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Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Leviticus 25:43 OT

  You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

• Deuteronomy 5:14 OT

  but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work— neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock,…

• Deuteronomy 24:14 OT

  You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.

• Deuteronomy 24:15 OT

  In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

• Leviticus 19:13 OT

  “ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

• Job 31:13-15 OT

  “If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me, what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him? Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one…

• Proverbs 22:16 OT

  Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

• Proverbs 29:21 OT

  He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.

• Jeremiah 22:13 OT

  “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

• Malachi 3:5 OT

  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 perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and…

• Matthew 10:10 NT

  Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor sandals, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

• Matthew 20:10-15 NT

  When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius. When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household, saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have…

• Luke 10:7 NT

  Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.

• Romans 4:4 NT

  Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

• Ephesians 6:9 NT

  You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

• Colossians 4:1 NT

  Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

• 1 Timothy 5:18 NT

  For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

• Philemon 1:1 NT

  Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,

• James 5:4 NT

  Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

• James 5:5 NT

  You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.