Wages

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

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.

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;

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 →

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

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.

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

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

“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 →

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 →

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.”

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.”

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.”

“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 →

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 →

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.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

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.

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

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

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

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 →

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:” — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

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

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 →

“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.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

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

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.

He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.

The labor of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin.

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

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

“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 →

If he said this, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked.

For man is not from woman, but woman from man;

Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off her multitude, and take her plunder, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.

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

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him. — read the full passage →

Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” The woman took the child, and nursed it.

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 →

The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

“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.’

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

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

Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house. — read the full passage →

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

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

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

I said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

When they had come, they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t defer to anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? — read the full passage →

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. — read the full passage →

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied. — read the full passage →

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords. — read the full passage →

You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household. — read the full passage →

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.

“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.

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

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme; — 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 God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ — 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 have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

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?

Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

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

But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

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

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

He entered and was passing through Jericho. — read the full passage →

“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord. — read the full passage →

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

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.”

Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor. — read the full passage →

I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, “Come and see!” — read the full passage →