EMPLOYEE

Passages on this topic · 48

• Leviticus 19:13

  “‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

• Leviticus 25:6

  The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.

• Deuteronomy 15:18

  It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for he has been double value of a hired hand as he served you six years. Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

• Deuteronomy 24:14

  You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers, or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.

• Deuteronomy 24:15

  In his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

• Ruth 2:4

  Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, “May Yahweh be with you.” They answered him, “May Yahweh bless you.”

• Job 7:1

  “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

• Job 7:2

  As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,

• Job 7:3

  so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

• Job 14:1

  “Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

• Job 14:6

  Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

• Proverbs 22:16

  Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

• Malachi 3:5

  I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

• Matthew 10:10

  Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

• Matthew 20:1

  “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

• Matthew 20:2

  When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

• Matthew 20:3

  He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

• Matthew 20:4

  He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went their way.

• Matthew 20:5

  Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.

• Matthew 20:6

  About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’

• Matthew 20:7

  “They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ “He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’

• Matthew 20:8

  When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’

• Matthew 20:9

  “When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.

• Matthew 20:10

  When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.

• Matthew 20:11

  When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

• Matthew 20:12

  saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’

• Matthew 20:13

  “But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius?

• Matthew 20:14

  Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.

• Matthew 20:15

  Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

• Matthew 21:33

  “Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

• Matthew 21:34

  When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.

• Matthew 21:35

  The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

• Matthew 21:36

  Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.

• Matthew 21:37

  But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

• Matthew 21:38

  But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’

• Matthew 21:39

  So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

• Matthew 21:40

  When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”

• Matthew 21:41

  They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”

• Luke 10:7

  Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.

• Luke 15:15

  He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

• Luke 15:16

  He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

• Luke 15:17

  But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

• Luke 15:19

  I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.”’

• John 10:12

  He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

• John 10:13

  The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep.

• Romans 4:4

  Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

• 1 Timothy 5:18

  For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

• James 5:4

  Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.