Proverbs 23:10

Bible in Basic English 1965

Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;

Cross References

Job 22:9

You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

Job 24:9

The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

Job 6:27

Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.

Psalm 94:6

They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

Exodus 22:22

Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.

Proverbs 15:25

The house of the man of pride will be uprooted by the Lord, but he will make safe the heritage of the widow.

Proverbs 22:28

Let not the old landmark be moved which your fathers have put in place.

Jeremiah 22:3

This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.

Jeremiah 7:5

For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;

Jeremiah 7:6

If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:

Zechariah 7:10

Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

Deuteronomy 19:14

Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 27:17

Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's landmark from its place. And let all the people say, So be it.

James 1:27

The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.