New English Translation
Proverbs 3:10
10then your barns will be filled completely, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
Proverbs 3:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
- New International Version (NIV)then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine.
- English Standard Version (ESV)then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine.
Context of Proverbs 3:10
8This will bring healing to your body, and refreshment to your inner self. 9Honor the Lord from your wealth and from the first fruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled completely, and your vats will overflow with new wine. 11My child, do not despise discipline from the Lord, and do not loathe his rebuke. 12For the Lord disciplines those he loves, just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights.
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וְיִמָּלְא֣וּ אֲסָמֶ֣יךָ שָׂבָ֑ע וְ֝תִיר֗וֹשׁ יְקָבֶ֥יךָ יִפְרֹֽצוּ׃ פRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 3:10
- Proverbs 11:24One person is generous and yet grows more wealthy, but another withholds more than he should and comes to poverty.
- Proverbs 19:17The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the Lord, and the Lord will repay him for his good deed.
- Proverbs 22:9A generous person will be blessed, for he gives some of his food to the poor.
- Leviticus 26:2You must keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.
- Deuteronomy 28:8The Lord will decree blessing for you with respect to your barns and in everything you do – yes, he will bless you in the land he is giving you.
- Ecclesiastes 11:1Send your grain overseas, for after many days you will get a return.
- Haggai 2:19The seed is still in the storehouse, isn’t it? And the vine, fig tree, pomegranate, and olive tree have not produced. Nevertheless, from today on I will bless you.’”
- Malachi 3:10“Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter,” says the Lord who rules over all, “to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until there is no room for it all.
- Matthew 10:42And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, I tell you the truth, he will never lose his reward.”
- 2 Corinthians 9:6My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.
Commentaries on Proverbs 3:10
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Compare the marginal reference. This fullness of outward blessings does not exclude the thought of the “chastening” Proverbs 3:11, without which the discipline of life would be incomplete. “Presses” are the vats of a Roman vineyard, into which the wine flowed through pipe from the wine-press.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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