Deuteronomy 22:8

Good News Translation

“When you build a new house, be sure to put a railing around the edge of the roof. Then you will not be responsible if someone falls off and is killed.

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:2

One day, late in the afternoon, David got up from his nap and went to the palace roof. As he walked around up there, he saw a woman taking a bath in her house. She was very beautiful.

Exodus 22:6

“If someone starts a fire in his own field and it spreads through the weeds to someone else's field and burns up grain that is growing or that has been cut and stacked, the one who started the fire is to pay for the damage.

Isaiah 22:1

This is a message about the Valley of Vision. What is happening? Why are all the people of the city celebrating on the roofs of the houses?

Jeremiah 19:13

The houses of Jerusalem, the houses of the kings of Judah, and indeed all the houses on whose roofs incense has been burned to the stars and where wine has been poured out as an offering to other gods—they will all be as unclean as Topheth.”

Ezekiel 3:18

If I announce that someone evil is going to die but you do not warn him to change his ways so that he can save his life, he will die, still a sinner, but I will hold you responsible for his death.

Ezekiel 3:20

“If someone truly good starts doing evil and I put him in a dangerous situation, he will die if you do not warn him. He will die because of his sins—I will not remember the good he did—and I will hold you responsible for his death.

Matthew 10:27

What I am telling you in the dark you must repeat in broad daylight, and what you have heard in private you must announce from the housetops.

Mark 2:4

Because of the crowd, however, they could not get the man to him. So they made a hole in the roof right above the place where Jesus was. When they had made an opening, they let the man down, lying on his mat.

Acts 10:9

The next day, as they were on their way and coming near Joppa, Peter went up on the roof of the house about noon in order to pray.

Romans 14:13

So then, let us stop judging one another. Instead, you should decide never to do anything that would make others stumble or fall into sin.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Live in such a way as to cause no trouble either to Jews or Gentiles or to the church of God.

Deuteronomy 22:7

You may take the young birds, but you must let the mother bird go, so that you will live a long and prosperous life.

Deuteronomy 22:9

“Do not plant any crop in the same field with your grapevines; if you do, you are forbidden to use either the grapes or the produce of the other crop.

Philippians 1:10

so that you will be able to choose what is best. Then you will be free from all impurity and blame on the Day of Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:22

and avoid every kind of evil.

1 Samuel 9:25

When they went down from the place of worship to the town, they fixed up a bed for Saul on the roof,