67 Bible Verses about Wages

Thou shalt not oppress the poor and needy hireling from thy brethren, or from thy stranger which is in thy land in thy gates. In his day thou shalt give his hire, and the sun shall not go down upon it, for he is poor, and he lifted up his soul to it; and he will cry against thee to Jehovah, and it was sin in thee.

Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbor, and thou shalt not rob: the wages of the hireling shall not remain with thee till morning.

And he reckoned with him buying him, from the year of his being sold to him till the year of the jubilee: and the silver of his selling was according to the number of years, as the days of a hireling, shall it be with him.

And having answered, he said to them, Give ye them to eat. And they say to him, Having gone, should we buy loaves of two hundred drachmas, and give them to eat?

Philip answered him. Loaves of two hundred drachmas will not suffice them, that each of them should take some little.

For this could have been sold for above three hundred drachmas, and have been given to the poor. And they raged against her.

Wherefore was not this perfumed oil sold for three hundred drachmas, and given to the poor?

And I came near to you for judgment: and I was a swift witness against those practicing magic, and against those committing adultery, and against those swearing to falsehood, and against those oppressing the hire of the hireling, the widow and the orphan, and those turning aside the stranger, and they feared not me, said Jehovah of armies.

Behold, the hire of laborers having reaped your farms, withheld by you, cries out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

Wo to him building his house not with justice, and his upper chambers not with judgment; by his neighbor he will work gratuitously, and he will give him not for his work;

And having agreed for a drachma a day, he sent them to his vineyard. And having gone out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the market-place, And he says to them, Retire ye also into the vineyard, and whatever should be just I will give you: and they departed.

Lords, render ye to servants Justice and equality; knowing that ye also have a Lord in the heavens.

For also when we were with you, this we proclaimed to you, that if any will not work, neither should he eat. For we hear some walking disorderly among you, working nothing, but occupied unprofitably. And to such we proclaim and beseech by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, with freedom from care working, they should eat their own bread.

With affection serving the Lord, and not men. Knowing that whatever good each might do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether a servant or free.

And all, whatever ye do, work ye from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to men;

And they making war asked him, saying, And what shall do? And he said to them, Shake none violently, neither make slanderous accusation; and be content with your pay.

And her pillars were broken in pieces, and all making wages, sorrowful in soul.

Ye sowed much and brought in little; eating and not being satisfied; ye drank, and not drinking to the full; putting on clothing, and not being warm to him; and he hiring out, hires out for a purse perforated.

For before these days there was no hire of man, and not any hire of cattle; and to him going out, and to him coming in, no peace from the straits: and I will send all the men each against his neighbor.

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, A measure of wheat for a drachma, and three measures of barley for a drachma; and thou shouldest not injure the oil and the wine.

And Jacob will flee to the field of Aram, and Israel will serve for a wife, and for a wife he watched.

And Laban will say to Jacob, Because thou art my brother shalt thou serve me gratuitously? announce to me what thy reward.

And Jacob will love Rachel, and will say, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy daughter the small.

And it will be in the morning, and behold, she was Leak And he will say to Laban, What this thou didst to me? did I not serve with thee for Rachel? and wherefore didst thou deceive me? And Laban will say, It shall not be done so in our place, to give the small before the first-born. Complete her seven, and we will give to thee also this for work which thou shalt work with me yet other seven years.

And he will say, Specify thy hire to me, and I will give. And he will say to him, Thou. knewest what I served thee, and what was thy cattle with me. For little which was to thee before me, and it will break forth into a multitude; and Jehovah will praise thee at my foot: and now when shall I make to myself a house?read more.
And he will say, What shall I give to thee? and Jacob will say, Thou shalt not give to me anything. If thou wilt do to me this word, I will return; I will feed thy sheep; I will watch. I will pass over among all thy sheep this day, removing from thence every sheep speckled and patched, and every sheep black among the lambs; and the patched and speckled among the she-goats; and it shall be my hire. And my justice shall speak for me in the day tomorrow, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one which is not speckled and patched among the she-goats and black among the lambs, that to be stolen with me. And Laban will say to him, Behold, it shall be according to thy word.

And ye yourselves knew that with all my strength I served, your father, And your father deceived me and changed my wages ten parts; and God gave him not to do evil by me.

If thus he will say, The speckled shall be thy hire; and all the sheep shall bring forth speckled: and if thus he will say, The banded shall be thy hire, and all the sheep will bring forth white-footed. And God will take away the cattle of your father and will give them to me.

These twenty years I am with thee; thy sheep and thy she-goats were not barren, and the rams of thy flock, I ate not. The torn I brought not to thee; I shall bear the blame of it; from my hand thou will seek it, thefts of the day, and thefts of the night I was in the day, the drought consumed me, and cold in the night, and sleep will flee away from mine eyes.read more.
Here to me twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy sheep; and thou wilt change my hire ten portions. If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaak was not with me, then now, empty thou hadst sent me away. My affliction and the labor of my hand God saw and he rebuked yesterday.

And say to them, In your offering its fat from it, and it was reckoned to the Levites as the produce of the threshing-floor, and as the produce of the wine-press. And ye ate it in every place, ye and your house; for it is the reward to you for your service in the tent of appointment

And in that day they will appoint men over the cells to the treasures for the oblations for the first-fruits and for the tenths to collect into them to the fields of the cities the portions of the law to the priests and to the Levites: for the gladness of Judah over the priests and over the Levites standing.

And I shall know that the portions of the Levites were not given: and they will flee a man to his field, the Levites and those singing, doing the work And I shall contend with the prefects, and say, Wherefore was the house of God forsaken? And I shall gather them together, and cause them to stand upon their standing. And all Judah brought the tenth of the grain and the new wine and the new oil to the treasuries.read more.
And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah from the Levites: and upon their hand Hanan son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah: for they were reckoned faithful: and upon them to divide out to their brethren.

And now command and they shall cut for me cedars from Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and the hire of thy servants will I give to thee according to all which thou shalt say: for thou knewest that not among us a man knowing to cut wood as the Sidonians.

And they gave the silver being prepared into the hand of those doing the work of those overseeing the house of Jehovah: and they will bring forth to the artificers of wood, and to the builders doing the house of Jehovah, And to those building the wall, and to the cutters of stone, and to buy woods and stones being cut to strengthen the breach of the house of Jehovah, and for all which went forth upon the house to strengthen. But there shall not be made for the house of Jehovah silver dishes, snuffers, vases, trumpets, any vessels of gold and vessels of silver from the silver being brought to the house of Jehovah:read more.
For they shall give to those doing the work, and they strengthened with it the house of Jehovah. And they will not reckon with the men which they will give the silver into their hand to give to those doing the work, for they do in faith.

And it will be in the eighteenth year to king Josiah, the king sent Shaphen son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the scribe of the house of Jehovah, saying, Go up to Hilkiah the great priest, and he shall complete the silver being brought to the house of Jehovah, which the watchers of the threshold gathered from the people. And they shall give it into the hand of those appointed in the house of Jehovah: and they shall give it to those doing the work which is in the house of Jehovah to strengthen the breach of the house.read more.
To the artificers, and to the builders and the wall builders, and to buy woods and stones hewn to strengthen the house. But the silver given into their hand will not be reckoned with them, for they do in faith.

And in the eighteenth year to his reigning, to cleanse the land and the house he sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah chief of the city, and Joah son of Joahaz the rememberer to strengthen the house of Jehovah his God. And they will come to Hilkiah the great priest, and they will give the silver being brought to the house of God, which the Levites watching the threshold gathered from the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and from all the remnant of Israel, and from all Judah and Benjamin; and they will turn back to Jerusalem. And they will give to the hand of those appointed to do the work in the house of Jehovah, and they will give it to those doing the work, working in the house of Jehovah to repair and to strengthen the house.read more.
And they will give to the artificers and to the builders to buy stones and woods for junctions, and to frame the houses which the kings of Judah destroyed.

And Shaphan the scribe will come to the king, and he will turn the king back word, and he will say, Thy servants melted the silver found in the house, and they will give it into the hand of those doing the work being appointed in the house of Jehovah.

And Shaphan will bring the book to the king, and he will yet turn back word to the king, saying, All which was given into the hand of thy servants, they do. And they will pour out the silver being found in the house of Jehovah, and they will give it to the hand of those reviewing, and to the hand of those doing the work.

And saying to them, If good in your eyes, give ye my hire; and if not, desist. And they will weigh my hire, thirty of silver. And Jehovah will say to me, Cast it to the potter: a splendor of price which I was prized of them. And I shall take the thirty of silver and cast it in the house of Jehovah, to the potter.

Then Judas, he delivering him up, having seen that he was condemned, having felt regret, returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests, and the more ancient, Saying, I have sinned, having delivered up guiltless blood. And they said, What to us? thou shalt see. And having cast down the silver coins in the temple, he withdrew and having gone away, he strangled him self.read more.
And the chief priests, having taken the silver coins, said, It is not lawful to cast them for an offering, since it is the price of blood. And having taken counsel, they purchased with them the potter's field, for the interment to strangers. Wherefore, that field was called, The field of blood, even to this day. Then was completed that having been spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty silver coins, the price of him prized, whom they from the sons of Israel prized; And they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me.

For the kingdom of the heavens is like to a man, master of a house, who went out as soon as morning to hire workmen for his vineyard. And having agreed for a drachma a day, he sent them to his vineyard. And having gone out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the market-place,read more.
And he says to them, Retire ye also into the vineyard, and whatever should be just I will give you: and they departed. Again, having gone out about the sixth and ninth hour, he did likewise. And about the eleventh hour, having gone out, he found others standing idle, and he says to them, Why stand ye here idle the whole day? They say to him, That none has hired us. He says to them, Retire also to the vineyard; and whatever be just, ye shall receive. And it being evening, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, Call the workmen, and give back to them the wages, beginning from the last even to the first. And they of the eleventh hour having come, thereupon received a drachma. And the first, having come, thought that they will receive more; and they also received thereupon a drachma. And having received, they murmured against the master of the house, Saying, That these last worked one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, having borne the burden and heat of the day. And he, having answered, said to one of them, Friend, I injure thee not; didst not thou agree with me for a drachma? Take thine and retire: and I will to give to this last, as also to thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my things? Or is thine eye evil because I am good So shall the last be first, and the first last; for many are called, but few chosen.

Let the elders having presided well be deemed worthy of double honour, chiefly they being wearied in word and doctrine. For the writing says, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox grinding. And, The laborer worthy of his hire.

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox treading.

And remain in the same house, eating and drinking the things of them: for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.

And he reaping receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life: that he sowing might rejoice together and he reaping. For in this the word is true, That one is sowing, and another reaping. I sent you to reap that with which ye have not been wearied: some have been wearied, and others have come into their labor.

Who makes war at any time at his own charges who plants a vineyard, and eats not of its fruit or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock? Not according to man do I speak these things: or does not the law also say these things? For in the law of Moses has been written, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox grinding. Is there not care to God for oxen?read more.
Or does he say altogether on account of us? For it was written on account of us: that he ploughing ought to plough upon hope; and he grinding upon hope, to participate with his hope. If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it great if we shall reap your carnal things? If others participate with your power, not rather we? But we used not this power; but endure all things, lest we give some hindrance to the good news of Christ. Do ye not know that they working consecrated things, eat of the temple? they working diligently at the altar, share together with the altar? Thus also the Lord appointed to them announcing good news to live of the good news.

Let him being taught the word participate with him teaching in all good things.

But I used none of these things: and I wrote not these things, that thus it might be with me: for good to me rather to die, than that any should render my boasting void.

Or did I a sin, humbling myself that ye might be exalted, because I announced to you the good news of God gratuitously? I stripped other churches, having received pay, for your service. And being present with you, and having wanted, I acted not with negligence to any: (for the brethren having come from Macedonia filled up still more my want:) and I kept myself in every thing not burdensome to you, and I will keep.

And I have all, and abound: I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a smell of sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, pleasing to God.

Is there not warfare to man upon the earth, and his days as the days of a hireling? As the servant will gape for the shadow, and as the hireling will wait for his work: So was I caused to possess to me months of vanity, and nights of toil were allotted to me.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man should sow, that also shall he reap. For he sowing to his flesh of the flesh shall reap corruption; but he sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap eternal life. And doing good let us not despond: for in proper time we shall reap, not being enervated.read more.
Wherefore then as we have time, let us work good to all, and chiefly to them of the household of faith.

Therefore what fruit had ye then of what ye are now ashamed? for the end of these, death. And now freed from sin, and subdued to God, ye have your fruit to consecration, and the end life eternal. For the purchasing the provisions of sin, death; and the grace of God, life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.

He being deceived shall not trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his compensation. Before his day it shall be completed, and his branch was not green.

Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together, said Jehovah, who burnt incense upon the mountains, and upon the hills they reproached me: and I measured their former work upon their bosom.

Flee from the midst of Babel and save ye each his soul: ye shall not be destroyed in her iniquity: for it is the time of vengeance to Jehovah; he will do to her a recompense.

Receiving the reward of injustice, deeming luxurious indulgence pleasure in the day. Spots and blemishes, rioting in their deceits, feasting together with you

And to him working, the reward is not reckoned according to favor, but according to debt. And to him not working, and believing upon him justifying the impious, his faith is reckoned for justice.

And they of the eleventh hour having come, thereupon received a drachma. And the first, having come, thought that they will receive more; and they also received thereupon a drachma. And having received, they murmured against the master of the house,read more.
Saying, That these last worked one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, having borne the burden and heat of the day. And he, having answered, said to one of them, Friend, I injure thee not; didst not thou agree with me for a drachma? Take thine and retire: and I will to give to this last, as also to thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my things? Or is thine eye evil because I am good So shall the last be first, and the first last; for many are called, but few chosen.

The labors of the just one, to life: the increase of the unjust to sin.

The unjust one did a work of falsehood: and the seed of justice the reward of truth.

Ye shall give her from the fruit of her hands, and her works shall praise her in the gates.

And whoever should give to drink one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.

For whoever should give you to drink a cup of water in my name, because ye are of Christ, verily I say to you, he should not lose his reward.

If the work of any shall remain which he built upon, he shall receive a reward.

For God is not unjust to forget your work and fatigue of love, which ye showed to his name, having served to the holy ones, and serving.