Do we have to pay tithes?

[n david]

Originally Posted by 1ofthechosen

Malachi 3:8-9 is saying it's robbing God or it wouldn't say "ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. And 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, [10] Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." So if it's robbery it always was, and always will be robbery. And the scripture doesn't say "thieves shall not inherit the kingdom of God." That's what he's saying and scripture says the samething in that context.

"even this whole nation" is referring to the curse, not the robbing.

Gill: "even this whole nation; the sin was become general, and therefore a general judgment was inflicted on them: Grotius thinks, that the people seeing the priests withhold the tithes from the Levites, they refused to pay them to them, and so the sin became universal. Kimchi observes, that in other sins charged upon the nation, the people were not all alike guilty, but in this which respected the tithes and offerings they were. "