Deuteronomy 24:15

A poor laborer must be paid his wages the same day, before sunset, because he depends on them to live. Delayed payment to the needy is a sin God hears and judges.

Cross-references · 17

• Lev 19:13You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
• Jas 5:4Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
• Prov 3:27–28Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.
• Jer 22:13“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
• Deut 15:9Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
• Exod 22:23–24If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.
• Job 35:9Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
• Job 34:28They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.
• Ps 25:1Of David. To You, O LORD, I lift up my soul;
• Isa 5:7For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.
• Ps 24:4He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.
• Mark 10:19You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’”
• Prov 23:10–11Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
• Job 31:38if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,
• Ps 86:4Bring joy to Your servant, for to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
• Matt 20:8When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last ones hired and moving on to the first.’
• Prov 22:22–23Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,

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