Proverbs 3:9
7 Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and turn away from evil.
8 This will bring healing to your body and refreshment to your bones.
Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;
10 then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
11 My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;
- KJV
- Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
- WEB
- Honor the LORD with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase;
- ASV
- Honor Jehovah with thy substance, And with the first-fruits of all thine increase:
- DARBY
- Honour Jehovah with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thine increase;
- BLB
- Honor YHWH from your wealth, and from the first of all your produce,
- ÅB
- Ær Herren med gaver av ditt gods og med førstegrøden av all din avling!
- OTB
- Gi Herren ære med din rikdom, og med førstegrøden av all din avling;
- B1930
- Ær Herren med gaver av ditt gods og med førstegrøden av all din avling!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
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,
Read in context1 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.
Read in contextProverbs 14:31
Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
Read in contextExodus 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.
Read in contextPhilippians 4:17–18
Not that I am seeking a gift, but I am looking for the fruit that may be credited to your account.
Read in contextMalachi 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.
Read in contextExodus 22:29
You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.
Read in contextHaggai 1:4–9
“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
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