31 Bible Verses about lent
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So I have given him to the Lord; for all his life he is the Lord's. Then he gave the Lord worship there.
Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.
Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you.
If you let your brother have the use of anything which is yours, do not go into his house and take anything of his as a sign of his debt;
And every year Eli gave Elkanah and his wife a blessing, saying, May the Lord give you offspring by this woman in exchange for the child you have given to the Lord. And they went back to their house.
He who has pity on the poor gives to the Lord, and the Lord will give him his reward.
Even I and my servants have been taking interest for the money and the grain we have let them have. So now, let us give up this thing.
Then Jacob gave him bread and soup; and he took food and drink and went away, caring little for his birthright.
This is how it is to be done: every creditor is to give up his right to whatever he has let his neighbour have; he is not to make his neighbour, his countryman, give it back; because a general forgiveness has been ordered by the Lord.
And the Lord had given the people grace in the eyes of the Egyptians so that they gave them whatever was requested. So they took away all their goods from the Egyptians.
For the Lord your God will give you his blessing as he has said: you will let other nations have the use of your money, but you will not make use of theirs; you will be rulers over a number of nations, but they will not be your rulers.
And if you let those have the use of your money, from whom you are hoping to get it back, what credit is it to you? even sinners do so to sinners, hoping to get back as much as they gave.
But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.
A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.
Do not take interest from an Israelite on anything, money or food or any other goods, which you let him have
But be certain to give it back to him when the sun goes down, so that he may have his clothing for sleeping in, and will give you his blessing: and this will be put to your account as righteousness before the Lord your God.
Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him.
Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.
For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.
Give to him who comes with a request, and keep not your property from him who would for a time make use of it.
For it is as when a man, about to take a journey, got his servants together, and gave them his property.
If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest.
Why, then, did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I would have got back what is mine with interest?
For forty days, being tested by the Evil One. And he had no food in those days; and when they came to an end, he was in need of food.
Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs.
Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth,
But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.
And the lord of that servant, being moved with pity, let him go, and made him free of the debt.
They will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you, says the Lord, to give you salvation.
