Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:
⛓ Read Proverbs 3 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Honor the LORD with your substance and with the firstfruits of all your produce' undergirds Paul's appeal to set aside wealth for sacred use. Verbal contact is faint and the proverb is one of several wisdom sources for proportional generosity, so confidence stays low.
Low confidenceThe firstfruits-to-God motif of Proverbs reinforces Paul's honorific use of 'firstfruits' for the Stephanas household and their dedicated service. The link is thematic and secondary to the Deuteronomic rite, so confidence is low.
Low confidence