Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; New Living Translation Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the best part of everything you produce. English Standard Version Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; Berean Standard Bible Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest; King James Bible Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: New King James Version Honor the LORD with your possessions, And with the firstfruits of all your increase; New American Standard Bible Honor the LORD from your wealth, And from the first of all your produce; NASB 1995 Honor the LORD from your wealth And from the first of all your produce; NASB 1977 Honor the LORD from your wealth, And from the first of all your produce; Legacy Standard Bible Honor Yahweh from your wealth And from the first of all your produce; Amplified Bible Honor the LORD with your wealth And with the first fruits of all your crops (income); Christian Standard Bible Honor the LORD with your possessions and with the first produce of your entire harvest; Holman Christian Standard Bible Honor the LORD with your possessions and with the first produce of your entire harvest; American Standard Version Honor Jehovah with thy substance, And with the first-fruits of all thine increase: Aramaic Bible in Plain English Honor LORD JEHOVAH from your possessions and from the best of all your increase Brenton Septuagint Translation Honour the Lord with thy just labours, and give him the first of thy fruits of righteousness: Contemporary English Version Honor the LORD by giving him your money and the first part of all your crops. Douay-Rheims Bible Honour the Lord with thy substance, and give him of the first of all thy fruits : English Revised Version Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: GOD'S WORD® Translation Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the first and best part of all your income. Good News Translation Honor the LORD by making him an offering from the best of all that your land produces. International Standard Version Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the first of all your produce, JPS Tanakh 1917 Honour the LORD with thy substance, And with the first-fruits of all thine increase; Literal Standard Version Honor YHWH from your substance, | And from the beginning of all your increase; Majority Standard Bible Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest; New American Bible Honor the LORD with your wealth, with first fruits of all your produce; NET Bible Honor the LORD from your wealth and from the first fruits of all your crops; New Revised Standard Version Honor the LORD with your substance and with the first fruits of all your produce; New Heart English Bible Honor the LORD with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase: Webster's Bible Translation Honor the LORD with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thy increase: World English Bible Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase; Young's Literal Translation Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Trust in the LORD…8This will bring healing to your body and refreshment to your bones. 9Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest; 10then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.… Cross References Exodus 22:29 You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons. Exodus 23:19 Bring 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. Deuteronomy 26:2 you 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, 2 Chronicles 31:21 He was diligent in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and the commandments, in order to seek his God. And so he prospered. Psalm 144:13 Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields. Proverbs 11:25 A generous soul will prosper, and he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed. Isaiah 43:23 You have not brought Me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense. Treasury of Scripture Honor the LORD with your substance, and with the first fruits of all your increase: Proverbs 14:31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor. Genesis 14:18-21 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God… Genesis 28:22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee. Jump to Previous Beginning Crops First Firstfruits First-Fruits Fruits Honor Honour Increase Produce Substance WealthJump to Next Beginning Crops First Firstfruits First-Fruits Fruits Honor Honour Increase Produce Substance WealthProverbs 3 1. various exhortations13. The gain of wisdom 27. Exhortation to goodness 33. the different state of the wicked and upright Verse 9. - Honour the Lord with thy substance, etc. An exhortation to self-sacrificing devotion by the appropriation and use of wealth to the service of Jehovah. With thy substance (mehonehka); Vulgate, de tua substantia; LXX., ἀπὸ σῶν δικαίων πόνων. Hon, properly "lightness," is "opulence," "wealth," as in Proverbs 1:13. The min in composition with hon is not partitive, as Delitzsch and Berthean take it, but signifies "with" or "by means of," as in Psalm 38:7; Isaiah 58:12; Ezekiel 28:18; Obadiah 1:9. The insertion of δικαίος by the LXX. limits the wealth to that which is justly acquired, and so guards against the erroneous idea that God is honoured by the appropriation to his use of unlawful wealth or gain (Plumptre). The Israelites "honoured Jehovah with their substance" when they contributed towards the erection of the tabernacle in the wilderness, and later when they assisted in the preparations for the building of the temple, and in the payment of tithes. The injunction may undoubtedly refer to tithes, and is in accordance with the requirement of the Mosaic Law on that and other points as to oblations, free will offerings, etc.; but it has a wider bearing and contemplates the use of wealth for all pious and charitable purposes (see Proverbs 14:31). The word maaser, "tithe," does not occur in the Proverbs. With the firstfruits (mere-shith); Vulgate, de primitiis. So Targum Jonathan, Syriac, and Arabic. The law of the firstfruits is found in Exodus 22:29; Exodus 23:19; Exodus 34:20; Leviticus 23:10; Numbers 18:12: Deuteronomy 18:4; Deuteronomy 26:1-3. The firstfruits were presented by every Israelite to the priests, in token of gratitude and humble thankfulness to Jehovah, and consisted of the produce of the land in its natural state, or prepared for human food (Maclear, 'Old Test. Hist.,' bk. 4, c. 3, a). The "firstfruits" also carried with it the idea of the best. The custom of offering the firstfruits of the field and other revenues as a religious obligation was observed by ancient pagan nations (see Diod. Sic., 1:14; Plut., 'De Iside,' p. 377; Pliny, 'Hist. Nat.,' 18:2 (Zockler). Some of the ancient commentators find in this verse an argument for the support of the ministry. It is well known that the priests "lived of the sacrifice," and were "partakers of the altar," and as their support by these means tended to the maintenance of Divine worship, so those who supported them were in the highest degree "honoring God." The injunctions also show that the honouring of God does not consist simply of lip service, of humility and confidence in him, but also of external worship, and in corporeal things. They are not peculiar to Israel, but are binding on all. They oppose all selfish use of God's temporal gifts, and lead to the thought that, in obeying them, we are only giving back to God what are his own. "The silver and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts" (Haggai 2:28). "We give thee but thine own, Hebrew Honorכַּבֵּ֣ד (kab·bêḏ) Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 3513: To be heavy, weighty, or burdensome the LORD יְ֭הוָה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel with your wealth מֵהוֹנֶ֑ךָ (mê·hō·w·ne·ḵā) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 1952: Wealth, sufficiency and with the firstfruits וּ֝מֵרֵאשִׁ֗ית (ū·mê·rê·šîṯ) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 7225: The first, in place, time, order, rank of all כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every your harvest; תְּבוּאָתֶֽךָ׃ (tə·ḇū·’ā·ṯe·ḵā) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 8393: Product, revenue Links Proverbs 3:9 NIVProverbs 3:9 NLT Proverbs 3:9 ESV Proverbs 3:9 NASB Proverbs 3:9 KJV Proverbs 3:9 BibleApps.com Proverbs 3:9 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 3:9 Chinese Bible Proverbs 3:9 French Bible Proverbs 3:9 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 3:9 Honor Yahweh with your substance (Prov. 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