TSK · Luke 18:12

"'All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh's. It is holy to Yahweh.

God met Balaam: and he said to him, "I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar."

He said, "Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh." So they made him ride in his chariot.

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.

Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.

"When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?"

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.'"

Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.

I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.