From Nave’s Topical Bible
Wages
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 19Passages listed
- 11Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Of JacobGenesis 29:15–30Genesis 30:28–34Genesis 31:7Genesis 31:41
- Parable concerningMatthew 20:1–15
- See Master
- See Servant
- UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TOLeviticus 19:13Deuteronomy 24:14Deuteronomy 24:15Deuteronomy 25:4Jeremiah 22:13Haggai 1:6Malachi 3:5Matthew 10:10Luke 3:14Luke 10:7Romans 4:4Romans 6:23Colossians 4:1James 5:4
The passages, in Bible order (19)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 29:15–30
Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
Commentary on Genesis 29:15–301 voice
And Laban said unto Jacob, because thou art my brother,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Genesis 30:28–34
And he added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”
Commentary on Genesis 30:28–341 voice
And he said, appoint me thy wages, and I will give it. Say what thou wilt have, fix what salary thou thinkest sufficient, and I will agree to it, and punctually pay it: this he craftily said, not choosing to propose anything himself, but leaving it to Jacob, knowing very well the honesty and modesty of Jacob, that he would mention less wages than he could have the face to offer him.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Genesis 31:7
And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
Commentary on Genesis 31:71 voice
(Chapter XXXI, verses 7 and 8) And your father deceived me and changed my wages ten times, and God did not allow him to harm me. If he said, 'Your wages will be the spotted flock,' then every flock was born spotted. And if he said, 'Your wages will be the solid-colored flock,' then every flock was born solid-colored. Because of this, he changed my wages ten times. The Seventy Interpreters have stated, driven by some unknown opinion, that 'moni' in the Hebrew language means 'number' rather than 'lambs.'
Jerome· Hebrew Questions on Genesis, 420Patristic
- Genesis 31:41
Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!
Commentary on Genesis 31:411 voice
(Verse 41.) And you changed my reward to ten lambs. The same mistake as above: The word 'numerus' should be read instead of 'agnis'.
Jerome· Hebrew Questions on Genesis, 420Patristic
- Leviticus 19:13
You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
Commentary on Leviticus 19:131 voice
Let no one deny the hireling the wage he is owed, since we too are hirelings of our God, and from him we look forward to the reward of our labor. And if you indeed, whatever type of businessman you are, deny your hireling a monetary payment that is a perishable trifle, you shall be denied the reward of heaven that has been promised. You shall not defraud, as the law says, the hireling of his pay.
Ambrose of Milan· LETTER 62 (19).3, 397Patristic
- Deuteronomy 24:14
Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 24:141 voice
Thou shall not oppress an hired servant,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 24:15
You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 24:151 voice
At his day thou shalt give him his hire,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 25:4
Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 25:41 voice
Let him use those tenths and first-fruits, which are given according to the command of God, as a man of God; as also let him dispense in a right manner the free-will offerings which are brought in on account of the poor, to the orphans, the widows, the afflicted, and strangers in distress, as having that God for the examiner of his accounts who has committed the disposition to him.
Apostolic Constitutions· Apostolic Constitutions (Book II), Section 4, XXV, 380Patristic
- Jeremiah 22:13
“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
Commentary on Jeremiah 22:132 voices
(Verse 12 and following) Woe to him who builds his house with injustice, and his upper rooms without justice. He oppresses his neighbor in vain, and does not pay him his wages. He says, 'I will build for myself a spacious house with large upper rooms.' He opens windows for himself, and makes it with cedar and paints it with vermilion. Are you going to reign because you have luxury? Didn't your father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice when he was prospering?
Jerome· Commentary on Jeremiah, 420Patristic
But such a house as this sensual persons, they who dwell in cieled houses and delight in chased silver, do not build. For as they despise pure silver, so also they despise simple dwellings. They enlarge the site of their houses, they add more and more, joining house to house and farm to farm, they dig up the ground; so that the very earth itself gives way to their habitations, and like sons of the earth they are laid up within her womb, and hidden in her bowels.
Ambrose of Milan· Letter 30.4, 397Patristic
- Haggai 1:6
You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”
Commentary on Haggai 1:62 voices
(Verse 5, 6) You have sown much and brought in little: you eat but are not satisfied: you drink but are not filled with drink: you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm: and he that earned wages, earned them to put into a bag with holes. All the labor that you have built up your houses and neglected the house of God, has not had a consequence. For you have sown much and gathered little: you cannot say it is a result of famine, because the farmer has ceased to work the land.
Jerome· Commentary on Haggai, 420Patristic
Generally speaking, riches that are not under complete control are the citadels of evil. If the ordinary people look on them covetously, they will never enter the kingdom of heaven, because they are letting themselves become contaminated by the things of this world and are living above themselves in self-indulgence. Those concerned for their salvation should take this as their first principle, that, although the whole of creation is ours to use, the universe is made for the sake of self-sufficiency, which anyone can acquire by a few things.
Clement of Alexandria· The Instructor Book 2, 215Patristic
- Malachi 3:5
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
Commentary on Malachi 3:51 voice
(Verse 5) And I will come to you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers, and perjurers, and those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless, and those who thrust aside the sojourner: they have not feared me, says the Lord of hosts. LXX: And I will come to you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against evildoers, and against adulterers, and against those who swear falsely by my name.
Jerome· Commentary on Malachi, 420Patristic
- Matthew 10:10
Take no bag for the road, or second tunic, or sandals, or staff; for the worker is worthy of his provisions.
Commentary on Matthew 10:102 voices
For if they preach without receiving reward for it, the possession of gold and silver and wealth was unnecessary. For had they had such, they would have been thought to be preaching, not for the sake of men's salvation, but their own gain. As He had cut off riches, which are meant by gold and silver, He now almost cuts off necessaries of life; that the Apostles, teachers of the true religion, who taught men that all things are directed by God's providence, might show themselves to be without thought for the morrow.
Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 420Patristic
(Vers. 9, 10.) Do not possess gold, silver, or money in your belts. Take no bag for the journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staff. For the worker deserves his food. Therefore, he gives these precepts to the evangelizers of truth, to whom he had said before: Freely you have received, freely give. For if they preach in such a way that they do not accept payment, the possession of gold, silver, and money is superfluous.
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420Patristic
- Matthew 20:1–15
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
Commentary on Matthew 20:1–151 voice
Chapter 20, Verse 1 onwards: The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. After agreeing to pay them the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard. Going out again at about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace and said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and I will give you whatever is right.' So they went. Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour and did the same.
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420Patristic
- Luke 3:14
Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”
Commentary on Luke 3:142 voices
Teaching thereby that wages were affixed to military duty, lest men seeking for gain should go about as robbers.
Ambrose of Milan· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 397Patristic
The Baptist gave a fitting response to each kind of people. To the tax collectors he said that they should not exact payment beyond what was appointed. To the soldiers, that they should not make false accusations or rob anyone, by which he meant that their pay was fixed, so that wanting to have more, they could not resort to plunder. These and other precepts are appropriate for all occupations, and the practice of compassion is shared. Thus it is a common precept that the basic necessities of life must be provided for all occupations, all ages and all people.
Ambrose of Milan· EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 2.77, 397Patristic
- Luke 10:7
Stay at the same house, eating and drinking whatever you are offered. For the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move around from house to house.
Commentary on Luke 10:71 voice
Another virtue is added, that we should not go about easily, changing from house to house. For it follows, Go not from house to house; that is, that we should preserve a consistency in our love towards our hosts, nor lightly loose any bond of friendship.
Ambrose of Milan· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 397Patristic
- Romans 4:4
Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.