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Introduction Few subjects generate as much quiet tension in the modern church as tithing. Some treat it as settled law, unmoved by the arrival of the New Covenant. Others treat it as abolished, folded entirely into the broader command to give generously. This post lays out the full case for why the tenth may still stand as a living pattern of worship, lays out the full case that its legal force ended with the Levitical priesthood, and then sits honestly with the tension between them rather than forcing a premature resolution in either direction. Neither side is presented as a strawman to be knocked down; both are argued at full strength, because both rest on real textual ground. The Text at the Center of the Debate The argument begins in Hebrews 7:8: "And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth." The writer of Hebrews is contrasting two priesthoods. The Levitical priests were mortal men: they served, aged, and ...