Proverbs 3:9
Honor LORD with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thine increase,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
In Context
8It will be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
10so thy barns shall be filled with plenty, and thy vats shall overflow with new wine.
Cross References
Genesis 28:22then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house. And of all that thou shall give me I will surely give the tenth to thee.
Exodus 23:16and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou sow in the field, and the feast of ingathering at the end of the year, when thou gather in thy labors out of the field.
Exodus 34:26The first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shall bring to the house of LORD thy God. Thou shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
Leviticus 19:25And in the fifth year ye shall eat of the fruit of it, that it may yield to you the increase of it. I am LORD your God.
Numbers 15:20Of the first of your dough ye shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering, as the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye heave it.
Deuteronomy 14:29And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with thee, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied, that LORD thy God may bless thee in al
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 3:8-13
Consecration to God. 7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord , and depart from evil. 8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. 9 Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: 10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. 11 My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord ; neither be weary of his correction: 12 For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. We have… Read the whole commentary →