Thematic Bible: Sins of employers respecting payment of wages
Thematic Bible
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.
Wages » Sins of employers respecting payment of wages » Failing to pay a living wage
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
And men of the army put questions to him, saying, And what have we to do? And he said to them, Do no violent acts to any man, and do not take anything without right, and let your payment be enough for you.
Wages » Sins of employers respecting payment of wages » Exacting service with wages
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;
Wages » Sins of employers respecting payment of wages » Fraudulent withholding of wages
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.