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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.
But now Christ hath risen [or rose] again from death, the first fruit of dead men;
For if a little part of that that is tasted be holy, the whole gobbet is holy; and if the root is holy, also the branches.
Speak thou to the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When ye have entered into the land which I shall give to you, and have reaped [the] corn, ye shall bear handfuls of ears of corn, the first fruits of your ripe corn, to the priest;and the priest shall raise up a bundle before the Lord, that it be acceptable for you, in the tother day of the sabbath, that is, of pask; and the priest shall hallow that bundle;
And when thou hast entered into the land which thy Lord God shall give to thee to wield, and thou hast gotten it, and hast dwelled therein,And therefore I offer now to thee the first fruits of the fruits of the land which, the Lord, gave to me. And thou shalt leave them in the sight of thy Lord God. And when thy Lord God is worshipped,thou shalt eat in all the goods which thy Lord God gave to thee, and to thine house, thou, and the deacon [or Levite], and the comeling that is with thee.When thou hast fulfilled the tithe of all thy fruits, in the third year of thy tithes, thou shalt give to the deacon [or Levite], and to the comeling, and to the fatherless, either the motherless child, and to the widow, that they eat within thy gates, and be full-filled.And thou shalt speak in the sight of thy Lord God, and say, I have taken away that that is hallowed of mine house, and I gave it to the deacon [or Levite], and to the comeling, and to the fatherless, either motherless child, and to the widow, as thou command-edest to me; I passed not by thy commandments, I forgot not thy behest or thy bidding.I ate not of those things in my mourning, neither I separated them in any uncleanness, neither I spended of those [or them] anything in burying of a dead body. I obeyed to the voice of my Lord God, and I did all things as thou commandedest to me.Behold thou from thy saintuary, from the high dwelling place of heaven, and bless thou thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given to us, as thou hast sworn to our fathers, the land flowing with milk and honey.Today Israel, thy Lord God commanded to thee, that thou do these behests and dooms, that thou keep and fulfill them of all thine heart, and of all thy soul.Thou hast chosen the Lord today, that he be God to thee, and that thou go in his ways, and that thou keep his ceremonies, and his behests, and his dooms, and obey to his commandment or his bidding.Lo! the Lord hath chosen thee today, that thou be a special people to him, as he hath spoken to thee, and that thou keep all his commandments;and he shall make thee higher than all folks, which he made into his praising, and name, and glory; that thou be an holy people to thy Lord God, as he hath spoken to thee.thou shalt take the first fruits of all thy fruits, and thou shalt put them in a basket; and thou shalt go to the place which thy Lord God choose, that his name be inwardly called there.
And the first things of all first engendered things, and all moist sacrifices, of all things that be offered, shall be the priests’ part; and ye shall give the first things of your meats to the priest, that he lay up blessing to his house.
And not only it, but also we us-selves, that have the first fruits of the Spirit, and we us-selves sorrow within us for the adoption of God’s sons, abiding the again-buying of our body.
I have given to thee all the mar-row, or the best, of oil, and of wine, and of wheat, whatever thing of the first fruits they shall offer to the Lord.All the beginnings of fruits which the earth bringeth forth, and be brought to the Lord, shall fall into thine uses; he that is clean in thine house, shall eat of those [or them].
the first fruits of wheat, and of wine, and of oil, and a part of wools of the shearing of sheep.
And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that ye that have forsaken all things, and have pursued me, in the regeneration when man’s Son shall sit in the seat of his majesty, [also] ye shall sit on twelve seats, deeming the twelve kindreds of Israel.
And thou shalt keep the solemnity of the month of the first things of thy works, whatever things thou hast sown in the field. Also thou shalt keep the solemnity in the going out of the year, when thou hast gathered all thy fruits of the field.
Each man as he casted in his heart, not of heaviness, or of need; for God loveth a glad giver.
Ye shall offer only the first fruits of those [or them], and gifts; soothly those [or they] shall not be put on the altar, into odour of sweetness.
and Abel offered of the first engendered of his flock, and of the fatness of those [or them]. And the Lord beheld to Abel and to the gifts of him;
Hallow thou to me each first begotten thing that openeth the womb among the sons of Israel, as well of men as of beasts, for why all be mine.
and that we bring the first engen-dered things of our land, and the first fruits of all fruit of each tree, from year into year, into the house of the Lord,and the first begotten things of our sons, and of our beasts, as it is written in the law, and the first begotten things of our oxen, and of our sheep, that those [or they] be offered in the house of our God, to priests that minister in the house of our God;and we shall bring the first fruits of our meats, and of our moist [or liquor] sacrifices, and the fruits of each tree, and of vintage, and of oil, to [the] priests, at the chamber of the house of the Lord, and the tenth part of our land to deacons [or Levites]; those deacons shall take tithes of all the cities of our works.
Thou shalt not tarry to offer to the Lord thy tithes, and thy first fruits. Thou shalt give to me the first begotten of thy sons;
When ye have entered into the land of promise, and have planted therein apple trees, ye shall do away the first fruits; the apples which those trees bring forth shall be unclean to you, neither ye shall eat of them.Forsooth in the fourth year all the fruit of the trees shall be hallowed and be praiseable to the Lord;forsooth in the fifth year ye shall eat the fruits, and ye shall gather apples, which those trees bring forth; I am your Lord God.
and that we bring the first engen-dered things of our land, and the first fruits of all fruit of each tree, from year into year, into the house of the Lord,
as ye shall separate the first fruits of your cornfloors,so ye shall give the first fruits also of your sowls or pottage to the Lord.
Thou shalt bear the first things of the fruits of thy land into the house of thy Lord God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in the milk of his mother.
and ye shall come thither, and offer in that place your burnt sacrifices, and slain sacrifices, the tithes, and first fruits of your hands, and avows [or vows], and gifts, and the first engendered things of your oxen, and of sheep.And ye and your houses shall eat there in the sight of your Lord God; and ye shall be glad in all things to which ye put the hand, in which your Lord God hath blessed you.
Thou shalt make to thee the solemnity of weeks, in the first things of fruits of thy ripe corn of wheat, and the solemnity when all things be gathered into barns, when the time of the year cometh again.
Thou shalt offer in the house of thy Lord God the first of the fruits of thy land. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in the milk of his mother.
Forsooth if thou offerest a gift of the first things of thy fruits to the Lord, of ears of corn yet green, thou shalt scorch, or singe, them in fire, and thou shalt break them in the manner of bruised corn; and so thou shalt offer thy first fruits to the Lord,
Thou shalt separate the tenth part of all thy fruits that come forth in the land by each year;and thou shalt eat in the sight of thy Lord God, in the place which he choose, that his name be called therein; thou shalt offer the tithe of thy wheat, of wine, and oil, and the first engendered things of thy droves, and of thy sheep, that thou learn to dread thy Lord God in all time.
Also the day of the first fruits, when ye shall offer new fruits to the Lord, when the weeks shall be fulfilled, shall be worshipful and holy; ye shall not do any servile work therein.
I have given to thee all the mar-row, or the best, of oil, and of wine, and of wheat, whatever thing of the first fruits they shall offer to the Lord.
Soothly it was done after many days, that Cain offered gifts to the Lord of the fruits of the earth; and Abel offered of the first engendered of his flock, and of the fatness of those [or them]. And the Lord beheld to Abel and to the gifts of him;soothly he beheld not to Cain and to his gifts. And Cain was wroth greatly, and his cheer felled down.
and ye shall come thither, and offer in that place your burnt sacrifices, and slain sacrifices, the tithes, and first fruits of your hands, and avows [or vows], and gifts, and the first engendered things of your oxen, and of sheep.
All the tithes of [the] earth, whether of fruits of corn, whether of apples of trees, be the Lord’s part, and be hallowed to him;
thou shalt take the first fruits of all thy fruits, and thou shalt put them in a basket; and thou shalt go to the place which thy Lord God choose, that his name be inwardly called there.
And therefore I offer now to thee the first fruits of the fruits of the land which, the Lord, gave to me. And thou shalt leave them in the sight of thy Lord God. And when thy Lord God is worshipped,
Bring ye each tithe into my barn, that meat be in mine house, and prove ye me on this thing, saith the Lord, if I shall not open to you the gutters of heaven, and shall shed out to you blessing, till to abundance.
Soothly, I gave to the sons of Levi all the tithes of Israel into possession, for the service by which they serve me in the tabernacle of [the] bond of peace;
Forsooth some man came from Baalshalisha, and bare to the man of God loaves of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and thing made of corns, in his scrip. And the man of God said, Give thou to the people, that it eat.
And thou shalt speak in the sight of thy Lord God, and say, I have taken away that that is hallowed of mine house, and I gave it to the deacon [or Levite], and to the comeling, and to the fatherless, either motherless child, and to the widow, as thou command-edest to me; I passed not by thy commandments, I forgot not thy behest or thy bidding.I ate not of those things in my mourning, neither I separated them in any uncleanness, neither I spended of those [or them] anything in burying of a dead body. I obeyed to the voice of my Lord God, and I did all things as thou commandedest to me.Behold thou from thy saintuary, from the high dwelling place of heaven, and bless thou thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given to us, as thou hast sworn to our fathers, the land flowing with milk and honey.
And when this was known in the ears of the multitude, the sons of Israel offered full many first fruits of wheat, of wine, of oil, and of honey; and of all things which the earth bringeth forth, they offered tithes.
Also they numbered in that day the men that were over the keeping places of the treasure, to receive moist [or liquor] sacrifices, and the first fruits, and tithes, that in seemliness, or fairness, of doing of thankings to the Lord, princes of the city should bring in by them, for the priests and deacons [or Levites]; for Judah was glad in priests and deacons present.
Also he commanded to the people of them that dwelled in Jerusalem, to give parts to the priests and deacons [or Levites], that they might give attention to the law of the Lord.And when this was known in the ears of the multitude, the sons of Israel offered full many first fruits of wheat, of wine, of oil, and of honey; and of all things which the earth bringeth forth, they offered tithes.
And he smote all the first engen-dered things [or first begotten] in the land of Egypt; the first fruits of all the travail of them in the tabernacles of Ham.
and in offering, that is, dressing, of trees, or of wood, to burn with offered sacrifices, in times ordained, and in the first fruits. My God, have mind of me into good.
Separate ye at you the first fruits to the Lord; each willful man and of ready will offer them to the Lord, gold, and silver, and brass,
And they shall not sell thereof, neither shall exchange any part of their portion; and the place of the first fruits of the land shall not be trans-lated, for those [or they] be hallowed to the Lord.
Therefore Moses commanded to be cried by the voice of a crier, Neither man nor woman offer more anything in the work of [the] saintuary; and so it was ceased from gifts to be offered,for the things offered sufficed, and were over-abundant.
For I say this thing, he that soweth scarcely, shall also reap scarcely; and he that soweth in blessings, shall reap also of blessings.Each man as he casted in his heart, not of heaviness, or of need; for God loveth a glad giver.
But each man in his order; the first fruit [or first fruits], Christ, afterward they that be of Christ, that believed in the coming of Christ;
Give ye, and it shall be given to you. They shall give into your bosom a good measure, and well-filled, and shaken together, and overflowing; for by the same measure, by which ye mete, it shall be meted again to you.
For I have all things, and abound; I am [full]-filled [or replete] with those things taken of Epaphroditus, which ye sent into the odour of sweetness, a covenable sacrifice, pleasing to God.
Some men part their own things, and be made richer; other men ravish things, that be not theirs, and they be ever in neediness.A soul that blesseth, shall be made fat; and he that filleth, shall be filled also.
And do not ye forget well-doing, and communing; for by such sacrifices God is well-served.
bring ye to the Lord glory to his name. Take ye sacrifices, and enter ye into the halls of him;
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that tithe mint, anise, and cumin, and have left those things that be of more charge of the law, doom, and mercy, and faith. And it behooved [or needed] to do these things, and not to leave those.
of all the tithes of sheep, and of oxen, and of goats, that pass under the shepherd’s rod, whatever thing cometh to the tenth part, it shall be hallowed to the Lord;it shall not be chosen, neither good, neither evil; neither it shall be changed for another; if any man changeth it, both that, that is changed, and that, for which it is changed, shall be hallowed to the Lord, and it shall not be again-bought.
one day of the week. Each of you keep, [or lay up], at himself, keeping that that pleaseth to him, that when I come, the gatherings be not made.
And when thou hast entered into the land which thy Lord God shall give to thee to wield, and thou hast gotten it, and hast dwelled therein,And therefore I offer now to thee the first fruits of the fruits of the land which, the Lord, gave to me. And thou shalt leave them in the sight of thy Lord God. And when thy Lord God is worshipped,thou shalt eat in all the goods which thy Lord God gave to thee, and to thine house, thou, and the deacon [or Levite], and the comeling that is with thee.
And he beheld, and saw the rich men, that cast their gifts into the treasury;Then he said to them, Folk shall rise against folk, and realm against realm;and great movings of the earth shall be by places, and pestilences, and hungers, and dreads from heaven, and great tokens shall be.But before all these things they shall set their hands on you, and shall pursue you, betaking into synagogues and keepings, [either prisons], and drawing you to kings and to justices, for my name;but it shall fall to you into witnessing.Therefore put ye in your hearts, not to think before, how ye shall answer;for I shall give to you mouth and wisdom, to which all your adversaries shall not be able to against-stand, and gainsay.And ye shall be taken [or betrayed] of father, and mother, and brethren, and cousins, and friends, and by death they shall torment [some] of you;and ye shall be in hate to [or be hated of] all men for my name.And an hair of your head shall not perish;in your patience ye shall wield your souls.but he saw also a little poor widow casting two farthings [or two little moneys].But when ye shall see Jerusalem be environed with an host [of battle], then know ye, that the desolation of it shall nigh.Then they that be in Judea, flee to the mountains; and they that be in the middle of it, go away; and they that be in the countries, enter not into it.For these be the days of vengeance, that all things that be written, be fulfilled.And woe to them, that be with child, and nourishing [or nursing] in those days; for a great dis-ease [or pressure] shall be on the earth, and wrath to this people.And they shall fall by the sharpness of sword, and they shall be led prisoners [or led captive] into all folks; and Jerusalem shall be defouled of heathen men, till the times of nations be fulfilled.And tokens shall be in the sun, and the moon, and in the stars; and in the earth overlaying of folks, for confusion of the sound of the sea and of floods [or of waves];for men shall wax dry for dread and abiding, that shall come into [or on] all the world; for virtues of heaven shall be moved.And then they shall see man’s Son coming in a cloud, with great power and majesty.And when these things begin to be made [or beginning to be done], behold ye, and raise ye your heads, for your redemption nigheth.And he said to them a likeness, See ye the fig tree, and all trees,And he said, Truly I say to you, that this poor widow cast more than all men.when they bring forth now of themselves fruit, ye know that summer is nigh;so [also] ye, when ye see these things to be done, know ye, that the kingdom of God is nigh.Truly I say to you, that this generation shall not pass, till all things be done.Heaven and earth shall pass, but my words shall not pass.But take ye heed to yourselves, lest peradventure your hearts be grieved with gluttony, and drunken-ness, and busynesses of this life, and that day come suddenly on you;for as a snare it shall come on all men, that sit on the face of all the earth.Therefore wake ye, praying in each time, that ye be had worthy to flee all these things that be to come [or that shall come], and to stand before man’s Son.And in days he was teaching in the temple, but in nights he went out, and dwelled in the mount, that is called of Olivet.And all the people rose [or came] early, to come to him in the temple, for to hear him.For why all these of [the] thing that was plenteous [or abundant] to them cast in to the gifts of God; but this widow of that thing that failed to her, cast all her livelode [or all her lifelode], that she had.
For neither any needy man was among them, for how many ever were possessors of fields, either of houses, they sold, and brought the prices of those things that they sold,and laid before the feet of the apostles. And it was parted to each, as it was need to each.
Willfully I shall sacrifice to thee; and, Lord, I shall acknowledge to thy name, for it is good.
All these things I showed to you, for so it behooveth men travailing to receive sick men, and to have mind of the word of the Lord Jesus; for he said, It is more blessful [or more blessed] to give, than to receive.
Therefore, brethren, I beseech you by the mercy of God, that ye give your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, and your service reasonable.
Who am I, and who is my people, that we may promise all these things to thee? All things be thine, and we have given to thee those things, which we have taken of thine hand.
For if the will be ready, it is accepted after that that it hath, not after that that it hath not.
The psalm of David. The earth and the fullness thereof is the Lord’s; the world, and all that dwell therein.
Offer thou to God the sacrifice of praising; and yield thine avows [or vows] to the highest God.
And this stone, which I raised into a title, shall be called the house of God; and I shall offer tithes to thee of all things which thou shalt give to me.
Do not thou forbid to do well him that may; if thou mayest, also do thou well.Say thou not to thy friend, Go, and turn again, and tomorrow I shall give to thee; when thou mayest give anon.
in mine holy hill, in the high hill of Israel, saith the Lord God, ye shall be punished grievouslier. There all the house of Israel shall serve me, soothly all men in the land, in which they shall please me; and there I shall seek your first fruits, and the beginning of your tithes in all your hallowings.
Command thou to the rich men of this world, that they understand not highly [or proudly], neither that they hope in uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, that giveth to us all things plenteously to use;to do well, to be made rich in good works, lightly to give, to commune,
Men and women gave bies of the arms, and earrings, and other rings, and ornaments of their arms nigh the hand; each golden vessel was separated into the gifts of the Lord.
And he that ministereth seed to the sower, shall give also bread to eat, and he shall multiply your seed, and make much the increasings of fruits of your rightwiseness;that in all things ye made rich wax plenteous [or abound] into all simpleness, which worketh by us doing of thankings to God.
Sell ye those things that ye have in possession [or that ye wield], and give ye alms. And make to you satchels that wax not old, treasure that faileth not in heavens, whither a thief nigh-eth not, neither moth destroyeth.For where is thy treasure, there thine heart shall be. [Forsooth where thy treasure is, there also thine heart shall be.]
and blessed be [the] high God, by whom defending, thine enemies be betaken into thine hands. And Abram gave tithes of all things to him.
The son honoureth the father, and the servant shall dread his lord; therefore if I am the father, where is mine honour? and if I am the lord, where is my dread? saith the Lord of hosts. A! ye priests, to you that despise my name; and ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?Ye offer on mine altar defouled, either unclean, bread, and ye say, Wherein have we defouled thee? In that thing that ye say, The board of the Lord is despised.If ye offer a blind beast to be sacrificed, whether it is not evil? And if ye offer a crooked and sick beast, whether it is not evil? Offer thou it to thy duke, if it shall please him, either if he shall receive thy face, saith the Lord of hosts.
heal ye sick men, raise ye dead men, cleanse ye mesels [or leprous men], cast ye out devils; freely ye have taken, freely give ye.
The Lord maketh poor, and he maketh rich; he maketh low, and he raiseth up.He raiseth a needy man from powder, and he raiseth a poor man from drit, that he sit with princes, and hold the seat of glory; for the ends of [the] earth be of the Lord, and he hath set the world on those [or them].
and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, the procurator of Herod, and Susanna, and many others, that ministered to him of their riches.
A sinner shall borrow, and shall not pay back; but a just [or rightwise] man hath mercy, and shall give.
Therefore Israel, their father, said to them, If it is need so to be, do ye that that ye will; take ye of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and bear ye gifts to the man, a little of gum, and of honey, and of storax, that is, a precious gum, and of myrrh, that is, a bitter gum, and of terebinth, that is, best resins, and of almonds;
And all the princes and all the people were glad, and they entered, and brought, and sent freely their gifts into the ark of the Lord, so that it was filled with treasure.And when it was time, that they should bear the ark before the king’s officials by the hands of deacons [or Levites], for they saw much money, the clerk of the king entered, and he whom the first, or chief, priest had ordained, and they poured out the money, that was in the ark; and they bare again the ark to his place,. And so they did by all days, and money without number was gathered together;
He that is had in the number, from twenty years and above, shall give this price;a rich man shall not add to the half of a shekel, and a poor man shall nothing abate.
and thou shalt hallow the feast days of weeks to thy Lord God, a willful offering of thine hand, which thou shalt offer by the blessing of thy Lord God.
For the sons of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the first fruits of wheat, of wine, and of oil to that place; and hallowed vessels shall be there, and priests, and singers, and porters, and ministers; and we shall not forsake the house of our God.
Come ye to Bethel, and do ye wickedly; to Gilgal, and multiply your trespassing; and offer ye early your sacrifices, in three days your tithes.And sacrifice ye praising of bread made sour, and call ye for willful offerings, and tell ye about them; for ye, sons of Israel, would so, saith the Lord God.
And thou shalt go to the priest, that shall be in those days, and thou shalt say to him, I acknowledge today before thy Lord God, that I have entered into the land, which he swore to our fathers, that he should give it to us.And the priest shall take the basket of thine hand, and he shall set [or put] it before the altar of thy Lord God.
The Lord spake to Aaron, Lo! I have given to thee the keeping of my first fruits; I have given to thee, and to thy sons, all things that be hallowed of the sons of Israel, for [the] priest’s office everlasting lawful things.
and when your sons shall say to you, What is this religion?ye shall say to them, It is the sacrifice of the passing of the Lord, when he passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, and smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people was bowed, and worshipped.
This is the law of burnt sacrifice, and of sacrifice for sin, and for trespass, and for hallowing, and for the sacrifices of peaceable things;
Whereto offer ye to me [or What to me] the multitude of your sacrifices? saith the Lord. I am full; I would not the burnt sacrifices of wethers, and the inner fatness of fat beasts, and the blood of calves, and of lambs, and of bucks of goats.When ye came before my sight, who asked of your hands these things, that ye should go in my foreyards?Offer ye no more sacrifice in vain; incense is abomination to me; I shall not suffer new moon, and sabbath, and other feasts. For your companies be wicked;my soul hateth your calends and your solemnities; those be dis-easeful to me, I travailed with suffering.And when ye stretch forth your hands, I shall turn away mine eyes from you; and when ye multiply prayer, I shall not hear; for why your hands be full of blood.Be ye washed, be ye clean; do ye away the evil of your thoughts from mine eyes; cease ye to do waywardly,learn ye to do well. Seek ye doom, help ye him that is oppressed, deem ye to the fatherless and motherless child, defend ye a widow.
Therefore when thou doest alms, do not thou trumpet before thee, as hypocrites do in synagogues and streets, that they be worshipped of men; soothly I say to you, they have received their meed.but gather ye to you treasures in heaven, where neither rust nor moth destroyeth, and where thieves delve not out, nor steal.For where thy treasure is, there also thine heart is.The lantern of thy body is thine eye; if thine eye be simple, all thy body shall be light-full;but if thine eye be wayward, all thy body shall be dark-[full]. If then the light that is in thee be darknesses, how great shall those darknesses be?No man may serve two lords, for either he shall hate the one, and love the tother; either he shall sustain the one, and despise the other. Ye may not serve God and riches.Therefore I say to you, that ye be not busy to your life, what ye shall eat; nor to your body, with what ye shall be clothed. Whether life is not more than meat, and the body more than the cloth?Behold ye the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither reap, neither gather into barns; and your Father of heaven feedeth them. Whether ye be not more worthy than they?But who of you thinking may put [or may add] to his stature one cubit?And of clothing what be ye busy? Behold ye the lilies of the field, how they wax. They travail not, neither they spin;and I say to you, that Solomon in all his glory was not covered as one of these.But when thou doest alms, know not thy left hand what thy right hand doeth,And if God clotheth thus the hay of the field, that today is, and tomorrow is cast into an oven [or is sent into the furnace], how much more you of little faith?Therefore do not ye be busy, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, With what thing shall we be covered?For heathen men seek all these things; and your Father knoweth, that ye have need to all these things.Therefore seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his rightwiseness, and all these things shall be cast to you.Therefore do not ye be busy into the morrow, for the morrow shall be busy to itself; for it sufficeth to the day his own malice.that thine alms be in huddles, and thy Father that seeth in huddles, shall requite [or yield] to thee.
For if thou haddest would or desired sacrifice, I had given it; truly thou shalt not delight in burnt sacrifice.A sacrifice to God is a spirit troubled, that is, sorry for sin; God, thou shalt not despise a contrite heart, and made meek.
But Zacchaeus stood, and said to the Lord, Lo! Lord, I give the half of my goods to poor men; and if I have anything defrauded any man, I yield four so much [or fourfold].
He that hath the chattel [or the substance] of this world, and seeth that his brother hath need, and closeth his entrails from him, how dwelleth the charity of God in him?
He that falsely challengeth a needy man, despiseth his Maker; but he that hath mercy on a poor man, honoureth his Maker.
And the king answering shall say to them, Truly I say to you, as long as ye did to one of these my least brethren, ye did to me.
Give ye the glory to his name, raise ye up sacrifice, and come ye in his sight; and worship ye the Lord in holy fairness.
All day he coveteth and desireth; but he that is a just [or rightwise] man, shall give, and shall not cease.
and I shall make thee into a great folk, and I shall bless thee, and I shall magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed;
He that giveth to a poor man, shall not be needy; he that despiseth a poor man beseeching, shall suffer neediness.
Forsooth a prince shall think those things that be worthy to a prince, and he shall stand over dukes.
For victory, the song of David. Blessed is he that understandeth of the needy man and poor; the Lord shall deliver him in the evil day.
but each man shall offer after that that he hath, by the blessing of his Lord God, that he gave to him.
So shine your light before men, that they see your good works, and glorify your Father that is in heavens.
When a soul, that is, a poor man, offereth an offering of sacrifice to the Lord, [tried] flour of wheat shall be his offering. And he shall pour oil thereon, and he shall put incense,Soothly whatever thing is left, it shall be Aaron’s and his sons, the holy of holy things of the offerings to the Lord.Each offering which is offered to the Lord, shall be without sourdough, neither anything of sourdough, and of honey, shall be burnt in the sacrifice of the Lord.Ye shall offer only the first fruits of those [or them], and gifts; soothly those [or they] shall not be put on the altar, into odour of sweetness.Whatever thing of sacrifice thou shalt offer, thou shalt make it savory with salt, neither thou shalt take away the salt of the bond of peace of thy God from thy sacrifice; in each offering thou shalt offer salt.Forsooth if thou offerest a gift of the first things of thy fruits to the Lord, of ears of corn yet green, thou shalt scorch, or singe, them in fire, and thou shalt break them in the manner of bruised corn; and so thou shalt offer thy first fruits to the Lord,and thou shalt pour oil there-upon, and thou shalt put incense, for it is the offering of the Lord.Of which the priest shall burn, into mind of the gift, a part of the bruised corn, and of the oil, and all the incense.and he shall bear it to the sons of Aaron, [the] priest, of the which sons one of them shall take an handful of tried wheat flour, and of oil, and all the incense; and he shall put these as a memorial on the altar, into the sweetest odour to the Lord.Forsooth that that is left of the sacrifice shall be Aaron’s and his sons’, the holy of holy things of offerings to the Lord.
And all that believed were together, and had all things common.They sold possessions and chattel, [or substances, or goods], and parted those things to all men, as it was need to each.
Therefore if ye, when ye be evil men, know how to give good gifts to your sons, how much more your Father that is in heavens shall give good things to men that ask him?
But as ye abound in all things, in faith, and word, and knowing [or science], and all busyness, moreover and in your charity into us, that also in this grace ye abound.