What benefit can a worker gain from his toil?

Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my good friend Stachys.

A foreigner and a hired worker must not eat it.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my compatriots.

no bag for the journey, or an extra tunic, or sandals or staff, for the worker deserves his provisions.

We sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen you and encourage you about your faith,

Make every effort to present yourself before God as a proven worker who does not need to be ashamed, teaching the message of truth accurately.

Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, for the worker deserves his pay. Do not move around from house to house.

For the scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and, “The worker deserves his pay.”

He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

If there is any question about Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you; if there is any question about our brothers, they are messengers of the churches, a glory to Christ.

You may have the Sabbath produce of the land to eat – you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you,

He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

But the worker answered him, ‘Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it.

Jeroboam was a talented man; when Solomon saw that the young man was an accomplished worker, he made him the leader of the work crew from the tribe of Joseph.

You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, ‘For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?’

He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.

Suppose he goes with someone else to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose from the handle and strikes his fellow worker so hard that he dies. The person responsible may then flee to one of these cities to save himself.

From Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our dear friend and colaborer,