Employee

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningLeviticus 19:13Leviticus 25:6Deuteronomy 15:18Deuteronomy 24:14Deuteronomy 24:15Matthew 10:10Luke 10:7Romans 4:41 Timothy 5:18
• CHARACTER OF UNRIGHTEOUSJob 7:1–3Job 14:1Job 14:6Matthew 20:1–15Matthew 21:33–41John 10:12John 10:13
• KINDNESS TORuth 2:4Luke 15:17Luke 15:19
• OPPRESSIONS OFProverbs 22:16Malachi 3:5Luke 15:15Luke 15:16James 5:4
• See Servants
• See Employer
• See Master

The passages, in Bible order (24)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Leviticus 19:13

   You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 19:131 voice

   “Let no one deny the hireling the wage he is owed, since we too are hirelings of our God, and from him we look forward to the reward of our labor. And if you indeed, whatever type of businessman you are, deny your hireling a monetary payment that is a perishable trifle, you shall be denied the reward of heaven that has been promised. You shall not defraud, as the law says, the hireling of his pay.

   Everything gathered on Leviticus 19:13→

   Verse page →Original language →

2. Leviticus 25:6

   Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,

   Verse page →Original language →

3. Deuteronomy 15:18

   Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 15:181 voice

   “It shall not seem hard to thee when thou sendest him away free from thee,.... He should not grudge him his liberty, nor what he gives to him when he dismisses him: for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee in serving thee six years; since a hired servant a man is obliged to pay him wages for his work, besides his food, whereas a bondservant received no wages.

   Everything gathered on Deuteronomy 15:18→

   Verse page →Original language →

4. Deuteronomy 24:14

   Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 24:141 voice

   “Thou shall not oppress an hired servant,....

   Everything gathered on Deuteronomy 24:14→

   Verse page →Original language →

5. Deuteronomy 24:15

   You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 24:151 voice

   “At his day thou shalt give him his hire,....

   Everything gathered on Deuteronomy 24:15→

   Verse page →Original language →

6. Ruth 2:4

   Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and said to the harvesters, “The LORD be with you.” “The LORD bless you,” they replied.

   ›Commentary on Ruth 2:41 voice

   “And, behold, Boaz came to Bethlehem,....

   Everything gathered on Ruth 2:4→

   Verse page →Original language →

7. Job 7:1–3

   “Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

   ›Commentary on Job 7:1–31 voice

   “The life of man upon earth is a warfare. In this passage in the old Translation the life of man is not called 'a warfare' at all, but 'a trial,' yet if the meaning of either word be regarded, the sound that meets the ear outwardly is different, yet they make one and the same concordant meaning. For what is represented by the title of 'a trial,' saving our contest with evil spirits? and what by the designation of 'a warfare,' but an exercising against our enemies?

   Everything gathered on Job 7:1–3→

   Verse page →Original language →

8. Job 14:1

   “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

   ›Commentary on Job 14:11 voice

   “Man that is born of a woman liveth a short time, and is full of many miseries. In Sacred Writ 'woman' is taken either for the sex, or else for 'frailty.' For the 'sex,' as where it is written, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the Law. But for frailty, as where it is said by the Wise Man, Better is the iniquity of a man than a woman doing well. For 'a man' is the term for every strongminded and discreet person, but 'a woman' is understood of the weak or indiscreet mind.

   Everything gathered on Job 14:1→

   Verse page →Original language →

9. Job 14:6

   look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

   ›Commentary on Job 14:61 voice

   “Ver. 6. Turn from him a little while, that he may rest, till his longed for day come, as an hireling's. In this place, Turn from him, means, 'remove from him the force of the stroke,' for who can rest when He turns away from him, when He Himself alone is rest, and the further off a man is from Him, he is also rendered void of rest in proportion? Thus it is in such sort said, Turn from him, that you should understand, 'from smiting;' for it is fitly added, till his longed for day come as an hireling's.

   Everything gathered on Job 14:6→

   Verse page →Original language →

10. Proverbs 22:16

    Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.

    ›Commentary on Proverbs 22:161 voice

    “He who oppresses the poor, etc. It is evident that the rapacious, those who take from the poor and also those who seem to justly possess what they have, lose everything equally, when, in the examination of the strict judge, they receive punishment for the …

    Everything gathered on Proverbs 22:16→

    Verse page →Original language →

11. Malachi 3:5

    “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

    ›Commentary on Malachi 3:51 voice

    “(Verse 5) And I will come to you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers, and perjurers, and those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless, and those who thrust aside the sojourner: they have not feared me, says the Lord of hosts. LXX: And I will come to you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against evildoers, and against adulterers, and against those who swear falsely by my name.

    Everything gathered on Malachi 3:5→

    Verse page →Original language →

12. Matthew 10:10

    Take no bag for the road, or second tunic, or sandals, or staff; for the worker is worthy of his provisions.

    ›Commentary on Matthew 10:102 voices

    “(Vers. 9, 10.) Do not possess gold, silver, or money in your belts. Take no bag for the journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staff. For the worker deserves his food. Therefore, he gives these precepts to the evangelizers of truth, to whom he had said before: Freely you have received, freely give. For if they preach in such a way that they do not accept payment, the possession of gold, silver, and money is superfluous.

    “For if they preach without receiving reward for it, the possession of gold and silver and wealth was unnecessary. For had they had such, they would have been thought to be preaching, not for the sake of men's salvation, but their own gain. As He had cut off riches, which are meant by gold and silver, He now almost cuts off necessaries of life; that the Apostles, teachers of the true religion, who taught men that all things are directed by God's providence, might show themselves to be without thought for the morrow.

    Everything gathered on Matthew 10:10→

    Verse page →Original language →

13. Matthew 20:1–15

    “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

    ›Commentary on Matthew 20:1–151 voice

    “Chapter 20, Verse 1 onwards: The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. After agreeing to pay them the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard. Going out again at about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace and said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and I will give you whatever is right.' So they went. Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour and did the same.

    Everything gathered on Matthew 20:1–15→

    Verse page →Original language →

14. Matthew 21:33–41

    Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.

    ›Commentary on Matthew 21:33–411 voice

    “He hath planted a vine of which Isaiah speaks, The vine of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel. (Isa. 5:7.) And hedged it round about; i. e. either the wall of the city, or the guardianship of Angels. A winepress, that is to say, An altar; or those winepresses after which the three Psalms, the 8th, the 80th, and the 83d are entitled, that is to say, the martyrs. And built a tower therein, that is, the Temple, of which it is said by Micah, And thou, O cloudy tower of the daughter of Sion. (Mic. 4:8.)

    Everything gathered on Matthew 21:33–41→

    Verse page →Original language →

15. Luke 10:7

    Stay at the same house, eating and drinking whatever you are offered. For the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move around from house to house.

    ›Commentary on Luke 10:71 voice

    “Another virtue is added, that we should not go about easily, changing from house to house. For it follows, Go not from house to house; that is, that we should preserve a consistency in our love towards our hosts, nor lightly loose any bond of friendship.

    Everything gathered on Luke 10:7→

    Verse page →Original language →

16. Luke 15:15

    So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.

    ›Commentary on Luke 15:151 voice

    "He went and attached himself to one of the citizens." Whoever attaches himself is in a snare. That citizen is the prince of this world. He is sent to the farm bought by the man who excused himself from the kingdom. He feeds the swine, those into which the devil sought to enter, those he cast into the sea of the world as they lived in filth and foulness.

    Everything gathered on Luke 15:15→

    Verse page →Original language →