EMPLOYER

Passages on this topic · 28

• 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 25:43

  You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

• Deuteronomy 5:14

  but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

• 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.

• Job 31:13

  “If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;

• Job 31:14

  What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

• Job 31:15

  Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

• Proverbs 22:16

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

• Proverbs 29:21

  He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.

• Jeremiah 22:13

  “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

• 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 20:10

  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?’

• 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.

• Romans 4:4

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

• Ephesians 6:9

  You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

• Colossians 4:1

  Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

• 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.”

• Philemon 1:15

  For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever,

• Philemon 1:16

  no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

• 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.

• James 5:5

  You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.