15 Jesus answered: "Can the bridegroom's friends mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom will be parted from them, and they will fast then.
Bible verses about "lent" | Twentieth_Century
Matthew 9:15
Luke 13:3
3 No, I tell you; but, unless you repent, you will all perish as they did.
John 13:1-17
1 Before the Passover Festival began, Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave the world and go to the Father. He had loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them to the last.
2 The Devil had already put the thought of betraying Jesus into the mind of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon;
3 And at supper, Jesus--although knowing that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come from God, and was to return to God--
4 Rose from his place, and, taking off his upper garments, tied a towel round his waist.
5 He then poured some water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel which was tied round him.
6 When he came to Simon Peter, Peter said: "You, Master! Are you going to wash my feet?"
7 "You do not understand now what I am doing," replied Jesus, "but you will learn by and by."
8 "You shall never wash my feet!" exclaimed Peter. "Unless I wash you," answered Jesus, "you have nothing in common with me."
9 "Then, Master, not my feet only," exclaimed Simon Peter, "but also my hands and my head."
10 "He who has bathed," replied Jesus, "has no need to wash, unless it be his feet, but is altogether clean; and you," he said to the disciples, "are clean, yet not all of you."
11 For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said 'You are not all clean.'
12 When he had washed their feet, and had put on his upper garments and taken his place, he spoke to them again. "Do you understand what I have been doing to you?" he asked.
13 "You yourselves call me 'the Teacher' and 'the Master', and you are right, for I am both.
14 If I, then--'the Master' and 'the Teacher'--have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet;
15 For I have given you an example, so that you may do just as I have done to you.
16 In truth I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor yet a messenger than the man who sends him.
17 Now that you know these things, happy are you if you do them.
Acts 15:9
9 He made no distinction between them and us, when he purified their hearts by their faith.
1 Peter 1:3
3 Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has, in his great mercy, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Mark 1:15
15 "The time has come, and the Kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe the Good News."
John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that every one who believes in him may not be lost, but have Immortal Life.
1 Peter 5:6
6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you in his good time,
Colossians 2:16-17
1 Timothy 4:1-5
1 But the Spirit distinctly says that in later times there will be some who will fall away from the Faith, and devote their attention to misleading spirits, and to the teaching of demons,
2 who will make use of the hypocrisy of lying teachers. These men's consciences are seared,
3 and they discourage marriage and enjoin abstinence from certain kinds of food; though God created these foods to be enjoyed thankfully by those who hold the Faith and have attained a full knowledge of the Truth.
4 Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected--provided only that it is received thankfully;
5 for it is consecrated by God's blessing and by prayer.
Matthew 4:1-25
1 Then Jesus was led up into the Wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted by the Devil.
2 And, after he had fasted for forty days and forty nights, he became hungry.
3 And the Tempter came to him, and said: "If you are God's Son, tell these stones to become loaves of bread."
4 But Jesus answered: "Scripture says--'It is not on bread alone that man is to live, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"
5 Then the Devil took him to the Holy City, and, placing him on the parapet of the temple, said to him:
6 "If you are God's Son, throw yourself down, for Scripture says- -'He will give his angels commands about thee, And on their hands they will upbear thee, Lest ever thou shouldst strike thy foot against a stone.'"
7 "Scripture also says," answered Jesus, "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'"
8 The third time, the Devil took Jesus to a very high mountain, and, showing him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor, said to him:
9 "All these I will give you, if you will fall at my feet and do homage to me."
10 Then Jesus said to him: "Begone, Satan! for Scripture says-- 'Thou shalt do homage to the Lord thy God, and worship him only.'"
11 Then the Devil left him alone, and angels came and ministered to him.
12 When Jesus heard that John had been committed to prison, he retired to Galilee.
13 Afterwards, leaving Nazareth, he went and settled at Capernaum, which is by the side of the Sea, within the borders of Zebulun and Naphtali;
14 In fulfillment of these words in the Prophet Isaiah--
15 'The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, The land of the Road by the Sea, and beyond the Jordan, With Galilee of the Gentiles--
16 The people who were dwelling in darkness Have seen a great Light, And, for those who were dwelling in the shadow-land of Death, A Light has risen!'
17 At that time Jesus began to proclaim-- "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand."
18 As Jesus was walking along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers--Simon, also known as Peter, and his brother Andrew--casting a net into the Sea; for they were fishermen.
19 "Come and follow me," Jesus said, "and I will set you to fish for men."
20 The two men left their nets at once and followed him.
21 Going further on, he saw two other men who were also brothers, James, Zebediah's son, and his brother John, in their boat with their father, mending their nets. Jesus called them,
22 And they at once left their boat and their father, and followed him.
23 And Jesus went all through Galilee, teaching in their Synagogues, proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom, and curing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people;
24 And his fame spread all through Syria. They brought to him all who were ill with any form of disease, or who were suffering pain--any who were either possessed by demons, or were lunatic, or paralyzed; and he cured them.
25 And he was followed by large crowds from Galilee, the district of the Ten Towns, Jerusalem, Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.
Matthew 6:1-34
1 Take care not to perform your religious duties in public in order to be seen by others; if you do, your Father who is in Heaven has no reward for you.
2 Therefore, when you do acts of charity, do not have a trumpet blown in front of you, as hypocrites do in the Synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. There, I tell you, is their reward!
3 But, when you do acts of charity, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
4 So that your charity may be secret; and your Father, who sees what is in secret, will recompense you.
5 And, when you pray, you are not to behave as hypocrites do. They like to pray standing in the Synagogues and at the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. There, I tell you, is their reward!
6 But, when one of you prays, let him go into his own room, shut the door, and pray to his Father who dwells in secret; and his Father, who sees what is secret, will recompense him.
7 When praying, do not repeat the same words over and over again, as is done by the Gentiles, who think that by using many words they will obtain a hearing.
8 Do not imitate them; for God, your Father, knows what you need before you ask him.
9 You, therefore, should pray thus--'Our Father, who art in Heaven, May thy name be held holy,
10 Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done--on earth, as in Heaven.
11 Give us to-day the bread that we shall need;
12 And forgive us our wrong-doings, as we have forgiven those who have wronged us;
13 And take us not into temptation, but deliver us from Evil.'
14 For, if you forgive others their offences, your heavenly Father will forgive you also;
15 But, if you do not forgive others their offences, not even your Father will forgive your offences.
16 And, when you fast, do not put on gloomy looks, as hypocrites do who disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. That, I tell you, is their reward!
17 But, when one of your fasts, let him anoint his head and wash his face,
18 That he may not be seen by men to be fasting, but by his Father who dwells in secret; and his Father, who sees what is secret, will recompense him.
19 Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
20 But store up treasures for yourselves in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal.
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22 The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is unclouded, your whole body will be lit up;
23 But, if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be darkened. And, if the inner light is darkness, how intense must that darkness be!
24 No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will attach himself to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.
25 That is why I say to you, Do not be anxious about your life here--what you can get to eat or drink; nor yet about your body-- what you can get to wear. Is not life more than food, and the body than its clothing?
26 Look at the wild birds--they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns; and yet your heavenly Father feeds them! And are not you more precious than they?
27 But which of you, by being anxious, can prolong his life a single moment?
28 And why be anxious about clothing? Study the wild lilies, and how they grow. They neither toil nor spin;
29 Yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his splendor was not robed like one of these.
30 If God so clothes even the grass of the field, which is living to-day and to-morrow will be thrown into the oven, will not he much more clothe you, O men of little faith?
31 Do not then ask anxiously 'What can we get to eat?' or 'What can we get to drink?' or 'What can we get to wear?'
32 All these are the things for which the nations are seeking, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
33 But first seek his Kingdom and the righteousness that he requires, and then all these things shall be added for you.
34 Therefore do not be anxious about to-morrow, for to-morrow will bring its own anxieties. Every day has trouble enough of its own.
Matthew 6:16-18
16 And, when you fast, do not put on gloomy looks, as hypocrites do who disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. That, I tell you, is their reward!
17 But, when one of your fasts, let him anoint his head and wash his face,
18 That he may not be seen by men to be fasting, but by his Father who dwells in secret; and his Father, who sees what is secret, will recompense him.