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

Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Thus says the LORD; Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery, and have oppressed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

You know the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honor your father and mother.

And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.

That no man transgress and wrong his brother in any matter: because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

The wages

You shall not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of your brethren, or of your strangers that are in your land within your gates:

If I have eaten its fruit without payment, or have caused its owners to lose their life:

Woe unto him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work;

And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.

Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of them who have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

General references

You shall not steal.

And if you sell anything unto your neighbor, or buy anything of your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another:

Say not unto your neighbor, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when you have it with you.

Nay, you do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.