11 Bible Verses about lent
Most Relevant Verses
And if you may lend to those from whom you may hope to receive, what grace is there to you? for sinners lend to sinners, that they may receive back the equivalent.
But meat will not commend us to God; neither if we eat are we the better; nor if we eat not are we the worse.
Hear ye another parable. A man was a landlord, who planted a vineyard, and placed a hedge around it, and dug a wine-trough in it, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went away.
Give to the one asking thee, and do not turn away from the one wishing to borrow from thee.
For as a man going away, called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods,
Therefore it behooved thee to put my money in the bank, and having come, I would receive my own with the product.
And He ate nothing during those days; and they having been completed, He afterward hungered.
But having gone, learned what this is, I wish mercy and not sacrifice: for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, sent him away, and forgave him the debt.
