Proverbs 3:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

Proverbs 3:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 26:2-15
That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there. …
1 Corinthians 16:2
Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
Exodus 23:19
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
Proverbs 14:31
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
Philippians 4:17-18
Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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 (Prov. 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. Note, There is not a greater en…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9-10. (Compare Pr 11:25; Ex 23:19; De 18:4; Is 32:8; 2Co 9:13).