Proverbs 23:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Do not remove an ancient landmark or encroach on the fields of orphans,

Cross References

Job 22:9

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

Job 24:9

“There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.

Job 6:27

You would even cast lots over the orphan and bargain over your friend.

Psalm 94:6

They kill the widow and the stranger; they murder the orphan,

Exodus 22:22

You shall not abuse any widow or orphan.

Proverbs 15:25

The Lord tears down the house of the proud but maintains the widow’s boundaries.

Proverbs 22:28

Do not remove the ancient landmark that your ancestors set up.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Act with justice and righteousness and deliver from the hand of the oppressor anyone who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 7:5

For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly act justly one with another,

Jeremiah 7:6

if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt,

Zechariah 7:10

do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Deuteronomy 19:14

“You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, set up by former generations, on the property that will be allotted to you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

Deuteronomy 27:17

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who moves a neighbor’s boundary marker.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.