Proverbs 3:9

Honor Yahweh with your wealth and the firstfruits of all your increase. It matters because our possessions are to be devoted to God first.

Cross-references · 20

• Deut 26:2–15you 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,
• 1 Cor 16:2On 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.
• Exod 23:19Bring 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.
• Prov 14:31Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
• Phil 4:17–18Not that I am seeking a gift, but I am looking for the fruit that may be credited to your account.
• Mal 3:8–10Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
• Exod 22:29You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.
• Hag 1:4–9“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
• 2 Cor 8:2–3In the terrible ordeal they suffered, their abundant joy and deep poverty overflowed into rich generosity.
• Exod 35:20–29Then the whole congregation of Israel withdrew from the presence of Moses.
• Exod 34:26Bring 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.”
• 2 Cor 8:8–9I am not making a demand, but I am testing the sincerity of your love in comparison to the earnestness of others.
• 1 Jn 3:17–18If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?
• Mark 14:7–8The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you will not always have Me.
• Luke 14:13–14But when you host a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind,
• Gen 14:18–21Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine—since he was priest of God Most High—
• Num 7:2–89And the leaders of Israel, the heads of their families, presented an offering. These men were the tribal leaders who had supervised the registration.
• Gen 28:22And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”
• Num 31:50–54So we have brought to the LORD an offering of the gold articles each man acquired—armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”
• Mark 14:10–21Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them.

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