Proverbs 23:10

Easy To Read Version

Never move an old property line. And never take land that belongs to orphans. {\cf2\super [32]}

Cross References

Job 22:9

But maybe you sent widows {\cf2\super [35]} away\par without giving them anything.\par Job, maybe you cheated orphans. {\cf2\super [36]} \par

Job 24:9

Evil people take a nursing baby from its mother.\par They take a poor person’s child\par as security {\cf2\super [39]} for a loan.\par

Job 6:27

You would even gamble to win things\par that belong to children without fathers.\par You would sell out your own friend.\par

Psalm 94:6

Those bad people kill widows\par and foreigners living in our country.\par They murder children that have no parents.\par

Exodus 22:22

“You must never do anything bad to women whose husbands are dead or to children without parents.

Proverbs 15:25

The Lord will destroy everything a proud person has. But the Lord protects the things that a widow has.

Proverbs 22:28

Never move an old property line that was marked long ago by your ancestors. {\cf2\super [31]}

Jeremiah 22:3

The Lord says: Do the things that are fair and right. Protect the person that has been robbed from the person that robbed him. Don’t hurt or do anything wrong to orphans {\cf2\super [171]} or widows. {\cf2\super [172]} Don’t kill innocent people.

Jeremiah 7:5

If you change your lives and do good things, I will let you live in this place. You must be fair to each other.

Jeremiah 7:6

You must be fair to strangers. You must do the right things for widows and orphans. {\cf2\super [54]} Don’t kill innocent people! Don’t follow other gods! Why? Because they will ruin your lives.

Zechariah 7:10

Don’t hurt widows and orphans, {\cf2\super [19]} \par strangers, or poor people.\par Don’t even think of doing bad things\par to each other!”\par

Malachi 3:5

Then I will come to you—and I will do the right thing. I will be like a person that is ready to tell the judge about the bad things people did. Some people do evil magic. Some people do the sin of adultery. {\cf2\super [19]} Some people make false promises. Some people cheat their workers—they don’t pay them the money they promised. People don’t help widows and orphans. {\cf2\super [20]} People don’t help strangers. People don’t respect me!” The Lord All-Powerful said these things.

Deuteronomy 19:14

“You must not move the stones that mark your neighbor’s property. People put those stones there in the past to mark each person’s property. Those stones mark the land that the Lord your God gave you.

Deuteronomy 27:17

“{The Levites will say,} ‘Cursed is the person that moves his neighbor’s landmark [176] !’

James 1:27

The kind of religion (worship) that God accepts is this: caring for orphans {\cf2\super [2]} or widows {\cf2\super [3]} who need help, and keeping yourself free from the world’s \{evil\} influence. This is the kind of religion (worship) that God accepts as pure and good.