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Bible Verses About hire

This collection includes 50 passages about hire. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

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But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

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Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

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He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.

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The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

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At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.

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Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

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And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.

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And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

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If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

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But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:

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For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.

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It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

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So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.

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And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

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Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;

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Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

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And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal–berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.

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And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.

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So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.

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And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

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In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

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And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.

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Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

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Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

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I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.

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Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.

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And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

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They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.

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But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.

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Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

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And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.

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And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.

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And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.

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Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.

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Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.

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And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.

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Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

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Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

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Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.

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