Proverbs 23:10

New English Translation

Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,

Cross References

Job 22:9

you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.

Job 24:9

The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

Job 6:27

Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend.

Psalm 94:6

They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless.

Exodus 22:22

“You must not afflict any widow or orphan.

Proverbs 15:25

The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he maintains the boundaries of the widow.

Proverbs 22:28

Do not move an ancient boundary stone which was put in place by your ancestors.

Jeremiah 22:3

The Lord says, “Do what is just and right. Deliver those who have been robbed from those who oppress them. Do not exploit or mistreat foreigners who live in your land, children who have no fathers, or widows. Do not kill innocent people in this land.

Jeremiah 7:5

You must change the way you have been living and do what is right. You must treat one another fairly.

Jeremiah 7:6

Stop oppressing foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop paying allegiance to other gods. That will only bring about your ruin.

Zechariah 7:10

You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the foreigner, or the poor, nor should anyone secretly plot evil against his fellow human being.’

Malachi 3:5

“I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the immigrant and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the Lord who rules over all.

Deuteronomy 19:14

You must not encroach on your neighbor’s property, which will have been defined in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 27:17

‘Cursed is the one who moves his neighbor’s boundary marker.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.