What Does the Bible Say About Paying Workers?

Deuteronomy 24:14-15 ESV / 12 helpful votes

“You shall not oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns. You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and counts on it), lest he cry against you to the Lord, and you be guilty of sin.

Leviticus 19:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Matthew 20:1-16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. ...

Leviticus 25:43 ESV / 5 helpful votes

You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God.

Leviticus 19:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another.

Leviticus 25:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:

1 Thessalonians 3:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

Zechariah 7:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”

Deuteronomy 24:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them again. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.

Deuteronomy 24:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Deuteronomy 15:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed.

Deuteronomy 15:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,

Leviticus 25:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.

Leviticus 25:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

Leviticus 19:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.

Exodus 22:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him, but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double. “If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard. ...

Mark 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.

Jeremiah 22:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Deuteronomy 23:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If you go into your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck the ears with your hand, but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain.

Leviticus 19:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest.

Genesis 31:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You know that I have served your father with all my strength,

Genesis 29:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He said, “Behold, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered together. Water the sheep and go, pasture them.”

Titus 1:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,

1 Timothy 6:1-21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Let all who are under a yoke as bondservants regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things. If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain. ...

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

Micah 6:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

Amos 8:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances,

Isaiah 1:22 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Your silver has become dross, your best wine mixed with water.

Proverbs 2:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.

Psalm 24:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place?

Psalm 15:1-5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

A Psalm of David. O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart; who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend; in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honors those who fear the Lord; who swears to his own hurt and does not change; who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

Ruth 2:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

Deuteronomy 23:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Because the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.

34 Bible Verses about Paying Workers

Deuteronomy 24:14-15 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Matthew 20:1-16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Leviticus 25:43 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Leviticus 25:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 3:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Zechariah 7:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 24:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 24:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 15:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 15:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Leviticus 25:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Leviticus 25:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 22:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Mark 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 22:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 23:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 31:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 29:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 1:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Timothy 6:1-21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Micah 6:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Amos 8:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 1:22 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Proverbs 2:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Psalm 24:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Psalm 15:1-5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ruth 2:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Deuteronomy 23:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Paying Workers

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Deuteronomy 24:14-15 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Matthew 20:1-16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Leviticus 25:43 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Leviticus 25:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 3:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Zechariah 7:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 24:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 24:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 15:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 15:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Leviticus 25:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Leviticus 25:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 22:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Mark 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 22:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 23:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 31:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 29:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 1:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Timothy 6:1-21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Micah 6:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Amos 8:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 1:22 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Proverbs 2:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Psalm 24:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Psalm 15:1-5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ruth 2:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Deuteronomy 23:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote