Thematic Bible: Hired


Thematic Bible



And he said unto them, Thus and thus hath Micah dealt with me, and he hath hired me, and I am become his priest. Verse ConceptsHiringUnnamed Priests

And if a man borrow aught of his neighbor, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof not being with it, he shall surely make restitution. If the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be a hired thing, it came for its hire.

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the 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, saith Jehovah of hosts. Verse ConceptsAdultery, Consequences OfGod, Righteousness OfInjustice, Hated By GodMastersMoney, Stewardship OfOppression, Nature OfOrphansPerjuryPoverty, Attitudes TowardsRiches, Dangers OfServants, Working Conditions OfSexual Sin, Nature OfSuffering, Nature OfSuffering, Of The InnocentWagesWidowsAliens, God's AttitudeHirelingsDivinationStrangersEmployersThreateningsOppressing ForeignersSpeedThe Witness Of GodThose OppressedAdulteryNo Fear Of GodNot Helping WidowsSorceryImmigrantswitches

For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his hire. Verse ConceptsEmploymentMastersMinistry, In The ChurchThreshingWord Of GodMuzzlingOxenBinding As AnimalsScripture SaysSpecial RevelationRewardWorth




Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day. Verse ConceptsHiringHirelingsLeave Them Alone



And if thy brother be waxed poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee; thou shalt not make him to serve as a bond-servant. As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee: then shall he go out from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates: in his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it be sin unto thee.

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Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling? As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as a hireling that looketh for his wages:

Get you no gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses; no wallet for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

These twenty years have I been in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock: and thou hast changed my wages ten times. Verse ConceptsdowryCovetousness, Example OfDishonesty, Examples OfThe Number FourteenTen TimesSix YearsTen To Fourteen Years20 To 30 YearsChangeServing Individuals

And ye know that will all my power I have served your father. And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

And Laban said unto him, If now I have found favor in thine eyes, tarry : for I have divined that Jehovah hath blessed me for thy sake. And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it. And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me. read more.
For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased unto a multitude; and Jehovah hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also? And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me aught: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed thy flock and keep it. I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such'shall be my hire. So shall my righteousness answer for me hereafter, when thou shalt come concerning my hire that is before thee: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that if found with me, shall be counted stolen. And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.

And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil. Verse ConceptsGrainGrindingWeights And Measures, DryWeights And Measures, Liquidartists

And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me aught: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed thy flock and keep it. I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such'shall be my hire.

And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? Tell me, what shall thy wages be? Verse ConceptsBeing FairNegotiationServants, Working Conditions OfWagesFree Of Charge

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service wherewith I have served thee. Verse ConceptsPeople With General KnowledgeServing Individuals

And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger! read more.
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight: I am no more worthy to be called your son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger! Verse ConceptsSelf KnowledgeRegaining SanitySoliloquyNo FoodDeath Of A Fatherhomecoming

I am no more worthy to be called your son: make me as one of thy hired servants. Verse ConceptsServants Of The Lord

For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that was a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the laborers for a shilling a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing in the marketplace idle; read more.
and to them he said, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise. And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard. And when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the laborers, and pay them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a shilling. And when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise received every man a shilling. And when they received it, they murmured against the householder, saying, These last have spent but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat. But he answered and said to one of them, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a shilling? Take up that which is thine, and go thy way; it is my will to give unto this last, even as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good?

For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that was a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the laborers for a shilling a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing in the marketplace idle;

As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.

And when he had agreed with the laborers for a shilling a day, he sent them into his vineyard. Verse ConceptsAgreeing For GoodMoney, Uses OfNegotiationCoinsAgreeingOnce A Day


in his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it be sin unto thee. Verse ConceptsEveningMastersBusiness EthicsMasters Duties Towards ServantsEmployersSunsetsDebtMoralityGiving Back

And if a stranger or sojourner with thee be waxed rich, and thy brother be waxed poor beside him, and sell himself unto the stranger or'sojourner with thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family; Verse ConceptsPoor People

As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.

A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof.

There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest's, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. Verse ConceptsLaws Restricting Foreigners

As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.

But now Jehovah hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and of no account. Verse ConceptsInferiorityHirelingsPowerlessnessThree YearsSurvivors ThreatenedLosing Honour

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the 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, saith Jehovah of hosts. Verse ConceptsAdultery, Consequences OfGod, Righteousness OfInjustice, Hated By GodMastersMoney, Stewardship OfOppression, Nature OfOrphansPerjuryPoverty, Attitudes TowardsRiches, Dangers OfServants, Working Conditions OfSexual Sin, Nature OfSuffering, Nature OfSuffering, Of The InnocentWagesWidowsAliens, God's AttitudeHirelingsDivinationStrangersEmployersThreateningsOppressing ForeignersSpeedThe Witness Of GodThose OppressedAdulteryNo Fear Of GodNot Helping WidowsSorceryImmigrantswitches


He that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, beholdeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth, and the wolf snatcheth them, and scattereth them : he fleeth because he is a hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling? Verse ConceptsLimitednessPunishment, Nature OfHirelingsThe Fact Of ToilstruggleWarLife StrugglesGetting Through Hard Timeshumanity

And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him. Verse ConceptsCommitment, to Jesus Christdiscipleship, nature ofdelay, humanHiringBoatsServants Of PeopleChrist Summoning

But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger! Verse ConceptsSelf KnowledgeRegaining SanitySoliloquyNo FoodDeath Of A Fatherhomecoming

And if thy brother be waxed poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee; thou shalt not make him to serve as a bond-servant. As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee:

Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates: Verse ConceptsThe NeedyAbuse Of Authority, Warnings AgainstMastersUnkindnessEmployersMasters Duties Towards ServantsAdvantagesForeigners Included In The LawNot Helping The PoorAliens

And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for thee, and for thy servant and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant and for thy stranger, who sojourn with thee. Verse ConceptsHiringStrangers

For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that was a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the laborers for a shilling a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing in the marketplace idle;

And when he had agreed with the laborers for a shilling a day, he sent them into his vineyard. Verse ConceptsAgreeing For GoodMoney, Uses OfNegotiationCoinsAgreeingOnce A Day

But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger! Verse ConceptsSelf KnowledgeRegaining SanitySoliloquyNo FoodDeath Of A Fatherhomecoming


As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as a hireling that looketh for his wages: Verse ConceptsMonotonySlaves

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