Quotes about Tithe
When you have finished laying aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your gates.
- Deuteronomy 26:12
He will take a tenth of your grain and grape harvest and give it to his officials and servants.
- 1 Samuel 8:15
As soon as the order went out, the Israelites generously provided the firstfruits of the grain, new wine, oil, and honey, and of all the produce of the field, and they brought in an abundance—a tithe of everything.
- 2 Chronicles 31:5
And the Israelites and Judahites who lived in the cities of Judah also brought a tithe of their herds and flocks and a tithe of the holy things consecrated to the LORD their God, and they laid them in large heaps.
- 2 Chronicles 31:6
This is the contribution you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley.
- Ezekiel 45:13
Consider how great Melchizedek was: Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder.
- Hebrews 7:4
And so to speak, Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham.
- Hebrews 7:9
Have you ever wondered what a church full of Pharisees would be like? 1. They would all attend every service 2. They would all tithe 3. They would all work in the church 4. They would all go to hell.
- Adrian Rogers
Tithing is considerably less popular than words like generosity or sharing.
- John Ortberg
The Bible sets no percentage goal in giving. Giving 10 percent of your gross income does not necessarily mean you have fulfilled the will of God.
- Donald Whitney
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin.
- Anonymous
Whether or not the tithe is still the minimal measure of those firstfruits, I ask myself, Does God expect His New Covenant children to give less or more? Jesus raised the spiritual bar; He never lowered it (Matthew 5:27—28).
- Randy Alcorn