Tithes in the Scriptures

Wisdom from our Holy Scripture about Tithes:

Blessed be Abram by God Most High, the creator of heaven and earth;

And blessed be God Most High, who delivered your foes into your hand." Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

• Genesis 14:19-20

Jacob then made this vow: "If God remains with me, to protect me on this journey I am making and to give me enough bread to eat and clothing to wear,

and I come back safe to my father's house, the LORD shall be my God.

This stone that I have set up as a memorial stone shall be God's abode. Of everything you give me, I will faithfully return a tenth part to you."

• Genesis 28:20-22

But do not neglect the Levite within your gates, for he has no hereditary portion with you.

• Deuteronomy 14:27 (This is for us to remember our priests / clergy.)

Dare a man rob God? Yet you are robbing me! And you say, "How do we rob you?" In tithes and in offerings!

You are indeed accursed, for you, the whole nation, rob me.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, That there may be food in my house, and try me in this, says the LORD of hosts: Shall I not open for you the floodgates of heaven, to pour down blessing upon you without measure?

For your sake I will forbid the locust to destroy your crops; And the vine in the field will not be barren, says the LORD of hosts.

Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land, says the LORD of hosts.

• ‎Malachi 3:8-12

Honor the LORD with your wealth, with first fruits of all your produce; Then will your barns be filled with grain, with new wine your vats will overflow.

• Proverbs 3:9-10

All tithes of the land, whether in grain from the fields or in fruit from the trees, belong to the LORD, as sacred to him.

If someone wishes to buy back any of his tithes, he shall pay one fifth more than their value.

The tithes of the herd and the flock shall be determined by ceding to the LORD as sacred every tenth animal as they are counted by the herdsman's rod.

• Leviticus 27:30-32

He sat down opposite the treasury and observed how the crowd put money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums.

A poor widow also came and put in two small coins worth a few cents.

Calling his disciples to himself, he said to them, "Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury.

For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood.

• Mark 12:41-44

Give and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap. For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you.

• Luke 6:38

Each must do as already determined, without sadness or compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Moreover, God is able to make every grace abundant for you, so that in all things, always having all you need, you may have an abundance for every good work.

As it is written: "He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor; his righteousness endures forever."

The one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

You are being enriched in every way for all generosity, which through us produces thanksgiving to God,

for the administration of this public service is not only supplying the needs of the holy ones but is also overflowing in many acts of thanksgiving to God.

• 2 Corinthians 9:7-12

This "Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest of God Most High, met Abraham as he returned from his defeat of the kings" and "blessed him."

And Abraham apportioned to him "a tenth of everything." His name first means righteous king, and he was also "king of Salem," that is, king of peace.

• Hebrews 7:1-2

When you have finished setting aside all the tithes of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithes, and have given them to the Levite, the resident alien, the orphan and the widow, that they may eat and be satisfied in your own communities,

you shall declare before the LORD, your God, “I have purged my house of the sacred portion and I have given it to the Levite, the resident alien, the orphan and the widow, just as you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, nor forgotten any.

I have not eaten any of the tithe while in mourning; I have not brought any of it while unclean; I have not offered any of it to the dead. I have thus obeyed the voice of the LORD, my God, and done just as you have commanded me.

Look down, then, from heaven, your holy abode, and bless your people Israel and the fields you have given us, as you promised on oath to our ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Deuteronomy 26:12-15