Proverbs 3:9
Honor the Lord with your substance,with the first fruits of all your increase:
New Heart English Bible
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 your body,and nourishment to your bones.
10so your barns will be filled with plenty,and your vats will overflow with new wine.
Cross References
Genesis 28:22then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God's house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you."
Exodus 23:16And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.
Exodus 34:26You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."
Leviticus 19:25In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am the Lord your God.
Numbers 15:20Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering: as the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it.
Deuteronomy 14:29and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord your God may bless 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 →