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Business life » Employers » Duties of » Prompt payment of wages
Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.
Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.
Business life » Employers » Delaying payment
Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.
Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.
Duty » Masters' » Prompt payment of wages
Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.
Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » Not to keep back their wages
Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.
Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.
Master's duty » Prompt payment of wages
Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.
Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.
Servant » Hired » Unclassified scriptures relating to
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.
Verse Concepts
For the Writings say, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. And, The worker has a right to his reward.
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.
Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.
Masters, give your servants what is right and equal, conscious that you have a Master in heaven.
Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.
And keep in that same house, taking what food and drink they give you: for the worker has a right to his reward. Do not go from house to house.
Now, the reward is credited to him who does works, not as of grace but as a debt.
And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property; But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee; Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.
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. Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.
Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment? As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:
Take no gold or silver or copper in your pockets; Take no bag for your journey and do not take two coats or shoes or a stick: for the workman has a right to his food.
Servants » Hired » To be paid without delay at the expiration of their service
Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.
Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.
Social duties » Masters' duties » Prompt payment of wages
Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.
Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.
Wages » Sins of employers respecting payment of wages » Delaying payment
Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.
Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.