THEOSISProverbs 3:9Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Honour the Lord with thy substance, and give him of the first of all thy fruits;
כַּבֵּ֣ד אֶת־יְ֭הוָה מֵהוֹנֶ֑ךָ וּ֝מֵרֵאשִׁ֗ית כָּל־תְּבוּאָתֶֽךָ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Deut 26:2Thou shalt take the first of all thy fruits, and put them in a basket, and shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may be invocated there:
- Deut 26:15Look from thy sanctuary, and thy high habitation of heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou didst swear to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- 1 Cor 16:2On the first day of the week, let every one of you put apart with himself, laying up what it shall well please him: that when I come, the collections be not then to be made.
- Ex 23:19Thou shalt carry the first-fruits of the corn of thy ground to the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.
- Prov 14:31He that oppresseth the poor, upbraideth his maker: but he that hath pity on the poor, honoureth him.
- Phil 4:17Not that I seek the gift: but I seek the fruit that may abound to your account.
- Phil 4:18But I have all and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things you sent, an odour of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.
- Ex 22:29Thou shalt not delay to pay thy tithes and thy firstfruits: thou shalt give the firstborn of thy sons to me.