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Honor Yahweh with your substance, With the first fruits of all your increase:
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Give from Righteous Labor
Commentators emphasize that honoring God with our "substance" means giving from what is our own and has been justly acquired. One scholar notes the ancient Greek translation specified honoring God "from your righteous labors," guarding against the idea of offering ill-gotten gains as a false act of worship.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
“Substance” points to capital, “increase” to revenue. The Septuagint, as if to guard against ill-gotten gains being offered as an atonement for the…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Honour the Lord with your substance Or, "out of your substance" F14 ; for as it should be a man's own tha…
There is not a greater enemy to the fear of the Lord in the heart than self-conceit of our own wisdom. The prudence and sobriety which religion tea…
