, but sinners to repentance.

And the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and let him go, and for gave him the debt.