Scripture teaches that labor deserves fair compensation, as seen in Leviticus, which warns against withholding wages from workers. In Jeremiah, the prophet condemns those who exploit laborers by not paying them their due. The New Testament also addresses the concept of wages, with Romans noting that payment for work is not the same as receiving a gift, as illustrated in Romans 4:4. Furthermore, Romans 6:23 states that sin's wage is death, while James emphasizes the importance of paying workers fairly, as their cries reach the ears of the Lord, as mentioned in James 5:4.
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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.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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,
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.
For the Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and, “The worker is worthy of his 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.
Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you also have a Master in heaven.
Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act. Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”— when you already have the means.
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.