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Abram
(Genesis
14:17-20)
17And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from
the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him,
at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale. 18And Melchizedek
king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of
the most high God. 19And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram
of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: 20And blessed
be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand.
And he gave him tithes of all.
Jacob
(Genesis
28:10-22)
10And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. 11And
he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because
the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them
for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. 12And he dreamed,
and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached
to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on
it. 13And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord
God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou
liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 14And thy seed shall
be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west,
and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and
in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 15And,
behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou
goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave
thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
16And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord
is in this place; and I knew it not. 17And he was afraid, and said,
How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God,
and this is the gate of heaven. 18And Jacob rose up early in the morning,
and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for
a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. 19And he called the name
of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the
first. 20And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and
will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat,
and raiment to put on, 21So that I come again to my father's house
in peace; then shall the Lord be my God: 22And 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.
Tithing
Instituted as Part of the Covenant (Leviticus
27:30-34)
30" 'A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from
the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to
the Lord. 31If a man redeems any of his tithe, he must add a fifth
of the value to it. 32The entire tithe of the herd and flock—every
tenth animal that passes under the shepherd's rod—will be holy
to the Lord. 33He must not pick out the good from the bad or make any
substitution. If he does make a substitution, both the animal and its
substitute become holy and cannot be redeemed.' " 34These are
the commands the Lord gave Moses on Mount Sinai for the Israelites.
The
Tithe Goes to the Levites (Numbers
18:19-28)
19"All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children
of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given to you and your sons and
daughters with you as an ordinance forever; it is a covenant of salt
forever before the Lord with you and your descendants with you." 20Then
the Lord said to Aaron: "You shall have no inheritance in their
land, nor shall you have any portion among them; I am your portion
and your inheritance among the children of Israel.
21"Behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tithes
in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work which they perform,
the work of the tabernacle of meeting. 22Hereafter the children of
Israel shall not come near the tabernacle of meeting, lest they bear
sin and die. 23But the Levites shall perform the work of the tabernacle
of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a statute
forever, throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel
they shall have no inheritance. 24For the tithes of the children of
Israel, which they offer up as a heave offering to the Lord, I have
given to the Levites as an inheritance; therefore I have said to them,
'Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.' " 25Then
the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 26"Speak thus to the Levites,
and say to them: 'When you take from the children of Israel the tithes
which I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you shall
offer up a heave offering of it to the Lord, a tenth of the tithe.
27And your heave offering shall be reckoned to you as though it were
the grain of the threshing floor and as the fullness of the winepress.
28Thus you shall also offer a heave offering to the Lord from all your
tithes which you receive from the children of Israel, and you shall
give the Lord's heave offering from it to Aaron the priest.' "
The
Tithe of the Feasts (Deuteronomy
12:5-19)
5But
you shall seek the place where the Lord your God chooses, out of
all your tribes, to put His name for
His dwelling place; and there
you shall go. 6There you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices,
your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, your vowed offerings,
your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
7And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice
in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in
which the Lord your God has blessed you. 8You shall not at all do as
we are doing here today—every man doing whatever is right in
his own eyes— 9for as yet you have not come to the rest and the
inheritance which the Lord your God is giving you. 10But when you cross
over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the Lord your God is giving
you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies round about,
so that you dwell in safety, 11then there will be the place where the
Lord your God chooses to make His name abide. There you shall bring
all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your
tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice offerings
which you vow to the Lord. 12And you shall rejoice before the Lord
your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female
servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no
portion nor inheritance with you. 13Take heed to yourself that you
do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see; 14but
in the place which the Lord chooses, in one of your tribes, there you
shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I
command you.
15"However,
you may slaughter and eat meat within all your gates, whatever your
heart desires, according
to the blessing of the Lord
your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat
of it, of the gazelle and the deer alike. 16Only you shall not eat
the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water. 17You may not
eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or your new wine or your
oil, of the firstborn of your herd or your flock, of any of your offerings
which you vow, of your freewill offerings, or of the heave offering
of your hand. 18But you must eat them before the Lord your God in the
place which the Lord your God chooses, you and your son and your daughter,
your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within
your gates; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all to
which you put your hands. 19Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake
the Levite as long as you live in your land.
The Tithe for the Priesthood & the Poor (Deuteronomy 14:22-29)
22"You
shall truly tithe all the increase of your grain that the field produces
year by year. 23And
you shall eat before the Lord
your God, in the place where He chooses to make His name abide, the
tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, of the firstborn
of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear the Lord
your God always. 24But if the journey is too long for you, so that
you are not able to carry the tithe, or if the place where the Lord
your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, when the Lord
your God has blessed you, 25then you shall exchange it for money, take
the money in your hand, and go to the place which the Lord your God
chooses. 26And you shall spend that money for whatever your heart desires:
for oxen or sheep, for wine or similar drink, for whatever your heart
desires; you shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall
rejoice, you and your household. 27You shall not forsake the Levite
who is within your gates, for he has no part nor inheritance with you.
28"At
the end of every third year you shall bring out the tithe of your
produce of that year and store
it up within your gates. 29And
the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and
the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates,
may come and eat and be satisfied, that the Lord your God may bless
you in all the work of your hand which you do."
The Tri-Annual Tithe and Declaration of Fulfillment of the Law (Deuteronomy 26:12-15)
12"When you have finished laying aside all the tithe of your
increase in the third year—the year of tithing—and have
given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow,
so that they may eat within your gates and be filled, 13then you shall
say before the Lord your God: 'I have removed the holy tithe from my
house, and also have given them to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless,
and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded
me; I have not transgressed Your commandments, nor have I forgotten
them. 14I have not eaten any of it when in mourning, nor have I removed
any of it for an unclean use, nor given any of it for the dead. I have
obeyed the voice of the Lord my God, and have done according to all
that You have commanded me. 15Look down from Your holy habitation,
from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have
given us, just as You swore to our fathers, "a land flowing with
milk and honey." ' "'
Malachi 3:10
"Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that
there may be food in My house, and try Me now in this," says the
Lord of hosts, "If I will not open for you the windows of heaven
and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough
to receive it.
Luc 6:38 (NKJV)
Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken
together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with
the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.
Luke 12:33 (New King James Version)
33 Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves money bags
which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail,
where no thief approaches nor moth destroys.
1
Corinthians 9:1-18
1Am
I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our
Lord? Are you not my work in the
Lord? 2If I am not an apostle
to others, yet doubtless I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship
in the Lord. 3My defense to those who examine me is this: 4Do we have
no right to eat and drink? 5Do we have no right to take along a believing
wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and
Cephas? 6Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain
from working? 7Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants
a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and
does not drink of the milk of the flock? 8Do I say these things as
a mere man? Or does not the law say the same also? 9For it is written
in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads
out the grain." Is it oxen God is concerned about? 10Or does He
say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written,
that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope
should be partaker of his hope. 11If we have sown spiritual things
for you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things? 12If
others are partakers of this right over you, are we not even more?
Nevertheless we have not used this right, but endure all things lest
we hinder the gospel of Christ. 13Do you not know that those who minister
the holy things eat of the things of the temple, and those who serve
at the altar partake of the offerings of the altar? 14Even so the Lord
has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the
gospel. 15But I have used none of these things, nor have I written
these things that it should be done so to me; for it would be better
for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void. 16For
if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for necessity is
laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel! 17For if
I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have
been entrusted with a stewardship. 18What is my reward then? That when
I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge,
that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.
1
Corinthians 16:1-4
1Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given orders
to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also: 2On the first day
of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as
he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come. 3And when
I come, whomever you approve by your letters I will send to bear your
gift to Jerusalem. 4But if it is fitting that I go also, they will
go with me.
2 Corinthians 9:5-10 (NKJV)
5Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go to
you ahead of time, and prepare your generous gift beforehand,
which you
had previously promised, that it may be ready as a matter of generosity
and not as a grudging obligation. 6 But this I say: He who sows sparingly
will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap
bountifully. 7So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not
grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And
God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always
having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every
good work. 9As it is written: "He has dispersed abroad, He has
given to the poor; His righteousness endures forever." 10Now
may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply
and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your
righteousness…
Proverbs 11:25 (New King James Version)
25 The generous
soul will be made rich,
And he who waters will also be watered himself.
Proverbs 19:17 (NKJV)
He who has pity on the poor lends to the LORD, and He will pay back
what he has given.
Proverbs 21:13 (NKJV)
Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor will also cry himself
and not be heard.
Proverbs 22:9 (NKJV)
He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he gives of his bread
to the poor.
Proverbs 28:27 (NKJV)
He who gives to the poor will not lack, but he who hides his eyes will
have many curses.
Philippians 4:15-19 (NKJV)
15Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel,
when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me concerning
giving and receiving but you only. 16For even in Thessalonica you
sent aid once and again for my necessities. 17Not that I seek the
gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account. 18Indeed
I have all and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus
the things sent from you, a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice,
well pleasing to God. 19And my God shall supply all your need according
to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Matthew 25:31-46 (NKJV)
31"When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels
with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32All the nations
will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another,
as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 33And He will set the
sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. 34Then the King
will say to those on His right hand, 'Come, you blessed of My Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave
Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; 36I was naked and you
clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you
came to Me.'
37"Then
the righteous will answer Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You
hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give
You drink? 38When
did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You?
39Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?' 40And
the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch
as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it
to Me.'
41"Then He will also say to those on the left hand, " Depart
from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil
and his angels: 42for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty
and you gave Me no drink; 43I was a stranger and you did not take Me
in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did
not visit Me.'
44"Then they also will answer Him, saying, "Lord,
when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick
or in prison,
and did not minister to You?' 45Then He will answer them, saying, 'Assuredly,
I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of
these, you did not do it to Me.' 46And these will go away into everlasting
punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
Leviticus 27:30-32 30
And all the tithe of the land, whether of the
seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's: it is
holy unto the Lord. 31And if a man will at all redeem ought of his
tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof. 32And concerning
the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth
under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the Lord.
Numbers 18:21
I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel
for an inheritance
Numbers 18:24
But the tithes of the children of Israel I have given
to the Levites to inherit
Numbers 18:28
Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the
Lord of all your tithes
Deut. 14:28
At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the
tithe of thine increase
Deut. 26:12
End of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third
year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite,
the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within
thy gates, and be filled
2 Chron. 31:5-6
5And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children
of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil,
and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all
things brought they in abundantly. 6And concerning the children of
Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought
in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which
were consecrated unto the Lord their God, and laid them by heaps.
2 Chron. 31:12
And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the
dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler,
and Shimei his brother was the next.
Neh. 10:37-38
37And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough,
and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and
of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God;
and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites
might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage. 38And the priest
the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes:
and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house
of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house.
Neh. 12:44
And at that time were some appointed over the chambers
for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for
the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the
portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced
for the priests and for the Levites that waited.
Amos 4:4
Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression;
and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three
years:
Malachi 3:8
Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say,
Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
Malachi 3:10
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there
may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord
of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you
out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Matthew 23:23
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you
pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier
matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to
have done, without leaving the others undone.
Luke 11:42
But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and
all manner of herbs, and pass by justice and the love of God. These
you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.
Hebrews
7:2
to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of a
ll, first being translated "king of righteousness," and then also king of
Salem, meaning "king of peace,"
Hebrews 7:4-6
4Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the
patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils. 5And indeed those who
are of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment
to receive tithes from the people according to the law, that is, from
their brethren, though they have come from the loins of Abraham; 6but
he whose genealogy is not derived from them received tithes from Abraham
and blessed him who had the promises.
Hebrews 7:8-9
8Here mortal men receive tithes, but there he receives
them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives. 9Even Levi, who receives
tithes, paid tithes through Abraham, so to speak,
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