Laborer and wages imagery uses hired workers, daily wages, fields, pay, and reward to teach about faithful service, divine recompense, grace, justice, and accountability for work done.
Laborer and wages imagery uses hired workers, daily wages, fields, pay, and reward to teach about faithful service, divine recompense, grace, justice, and accountability for work done.
A labor-and-recompense motif in which working, hiring, wages, reward, and withheld pay communicate service, equity, reward, obligation, or eschatological reckoning.
These examples show how Laborer and Wages Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
the wages of him that is hired shall not abide
Wage imagery grounds justice in timely payment to the vulnerable worker.
at his day thou shalt give him his hire
Daily wages become a moral test of covenant righteousness.
as a hireling looketh for the reward of his work
The hireling’s expectation pictures longing for relief after labour.
against those that oppress the hireling in his wages
Withheld wages are treated as covenant injustice under divine judgment.
the labourers are few
Harvest labour imagery describes the need for workers in God’s mission.
labourers into his vineyard
The vineyard-worker parable uses wages to reveal grace and divine generosity.
the labourer is worthy of his hire
Wage imagery supports the rightful provision of gospel workers.
he that reapeth receiveth wages
Mission work is pictured as harvest labour with shared joy and reward.
every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour
Paul applies labour-and-reward imagery to ministry accountability.
the labourer is worthy of his reward
Wages imagery is applied to honouring elders who labour in the word.
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