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 26:2–15that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
• 1 Cor 16:2On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.
• Exod 23:19The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
• Prov 14:31He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
• Phil 4:17–18Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
• Mal 3:8–10Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.
• Exod 22:29“You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. “You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.
• Hag 1:4–9“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
• 2 Cor 8:2–3how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.
• Exod 35:20–29All the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.
• Exod 34:26“You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
• 2 Cor 8:8–9I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
• 1 Jn 3:17–18But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
• Mark 14:7–8For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
• Luke 14:13–14But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;
• Gen 14:18–21Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.
• Num 7:2–89the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes. These are they who were over those who were counted:
• Gen 28:22then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give a tenth to you.”
• Num 31:50–54We have brought Yahweh’s offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh.”
• Mark 14:10–21Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.

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