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Proverbs 3:9
9Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops;
Proverbs 3:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
- English Standard Version (ESV)Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce;
- 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
7Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. 8This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones. Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; 10then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine. 11My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline, and do not resent his rebuke,
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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 the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.
- Genesis 14:18Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High,
- Genesis 28:22and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.”
- Exodus 22:29“Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. “You must give me the firstborn of your sons.
- Exodus 23:19“Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God. “Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
- Exodus 34:26“Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God. “Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
- Exodus 35:20Then the whole Israelite community withdrew from Moses’ presence,
- Numbers 7:2Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of families who were the tribal leaders in charge of those who were counted, made offerings.
- Numbers 31:50So we have brought as an offering to the Lord the gold articles each of us acquired—armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.”
- Deuteronomy 26:2take some of the firstfruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land the Lord your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name
- Haggai 1:4“Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?”
- Malachi 3:8“Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings.
- Mark 14:7The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me.
- Luke 14:13But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,
- 1 Corinthians 16:2On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with your income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made.
- 2 Corinthians 8:2In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity.
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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