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Genesis 3:19by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust thou turnest back.’Exodus 20:9six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work,Exodus 20:10and the seventh day is a Sabbath to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and thy cattle, and thy sojourner who is within thy gates,—Exodus 20:11for six days hath Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and resteth in the seventh day; therefore hath Jehovah blessed the Sabbath-day, and doth sanctify it.Exodus 23:12‘Six days thou dost do thy work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest, so that thine ox and thine ass doth rest, and the son of thine handmaid and the sojourner is refreshed;Exodus 34:21‘Six days thou dost work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest; in ploughing-time and in harvest thou dost rest.Leviticus 19:13‘Thou dost not oppress thy neighbour, nor take plunder; the wages of the hireling doth not remain with thee till morning.Deuteronomy 24:14‘Thou dost not oppress a hireling, poor and needy, of thy brethren or of thy sojourner who is in thy land within thy gates;Deuteronomy 24:15in his day thou dost give his hire, and the sun doth not go in upon it, for he is poor, and unto it he is lifting up his soul, and he doth not cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee—sin.Deuteronomy 25:4‘Thou dost not muzzle an ox in its threshing.Ecclesiastes 5:12Sweet is the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.Jeremiah 22:13Woe to him who is building his house by unrighteousness, And his upper chambers by injustice, On his neighbour he layeth service for nought, And his wage he doth not give to him.Malachi 3:5And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.Matthew 20:1‘For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard,Matthew 20:2and having agreed with the workmen for a denary a day, he sent them into his vineyard.Matthew 20:3‘And having gone forth about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle,Matthew 20:4and to these he said, Go ye—also ye—to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous I will give you;Matthew 20:5and they went away. ‘Again, having gone forth about the sixth and the ninth hour, he did in like manner.Matthew 20:6And about the eleventh hour, having gone forth, he found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why here have ye stood all the day idle?Matthew 20:7they say to him, Because no one did hire us; he saith to them, Go ye—ye also—to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous ye shall receive.Matthew 20:8‘And evening having come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the workmen, and pay them the reward, having begun from the last—unto the first.Matthew 20:9And they of about the eleventh hour having come, did receive each a denary.Matthew 20:10‘And the first having come, did suppose that they shall receive more, and they received, they also, each a denary,Matthew 20:11and having received it, they were murmuring against the householder, saying,Matthew 20:12that These, the last, wrought one hour, and thou didst make them equal to us, who were bearing the burden of the day—and the heat.Matthew 20:13‘And he answering said to one of them, Comrade, I do no unrighteousness to thee; for a denary didst not thou agree with me?Matthew 20:14take that which is thine, and go; and I will to give to this, the last, also as to thee;Matthew 20:15is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?Luke 10:7And in that house remain, eating and drinking the things they have, for worthy is the workman of his hire; go not from house to house,Acts 20:35all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth us to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.’1 Corinthians 9:9for in the law of Moses it hath been written, ‘thou shalt not muzzle an ox treading out corn;’ for the oxen doth God care?Ephesians 4:28whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.1 Thessalonians 4:11and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,1 Thessalonians 4:12that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.2 Thessalonians 3:7for yourselves have known how it behoveth you to imitate us, because we did not act disorderly among you;2 Thessalonians 3:8nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;2 Thessalonians 3:9not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;2 Thessalonians 3:10for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,2 Thessalonians 3:11for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working,2 Thessalonians 3:12and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;2 Thessalonians 3:13and ye, brethren, may ye not be weary doing well,1 Timothy 5:18for the Writing saith, ‘An ox treading out thou shalt not muzzle,’ and ‘Worthy is the workman of his reward.’James 5:4lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you—doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;