Deuteronomy 24:15

Modern English Version

You must give him his wages on that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor, and sets his heart on it, lest he cry against you to the Lord, and it be a sin to you.

Cross References

Job 31:13

“If I have despised the cause of my male or female servant when they complained against me,

Job 31:38

“If my land cries out against me, and its furrows also weep together;

Job 34:28

so that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto Him; and He hears the cry of the afflicted.

Job 35:9

“Because of the many oppressions they cry out; they cry out because of the arm of the mighty.

Job 7:2

Like a servant, he longs for the shade, and like a hired worker, he looks for his wages,

Psalm 24:4

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, nor sworn deceitfully.

Psalm 25:1

To You, O  Lord, I lift up my soul.

Psalm 86:4

Make joyful the soul of Your servant, for to You, O Lord, I lift my soul.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant. Thus He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!

Jeremiah 22:13

Woe to him who builds his house with unrighteousness and his chambers with injustice, who uses his neighbor’s services without wages, and gives him nothing for his work,

Leviticus 19:13

You shall not defraud your neighbor or rob him. The wages of him who is hired shall not stay with you all night until the morning.

Leviticus 25:35

If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, then you shall support him as if he were a foreigner or a sojourner, so that he may live with you.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who turn aside the stranger, and do not fear Me, says the Lord of Hosts.

Matthew 20:8

“So when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, ‘Call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning with the last to the first.’

Mark 10:19

You know the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother. ”

Deuteronomy 15:9

Beware lest there be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing, and he cry out to the Lord against you, and it become sin in you.

1 Timothy 5:18

For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox that treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer is worthy of his reward.”

James 5:4

Behold, the wages that you kept back by fraud from the laborers who harvested your fields are crying, and the cries of those who harvested have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.