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115 Bible Verses about Giving First Fruit Offerings
Think about first fruits – that special offering we give to God. It's a way of saying "thank you" and showing our love for Him. In the Bible, it's often talked about with the first harvest or the firstborn livestock. But it's so much deeper than that, isn't it?
Giving our first fruits is really about acknowledging that everything we have comes from God. It's about honoring Him by giving Him the first and the best – not the leftovers. It's an act of trust, like saying, "God, I know you'll provide. I know you're the owner of everything, and I depend on you."
It's a good reminder to put God first in everything – not just our money, but our time, our talents, how we use what we have, even the decisions we make every single day. When we put God first, we're saying, "I trust you, God. I want your guidance in everything I do."
It's like James 1:181 says, "He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits of all he created." That's pretty powerful, to think of ourselves as God's first fruits.
Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the first of all your crops.Then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will burst with wine.
But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead. He’s the first crop of the harvest of those who have died.
But if part of a batch of dough is offered to God as holy, the whole batch of dough is holy too. If a root is holy, the branches will be holy too.
Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you and harvest its produce, you must bring the first bundle of your harvest to the priest.The priest will lift up the bundle before the LORD so that it will be acceptable on your behalf. The priest will do this on the day after the Sabbath.
He chose to give us birth by his true word, and here is the result: we are like the first crop from the harvest of everything he created.
Once you have entered the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and are settled there,take some of the early produce of the fertile ground that you have harvested from the land the LORD your God is giving you, and put it in a basket. Then go to the location the LORD your God selects for his name to reside.
The best of the early produce of every kind, and every contribution, all of them, belong to the priests. You will give the best of your bread dough to the priest so that a blessing may come to rest on your household.
And it’s not only the creation. We ourselves who have the Spirit as the first crop of the harvest also groan inside as we wait to be adopted and for our bodies to be set free.
All the choice oil, new wine, and the grain’s first harvest that they give to the LORD, I’m giving to you.The early produce of everything in their land, which they bring to the LORD, will be yours. Anyone who is clean in your household may eat it.
You must also give the priest the first portions of your grain, wine, and oil, and the first of your sheep’s shearing
Jesus said to them, “I assure you who have followed me that, when everything is made new, when the Human One sits on his magnificent throne, you also will sit on twelve thrones overseeing the twelve tribes of Israel.
Observe the Harvest Festival for the early produce of your crops that you planted in the field, and the Gathering Festival at the end of the year, when you gather your crop of fruit from the field.
Everyone should give whatever they have decided in their heart. They shouldn’t give with hesitation or because of pressure. God loves a cheerful giver.
You can present those as first-choice offerings to the LORD, but they must not be entirely burned up on the altar as a soothing smell.
while Abel presented his flock’s oldest offspring with their fat. The LORD looked favorably on Abel and his sacrifice
Dedicate to me all your oldest children. Each first offspring from any Israelite womb belongs to me, whether human or animal.
We will also bring the early produce of our soil and the early fruit from all trees every year to the LORD’s house.We will also bring the oldest offspring of our children and our cattle, as it is written in the Instruction, and the oldest males of our herds and flocks to our God’s house, to the priests who serve in our God’s house.We will also bring the first of our dough, our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine, and the oil to the priests at the storerooms of our God’s house. We will also bring one-tenth of the produce of our soil to the Levites, for it is the Levites who collect the tenth-part gifts in all the towns where we work.
Don’t delay offering the produce of your vineyards and winepresses. Give me your oldest son.
When you enter the land and plant any fruit tree, you must consider its fruit off-limits. For three years it will be off-limits to you; it must not be eaten.In the fourth year, all of the tree’s fruit will be holy, a celebration for the LORD.In the fifth year you can eat the fruit. This is so as to increase its produce for you; I am the LORD your God.
We will also bring the early produce of our soil and the early fruit from all trees every year to the LORD’s house.
You will present a gift offering from the first bread you bake just like you present a gift offering from the threshing floor.You will give a gift offering from the first bread you bake for all time.
Bring the best of your land’s early produce to the LORD your God’s temple. Don’t boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
You must bring your entirely burned offerings, your sacrifices, your tenth-part gifts, your contributions, your payments for solemn promises, your spontaneous gifts, and the oldest offspring of your herds and flocks to that place.You will have a feast there, each of you and your families, in the LORD your God’s presence, and you will celebrate all you have done because the LORD your God has blessed you.
You should observe the Festival of Weeks, for the early produce of the wheat harvest, and the Gathering Festival at the end of the year.
Bring the best of the early produce of your farmland to the LORD your God’s temple. Don’t boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
If you present a grain offering to the LORD from the first produce, you must make such an offering from the crushed heads of newly ripe grain, roasted with fire.
You must reserve a tenth part of whatever your fields produce each year.Eat the tenth part of your grain, wine, oil, oldest offspring of your herds and flocks in the presence of the LORD your God in the location he selects for his name to reside so that you learn to fear the LORD your God at all times.
The day of the early produce, when you present your new grain offering to the LORD at your Festival of Weeks, will be a holy occasion for you. You will not do any job-related work.
All the choice oil, new wine, and the grain’s first harvest that they give to the LORD, I’m giving to you.
Some time later, Cain presented an offering to the LORD from the land’s cropswhile Abel presented his flock’s oldest offspring with their fat. The LORD looked favorably on Abel and his sacrificebut didn’t look favorably on Cain and his sacrifice. Cain became very angry and looked resentful.
You must bring your entirely burned offerings, your sacrifices, your tenth-part gifts, your contributions, your payments for solemn promises, your spontaneous gifts, and the oldest offspring of your herds and flocks to that place.
All tenth-part gifts from the land, whether of seed from the ground or fruit from the trees, belong to the LORD; they are holy to the LORD.
take some of the early produce of the fertile ground that you have harvested from the land the LORD your God is giving you, and put it in a basket. Then go to the location the LORD your God selects for his name to reside.
So now I am bringing the early produce of the fertile ground that you, LORD, have given me.” Set the produce before the LORD your God, bowing down before the LORD your God.
Bring the whole tenth-part to the storage house so there might be food in my house. Please test me in this, says the LORD of heavenly forces. See whether I do not open all the windows of the heavens for you and empty out a blessing until there is enough.
I have given all the one-tenth portions in Israel to the Levites as an inheritance. They are a reward for performing their service in the meeting tent.
A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing the man of God some bread from the early produce—twenty loaves of barley bread and fresh grain from his bag. Elisha said, “Give it to the people so they can eat.”
Then announce before the LORD your God: “I have removed the holy portion from my house, and I have given it to the Levites, the immigrants, the orphans, and the widows—in full compliance with your entire commandment that you commanded me. I haven’t broken your commandments. I haven’t forgotten one!I haven’t eaten from the holy portion while mourning, nor did I remove it while I was polluted, nor have I dedicated any of it to the dead. I’ve obeyed the LORD my God’s voice. I’ve done everything just as you commanded me.Please look down from your holy home, from heaven itself, and bless your people Israel and the fertile land that you have given us—a land full of milk and honey—just like you promised our ancestors.”
As soon as the order was issued, the Israelites generously gave the best of their grain, new wine, oil, honey, and all their crops—a tenth of everything, a huge amount.
On that day, people were appointed over the rooms for the things to be stored, the contributions, the early produce, and the tenth-part gifts. They were to gather into them the portions required by the Instruction for the priests and for the Levites from the fields belonging to the towns, for the people of Judah were delighted with the ministry of the priests and the Levites.
He ordered the people living in Jerusalem to provide the required portion for the priests and the Levites so they could devote themselves to the LORD’s Instruction.As soon as the order was issued, the Israelites generously gave the best of their grain, new wine, oil, honey, and all their crops—a tenth of everything, a huge amount.
God struck down all of Egypt’s oldest males; in Ham’s tents, he struck their pride and joy.
I also provided for the wood offering at appointed times as well as for the early produce. Remember me, my God, for good.
Collect gift offerings for the LORD from all of you. Whoever freely wants to give should bring the LORD’s gift offerings: gold, silver, and copper;
None of it will be sold, exchanged, or transferred. It is the choicest land, because it is holy to the LORD.
So Moses issued a command that was proclaimed throughout the camp: “Every man and woman should stop making gift offerings for the sanctuary project.” So the people stopped bringing anything morebecause what they had already brought was more than enough to do all the work.
What I mean is this: the one who sows a small number of seeds will also reap a small crop, and the one who sows a generous amount of seeds will also reap a generous crop.Everyone should give whatever they have decided in their heart. They shouldn’t give with hesitation or because of pressure. God loves a cheerful giver.
Each event will happen in the right order: Christ, the first crop of the harvest, then those who belong to Christ at his coming,
Give, and it will be given to you. A good portion—packed down, firmly shaken, and overflowing—will fall into your lap. The portion you give will determine the portion you receive in return.”
I now have plenty and it is more than enough. I am full to overflowing because I received the gifts that you sent from Epaphroditus. Those gifts give off a fragrant aroma, an acceptable sacrifice that pleases God.
Those who give generously receive more, but those who are stingy with what is appropriate will grow needy.Generous persons will prosper; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.
Don’t forget to do good and to share what you have because God is pleased with these kinds of sacrifices.
“How terrible it will be for you legal experts and Pharisees! Hypocrites! You give to God a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, but you forget about the more important matters of the Law: justice, peace, and faith. You ought to give a tenth but without forgetting about those more important matters.
All tenth-part gifts from a herd or flock—every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd’s staff—will be holy to the LORD.The one bringing the tenth-part gift must not pick out the good from the bad, and cannot substitute any animal. But if one should substitute an animal, both it and the substitute will be holy and cannot be bought back.
On the first day of the week, each of you should set aside whatever you can afford from what you earn so that the collection won’t be delayed until I come.
Once you have entered the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and are settled there,So now I am bringing the early produce of the fertile ground that you, LORD, have given me.” Set the produce before the LORD your God, bowing down before the LORD your God.Then celebrate all the good things the LORD your God has done for you and your family—each one of you along with the Levites and the immigrants who are among you.take some of the early produce of the fertile ground that you have harvested from the land the LORD your God is giving you, and put it in a basket. Then go to the location the LORD your God selects for his name to reside.Go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him: “I am declaring right now before the LORD my God that I have indeed arrived in the land the LORD swore to our ancestors to give us.” The priest will then take the basket from you and place it before the LORD your God’s altar.Then you should solemnly state before the LORD your God: “My father was a starving Aramean. He went down to Egypt, living as an immigrant there with few family members, but that is where he became a great nation, mighty and numerous.The Egyptians treated us terribly, oppressing us and forcing hard labor on us.So we cried out for help to the LORD, our ancestors’ God. The LORD heard our call. God saw our misery, our trouble, and our oppression.The LORD brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, with awesome power, and with signs and wonders.He brought us to this place and gave us this land—a land full of milk and honey.
Looking up, Jesus saw rich people throwing their gifts into the collection box for the temple treasury.He also saw a poor widow throw in two small copper coins worth a penny.He said, “I assure you that this poor widow has put in more than them all.All of them are giving out of their spare change. But she from her hopeless poverty has given everything she had to live on.”
There were no needy persons among them. Those who owned properties or houses would sell them, bring the proceeds from the sales,and place them in the care and under the authority of the apostles. Then it was distributed to anyone who was in need.
I will sacrifice to you freely; I will give thanks to your name, LORD, because it’s so good,
In everything I have shown you that, by working hard, we must help the weak. In this way we remember the Lord Jesus’ words: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
So, brothers and sisters, because of God’s mercies, I encourage you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice that is holy and pleasing to God. This is your appropriate priestly service.
Who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly? Since everything comes from you, we have given you that which comes from your own hand.
A gift is appreciated because of what a person can afford, not because of what that person can’t afford, if it’s apparent that it’s done willingly.
My God will meet your every need out of his riches in the glory that is found in Christ Jesus.
This stone that I’ve set up as a sacred pillar will be God’s house, and of everything you give me I will give a tenth back to you.”
Don’t withhold good from someone who deserves it, when it is in your power to do so.Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go and come back; I’ll give it to you tomorrow,” when you have it.
On my holy mountain, on the high mountain in Israel, the whole house of Israel will serve me there—every one of them in the land! This is what the LORD God says. There I will accept them, and there I will ask for their offerings, their finest gifts, and all their holy things.
Tell people who are rich at this time not to become egotistical and not to place their hope on their finances, which are uncertain. Instead, they need to hope in God, who richly provides everything for our enjoyment.Tell them to do good, to be rich in the good things they do, to be generous, and to share with others.
Both men and women came forward. Everyone who was eager to participate brought pins, earrings, rings, and necklaces, all sorts of gold objects. Everyone raised an uplifted offering of gold to the LORD.
The one who supplies seed for planting and bread for eating will supply and multiply your seed and will increase your crop, which is righteousness.You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous in every way. Such generosity produces thanksgiving to God through us.
Sell your possessions and give to those in need. Make for yourselves wallets that don’t wear out—a treasure in heaven that never runs out. No thief comes near there, and no moth destroys.Where your treasure is, there your heart will be too.
bless El Elyon, who gave you the victory over your enemies.” Abram gave Melchizedek one-tenth of everything.
A son honors a father, and a servant honors his master. But if I’m a father, where is my honor? Or if I’m a master, where is my respect? says the LORD of heavenly forces to you priests who despise my name. So you say, “How have we despised your name?”By approaching my altar with polluted food. But you say, “How have we polluted it?” When you say, “The table of the LORD can be despised.”If you bring a blind animal to sacrifice, isn’t that evil? If you bring a lame or sick one, isn’t that evil? Would you bring it to your governor? Would he be pleased with it or accept you? says the LORD of heavenly forces.
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those with skin diseases, and throw out demons. You received without having to pay. Therefore, give without demanding payment.
The LORD! He makes poor, gives wealth, brings low, but also lifts up high!God raises the poor from the dust, lifts up the needy from the garbage pile. God sits them with officials, gives them the seat of honor! The pillars of the earth belong to the LORD; he set the world on top of them!
Those who lend generously are good people— as are those who conduct their affairs with justice.
Joanna (the wife of Herod’s servant Chuza), Susanna, and many others who provided for them out of their resources.
Their father Israel said to them, “If it has to be, then do this. Take in your bags some of the land’s choice produce, and bring it down to the man as a gift: a little medicinal resin, a little honey, gum, resin, pistachios, and almonds.
This so pleased all the leaders and all the people that they gladly dropped their money in the box until it was full.Whenever the box was brought by the Levites to the royal accountants, as soon as they saw that a large amount of money was in the box, the royal scribe and the representative of the high priest would come, empty the box, and return it to its place. This took place day after day, and a large amount of money was collected.
Every one who is counted, from 20 years old and above, should present a gift offering to the LORD.When you bring this gift offering to the LORD to pay compensation for your lives, the rich shouldn’t give more and the poor shouldn’t give less than the half shekel.
At that point, perform the Festival of Weeks for the LORD your God. Offer a spontaneous gift in precise measure with the blessing the LORD your God gives you.
The Israelites and the Levites must bring the contribution of grain, wine, and oil to the storerooms where the sanctuary equipment is kept, and where the priests on duty, the gatekeepers, and the singers reside. We won’t neglect our God’s house!
Come to Bethel—and commit a crime; multiply crimes at Gilgal. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tenth-part gifts every three days.Offer a thanksgiving sacrifice of leavened bread, and publicize your gifts to the LORD; for so you love to do, people of Israel! says the LORD God.
Go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him: “I am declaring right now before the LORD my God that I have indeed arrived in the land the LORD swore to our ancestors to give us.” The priest will then take the basket from you and place it before the LORD your God’s altar.
The LORD spoke to Aaron: I now place you in charge of my gifts, including all the Israelites’ sacred offerings. I have given them to you and your sons as an allowance. This is a permanent regulation.
And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ritual mean to you?’you will say, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, for the LORD passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. When he struck down the Egyptians, he spared our houses.’” The people then bowed down and worshipped.
This concludes the Instructions for the entirely burned offering, the grain offering, the purification offering, the compensation offering, the ordination offering, and the communal sacrifice of well-being,
What should I think about all your sacrifices? says the LORD. I’m fed up with entirely burned offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts. I don’t want the blood of bulls, lambs, and goats.When you come to appear before me, who asked this from you, this trampling of my temple’s courts?Stop bringing worthless offerings. Your incense repulses me. New moon, sabbath, and the calling of an assembly— I can’t stand wickedness with celebration!I hate your new moons and your festivals. They’ve become a burden that I’m tired of bearing.When you extend your hands, I’ll hide my eyes from you. Even when you pray for a long time, I won’t listen. Your hands are stained with blood.Wash! Be clean! Remove your ugly deeds from my sight. Put an end to such evil;learn to do good. Seek justice: help the oppressed; defend the orphan; plead for the widow.
“Whenever you give to the poor, don’t blow your trumpet as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets so that they may get praise from people. I assure you, that’s the only reward they’ll get.But when you give to the poor, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doingso that you may give to the poor in secret. Your Father who sees what you do in secret will reward you.
You don’t want sacrifices. If I gave an entirely burned offering, you wouldn’t be pleased.A broken spirit is my sacrifice, God. You won’t despise a heart, God, that is broken and crushed.
Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I give half of my possessions to the poor. And if I have cheated anyone, I repay them four times as much.”
But if someone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but refuses to help—how can the love of God dwell in a person like that?
Those who exploit the powerless anger their maker, while those who are kind to the poor honor God.
“Then the king will reply to them, ‘I assure you that when you have done it for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you have done it for me.’
Give to the LORD the glory due his name! Bring gifts! Enter his presence! Bow down to the LORD in his holy splendor!
I will make of you a great nation and will bless you. I will make your name respected, and you will be a blessing.
Those who give to the poor will lack nothing, but those who turn a blind eye will be greatly cursed.
Those who pay close attention to the poor are truly happy! The LORD rescues them during troubling times.
Each one should have his gift in hand, in precise measure with the blessing the LORD your God gives you.
So then, let’s work for the good of all whenever we have an opportunity, and especially for those in the household of faith.Let’s not get tired of doing good, because in time we’ll have a harvest if we don’t give up.
In the same way, let your light shine before people, so they can see the good things you do and praise your Father who is in heaven.
When anyone presents a grain offering to the LORD, the offering must be of choice flour. They must pour oil on it and put frankincense on it,then bring it to Aaron’s sons, the priests. A priest will take a handful of its choice flour and oil, along with all of its frankincense, and will completely burn this token portion on the altar as a food gift of soothing smell to the LORD.The rest of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and his sons as a most holy portion from the LORD’s food gifts.
All the believers were united and shared everything.They would sell pieces of property and possessions and distribute the proceeds to everyone who needed them.
If you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him.
Be the best in this work of grace in the same way that you are the best in everything, such as faith, speech, knowledge, total commitment, and the love we inspired in you.