Biblical Concept: Wages
Findings:
Wage negotiation.
“your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times”
“you changed my wages ten times”
“The wages of a hired man are not to remain with you all night until
morning”
Deuteronomy 24:15 "You shall give him his wages on his day
before the sun sets, for he is poor and
sets his heart on it; so that
he may not cry against you to the LORD and it become
sin in you.
“a hired man who eagerly waits for his wages”
Proverbs 10:16 The wages of the righteous is life, The income of
the wicked, punishment.
“The wicked earns deceptive wages”
Jeremiah 22:13 "Woe to him who builds his house without
righteousness And his upper rooms
without justice, Who uses his neighbor's services without pay And does not
give him his wages,
Plunder, wages, army.
“those who oppress the wage earner in his wages”
“be content with your wages.”
“the laborer is worthy of his wages”
John 4:36 "Already he who reaps is receiving wages,
and is gathering fruit for life eternal; that he who
sows and he who reaps may
rejoice together.
“the wages of sin is death”
“the wages of doing wrong”
“wages of unrighteousness”
NAS Ruth 2:12 "May the LORD reward your work, and your
wages be full from the LORD, the God of
Israel, under whose wings you
have come to seek refuge."
NAS 2 Corinthians 11:8 I robbed other churches, taking wages from them to serve you;
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NAS Genesis 29:15 Then Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are
my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall
your wages be?" (Wage negotiation.)
NAS Genesis 30:18 Then Leah said, "God has given me my wages,
because I gave my maid to my husband." So she
named him Issachar.
28 And he continued,
"Name me your wages, and I will give it." (Wage negotiation.)
32 let me pass through
your entire flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted sheep,
and every black one among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the
goats; and such shall be my wages.
(Wage negotiation.)
33 "So my honesty
will answer for me later, when you come concerning my wages. Every one that is
not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, will be considered
stolen." (Wage negotiation.)
NAS Genesis 31:7 "Yet your father has cheated me and changed
my wages ten times; however, God did not allow him to hurt me. (“your father
has cheated me and changed my wages ten times”)
8 "If he spoke thus,
'The speckled shall be your wages,' then all the flock brought forth speckled;
and if he spoke thus, 'The striped shall be your wages,' then all the flock
brought forth striped. (Wage negotiation.)
41 "These twenty
years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two
daughters, and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times.
(“you changed my wages ten times”)
NAS Exodus 2:9 Then Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take
this child away and nurse him for me and I shall give you your wages." So the woman took
the child and nursed him. (Wage negotiation.)
NAS Leviticus 19:13 'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired man are not to
remain with you all night until morning. (“The wages of a hired man are not to
remain with you all night until morning”)
NAS Deuteronomy 23:18 "You shall not bring the hire of a harlot or
the wages of a dog into the house of the LORD your God for any votive offering,
for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your
God.
NAS Deuteronomy 24:15 "You shall give him his wages on his day
before the sun sets, for he is poor and sets his heart on it; so that he may
not cry against you to the LORD and it become sin in
you. (All)
NAS Ruth 2:12 "May the LORD reward your work, and your
wages be full from the LORD, the God of Israel, under
whose wings you have come to seek refuge." (All)
NAS 1 Kings 5:6 "Now therefore, command that they cut for me
cedars from Lebanon, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will
give you wages for your servants according to all that you say, for you know
that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the
Sidonians." (Wage negotiation.)
NAS Job 7:2 "As a slave who pants for the shade, And as a hired man who eagerly waits for his wages, (“a
hired man who eagerly waits for his wages”)
NAS Proverbs 10:16 The wages of the righteous is life, The income of
the wicked, punishment. (All)
NAS Proverbs 11:18 The wicked earns deceptive wages, But he who sows righteousness gets a true reward. (“The wicked earns deceptive wages”)
NAS Isaiah 23:17 And it will come about at the end of seventy
years that the LORD will visit Tyre. Then she will go
back to her harlot's wages, and will play the harlot with all the kingdoms on
the face of the earth.
18 And her gain and her
harlot's wages will be set apart to the LORD; it will not be stored up or
hoarded, but her gain will become sufficient food and choice attire for those
who dwell in the presence of the LORD.
NAS Isaiah 55:2 "Why do you spend money for what is not
bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And
delight yourself in abundance.
NAS Jeremiah 22:13 "Woe to him who builds his house without
righteousness And his upper rooms without justice, Who
uses his neighbor's services without pay And does not give him his wages, (All)
NAS Ezekiel 29:18 "Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
made his army labor hard against Tyre; every head was
made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his army had no wages
from Tyre for the labor that he had performed against
it."
19 Therefore, thus says
the Lord God, "Behold, I shall give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon. And he will carry off her wealth, and capture her spoil and
seize her plunder; and it will be wages for his army. (Plunder, wages, army.)
NAS Hosea 2:12 "And I will destroy her vines and fig trees,
Of which she said, 'These are my wages Which my lovers
have given me.' And I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field will
devour them.
NAS Haggai 1:6 "You have sown much, but harvest little; you eat, but there is not enough to be
satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to become drunk; you put
on clothing, but no one is warm enough;
and he who earns, earns wages to put into
a purse with holes."
NAS Zechariah 11:12 And I said to them, "If it is good in your
sight, give me my wages; but if not,
never mind!" So they weighed out thirty shekels of silver as my wages.
NAS Malachi 3:5 "Then I will draw near to you for judgment;
and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers
and against those who swear falsely, and against those who oppress the wage
earner in his wages, the widow and the orphan, and those who turn aside the
alien, and do not fear Me," says the LORD of hosts. (“those who oppress
the wage earner in his wages”)
NAS Matthew 20:8 "And when evening had come, the owner of the
vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages,
beginning with the last group to the
first.'
NAS Luke 3:14 And some soldiers
were questioning him, saying, "And what
about us, what shall we do?" And he said to them, "Do not take
money from anyone by force, or accuse anyone
falsely, and be content with your wages." (“be content with your
wages.”)
NAS Luke 10:7 "And stay in that house, eating and drinking
what they give you; for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not keep moving
from house to house. (“the laborer is worthy of his wages”)
NAS John 4:36 "Already he who reaps is receiving wages,
and is gathering fruit for life eternal; that he who sows and he who reaps may
rejoice together. (All)
NAS Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(“the wages of sin is death”)
NAS 2 Corinthians 11:8 I robbed other churches, taking wages from them to serve you; (All)
NAS 1 Timothy 5:18 For the Scripture says, "You shall not
muzzle the ox while he is threshing," and "The laborer is worthy of
his wages." ("The laborer is worthy of his wages.")
NAS 2 Peter 2:13 suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They
count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes,
reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you, (“the wages of doing
wrong”)
15 forsaking the right
way they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor,
who loved the wages of unrighteousness, (“wages of unrighteousness”)
NAS Revelation 19:11 And I saw heaven opened; and behold, a white
horse, and He who sat upon it is called
Faithful and True; and in righteousness He judges and wages war.