11 Bible Verses about lent

And if you lend only to people from whom you expect to get something, what merit is there in that? Even godless people lend to godless people, meaning to get it back again in full.

"Or who has advanced anything to him, for which he will have to be repaid?"

But food is not going to affect our standing with God. We are none the worse if we do not eat it, and none the better if we do.

But when you fast, perfume your hair and wash your face,

"Listen to another figure. There was a land owner who planted a vineyard and fenced it in, and hewed out a wine-vat in it, and built a watch-tower, and leased it to tenants, and left the neighborhood.

If anyone begs from you, give to him, and when anyone wants to borrow from you, do not turn away.

"For it is just like a man who was going on a journey, and called in his slaves, and put his property in their hands.

Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and then when I came back I would have gotten my property with interest.

for forty days by the Spirit, and was tempted by the devil. In all those days he ate nothing, and when they were over he was famished.

You must go and learn what the saying means, 'It is mercy, not sacrifice, that I care for.' I did not come to invite the pious but the irreligious."

And his master's heart was touched, and he let the slave go and canceled the debt.