Proverbs 23:10

Tree of Life Version

Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or encroach on fields of the fatherless,

Cross References

Job 22:9

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

Job 24:9

The orphan is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

Job 6:27

Would you cast lots for an orphan, and barter over your friend?

Psalm 94:6

They slay the widow and the outsider, and murder the fatherless.

Exodus 22:22

If you mistreat them in any way, and they cry out to Me, I will surely hear their cry.

Proverbs 15:25

Adonai tears down a proud man’s house, but He maintains the widow’s boundary.

Proverbs 22:28

Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers set up.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says Adonai: ‘Execute justice and righteousness. Rescue the one who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do not mistreat or do violence to the stranger, the fatherless or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 7:5

“No, if you truly mend your ways and your deeds—if you are doing justice between a man and his neighbor,

Jeremiah 7:6

not oppressing the sojourner, orphan and widow nor shedding innocent blood in this place, nor going after other gods to your own ruin—

Zechariah 7:10

Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the outsider or the poor. Furthermore, do not let any of you devise evil against one another in your heart.’

Malachi 3:5

“Then I will draw near to you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, perjurers those who extort a worker’s wage, or oppress the widow or an orphan, those who mislead a stranger. They do not fear Me,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.

Deuteronomy 19:14

“You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker that the first generations marked out, in the inheritance you will receive in the land Adonai your God is giving you to possess.

Deuteronomy 27:17

‘Cursed is the one who removes his neighbor’s boundary marker.’ Then all the people are to say, ‘Amen.’

James 1:27

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