Proverbs 3:9

Translations

Modern

Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your crops;

Traditional

Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

Literal

Honor YHWH from your wealth, and from the first of all your produce,

Latin

Honora Dominum de tua substantia, et de primitiis omnium frugum tuarum da ei:

Interlinear

Hebrew

English

Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your crops;

Notes

Proverbs 3:9–10

God 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).

Proverbs 3:1–12

The Lord blesses people who trust him and seek his guidance. His correction helps those who follow him.

Theme notes and profiles

Christian Giving Nehemiah’s Confidence in God The Dangers of Sin Wealth and Poverty in the Wisdom Literature

Related verses

Deuteronomy 26:2–15
…you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that 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,
1 Corinthians 16:2
On the first day of every week, each of you should set aside a portion of his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will be needed.
Exodus 23:19
Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Proverbs 14:31
Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
Philippians 4:17–18
Not that I am seeking a gift, but I am looking for the fruit that may be credited to your account.
Malachi 3:8–10
Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
Exodus 22:29
You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.
Haggai 1:4–9
“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
2 Corinthians 8:2–3
In the terrible ordeal they suffered, their abundant joy and deep poverty overflowed into rich generosity.
Exodus 34:26
Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
Exodus 35:20–29
Then the whole congregation of Israel withdrew from the presence of Moses.
2 Corinthians 8:8–9
I am not giving a command, but I am testing the sincerity of your love through the earnestness of others.

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