Proverbs 3:9 Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops;

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops;

English Standard Version
Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce;

New American Standard Bible
Honor the LORD from your wealth And from the first of all your produce;

King James Bible
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Honor the LORD with your possessions and with the first produce of your entire harvest;

International Standard Version
Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the first of all your produce,

American Standard Version
Honor Jehovah with thy substance, And with the first-fruits of all thine increase:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Honour the Lord with thy substance, and give him of the first of all thy fruits :

Darby Bible Translation
Honour Jehovah with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thine increase;

Young's Literal Translation
Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase;

Cross References

Exodus 22:29
You shall not delay to offer the first of your ripe fruits, and of your liquors: the firstborn of your sons shall you give to me.

Exodus 23:19
The first of the first fruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Deuteronomy 26:2
That you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which you shall bring of your land that the LORD your God gives you, and shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place his name there.

2 Chronicles 31:21
And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

Psalm 144:13
That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:

Proverbs 11:25
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that waters shall be watered also himself.

Isaiah 43:23
You have not brought me the small cattle of your burnt offerings; neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with an offering, nor wearied you with incense.

Malachi 3:10
Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house, and prove me now herewith, said the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

3:7-12 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, let us not forget that the exhortation speaks to us as to children, for our good. We must not faint under an affliction, be it ever so heavy and long, not be driven to despair, or use wrong means for relief. The father corrects the son whom he loves, because he loves him, and desires that he may be wise and good. Afflictions are so far from doing God's children any hurt, that, by the grace of God, they promote their holiness.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

9, 10. (Compare Pr 11:25; Ex 23:19; De 18:4; Isa 32:8; 2Co 9:13).