Tithes and Offering Blessings Verses


⚖️ Tithe vs offering

TitheOffering
Hebrew / Greekma’aser · dekatēminchah, nedavah, terumah · charis, koinōnia
AmountFixed — 10%Variable — as purposed in the heart (2 Corinthians 9:7)
Required?Commanded (Leviticus 27:30)Freewill (Exodus 25:2; Leviticus 22:18)
OrientationBackward — increase already receivedForward — sown in faith (Galatians 6:7)
Paired inMalachi 3:8 — tithes and offerings named togetherSame verse — distinct items

Different words in Hebrew and Greek — not one generic “giving” term. Full word list, who receives each, and every verse: Tithe vs Offering in Scripture.


🏷️ Labels

LabelBadgeMeaning
TitheTitheFixed tenth — often tied to storehouse and minister support
OfferingOfferingFreewill gift, alms, sacrifice, or collection
HolinessHolinessFirstfruit / tithe set apart — lump also holy
IncreaseIncreaseBarns, harvest, supply, sowing and reaping
Curse reversedCurse reversedPlague stayed, ground not cursed again
Faith rewardedFaith rewardedAccepted offering, righteousness witnessed
Divine favourDivine favourDream, visitation, memorial before God
Covenant blessingCovenant blessingLand, people, or lineage blessed

📜 All verses

Holiness & firstfruits

Romans 11:16 · Tithe · Holiness

Giving: Tithe · Outcome: Holiness

“For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.”

Romans 11:16 (KJV)

Leviticus 27:30 · Tithe · Holiness

Giving: Tithe · Outcome: Holiness

“And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’s: it is holy unto the LORD.”

Leviticus 27:30 (KJV)

Exodus 13:2 · Offering · Holiness

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Holiness

“Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.”

Exodus 13:2 (KJV)

Proverbs 3:9–10 · Offering · Increase

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Increase

“Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.”

Proverbs 3:9–10 (KJV)

Faith offerings

Hebrews 11:4 · Offering · Faith rewarded

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Faith rewarded

“By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.”

Hebrews 11:4 (KJV)

Genesis 4:4 · Offering · Faith rewarded

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Faith rewarded

“And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering.”

Genesis 4:4 (KJV)

Patriarchs

Genesis 14:18–20 · Tithe · Divine favour

Giving: Tithe · Outcome: Divine favour

“And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.”

Genesis 14:18–20 (KJV)

Genesis 14:22–23 · Tithe · Holiness

Giving: Tithe · Outcome: Holiness

“And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich.”

Genesis 14:22–23 (KJV)

Hebrews 7:9–10 · Tithe · Covenant blessing

Giving: Tithe · Outcome: Covenant blessing

“And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham. For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met him.”

Hebrews 7:9–10 (KJV)

Genesis 8:20–22 · Offering · Curse reversed

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Curse reversed

“And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

Genesis 8:20–22 (KJV)

Kings & temple

1 Kings 3:4–15 · Offering · Divine favour

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Divine favour

“And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar. In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee… And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child… Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people… And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing… And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour.”

1 Kings 3:4–5, 7, 9–10, 13 (KJV, abridged)

1 Kings 8:63–66 · Offering · Divine favour

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Divine favour

“And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD… And on the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.”

1 Kings 8:63, 66 (KJV, abridged)

2 Chronicles 7:1–3 · Offering · Divine favour

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Divine favour

“Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house. And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD’s house. And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.”

2 Chronicles 7:1–3 (KJV)

2 Samuel 24:25 · Offering · Curse reversed

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Curse reversed

“And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.”

2 Samuel 24:25 (KJV)

Law — promise & reversal

Malachi 3:8–12 · Both · Increase

Giving: Tithe + Offering · Outcome: Increase

“Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse, for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation of you. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts. And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.”

Malachi 3:8–12 (KJV)

Deuteronomy 26:15 · Tithe · Covenant blessing

Giving: Tithe · Outcome: Covenant blessing

“Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.”

Deuteronomy 26:15 (KJV)

Deuteronomy 15:10 · Offering · Increase

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Increase

“Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.”

Deuteronomy 15:10 (KJV)

2 Chronicles 31:10 · Both · Increase

Giving: Tithe + Offering · Outcome: Increase

“And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.”

2 Chronicles 31:10 (KJV)

Haggai 2:18–19 · Offering · Increase

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Increase

“Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider it… from this day will I bless you.”

Haggai 2:18–19 (KJV, abridged)

Nehemiah 13:12 · Tithe · Increase

Giving: Tithe · Outcome: Increase

“Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries.”

Nehemiah 13:12 (KJV)

New Testament — sowing & supply

2 Corinthians 9:6–11 · Offering · Increase

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Increase

“But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully… And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work… being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.”

2 Corinthians 9:6–8, 11 (KJV, abridged)

Luke 6:38 · Offering · Increase

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Increase

“Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.”

Luke 6:38 (KJV)

Galatians 6:7 · Offering · Increase

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Increase

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

Galatians 6:7 (KJV)

Philippians 4:19 · Offering · Increase

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Increase

“But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

Philippians 4:19 (KJV)

Luke 21:1–4 · Offering · Divine favour

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Divine favour

“And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all.”

Luke 21:1–3 (KJV)

Mark 12:41–44 · Offering · Divine favour

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Divine favour

“And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites… And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury.”

Mark 12:41–43 (KJV, abridged)

Alms & divine favour

Acts 10:1–4 · Offering · Divine favour

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Divine favour

“There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius. And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.”

Acts 10:1–4 (KJV)

Acts 10:5–6 · Offering · Divine favour

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Divine favour

“And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter: He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do.”

Acts 10:5–6 (KJV)

Matthew 6:3–4 · Offering · Divine favour

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Divine favour

“But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.”

Matthew 6:3–4 (KJV)

Luke 11:41 · Offering · Holiness

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Holiness

“But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.”

Luke 11:41 (KJV)

Acts 9:36 · Offering · Divine favour

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Divine favour

“Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.”

Acts 9:36 (KJV)

Job 42:8–10 · Offering · Curse reversed

Giving: Offering · Outcome: Curse reversed

“Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering… So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job. And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.”

Job 42:8–10 (KJV, abridged)



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