Employers

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

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.

Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, as for the Lord and not for men,

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.

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

Servants, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but even to those who are unreasonable. …

“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.

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

“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,