Take the 2-minute tour ×   I was intrigued by Jesus saying that
they were fastidious in their tithes, but omitting judgment,
mercy, and faith. So I looked up the meaning of both tithe, and
alms in Webster's dictionary.  TITHE  The tenth part of any
thing; but appropriately, the tenth part of the increase
annually arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to
the  clergy for their support. Tithes are personal, predial, or
mixed; personal, when accruing from labor, art, trade and
navigation; predial, when issuing from the  earth, as hay, wood
and fruit; and mixed, when accruing from beasts, which are  fed
from the ground.  ALMS  Any thing given gratuitously to relieve
the poor, as money, food, or clothing, otherwise called charity.
I also ran across the following verses:   Luke 12:34 KJV For
where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.  I have
taken those to say that Christians have a bigger obligation,
than just giving a tenth to the Church.  I have checked for
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