Deuteronomy 24:15

New American Bible - revised edition

On each day you shall pay the servant’s wages before the sun goes down, since the servant is poor and is counting on them. Otherwise the servant will cry to the Lord against you, and you will be held guilty. Individual Responsibility.

Cross References

Job 31:13

Had I refused justice to my manservant or to my maidservant, when they had a complaint against me,

Job 31:38

If my land has cried out against me till its furrows wept together;

Job 34:28

And made the cry of the poor reach him, so that he heard the cry of the afflicted.

Job 35:9

In great oppression people cry out; they call for help because of the power of the great,

Job 7:2

Like a slave who longs for the shade, a hireling who waits for wages,

Psalm 24:4

“The clean of hand and pure of heart, who has not given his soul to useless things, what is vain.

Psalm 25:1

Of David. To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul,

Psalm 86:4

Gladden the soul of your servant; to you, Lord, I lift up my soul.

Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, the people of Judah, his cherished plant; He waited for judgment, but see, bloodshed! for justice, but hark, the outcry!

Jeremiah 22:13

Woe to him who builds his house on wrongdoing, his roof-chambers on injustice; Who works his neighbors without pay, and gives them no wages.

Leviticus 19:13

You shall not exploit your neighbor. You shall not commit robbery. You shall not withhold overnight the wages of your laborer.

Leviticus 25:35

When one of your kindred is reduced to poverty and becomes indebted to you, you shall support that person like a resident alien; let your kindred live with you.

Malachi 3:5

I will draw near to you for judgment, and I will be swift to bear witness Against sorcerers, adulterers, and perjurers, those who deprive a laborer of wages, Oppress a widow or an orphan, or turn aside a resident alien, without fearing me, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 20:8

When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Summon the laborers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and ending with the first.’

Mark 10:19

You know the commandments: ‘You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; you shall not defraud; honor your father and your mother.’”

Deuteronomy 15:9

Be careful not to entertain the mean thought, “The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,” so that you would begrudge your kin who is in need and give nothing, and your kin would cry to the Lord against you and you would be held guilty.

1 Timothy 5:18

For the scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it is threshing,” and, “A worker deserves his pay.”

James 5:4

Behold, the wages you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying aloud, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.