Proverbs 3:9
Honor the Lord with your substance, and give to him from the first of all your fruits,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
In Context
8Certainly, it shall be health to your navel, and refreshment to your bones.
10and then your storehouses will be filled with abundance, and your presses shall overflow with wine.
Cross References
Genesis 28:22and this stone, which I have set up as a monument, will be called ‘the House of God.’ And from all the things that you will give to me, I will offer tithes to you.”
Exodus 23:16for it is the solemnity of the harvest of the first-fruits of your work, of whatever you have sown in the field. Likewise, it is a solemnity at the end of the season, when you will have gathered in all your crops from the field.
Exodus 34:26The first of the fruits of your land you shall offer in the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.”
Leviticus 19:25And in the fifth year you shall eat the produce, gathering the fruits which are brought forth. I am the Lord your God.
Numbers 15:20from the foods that you eat. Just as you separate the first-fruits of your threshing floors,
Deuteronomy 14:29And the Levite, who has no other portion or possession with you, and the sojourner as well as the orphan and the widow who are within your gates, shall approach and eat and be satisfied, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works of your hands which you shall do.”
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 →