Bible Verses About Treatment of Employees
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for treatment of employees, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,356 votes, led by Colossians 4:1. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Treatment of Employees
Colossians 4:1251 votes
Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Luke 6:31146 votes
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
Ephesians 6:9125 votes
And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.
Proverbs 11:1102 votes
A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
Ephesians 6:5-992 votes
Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
Proverbs 6:16-1991 votes
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Matthew 25:2378 votes
His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
Luke 16:1076 votes
He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Deuteronomy 1:1772 votes
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
Colossians 3:2372 votes
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
James 5:472 votes
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Deuteronomy 24:14-1567 votes
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:
Acts 24:1660 votes
And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Deuteronomy 25:13-1659 votes
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
Ephesians 6:858 votes
Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
James 5:1-656 votes
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Proverbs 1:1-3353 votes
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
Leviticus 19:1347 votes
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.
Colossians 3:1747 votes
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Jeremiah 22:1337 votes
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;
Malachi 3:537 votes
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
John 10:1037 votes
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
1 Peter 2:1829 votes
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Ephesians 6:5-828 votes
Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
Genesis 2:1525 votes
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
What does the Bible say about treatment of employees?
Readers most often cite Colossians 4:1 on the subject of treatment of employees. Across 2,356 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Luke 6:31, Ephesians 6:9, Proverbs 11:1. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.