then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
Parallel translations
- WEB so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
- KJV So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
- NKJV So your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine.
- NASB Then your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine.
- NLT Then he will fill your barns with grain, and your vats will overflow with good wine.
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Quick answer
Then your barns will be filled and your vats overflow with new wine. It matters because it promises God's provision to those who honor Him.
Overview
The promised result of honoring God with wealth (v. 9) is abundant provision. This reflects the general principle of God's blessing on faithful stewardship, not a guarantee of riches in every case. It points to God as the generous Provider who supplies our needs.
Cross-references & the web
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- Prov 19:17Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
- Deut 28:8The LORD will decree a blessing on your barns and on everything to which you put your hand; the LORD your God will bless you in the land He is giving you.
- Prov 11:24–25One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.
- Joel 2:24The threshing floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
- Prov 22:9A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
- 2 Cor 9:6–11Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
- Eccl 11:1–2Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.
- Hag 2:19Is there still seed in the barn? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet yielded fruit. But from this day on, I will bless you.”
- Mal 3:10–11Bring 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.
- Matt 10:42And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”
- Lev 26:2–5You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
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