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NASB | Proverbs 3:9 Honor the LORD from your wealth And from the first of all your produce; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Proverbs 3:9 Honor the LORD with your wealth And with the first fruits of all your crops (income); [Deut 26:2; Mal 3:10; Luke 14:13, 14] |
Subject: Where does the Bible say only increase? |
Bible Note: Colin, your exhortation is accepted. “Stolen” was perhaps not a choice word. But, that stated, allow me to ask a question - Whose property was it that Abram gave to Melchizedek? Clue – it wasn’t Abram’s before he seized it. In Gen. 14, where this story is found, Abram and Lot had gone separate ways. Verse 12 explains the looters had carried off Abram’s nephew and taken Lot’s possessions. Did the looters take any of Abram’s possessions? Abraham was miles away with a small army of “helpers”. He got word of the raid, and he led the posse out to capture the bad guys. They did. Verse 16, informs us that Abram recovered goods (whose goods? NOT Abram’s). Before he returned home, he encountered Melchizadek and gave him a tithe of the recovered goods. Don’t forget, they were chasing down kings who had ravaged many and taken much spoil (verses 8-10). My point was (and remains the same) Abram’s tithe was from the spoils he gathered from those who stole it. If it wasn’t Abram’s to begin with, and it wasn’t, and it was stolen to begin with – from who knows who, it didn’t really “belong” to Abram. And, yes, the foreshadow of the precious body and blood of our High Priest --- T’oma |