Proverbs 22:28

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Do not remove the ancient boundary stone set up by your ancestors.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 19:14 : 14 Do not move your neighbor's boundary marker, established by the ancestors, in the inheritance you will receive in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
  • Prov 23:10 : 10 Do not move an ancient boundary marker, nor enter the fields of the fatherless.
  • Deut 27:17 : 17 Cursed is anyone who moves his neighbor's boundary marker. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • Job 24:2 : 2 People remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 23:10
    85%

    10Do not move an ancient boundary marker, nor enter the fields of the fatherless.

  • Deut 19:14
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    14Do not move your neighbor's boundary marker, established by the ancestors, in the inheritance you will receive in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

  • Prov 22:26-27
    2 verses
    78%

    26Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge, or who puts up security for debts.

    27If you lack the means to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

  • Deut 27:17
    78%

    17Cursed is anyone who moves his neighbor's boundary marker. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Prov 22:29
    74%

    29Do you see someone skilled in their work? They will serve before kings; they will not serve before obscure people.

  • Job 24:2
    73%

    2People remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.

  • Job 22:15
    73%

    15Will you keep to the ancient path that wicked men have walked?

  • Prov 5:7-10
    4 verses
    71%

    7Now, my children, listen to me, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.

    8Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house.

    9Lest you give your vigor to others, and your years to someone cruel;

    10Lest strangers feast on your strength, and your hard-earned wealth end up in the house of a foreigner.

  • Prov 1:15
    71%

    15My son, do not walk in the way with them; keep your foot away from their paths,

  • Prov 4:25-27
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    71%

    25Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you.

    26Consider the path of your feet, and all your ways will be established.

    27Do not turn to the right or to the left; keep your foot away from evil.

  • Prov 24:27-28
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    27Prepare your work outside and get your fields ready; after that, build your house.

    28Do not be a false witness against your neighbor or deceive with your lips.

  • Prov 23:22
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    22Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Job 8:8
    70%

    8Ask the previous generation, and give thought to the findings of their ancestors;

  • Deut 24:17
    70%

    17Do not pervert justice for the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow's garment as security for a pledge.

  • Prov 25:6
    70%

    6Do not exalt yourself in the king's presence or stand in the place of the great.

  • Prov 4:15
    70%

    15Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn away from it and go on your way.

  • Prov 22:6
    69%

    6Train a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.

  • Deut 32:7
    69%

    7Remember the days of old; consider the years of past generations. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you.

  • Deut 28:30
    69%

    30You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not enjoy its fruit.

  • 2 Chr 30:7
    69%

    7Do not be like your ancestors and your brothers, who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their ancestors, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see.

  • Prov 1:8
    69%

    8Listen, my son, to your father's instruction, and do not forsake your mother's teaching,

  • Jer 22:13
    69%

    13Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice, making his neighbor work for nothing and not paying him for his labor.

  • Josh 22:27-28
    2 verses
    69%

    27but as a witness between us and you and the generations that follow, that we will worship the LORD at His sanctuary with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and fellowship offerings.’ Then in the future, your descendants will not be able to say to ours, ‘You have no share in the LORD.’

    28And we said, ‘If they ever say this to us or to our descendants, we will answer: Look at the replica of the altar of the LORD, which our ancestors built—not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a witness between us and you.’

  • Prov 2:20
    69%

    20So you will walk in the way of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.

  • Prov 6:20
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    20My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

  • Job 15:18
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    18What wise men have declared, and have not hidden from their ancestors,

  • Deut 22:8
    69%

    8When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you do not bring bloodguilt upon your house if someone falls from it.

  • Prov 22:22
    69%

    22Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate.

  • Exod 22:28
    69%

    28Do not hold back offerings from your harvest or your wine presses. You must give me the firstborn of your sons.

  • Prov 27:23
    68%

    23Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds.

  • Prov 17:6
    68%

    6Children’s children are the crown of the elderly, and the glory of children is their parents.

  • Eccl 8:2
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    2I advise you to obey the king's command and stay true to your oath made before God.

  • Prov 24:15
    68%

    15Do not lie in ambush, wicked person, at the house of the righteous; do not destroy their resting place.

  • Job 22:8-9
    2 verses
    68%

    8But the powerful man owns the land, and the honored man dwells in it.

    9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

  • Deut 8:18
    68%

    18But remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the power to gain wealth, so that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is today.

  • Deut 8:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11Be careful not to forget the Lord your God by failing to keep His commandments, judgments, and statutes that I am commanding you today.

    12Otherwise, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built fine houses and settled in them,

  • Prov 31:3
    68%

    3Do not give your strength to women or your ways to those who destroy kings.

  • Prov 5:17
    68%

    17Let them be yours alone, and not for strangers with you.

  • Prov 20:21
    68%

    21An inheritance gained hastily at the beginning will not be blessed at the end.