11 Bible Verses about lent
Most Relevant Verses
And if ye lend to those, from whom ye hope to receive back again, what thanks are due to you? for sinners lend to sinners, that they may receive an equivalent.
But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither if we eat are we the better, or if we eat not are we the worse.
Hear another parable: There was a certain man, the master of a family, who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and hired it out to husbandmen, and went into a distant country.
Give to him that asketh thee; and from him who wants to borrow of thee, turn not away.
For the case is like that of a man, who travelling abroad, called his own servants, and delivered to them his goods.
thou oughtest then to have placed my money with the bankers, so when I came I should have received my own with interest.
being tempted forty days by the devil; and did eat nothing during those days: and when they were ended, afterwards he was hungry.
Go then, and learn what is said, "I require mercy and not sacrifice:" for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Then his lord, moved with compassion towards that servant, discharged him, and forgave him the debt.
