English Standard Version
Proverbs 3:9
9Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce;
Proverbs 3:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
- New International Version (NIV)Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops;
- New King James Version (NKJV)Honor the Lord with your possessions, And with the firstfruits of all your increase;
- New Living Translation (NLT)Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the best part of everything you produce.
Context of Proverbs 3:9
7Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil. 8It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones. Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; 10then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine. 11My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof,
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כַּבֵּ֣ד אֶת־יְ֭הוָה מֵהוֹנֶ֑ךָ וּ֝מֵרֵאשִׁ֗ית כָּל־תְּבוּאָתֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 3:9
- Proverbs 14:31Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
- Genesis 14:18And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.)
- Genesis 28:22and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you."
- Exodus 22:29"You shall not delay to offer from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me.
- Exodus 23:19"The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
- Exodus 34:26The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."
- Exodus 35:20Then all the congregation of the people of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.
- Numbers 7:2the chiefs of Israel, heads of their fathers' houses, who were the chiefs of the tribes, who were over those who were listed, approached
- Numbers 31:50And we have brought the Lord's offering, what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and beads, to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord."
- Deuteronomy 26:2you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.
- Haggai 1:4"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?
- Malachi 3:8Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In your tithes and contributions.
- Mark 14:7For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me.
- Luke 14:13But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,
- 1 Corinthians 16:2On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.
- 2 Corinthians 8:2for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.
Commentaries on Proverbs 3:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Honor the Lord with thy substance - The מנחה Minchah or gratitude-offering to God, commanded under the law, is of endless obligation. It would be well to give a portion of the produce of every article by which we get our support to God, or to the poor, the representatives of Christ. This might be done either in kind, or by the worth in money. Whatever God sends us in the way of secular prosperity, there is a portion of it always for the poor, and for…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9“Substance” points to capital, “increase” to revenue. The Septuagint as if to guard against ill-gotten gains being offered as an atonement for the ill-getting, inserts the quaifying words, “honor the Lord from thy righteous labors.”Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-12Verses 7-12 There is not a greater enemy to the fear of the Lord in the heart, than self-conceit of our own wisdom. The prudence and sobriety which religion teaches, tend not only to the health of the soul, but to the health of the body. Worldly wealth is but poor substance, yet, such as it is, we must honour God with it; and those that do good with what they have, shall have more to do more good with. Should the Lord visit us with trials and sickness…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-10God receives honor and blesses his people when they acknowledge him as the source of all they have. He blesses them when they give him the best part of everything they produce (Genesis 4:3–5; 18:6; Numbers 18:12, 29).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 9-109-10. (Compare Pr 11:25; Ex 23:19; De 18:4; Is 32:8; 2Co 9:13).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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