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⁷And remain in the same house, eating and drinking the things that are with them. For the worker is worthy of his pay. Do not choose to pass from house to house.

¹⁸For Scripture says: “You shall not muzzle an ox as it is treading out the grain,” and, “The worker is worthy of his pay.”

⁴Consider the pay of the workers who reaped your fields: it has been misappropriated by you; it cries out. And their cry has entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

¹³You shall not slander your neighbor, nor shall you oppress him by violence. The wages of a hired hand, you shall not delay with you until tomorrow.

¹You masters, supply your servants with what is just and equitable, knowing that you, too, have a Master in heaven.

⁵And I will approach you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against evil-doers, and adulterers, and perjurers, and those who cheat the hired hand in his wages, the widows and the orphans, and who oppress the traveler, and who have not feared me, says the Lord of hosts.

¹³Woe to one who builds his house with injustice and his upper rooms without judgment, who oppresses his friend without cause and does not pay him his wages.

¹⁰nor provisions for the journey, nor two tunics, nor shoes, nor a staff. For the laborer deserves his portion.

¹⁴You shall not refuse the pay of the indigent and the poor, whether he is your brother, or he is a new arrival who dwells with you in the land and is within your gates. ¹⁵Instead, you shall pay him the price of his labor on the same day, before the setting of the sun. For he is poor, and with it he sustains his life. Otherwise, he may cry out against you to the Lord, and it would be charged to you as a sin.

¹⁴So, too, has the Lord ordained that those who announce the Gospel should live by the Gospel.

¹⁴Then the soldiers also questioned him, saying, “And what should we do?” And he said to them: “You should strike no one, and you should not make false accusations. And be content with your pay.”

⁹For it is written in the law of Moses: “You shall not bind the mouth of an ox, while it is treading out the grain.” Is God here concerned with the oxen? ¹⁰Or is he saying this, indeed, for our sake? These things were written specifically for us, because he who plows, ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes, too, in hope of receiving the produce. ¹¹If we have sown spiritual things in you, is it important if we harvest from your worldly things? ¹²If others are sharers in this authority over you, why are we not more entitled? And yet we have not used this authority. Instead, we bear all things, lest we give any hindrance to the Gospel of Christ. ¹³Do you not know that those who work in the holy place eat the things that are for the holy place, and that those who serve at the altar also share with the altar? ¹⁴So, too, has the Lord ordained that those who announce the Gospel should live by the Gospel.

¹“The kingdom of heaven is like the father of a family who went out in early morning to lead workers into his vineyard. ²Then, having made an agreement with the workers for one denarius per day, he sent them into his vineyard. ³And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace. ⁴And he said to them, ‘You may go into my vineyard, too, and what I will give you will be just.’ ⁵So they went forth. But again, he went out about the sixth, and about the ninth hour, and he acted similarly. ⁶Yet truly, about the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing, and he said to them, ‘Why have you stood here idle all day?’

¹⁰Then, too, while we were with you, we insisted on this to you: that if anyone was not willing to work, neither should he eat.

¹⁷Let priests who lead well be held worthy of twice the honor, especially those who labor in the Word and in doctrine. ¹⁸For Scripture says: “You shall not muzzle an ox as it is treading out the grain,” and, “The worker is worthy of his pay.”

⁹And Amaziah said to the man of God, “Then what will become of the one hundred talents, which I gave to the soldiers of Israel?” And the man of God responded to him, “The Lord has that from which he is able to give much more than this to you.”