God's requirement that workers be paid promptly and fairly. Leviticus 19:13: 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. Deuteronomy 24:14-15: Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy... At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee. James 5:4 brings the principle into the new covenant church with sharp force: 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. The biblical employer pays fairly and pays on time. The defrauded worker has direct access to the Lord of hosts — his cry reaches God's ears. Modern employers, Christian or otherwise, ignore this principle at their soul's peril. Christian business ethics begin with wages justice.