Bible verses about "lent" | Godbey

¹⁵ And Jesus said to them, The sons of the bride-chamber are not able to fast, so long as the bridegroom is with them. But the day will come, when the bride-groom must be taken from them, and then they will fast.

³ T say unto you, Nay: but unless you may repent, you shall all likewise perish.

¹ And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that the hour has come when He must depart out of this world to His Father, having loved His own who were in the world, with divine love, He loved them perfectly. ² And the supper being on hand, the devil already having entered into the heart, that Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, should betray Him, ³ knowing that the Father has given all things into His hands, and He came out from God, and is going away to God, ⁴ He rises from the supper, and lays aside His garments, and taking a towel, girded Himself; ⁵ then He pours water into a bowl, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. ⁶ Then He comes to Simon Peter; he says to Him; Lord, do you wash my feet? ⁷ Jesus responded and said to him, What I do you know not now; but shall understand hereafter. ⁸ Peter says to Him, You may never wash my feet. Jesus responded to him, If I wash thee not, thou hast not part with me. ⁹ And Simon Peter says to Him, Lord, not only my feet, but my hands and my head. ¹⁰ Jesus says to Him, He that is bathed hath no need to wash his hands, but is altogether clean: and you are clean, but not all. ¹¹ For He knew the one betraying Him. On this account He said, You are not all clean. ¹² Then when He washed their feet, and took His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, Do you understand what I have done to you? ¹³ You call me Master and Lord, and you speak beautifully; for I am. ¹⁴ If then I, your Lord and Master, washed your feet, you ought also to wash the feet of one another. ¹⁵ For I have given unto you an example, that you may also do as I have done to you. ¹⁶ Truly, truly, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; nor the apostle greater than him that sent him. ¹⁷ If you know these things, happy are ye if you may do them.

⁹ and made no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the one having according to his great mercy begotten us again into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

¹⁵ and saying, That the time is fulfilled: the kingdom of God is at hand: repent, and believe the gospel.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that every one believing on Him may not perish but have eternal life.

⁶ Therefore humble yourselves beneath the mighty hand of God, that he may lift you up in due time:

¹⁶ Therefore let no one judge you in meat, or in drink, or in the participation of a feast, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath: ¹⁷ which things are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is of Christ.

¹ But the Spirit says positively, that in the last times certain ones will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and to the teachings of demons, ² speaking lies in hypocrisy, having been cauterized as to their own conscience, ³ forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from meats, which God created for reception with thanksgiving to the faithful and to those perfectly knowing the truth. ⁴ Because every creature of God is good, and nothing rejected, being received with thanksgiving: ⁵ for it is sanctified by the word of God and by prayer.

¹ Then Jesus was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the devil. ² And having fasted forty days and forty nights, He afterward hungered. ³ And the tempter having come to Him, said; If thou art the Son of God, speak in order that these stones may become bread. ⁴ And He responding said; It has been written, A man shall not live upon bread alone, but upon every word coming forth through the mouth of God. ⁵ Then the devil takes Him into the holy city and stood Him on the pinnacle of the temple, ⁶ and says to Him; If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down; for it has been written, That He will give His angels charge concerning thee, and upon their hand they will bear thee, lest thou mayest dash thy foot against a stone. ⁷ Jesus said to him; Again it has been written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. ⁸ Again the devil takes Him into an exceedingly high mountain, and shows Him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of the same, ⁹ and said to Him; All these things will I give unto thee, ¹⁰ If having fallen down thou mayest worship me: then Jesus says to him, Get behind me, Satan; for it has been written; Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve. ¹¹ Then the devil leaveth Him; and behold, the angels came to Him and continued to minister unto Him. ¹² And Jesus having heard that John was cast into prison, departed into Galilee. ¹³ And having left Nazareth, having come into Capernaum, by the seaside, in the borders of Zabulon and Naphtali, He dwelt there; ¹⁴ in order that the word having been spoken by Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, saying, ¹⁵ Thou land Zabulon and land Naphtali, way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, ¹⁶ the people sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those sitting in the valley and shadow of death, light sprang up. ¹⁷ From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent; for the kingdom of the heavens draweth nigh. ¹⁸ And He walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting their net into the sea; for they were fishers. ¹⁹ And He says to them, Follow after me, and I will make you fishers of men. ²⁰ And immediately, having left their nets, they followed Him. ²¹ And going forth from thence, He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and He called them. ²² And immediately having left the ship and their father, they followed Him. ²³ And Jesus was going round all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every malady among the people. ²⁴ And His fame went forth into all Syria: and they brought Him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, and the demonized, and the lunatics, and the paralytics; and He healed them. ²⁵ And many multitudes followed Him from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and beyond the Jordan.

¹ But take heed that you do not your righteousness before the people, in order to be seen by them: else you have no reward with your Father who is in the heavens: ² therefore when you may do alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, in order that they may be glorified by the people: truly I say unto you, They exhaust their reward. ³ But thou doing alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: ⁴ in order that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father who sees in secret will reward thee openly. ⁵ And when you pray, be not like the hypocrites: because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, in order that they may appear unto the people. Truly I say unto you, They exhaust their reward. ⁶ But when thou mayest pray, enter into thy closet, and having closed thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret will reward thee openly. ⁷ And praying do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do: for they think they shall be heard in their much speaking. ⁸ Therefore be not like unto them: for your Father knows of what things you have need, before you ask him. ⁹ Therefore pray ye after this manner: Our Father who art in the heavens, let thy name be hallowed: ¹⁰ let thy kingdom come: let thy will be done, as in heaven, even so upon earth: ¹¹ give us this day our daily bread: ¹² and forgive us our debts, as we have also forgiven our debtors: ¹³ lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. ¹⁴ For if you may not forgive the people their trespasses, your heavenly Father will not forgive you: ¹⁵ and if you do not forgive the people, your Father will not forgive you your trespasses. ¹⁶ And when you may fast, be not like the hypocrites, of a sad contenance: for they disfigure their faces, in order that they may appear unto the people fasting. Truly I say unto you, They exhaust their reward. ¹⁷ But thou, fasting, anoint thy head, and wash thy face; ¹⁸ in order that thou mayest not appear unto the people fasting, but to thy Father who is in secret: and thy Father, who seeth in secret, will reward thee openly. ¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and thieves break through and steal: ²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not corrupt, and thieves do not break through and steal: ²¹ for where your treasure is, there will be your heart also. ²² For the light of the body is the eye. If thine eye may be clear, thy whole body will he lighted. ²³ If thine eye may be bad, thy whole body will be dark. Then if the light which is in you is darkness, the darkness is so great. ²⁴ No one is able to serve two masters: for he will hate the one, and love the other; or cleave to the one, and despise the other. You are not able to serve God and mammon. ²⁵ Therefore I say unto you, Be not solicitous for your soul what you may eat, nor for your body what you may put on. Is not your soul more valuable than food, and your body than raiment? ²⁶ Look unto the fowls of heaven, how they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are you not more excellent than they? ²⁷ And which one of you being solicitous is able to add one moment to his existence? ²⁸ And why are you solicitous concerning raiment? Know the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. ²⁹ But I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these. ³⁰ But if God so clothed the verdure of the field, existing today and tomorrow cast into the oven, how much more you, O ye of little faith? ³¹ Therefore be not solicitous, saying, What can we eat? or what can we drink? or with what can we be clothed? ³² For after all these things the heathen were seeking; for your heavenly Father knoweth that you need all these things. ³³ But seek first the kingdom, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. ³⁴ Therefore be not solicitous unto the morrow: for the morrow will be solicitous for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

¹⁶ And when you may fast, be not like the hypocrites, of a sad contenance: for they disfigure their faces, in order that they may appear unto the people fasting. Truly I say unto you, They exhaust their reward. ¹⁷ But thou, fasting, anoint thy head, and wash thy face; ¹⁸ in order that thou mayest not appear unto the people fasting, but to thy Father who is in secret: and thy Father, who seeth in secret, will reward thee openly.