Defrauding Workers of their Just Wages

Published on Poor People, Solidarity, Stranger

The Bible forbids us from defrauding poor people and immigrants of their just wages.

 

 

Leviticus 19:13. “ ‘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.

Deuteronomy 24:14. You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers, or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.

Deuteronomy 24:15. 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 the LORD, and it be sin to you.

Malachi 3:5. So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the LORD Almighty. (NIV translation)

James 5:4. 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.

 

SEE ALSO

The Bible on Welcoming Immigrants. The Bible is clear. We believers are to welcome immigrants. The Bible commands us to love them as ourselves.

 

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