Quotes about Wages
Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.
- Thomas Watson
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
- Martin Luther
Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
- Genesis 29:15
And he added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”
- Genesis 30:28
Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages.
- Genesis 30:32
So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.”
- Genesis 30:33
And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
- Genesis 31:7
If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore speckled offspring. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore streaked offspring.
- Genesis 31:8
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!
- Genesis 31:41
Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.
- Exodus 2:9
You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
- Leviticus 19:13
He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.
- Leviticus 25:50