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Proverbs 3:10
10Then he will fill your barns with grain, and your vats will overflow with good 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
8Then you will have healing for your body and strength for your bones. 9Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the best part of everything you produce. Then he will fill your barns with grain, and your vats will overflow with good wine. 11My child, don’t reject the Lord’s discipline, and don’t be upset when he corrects you. 12For the Lord corrects those he loves, just as a father corrects a child in whom he delights.
Read all of Proverbs 3Proverbs 3:10 word by word
וְיִמָּלְא֣וּ אֲסָמֶ֣יךָ שָׂבָ֑ע וְ֝תִיר֗וֹשׁ יְקָבֶ֥יךָ יִפְרֹֽצוּ׃ פRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 3:10
- Proverbs 11:24Give freely and become more wealthy; be stingy and lose everything.
- Proverbs 19:17If you help the poor, you are lending to the Lord— and he will repay you!
- Proverbs 22:9Blessed are those who are generous, because they feed the poor.
- Leviticus 26:2You must keep my Sabbath days of rest and show reverence for my sanctuary. I am the Lord.
- Deuteronomy 28:8“The Lord will guarantee a blessing on everything you do and will fill your storehouses with grain. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.
- Ecclesiastes 11:1Send your grain across the seas, and in time, profits will flow back to you.
- Haggai 2:19I am giving you a promise now while the seed is still in the barn. You have not yet harvested your grain, and your grapevines, fig trees, pomegranates, and olive trees have not yet produced their crops. But from this day onward I will bless you.”
- Malachi 3:10Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test!
- Matthew 10:42And if you give even a cup of cold water to one of the least of my followers, you will surely be rewarded.”
- 2 Corinthians 9:6Remember this—a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop. But the one who plants generously will get a generous crop.
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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