WAGES

Passages on this topic · 54

• Genesis 29:15

  Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”

• Genesis 29:16

  Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

• Genesis 29:17

  Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

• Genesis 29:18

  Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

• Genesis 29:19

  Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”

• Genesis 29:20

  Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

• Genesis 29:21

  Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

• Genesis 29:22

  Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

• Genesis 29:23

  In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

• Genesis 29:24

  Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.

• Genesis 29:25

  In the morning, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”

• Genesis 29:26

  Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

• Genesis 29:27

  Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years.”

• Genesis 29:28

  Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

• Genesis 29:29

  Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his servant, to be her servant.

• Genesis 29:30

  He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

• Genesis 30:28

  He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.”

• Genesis 30:29

  He said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

• Genesis 30:30

  For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”

• Genesis 30:31

  He said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.

• Genesis 30:32

  I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.

• Genesis 30:33

  So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen.”

• Genesis 30:34

  Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”

• Genesis 31:7

  Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

• Genesis 31:41

  These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

• 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.

• 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.

• Deuteronomy 25:4

  You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

• 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;

• Haggai 1:6

  You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”

• 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?’

• Luke 3:14

  Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”

• 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.

• Romans 6:23

  For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Colossians 4:1

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

• 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.