Deuteronomy 24:15

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jas 5:4 : 4 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.
  • Lev 19:13 : 13 "'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.
  • Deut 15:9 : 9 Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;" and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
  • Jer 22:13 : 13 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;
  • Prov 3:27-28 : 27 Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it. 28 Don't say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you," when you have it by you.
  • Exod 22:23-24 : 23 If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; 24 and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
  • Job 35:9 : 9 "By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
  • Ps 24:4 : 4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
  • Ps 25:1 : 1 To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my soul.
  • Ps 86:4 : 4 Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.
  • Job 31:38 : 38 If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;
  • Job 34:28 : 28 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.
  • Matt 20:8 : 8 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.'
  • 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 Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court; 23 for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
  • Prov 23:10-11 : 10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless: 11 for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
  • Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 24:10-14
    5 verses
    86%

    10When you do lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.

    11You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you.

    12If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

    13you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.

    14You 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:

  • Lev 19:13
    80%

    13"'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.

  • Exod 22:25-26
    2 verses
    78%

    25"If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

    26If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

  • Deut 15:7-11
    5 verses
    77%

    7If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

    8but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.

    9Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;" and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

    10You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.

    11For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

  • Deut 15:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:

    14you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

  • Deut 24:19-21
    3 verses
    75%

    19When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

    20When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

    21When you gather [the grapes of] your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

  • Exod 23:6
    75%

    6"You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • Deut 24:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

    17You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

  • Prov 19:17
    74%

    17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

  • Jas 5:4
    74%

    4Behold, 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.

  • Exod 22:15
    73%

    15If its owner is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.

  • Jer 22:13
    73%

    13Woe 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;

  • Exod 22:3
    73%

    3If the sun has risen on him, guilt of bloodshed shall be for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

  • Lev 25:39-40
    2 verses
    73%

    39"'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

    40As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:

  • Prov 22:27
    72%

    27If you don't have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

  • Deut 15:18
    72%

    18It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

  • Exod 23:3
    72%

    3neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

  • Prov 14:31
    72%

    31He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

  • Lev 25:53
    72%

    53As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.

  • Lev 25:37
    72%

    37You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

  • Matt 20:12
    72%

    12saying, '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!'

  • Prov 22:16
    72%

    16Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

  • Lev 19:15
    71%

    15"'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

  • Prov 3:27-28
    2 verses
    71%

    27Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

    28Don't say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you," when you have it by you.

  • Deut 23:15
    71%

    15You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to you:

  • Matt 20:2
    71%

    2When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

  • 1 Tim 5:18
    71%

    18For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain." And, "The laborer is worthy of his wages."

  • Exod 34:21
    71%

    21"Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

  • Job 7:2
    71%

    2As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,

  • Prov 24:29
    71%

    29Don't say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work."

  • Matt 20:7
    71%

    7"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.'

  • Job 14:6
    71%

    6Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

  • Prov 22:22
    70%

    22Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;

  • Lev 25:14
    70%

    14"'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

  • Lev 19:10
    70%

    10You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.