In Scripture, fairness and justice are emphasized in the treatment of workers and their wages. The book of James warns against withholding pay from laborers, noting that their cries have reached the Lord. The apostle Paul instructs Timothy that elders who serve well are worthy of double honor, particularly those who work hard at preaching and teaching, as referenced in 1 Timothy 5:17-18. Additionally, Exodus 21:32 provides guidance on compensation for injuries, highlighting the importance of just reparation.
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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.
Elders who lead effectively are worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.
For the Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and, “The worker is worthy of his wages.”
If the ox gores a manservant or maidservant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the master of that servant, and the ox must be stoned.
Elders who lead effectively are worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching. For the Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and, “The worker is worthy of his wages.”
Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men,
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.
If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him.
the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he must pay its owner, and the dead animal will be his.
Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sells it, he must repay five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.
once he has sinned and becomes guilty, he must return what he has stolen or taken by extortion, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost property he found,