Proverbs 3:9 (BSB)
Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your crops;
From Proverbs 3. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 3:9
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 3:7-12: We have here before us three exhortations, each of them enforced with a good reason: - I. We must live in a humble and dutiful subjection to God and his government (Pro 3:7): "Fear the Lord, as your sovereign Lord and Master; be ruled in every thing by your religion and subject to the divine will." This must be, 1. A humble subjection: Be not wise in thy own eyes.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 3:9: Honour the Lord with thy substance,.... Or, "out of thy substance" (n); for as it should be a man's own that he gives, and not another's, and therefore called "thy substance"; or, as the Septuagint version, "out of thy just labours", what is righteously and lawfully gotten, and not by fraud and oppression; so it is only a part of it, and not all, that...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 3:9: (Compare Pro 11:25; Exo 23:19; Deu 18:4; Isa 32:8; Co2 9:13).
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 3:9: Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: (f) As was commanded in the law, and by this they acknowledged that God was the giver of all things, and that they were ready to bestow all at his commandment.