Proverbs 3:9
Honour the Lord with thy just labours, and give him the first of thy fruits of righteousness:
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
In Context
8Then shall there be health to thy body, and good keeping to thy bones.
Cross References
Genesis 28:22And this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be to me a house of God; and of all whatsoever thou shalt give me, I will tithe a tenth for thee.
Exodus 23:16And thou shalt keep the feast of the harvest of first-fruits of thy labours, whatsoever thou shalt have sown in thy field, and the feast of completion at the end of the year in the gathering in of thy + 23:16 Gr. works.fruits out of thy field.
Exodus 34:26The first-fruits of thy land shalt thou put into the house of the Lord thy God: thou shalt not boil a lamb in his mother's milk.
Leviticus 19:25And in the fifth year ye shall eat the fruit, its produce is an increase to you. I am the Lord your God.
Numbers 15:20Ye shall offer your bread a heave-offering: as a heave-offering from the threshing-floor, so shall ye separate it,
Deuteronomy 14:29And the Levite shall come, because he has no part or lot with thee, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which is in thy cities; and they shall eat and be filled, that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works which thou shalt 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 →