Paying a Late Tithe

Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.

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

…then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius. …

Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear, …

At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and lay it up within your gates.

Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.

And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.