Proverbs 3:9
Honor the Lord with your just labors, and give him the first of your fruits of righteousness:
LXX2012 (US English)
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 your body, and good keeping to your 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 whatever you shall give me, I will tithe a tenth for you.
Exodus 23:16And you shall keep the feast of the harvest of first fruits of your labors, whatever you shall have sown in your field, and the feast of completion at the end of the year in the gathering in of your + 23:16 Gr. works. fruits out of your field.
Exodus 34:26The first fruits of your land shall you put into the house of the Lord your God: you shall not boil a lamb in his mother's milk.
Leviticus 19:25And in the fifth year you⌃ shall eat the fruit, its produce is an increase to you. I am the Lord your God.
Numbers 15:20You⌃ shall offer your bread a heave-offering: as a heave-offering from the threshing floor, so shall you⌃ separate it,
Deuteronomy 14:29And the Levite shall come, because he has no part or lot with you, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which is in your cities; and they shall eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works 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 →