11 Bible Verses about lent
Most Relevant Verses
if you lend with the expectation of gaining by it, where's the obligation? for the heathen lend to one another, for the prospect of an equivalent.
meat does not recommend us to God: if we eat, we are not the better men; if we don't eat, we are not the worse.
Hear another parable: a certain landlord planted a vineyard, hedged it round, set up a wine-press in it, and built a tower, then lett it out to tenants, and went into a foreign country.
give to him that asks you, and from him that would borrow of you turn not away.
So it was when a man was going to travel into a foreign country, he called his servants, and delivered to them his stock:
should not you then have lodged my money at the banker's, and so at my return I should have received my own with interest.
being forty days tempted by the devil, without eating any thing all that while: but that time expired, he at last was seiz'd with hunger.
go then and learn the meaning of that expression, "I will have mercy and not sacrifice:" for I am not come to call saints, but sinners.
upon which the lord of that vassal, touch'd with compassion, gave him his liberty, and discharged him of the debt.
