Salary

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.

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

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.

“‘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.

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

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.

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;

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

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. — read the full passage →

Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

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.”

For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares, — read the full passage →

“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. — read the full passage →

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.”

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching. — read the full passage →

Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?” The man of God answered, “Yahweh is able to give you much more than this.”

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it. — read the full passage →

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.

For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — read the full passage →

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.

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

But godliness with contentment is great gain. — read the full passage →

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.

Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, “Since people began to bring the offerings into Yahweh’s house, we have eaten and had enough, and have left plenty: for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

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

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.” — read the full passage →

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

“‘You shall not steal. “‘You shall not lie. “‘You shall not deceive one another.

But whoever keeps his word, God’s love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him: — read the full passage →

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting; — read the full passage →

For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you, — read the full passage →

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk? — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

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

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

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.’

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

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.”

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold. — read the full passage →

Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. — read the full passage →

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need. — read the full passage →

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.

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

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

I coveted no one’s silver, or gold, or clothing. — read the full passage →

“Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?”

All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

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

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;

For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’”

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.” — read the full passage →

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

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed. — read the full passage →

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity. — read the full passage →

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ; — read the full passage →

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise. — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

He said to them, “Collect no more than that which is appointed to you.” — read the full passage →

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?’

“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. — read the full passage →

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us.”

Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you shall have peace.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.