Employer: General Scriptures Concerning

You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God.

…but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.

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.

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.

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

If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me, …

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

A servant pampered from his youth will bring grief in the end.

“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,

“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.

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

So when the original workers came, they assumed they would receive more. But each of them also received a denarius. …

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.

Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.

And masters, do the same for your slaves. Give up your use of threats, because you know that He who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with Him.

Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you also have a Master in heaven.

For the Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and, “The worker is worthy of his wages.”

For perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a while, so that you might have him back for good—

…no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a beloved brother. He is especially beloved to me, but even more so to you, both in person and in the Lord.

Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.