Proverbs 3:9
Honor YHWH from your substance, || And from the beginning of all your increase;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
In Context
8It is healing to your navel, || And moistening to your bones.
10And your barns are filled [with] plenty, || And your presses break forth [with] new wine.
Cross References
Genesis 28:22then this stone which I have made a standing pillar is a house of God, and all that You give to me—tithing I tithe to You.”
Exodus 23:16and the Celebration of Harvest, the first-fruits of your works which you sow in the field; and the Celebration of the Ingathering in the outgoing of the year, in your gathering your works out of the field.
Exodus 34:26You bring the first of the first-fruits of the land into the house of your God YHWH. You do not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.”
Leviticus 19:25And in the fifth year you eat its fruit—to add to you its increase; I [am] your God YHWH.
Numbers 15:20you raise up a cake of the first of your dough [as] a raised-offering; as the raised-offering of a threshing-floor, so you raise it up.
Deuteronomy 14:29and the Levite has come in—for he has no part and inheritance with you—and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who [are] within your gates, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, so that your God YHWH blesses you in all the work of your hand which you 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 →