Deuteronomy 24:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Lev 19:13 : 13 You must not oppress your neighbor or commit robbery against him. You must not withhold the wages of the hired laborer overnight until morning.
  • Deut 15:9 : 9 Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite and you do not lend him anything; he will cry out to the LORD against you and you will be regarded as having sinned.
  • Jer 22:13 : 13 Judgment on Jehoiakim“‘Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.
  • Prov 3:27-28 : 27 Wisdom Demonstrated in Relationships with People Do not withhold good from those who need it, when you have the ability to help. 28 Do not say to your neighbor,“Go! Return tomorrow and I will give it,” when you have it with you at the time.
  • Exod 22:23-24 : 23 If you afflict them in any way and they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry, 24 and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.
  • Job 35:9 : 9 “People cry out because of the excess of oppression; they cry out for help because of the power of the mighty.
  • Ps 24:4 : 4 The one whose deeds are blameless and whose motives are pure, who does not lie, or make promises with no intention of keeping them.
  • Ps 25:1 : 1 By David. O LORD, I come before you in prayer.
  • Ps 86:4 : 4 Make your servant glad, for to you, O Lord, I pray!
  • Job 31:38 : 38 Job’s Final Solemn Oath“If my land cried out against me and all its furrows wept together,
  • Job 34:28 : 28 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come before him, so that he hears the cry of the needy.
  • Matt 20:8 : 8 When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his manager,‘Call the workers and give the pay starting with the last hired until the first.’
  • Mark 10:19 : 19 You know the commandments:‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.’”
  • Prov 22:22-23 : 22 Do not exploit a poor person because he is poor and do not crush the needy in court, 23 for the LORD will plead their case and will rob the life those who are robbing them.
  • Prov 23:10-11 : 10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless, 11 for their Protector is strong; he will plead their case against you.
  • Isa 5:7 : 7 Indeed Israel is the vineyard of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the people of Judah are the cultivated place in which he took delight. He waited for justice, but look what he got– disobedience! He waited for fairness, but look what he got– cries for help!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 24:10-14
    5 verses
    86%

    10When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security.

    11You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security.

    12If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.

    13You must by all means return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just deed by the LORD your God.

    14You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages.

  • Lev 19:13
    80%

    13You must not oppress your neighbor or commit robbery against him. You must not withhold the wages of the hired laborer overnight until morning.

  • Exod 22:25-26
    2 verses
    78%

    25“If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest.

    26If you do take the garment of your neighbor in pledge, you must return it to him by the time the sun goes down,

  • Deut 15:7-11
    5 verses
    77%

    7The Spirit of Liberality If a fellow Israelite from one of your villages in the land that the LORD your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive to his impoverished condition.

    8Instead, you must be sure to open your hand to him and generously lend him whatever he needs.

    9Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite and you do not lend him anything; he will cry out to the LORD against you and you will be regarded as having sinned.

    10You must by all means lend to him and not be upset by doing it, for because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you attempt.

    11There will never cease to be some poor people in the land; therefore, I am commanding you to make sure you open your hand to your fellow Israelites who are needy and poor in your land.

  • Deut 15:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.

    14You must supply them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress– as the LORD your God has blessed you, you must give to them.

  • Deut 24:19-21
    3 verses
    75%

    19Whenever you reap your harvest in your field and leave some unraked grain there, you must not return to get it; it should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow so that the LORD your God may bless all the work you do.

    20When you beat your olive tree you must not repeat the procedure; the remaining olives belong to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.

    21When you gather the grapes of your vineyard you must not do so a second time; they should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.

  • Exod 23:6
    75%

    6“You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • Deut 24:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16Fathers must not be put to death for what their children do, nor children for what their fathers do; each must be put to death for his own sin.

    17You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.

  • Prov 19:17
    74%

    17The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the LORD, and the LORD will repay him for his good deed.

  • Jas 5:4
    74%

    4Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

  • Exod 22:15
    73%

    15If its owner was with it, he will not have to pay; if it was hired, what was paid for the hire covers it.

  • Jer 22:13
    73%

    13Judgment on Jehoiakim“‘Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.

  • Exod 22:3
    73%

    3If the sun has risen on him, then there is blood guilt for him. A thief must surely make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he will be sold for his theft.

  • Lev 25:39-40
    2 verses
    73%

    39“‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.

    40He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

  • Prov 22:27
    72%

    27If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!

  • Deut 15:18
    72%

    18You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.

  • Exod 23:3
    72%

    3and you must not show partiality to a poor man in his lawsuit.

  • Prov 14:31
    72%

    31The one who oppresses the poor has insulted his Creator, but whoever honors him shows favor to the needy.

  • Lev 25:53
    72%

    53He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

  • Lev 25:37
    72%

    37You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.

  • Matt 20:12
    72%

    12saying,‘These last fellows worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who bore the hardship and burning heat of the day.’

  • Prov 22:16
    72%

    16The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich– both end up only in poverty.

  • Lev 19:15
    71%

    15Justice, Love, and Propriety“‘You must not deal unjustly in judgment: you must neither show partiality to the poor nor honor the rich. You must judge your fellow citizen fairly.

  • Prov 3:27-28
    2 verses
    71%

    27Wisdom Demonstrated in Relationships with People Do not withhold good from those who need it, when you have the ability to help.

    28Do not say to your neighbor,“Go! Return tomorrow and I will give it,” when you have it with you at the time.

  • Deut 23:15
    71%

    15Purity in the Treatment of the Nonprivileged You must not return an escaped slave to his master when he has run away to you.

  • Matt 20:2
    71%

    2And after agreeing with the workers for the standard wage, he sent them into his vineyard.

  • 1 Tim 5:18
    71%

    18For the scripture says,“Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and,“The worker deserves his pay.”

  • Exod 34:21
    71%

    21“On six days you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; even at the time of plowing and of harvest you are to rest.

  • Job 7:2
    71%

    2Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages,

  • Prov 24:29
    71%

    29Do not say,“I will do to him just as he has done to me; I will pay him back according to what he has done.”

  • Matt 20:7
    71%

    7They said to him,‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them,‘You go and work in the vineyard too.’

  • Job 14:6
    71%

    6Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.

  • Prov 22:22
    70%

    22Do not exploit a poor person because he is poor and do not crush the needy in court,

  • Lev 25:14
    70%

    14If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.

  • Lev 19:10
    70%

    10You must not pick your vineyard bare, and you must not gather up the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You must leave them for the poor and the resident foreigner. I am the LORD your God.