11 Bible Verses about lent

And if you ever lend to people expecting to get it back, what credit do you get for that? Even notorious sinners practice lending to one another, expecting to get it back in full.

Or who has ever advanced God anything to have Him pay him back?

Food will never bring us near to God. We are no worse if we do not eat it; we are no better if we do.

But whenever you, follower of mine, fast, perfume your head and wash your face,

"Listen to another story. There was once an owner of an estate who planted a vineyard and built a fence around it, and hewed out a wine-vat in it, and built a tower, and rented it to tenant farmers, and then went abroad.

If anyone, whoever he may be, keeps on begging you, give to him; if anyone wants to borrow from you, do not turn him away.

"For it is just like a man who was going on a long journey from his homeland, who called to him his slaves and turned his property over to them.

So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, so that when I came back I could have collected my principal with interest.

while He was being tempted by the devil. During that time He ate nothing, and so at the end of it He felt hungry.

Go, learn what this means, 'It is mercy and not sacrifice that I want.' It is not upright but sinful people that I have come to invite."

And his master's heart was moved with pity, and he let the slave go free with his debt cancelled.