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Want to know what the Bible says about Lent? Here are 34 Bible verses about Lent from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Acts 15:9 NIV
He did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith.
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Daniel 9:3 NIV
So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.
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Luke 13:3 NIV
I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
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Matthew 9:15 NIV
Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.
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Ezekiel 18:21 NIV
“But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die.
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Acts 26:20 NIV
First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds.
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2 Corinthians 6:2 NIV
For he says,
“In the time of my favor I heard you,
    and in the day of salvation I helped you.”
I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.
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Mark 7:7-9 NIV
7 They worship me in vain;
    their teachings are merely human rules.’
8 You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.”
9 And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!
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John 1:1 NIV
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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