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108 Offering and Tithes
Think about this: Christ loved us so much that he gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering to God.1 He made the ultimate sacrifice for you on the cross, loving you to death and beyond. Even as time marches on, His love stays constant.
It's so important for you to grasp that the biggest sacrifice has already been made. But now, you get to be a pleasing offering to God, too. Let your service, your honor, and your giving be a delight to your Heavenly Father. Know that Jesus has given you everything, and anything you offer pales in comparison to His love.
Giving to God, supporting His work, it's an expression of love. Don't see it as a burden or an obligation, but as a response to God's love and Jesus' sacrifice. It's a way of saying "thank you" for everything Heaven has poured into your life.
1Ephesians 5:2
and now I shall no more think on the sins and the wickedness of them.And where remission of these is, now is there none offering for sin.
Honour thou the Lord of thy chattel [or substance], and of the best of all thy fruits give thou to poor men;
Jesus spake these words in the treasury, teaching in the temple; and no man took him, for his hour came not yet.
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.
And Jesus said to him, See, say thou to no man; but go, show thee to the priests, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, in witnessing to them.
and walk ye in love, as Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God, into the odour of sweetness.
His lord said to him, Well be thou, good servant and true [or faithful]; for on few things thou hast been true [or faithful], I shall ordain thee on many things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord.But he that had taken one bezant [or talent], came, and said, Lord, I know that thou art an hard man; thou reapest where thou hast not sown, and thou gatherest together where thou hast not spread abroad;
Each man as he casted in his heart, not of heaviness, or of need; for God loveth a glad giver.
And Jesus sitting against the treasury, beheld how the people cast money into the treasury; and many rich men casted many things.But when a poor widow was come, she cast two minutes, that is, a farthing.And he called together his disciples, and said to them, Truly I say to you, that this poor widow cast more than all, that cast into the treasury.For all they cast of that thing that they had plenty of; but this of her poverty cast all things that she had, all her livelode [or lifelode].
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;
But I in voice of praising shall offer to thee; whatever things I vowed, I shall yield to the Lord, for mine health.
that gave himself for us, to again-buy us from all wickedness, and make clean to himself a people acceptable, and pursuer of good works.
Which also spared not his own Son, but betook him for us all, how also gave he not to us all things with him?
but each man shall offer after that that he hath, by the blessing of his Lord God, that he gave to him.
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 if the will be ready, it is accepted after that that it hath, not after that that it hath not.
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,
bring ye to the Lord glory to his name. Take ye sacrifices, and enter ye into the halls of him;
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.
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.
And do not ye forget well-doing, and communing; for by such sacrifices God is well-served.
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.
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 he blessed Abram, and said, Blessed be Abram of [the] high God, that made heaven and earth of nought,began battle against Bera, king of Sodom, and against Birsha, king of Gomorrah, and against Shinab, king of Admah, and against Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and against the king of Bela, that Bela is Zoar.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.
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.
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.
Offer thou to God the sacrifice of praising; and yield thine avows [or vows] to the highest God.
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.
they brought in faithfully both the first fruits, and tithes, and whatever things they had avowed [or vowed]. And Conaniah, the deacon [or Levite], was [the] sovereign of those things; and Shimei, his brother was the second, next to him;
Sacrifice ye the sacrifice or Offer ye an offering of rightfulness [or right-wiseness], and hope ye in the Lord;
He that is ready to give mercy shall be blessed; for of his loaves he gave some to a poor man.
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.
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.
And whoever giveth drink to one of these least, a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, he shall not lose his meed.
Whether not this is more the fasting, which I choose? Unbind thou the bindings together of unpity, either of cruelty, release thou [the] burdens pressing down; deliver thou them free, that be broken, and break thou each burden.Break thy bread to the hungry man, and bring into thine house needy men and harbourless; when thou seest a naked man, cover thou him, and despise not thy flesh, that is, brother or sister.
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.
He that is taught in word, commune he with him that teacheth him, in all goods [or in all good things].
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,to treasure to themselves a good foundament, into time to coming [or time to come], that they catch everlasting life.
Speak thou to the sons of Israel, that they take to me the first fruits; of each man that offereth willfully, ye shall take those [things].
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 this Melchizedek, king of Salem, and [the] priest of the highest God, which met Abraham, as he turned again from the slaying of the kings, and blessed him;and yet he was in his father’s loins, when Melchizedek met him.Therefore if perfection was by the priesthood of Levi, for under him the people took the law, what yet was it needful, another priest to rise, by the order of Melchizedek, and not to be said by the order of Aaron?For why when the priesthood is translated, it is need[ful] that also [the] translation of the law be made.But he in whom these things be said, is of another lineage, of which no man was priest to the altar.For it is open [or it is openly known], that our Lord is born of Judah, in which lineage Moses spake nothing of priests.And more yet it is known, if by the order of Melchizedek another priest is risen up;which is not made by the law of fleshly commandment, but by [the] virtue of life that may not be undone [or is indissoluble].For he witnesseth, That thou art a priest without end, by the order of Melchizedek;that reproving of the command-ment before-going is made, for the unfirmness and unprofit of it.For why the law brought nothing to perfection, but there is a bringing in of a better hope, by which we nigh to God.to whom also Abraham parted tithes of all things; first he is said king of rightwiseness, and afterward king of Salem, that is to say, king of peace,
All day he coveteth and desireth; but he that is a just [or rightwise] man, shall give, and shall not cease.
The Lord made all things, what-ever things he would, in heaven and in earth; in the sea, and in all depths of waters.He led out clouds from the farthest part of [the] earth; and made light-nings into rain. Which bringeth forth winds from his treasures [or treasuries];
So shine your light before men, that they see your good works, and glorify your Father that is in heavens.
And God is mighty to make all grace abound in you, that ye in all things evermore have all sufficience, and abound into all good work;
But think thou upon thy Lord God, that he hath given strengths to thee, that he should fulfill his covenant, of which he swore to thy fathers, as this present day showeth.
My God, I know, that thou provest hearts, and that thou lovest simpleness, that is, lowness, or meekness, of heart; wherefore in the simpleness of mine heart, I have offered gladly all these things; and I have seen with great joy thy people, which is found here, to offer gifts to thee.
A sinner shall borrow, and shall not pay back; but a just [or rightwise] man hath mercy, and shall give.
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.]
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.
Treasures of wickedness shall not profit; but rightfulness [or rightwiseness] shall deliver from death.
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.
For Macedonia and Achaia have assayed to make some gift, [or some collection, or gathering of money], to poor men of saints, that be in Jerusalem.
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.
Willfully I shall sacrifice to thee; and, Lord, I shall acknowledge to thy name, for it is good.
Forsooth a prince shall think those things that be worthy to a prince, and he shall stand over dukes.
Know ye not, that they that work in the temple, eat those things that be of the temple, and they that serve to the altar, be partners of the altar?So the Lord ordained to them that tell the gospel, to live of the gospel.
Jesus saith to him, If thou wilt be perfect, go, and sell all things that thou hast, and give to poor men, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, and pursue me.
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.
Ye countries of heathen men, bring to the Lord, bring ye glory and honour to the Lord;bring ye to the Lord glory to his name. Take ye sacrifices, and enter ye into the halls of him;
They going, went, and wept; sending their seeds. But they coming, shall come with full out joying; bearing their handfuls.
He that pursueth [or followeth] avarice, troubleth his house; but he that hateth gifts shall live. Sins be purged by mercy and faith; each man boweth away from evil by the dread of the Lord.
Therefore by him offer we a sacrifice of praising evermore to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips acknowledging to his name.
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.
The priests that be well governors, [that is, truly keep well priesthood], be they had worthy to double honour; most they that travail in word and teaching.For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not bridle the mouth of the ox threshing, and, A workman is worthy his hire.
Make thou far from me vanity and words of leasing; give thou not to me begging and riches; but give thou only necessaries to my lifelode;lest peradventure I be full-filled, and be drawn to deny, and say, Who is the Lord? and lest I be compelled by neediness, and steal, and forswear the name of my God.
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.
For ye, Philippians, know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I went forth from Macedonia, no church communed with me in reason, of thing given and taken, but ye alone.Which sent to Thessalonica once and twice also into use to me.
The psalm of David. The Lord governeth me, and nothing shall fail to me;in the place of pasture there he hath set me. He nourished me on the water of refreshing;
He that giveth to a poor man, shall not be needy; he that despiseth a poor man beseeching, shall suffer neediness.
And over these things, I give gold and silver into the temple of my God, which I have offered of my proper chattel [or mine own treasure] into the house of my God, besides these things which I have made ready into the holy house,
when thou sheddest [or shalt pour] out thy soul, either thy will, to an hungry man, and [ful] fillest a soul that is tormented, thy light shall rise in darknesses, and thy darknesses shall be as midday.
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 thou, Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again; and I shall yield to them.In this thing I knew, that thou wouldest or delightest in me; for mine enemy shall not have joy on me.Forsooth thou hast taken me up for mine innocence; and hast confirmed me in thy sight without end.Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, from the world, and into the world; be it done, be it done.The Lord keep him, and quicken him, and make him blessful in the land; and betake not him into the will of his enemies.
Do not ye treasure to you treasures [here] in earth, where rust and moth destroyeth, and where thieves delve out, and steal;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.
But thou shalt give to him, and thou shalt not do anything falsely in relieving his needs, that thy Lord God bless thee in all time, and in all things to which thou shalt put to thine hand.
The blessing of the Lord maketh rich men; and torment shall not be fellowshipped to them.
He spreaded abroad, he gave to poor men; his rightwiseness dwelleth into the world of world; his horn shall be raised in glory.
But, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God, that is given in the churches of Macedonia,And I give counsel in this thing; for this is profitable to you, that not only have begun to do, but also ye began to have will from the former year.But now perform ye in deed, that as the discretion of will is ready [to desire good], so be it also of perform-ing of that that ye have.For if the will be ready, it is accepted after that that it hath, not after that that it hath not.And not that it be remission, [or idleness, or sloth], to other men, and to you tribulation;but of evenness in the present time your abundance fulfill the need of them, that also the abundance of them be a fulfilling of your need, that evenness be made;as it is written, He that gathered much, was not increased, and he that gathered little, had not less.And I do thankings to God, that gave the same busyness for you in the heart of Titus,for he received exhortation; but when he was busier, by his will he went forth to you.And we sent with him a brother, whose praising is in the gospel by all churches.And not only praised, but also he is ordained of churches the fellow of our pilgrimage into this grace, that is administered of us, to the glory of the Lord, and to our ordained will;that in much assaying of tribula-tion, the plenty [or the abundance] of the joy of them was, and the highest poverty of them was plenteous into the riches of the simpleness of them.eschewing this thing, that no man blame us in this plenty, that is admin-istered of us, to the glory of the Lord.For we purvey good things, not only before God, but also before all men.For we sent with them also our brother, whom we have proved in many things oft, that he was busy, but now much busier, for much trust in you,either for Titus, that is my fellow and helper in you, either for our brethren, apostles of the churches of the glory of Christ.Therefore show ye to them in the face of churches, that showing that is of your charity, and of our glory for you.For I bear witnessing to them, after might, [or after power], and above might they were willful,with much admonishing beseech-ing us the grace and the communing of ministering [or of the ministry] that is made to holy men.And not as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, afterward to us by the will of God.
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.
And the people was glad, when they promised avows [or vows] by their free will, for with all the heart they offered those [or them] to the Lord. But also king David was glad with great joy,
he that stirreth softly, in admonishing [or in exhortation]; he that giveth, in simpleness; he that is sovereign, [or is prelate, or is before], in busyness; he that hath mercy, in gladness.
Give thou to him that asketh of thee, and turn thou not away from him that will borrow of thee.
he maketh doom to them that suffer wrong; he giveth meat to them that be hungry. The Lord unbindeth fettered men;
only that we had mind of, [or that we should be mindful of], poor men, the which thing I was full busy to do.
And when I shall be present, which men ye approve, I shall send them by epistles to bear your grace into Jerusalem.That if it be worthy that also I go, they shall go with me.
He that hath mercy on a poor man, lendeth to the Lord; and he shall yield his while to him.
that in all things ye made rich wax plenteous [or abound] into all simpleness, which worketh by us doing of thankings to God.
When thou shalt give to them, they shall gather; when thou shalt open thine hand, all things shall be filled with goodness.
and the work of rightfulness [or rightwiseness] shall be peace, and the tilth of rightfulness [or rightwiseness] shall be stillness and secureness, till into without end.
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?
loving together the charity of brotherhood. Each come before to worship other [or Coming before together in honour];
Cast thy care, or thought, [or thy busyness], on the Lord, and he shall fully nourish thee; and he shall not give without end fluttering to a just [or rightwise] man.
Do not ye err, God is not scorned; for those things that a man soweth, those things he shall reap.
Raising a needy man from the earth; and enhancing a poor man from drit.That he set him with princes; with the princes of his people.
But behold ye how great is this [man], to whom Abraham the patriarch gave tithes of the best things.