Leviticus 19:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Shalt not

1 Thessalonians 4:6

The wages

James 5:4

General references

Bible References

Shalt not

Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.

Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.

The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

You have knowledge of what is said in the law, Do not put any one to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Do not get money by deceit, Give honour to your father and mother.

And he said to them, Do not make an attempt to get more money than the right amount.

And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness.

The wages

Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.

If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;

And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.

General references

Do not take the property of another.

And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

Say not to your neighbour, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when you have it by you at the time.

So far from doing this, you yourselves do wrong and take your brothers' property.