Bible Verses about “salary”
The Bible contains 36 verses about salary across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."”
“Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.”
“Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don't go from house to house.”
“Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.”
“Soldiers also asked him, saying, "What about us? What must we do?" He said to them, "Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages."”
“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:”
“Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.”
“"'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.”
“If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?”
“When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.”
“"When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.”
“"But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn't you agree with me for a denarius?”
“So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen."”
“When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.”
“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;”
“"For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.”
“He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.”
“To them he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went their way.”
“Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.”
“About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, 'Why do you stand here all day idle?'”
“"They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' "He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.'”
“When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.'”
“When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,”
“saying, 'These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!'”
“Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.”
“Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'”
“For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares,”
“or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.”
“If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.”
“Don't you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?”
“Amaziah said to the man of God, "But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?" The man of God answered, "Yahweh is able to give you much more than this."”