Bible Verses about “employers”
The Bible contains 15 verses about employers across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,”
“You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.”
“Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.”
“For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.”
“For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.”
“Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.”
“Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.”
“For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain." And, "The laborer is worthy of his wages."”
“Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.”
“Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.”
“I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.”
“You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:”
“"'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. "'The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.”
“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;”
“Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.”