Proverbs 3:9
Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
In Context
8Healing it is to thy navel, And moistening to thy bones.
10And filled are thy barns [with] plenty, And [with] new wine thy presses break forth.
Cross References
Genesis 28:22then this stone which I have made a standing pillar is a house of God, and all that Thou dost give to me — tithing I tithe to Thee.'
Exodus 23:16and the Feast of Harvest, the first fruits of thy works which thou sowest in the field; and the Feast of the In-Gathering, in the outgoing of the year, in thy gathering thy works out of the field.
Exodus 34:26the first of the first-fruits of the land thou dost bring into the house of Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk.'
Leviticus 19:25And in the fifth year ye do eat its fruit — to add to you its increase; I [am] Jehovah your God.
Numbers 15:20the beginning of your dough a cake ye heave up — a heave-offering; as the heave-offering of a threshing-floor, so ye do heave it.
Deuteronomy 14:29and come in hath the Levite (for he hath no part and inheritance with thee), and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who [are] within thy gates, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou dost.
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 →