Deuteronomy 24:14

Easy To Read Version

“You must not cheat a hired servant that is poor and needy. It does not matter if he is an Israelite or if he is a foreigner living in one of your cities.

Cross References

Proverbs 14:31

The person that causes trouble for poor people shows that he does not respect God—God made both people. But if a person is kind to poor people, then he shows honor to God.

Proverbs 22:16

These two things will make you poor—hurting poor people to make yourself rich, and giving gifts to rich people.

Ezekiel 22:7

People in Jerusalem don’t respect their parents. They hurt foreigners in that city. They cheat orphans and widows {\cf2\super [170]} in that place.

Leviticus 19:13

“You must not do bad things to your neighbor. You must not rob {him}. You must not hold a hired worker’s salary all night until morning. [338]

Amos 2:7

They pushed those poor peoples’ faces into the ground and walked on them. They stopped listening to suffering people. Fathers and sons have sexual relations with the same woman. They have ruined my holy name.

Amos 4:1

Listen to me, you cows of Bashan {\cf2\super [48]} on Samaria’s mountain. You hurt poor people. You crush those poor people. You tell your husbands, {\cf2\super [49]} “Bring us something to drink!”

Amos 8:4

Listen to me!\par You people walk on helpless people.\par You are trying to destroy the poor people of this country.\par

Malachi 3:5

Then I will come to you—and I will do the right thing. I will be like a person that is ready to tell the judge about the bad things people did. Some people do evil magic. Some people do the sin of adultery. {\cf2\super [19]} Some people make false promises. Some people cheat their workers—they don’t pay them the money they promised. People don’t help widows and orphans. {\cf2\super [20]} People don’t help strangers. People don’t respect me!” The Lord All-Powerful said these things.

Luke 10:7

Stay in the peaceful house. Eat and drink what the people there give you. A worker should be given his pay. Don’t leave that house to stay in another house.

Deuteronomy 15:7

“When you are living in the land the Lord your God is giving you, there might be a poor person among your people. You must not be selfish. You must not refuse to give help to that poor person.

1 Timothy 5:18

Why? Because the Scriptures {\cf2\super [28]} say, “When a work animal is doing the work of separating grain, don’t cover its mouth \{and stop it from eating the grain\}.” {\cf2\super [29]} And the Scriptures also say, “A worker should be given his pay.” {\cf2\super [30]}