Proverbs 22:28

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 19:14 : 14 Laws Concerning Witnesses 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.
  • Prov 23:10 : 10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,
  • Deut 27:17 : 17 ‘Cursed is the one who moves his neighbor’s boundary marker.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’
  • Job 24:2 : 2 Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    10Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,

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    14Laws Concerning Witnesses 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.

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

    27If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!

  • Deut 27:17
    78%

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

  • Prov 22:29
    74%

    29You have seen a person skilled in his work– he will take his position before kings; he will not take his position before obscure people.

  • Job 24:2
    73%

    2Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.

  • Job 22:15
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    15Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked–

  • Prov 5:7-10
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    7So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak.

    8Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

    9lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,

    10lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house.

  • Deut 22:30
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    30(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.

  • Prov 1:15
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    15My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;

  • Prov 4:25-27
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    25Let your eyes look directly in front of you and let your gaze look straight before you.

    26Make the path for your feet level, so that all your ways may be established.

    27Do not turn to the right or to the left; turn yourself away from evil.

  • Prov 24:27-28
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    27Establish your work outside and get your fields ready; afterward build your house.

    28Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your words.

  • 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
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    8“For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors;

  • Deut 24:17
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    17You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.

  • Prov 25:6
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    6Do not honor yourself before the king, and do not stand in the place of great men;

  • Prov 4:15
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    15Avoid it, do not go on it; turn away from it, and go on.

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    69%

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

  • Deut 32:7
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    7Remember the ancient days; bear in mind the years of past generations. Ask your father and he will inform you, your elders, and they will tell you.

  • Deut 28:30
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    30You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

  • 2 Chr 30:7
    69%

    7Don’t be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD God of their ancestors, provoking him to destroy them, as you can see.

  • Prov 1:8
    69%

    8Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

  • Jer 22:13
    69%

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    27but as a reminder to us and you, and to our descendants who follow us, that we will honor the LORD in his very presence with burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace. Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants,‘You have no right to worship the LORD.’

    28We said,‘If in the future they say such a thing to us or to our descendants, we will reply,“See the model of the LORD’s altar that our ancestors made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a reminder to us and you.”’

  • Prov 2:20
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    20So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous.

  • Prov 6:20
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    20My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

  • Job 15:18
    69%

    18what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors,

  • Deut 22:8
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  • Prov 22:22
    69%

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  • Exod 22:28
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    28“You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.

  • Prov 27:23
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  • Prov 17:6
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    2Obey the king’s command, because you took an oath before God to be loyal to him.

  • Prov 24:15
    68%

    15Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.

  • Job 22:8-9
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  • Deut 8:18
    68%

    18You must remember the LORD your God, for he is the one who gives ability to get wealth; if you do this he will confirm his covenant that he made by oath to your ancestors, even as he has to this day.

  • Deut 8:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

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  • Prov 31:3
    68%

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  • Prov 5:17
    68%

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

  • Prov 20:21
    68%

    21An inheritance gained easily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.