11 Bible Verses about lent
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And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much back.
But food will not commend us to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
"Hear another parable: there was a landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it and built a tower. And he leased it to vine dressers and went into a far country.
Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away.
"For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his property to them.
Then you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest.
being tempted for forty days by the devil. In those days he ate nothing, and when they had ended, he was hungry.
But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
The master of that servant took pity on him, released him, and forgave him the debt.
