Tithes and Tithing: Every Verse in the Bible About TithingSample

A question that I often hear is this:

Is tithing required for Christians today?

It is critically important to understand that tithing is NOT a requirement for salvation, God’s love for you, or even God being pleased with you.

There are many leaders who I greatly respect who would answer this question differently, but I really like how Rev. Bill Miller answers it:

“There is only one time in your Bible where tithing was a REQUIREMENT and that was during the fifteen hundred years before Jesus came while Israel was under the LAW.

Before that, there was a bigger picture of HONORING God with one’s substance. An honoring occurs when something that is of value to the one doing the giving is freely or voluntarily giving to someone as a sacrificial gesture of thanksgiving or appreciation. Is God worthy to be highly esteemed for what He has done and what He still does in our lives that we would specially HONOR Him for it? If it was that way before the LAW, how much more should He be esteemed under the New Covenant where we have been given a BETTER Covenant with all things in Christ (Hebrews 8:6)?

Even during the LAW where a specific form of tithing was REQUIRED, it was only for some of the people. There was never a universal tenth that was REQUIRED from everybody. In addition, even during that time after the tithe was instituted at the beginning of the Israelites’ second year in the wilderness, God PREFERRED freewill offerings. Study all this out for yourself, starting in Exodus 35:5.

Friend, giving to God is about HONORING Him for the great things He has done in our lives. It ALWAYS has been that way, even under the LAW. We are not REQUIRED to tithe under the New Covenant. But where is the scripture that says we can stop honoring God under the New Covenant?”