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New King James Version

Proverbs 3:9

Honor the LORD with your possessions, And with the firstfruits of all your increase;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Agriculture;   Children;   First Fruits;   Liberality;   Righteous;   Thankfulness;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - First-Fruits;   Giving;   God's;   Liberality;   Liberality-Parsimony;   Ownership, Divine;   Promises, Divine;   Stewardship-Ownership;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Devotedness to God;   First Fruits, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Wealth;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Feasts;   Pentateuch;   Tithes;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Firstfruits;   Proverbs, Book of;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Sheaf;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Wisdom;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Didascalia;   Honor;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for April 13;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Honor the Lord with your possessionsand with the first produce of your entire harvest;
Hebrew Names Version
Honor the LORD with your substance, With the first fruits of all your increase:
King James Version
Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
English Standard Version
Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce;
New Century Version
Honor the Lord with your wealth and the firstfruits from all your crops.
New English Translation
Honor the Lord from your wealth and from the first fruits of all your crops;
Amplified Bible
Honor the LORD with your wealth And with the first fruits of all your crops (income);
New American Standard Bible
Honor the LORD from your wealth, And from the first of all your produce;
World English Bible
Honor Yahweh with your substance, With the first fruits of all your increase:
Geneva Bible (1587)
Honour the Lorde with thy riches, and with the first fruites of all thine increase.
Legacy Standard Bible
Honor Yahweh from your wealthAnd from the first of all your produce;
Berean Standard Bible
Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;
Contemporary English Version
Honor the Lord by giving him your money and the first part of all your crops.
Complete Jewish Bible
Honor Adonai with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your income.
Darby Translation
Honour Jehovah with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thine increase;
Easy-to-Read Version
Honor the Lord with your wealth and the first part of your harvest.
George Lamsa Translation
Honor the LORD with your substance and with the first fruits of all your crops;
Good News Translation
Honor the Lord by making him an offering from the best of all that your land produces.
Lexham English Bible
Honor Yahweh from your substance, and from the firstfruits of all that will come to you,
Literal Translation
Honor Jehovah with your substance, and with the firstfruits of all your increase,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Honoure the LORDE wt yi substaunce, & wt ye firstlinges of all thine encrease:
American Standard Version
Honor Jehovah with thy substance, And with the first-fruits of all thine increase:
Bible in Basic English
Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thine increase;
King James Version (1611)
Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Honour the Lorde with thy substaunce, and with the firstlynges of all thyne encrease:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Honour the Lord with thy just labours, and give him the first of thy fruits of righteousness:
English Revised Version
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Onoure thou the Lord of thi catel, and of the beste of alle thi fruytis yyue thou to pore men;
Update Bible Version
Honor Yahweh with your substance, And with the first fruits of all your increase:
Webster's Bible Translation
Honor the LORD with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thy increase:
New Living Translation
Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the best part of everything you produce.
New Life Bible
Honor the Lord with your riches, and with the first of all you grow.
New Revised Standard
Honor the Lord with your substance and with the first fruits of all your produce;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Honour thou Yahweh, with thy substance, and with the firstfruit of all thine increase;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Honour the Lord with thy substance, and give him of the first of all thy fruits;
Revised Standard Version
Honor the LORD with your substance and with the first fruits of all your produce;
Young's Literal Translation
Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Honor the LORD from your wealth And from the first of all your produce;

Contextual Overview

7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and depart from evil. 8 It will be health to your flesh, [fn] And strength [fn] to your bones. 9 Honor the LORD with your possessions, And with the firstfruits of all your increase; 10 So your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine. 11 My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD, Nor detest His correction; 12 For whom the LORD loves He corrects, Just as a father the son in whom he delights.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 14:31, Genesis 14:18-21, Genesis 28:22, Exodus 22:29, Exodus 23:19, Exodus 34:26, Exodus 35:20-29, Numbers 7:2-89, Numbers 31:50-54, Deuteronomy 26:2-15, Haggai 1:4-9, Malachi 3:8, Malachi 3:9, Mark 14:7, Mark 14:8, Mark 14:10-21, Luke 14:13, Luke 14:14, 1 Corinthians 16:2, 2 Corinthians 8:2, 2 Corinthians 8:3, 2 Corinthians 8:8, 2 Corinthians 8:9, Philippians 4:17, Philippians 4:18, 1 John 3:17, 1 John 3:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:4 - the firstlings Genesis 13:2 - General Exodus 10:9 - our flocks Exodus 10:26 - and we Exodus 23:15 - and none Leviticus 2:14 - a meat offering Leviticus 19:24 - all the Leviticus 19:25 - General Leviticus 23:10 - sheaf Leviticus 23:17 - the firstfruits Numbers 15:20 - a cake Numbers 18:30 - the best Numbers 31:28 - levy Deuteronomy 8:10 - then thou Deuteronomy 14:29 - that the Lord Deuteronomy 16:10 - a tribute Deuteronomy 16:16 - and they shall Deuteronomy 26:10 - and worship Deuteronomy 28:8 - storehouses 1 Samuel 2:30 - them 2 Samuel 6:11 - the Lord blessed 1 Kings 17:13 - first 2 Kings 4:42 - bread 1 Chronicles 13:14 - the Lord 1 Chronicles 29:3 - I have 2 Chronicles 31:5 - came abroad 2 Chronicles 31:10 - Since Nehemiah 3:1 - sanctified it Nehemiah 10:32 - to charge Nehemiah 10:35 - General Psalms 132:15 - bless her provision Isaiah 23:18 - for them Ezekiel 44:30 - that he may Ezekiel 45:1 - ye shall offer Ezekiel 45:15 - out of the fat Joel 2:24 - General Haggai 2:16 - when one came to an Haggai 2:19 - from Zechariah 8:12 - the seed Malachi 3:10 - all Matthew 6:33 - seek Matthew 25:17 - he also Matthew 25:35 - I was an Mark 10:30 - an hundredfold Luke 6:38 - and it Romans 11:16 - if the firstfruit 2 Corinthians 9:8 - God 2 Corinthians 9:11 - enriched Philippians 4:19 - supply

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
Then the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
Genesis 3:13
And the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Genesis 3:17
Then to Adam He said, "Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, "You shall not eat of it': "Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life.
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return."
Genesis 3:20
And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
Genesis 3:21
Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.
Genesis 4:9
Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
Genesis 11:5
But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
Genesis 16:8
And He said, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, where have you come from, and where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Honour the Lord with thy substance,.... Or, "out of thy substance" n; for as it should be a man's own that he gives, and not another's, and therefore called "thy substance"; or, as the Septuagint version, "out of thy just labours", what is righteously and lawfully gotten, and not by fraud and oppression; so it is only a part of it, and not all, that is required; what in proportion to his substance can be prudently spared, and is sufficient and suitable to the call in Providence. A man's "substance" are his wealth and riches; his "mammon", as the Targum; which, in comparison of heavenly things, indeed have no substance in them: yet these are worldly substance, and of account; and as with these God has honoured men, they should honour him with them again, by giving to the poor, especially his poor saints; for as an oppressing of them is a reproaching of him, so having mercy on them is honouring him, Proverbs 14:31; and especially by contributing to the support of his worship, the keeping up the interest and credit of religion, and for the spread of the Gospel; and chiefly by communicating to the ministers of it, giving them the "double honour" which is due to them, and which, when given them, the Lord takes as done to himself, as an honouring him, 1 Timothy 5:17;

and with the firstfruits of all thine increase; or, "out of the chief of all thine increase" o; God must have the best, and in the first place. The allusion is either to the maintenance of the priests and Levites under the law, and the manner of doing it; which, among other things, was out of the annual produce of the earth, and the firstfruits of it; and may respect the comfortable support of Gospel ministers under the present dispensation; see 1 Corinthians 9:13; or to the firstfruits of every kind offered to the Lord, and to the feast kept sacred to him at the ingathering the fruits of the earth,

Leviticus 23:10; and even among the Heathens formerly were something of the same kind. Aristotle says p the ancient sacrifices and assemblies were instituted as firstfruits, after the gathering of the fruits, at which time especially they ceased from working.

n מהונך "e substantia tua", Montanus; "de substantia tua", Baynus, Junius Tremellius, Piscator "de divitiis tuis", Mercerus, Gejerus; "de opibus tuis", Tigurine version, Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens. o מראשית כל תבואתך "de praecipuo totius proventus tui", Junius & Tremellius. p Ethic. l. 8. c. 11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

“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.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 3:9. Honour 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 God's cause. When that portion is thus disposed of, the rest is sanctified; when it is withheld, God's curse is upon the whole. Give to the poor, and God will give to thee.


 
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