Wages

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Bible verses about “Wages”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• Genesis 29:15And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?
• Genesis 29:16And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
• Genesis 29:17Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
• Genesis 29:18And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
• Genesis 29:19And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
• Genesis 29:20And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
• Genesis 29:21And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
• Genesis 29:22And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
• Genesis 29:23And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
• Genesis 29:24And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.
• Genesis 29:25And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?
• Genesis 29:26And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
• Genesis 29:27Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
• Genesis 29:28And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
• Genesis 29:29And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
• Genesis 29:30And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
• Genesis 30:28And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
• Genesis 30:29And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.
• Genesis 30:30For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the Lord hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
• Genesis 30:31And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:
• Genesis 30:32I 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.
• Genesis 30:33So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
• Genesis 30:34And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
• Genesis 31:7And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
• Genesis 31:41Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
• Matthew 20:1For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
• Matthew 20:2And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
• Matthew 20:3And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
• Matthew 20:4And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.
• Matthew 20:5Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.
• Matthew 20:6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
• Matthew 20:7They 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.
• Matthew 20:8So 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.
• Matthew 20:9And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
• Matthew 20:10But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.
• Matthew 20:11And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
• Matthew 20:12Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
• Matthew 20:13But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
• Matthew 20:14Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.
• Matthew 20:15Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?