Proverbs 22:28

World English Bible (2000)

Don't move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 19:14 : 14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
  • Prov 23:10 : 10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
  • Deut 27:17 : 17 'Cursed is he who removes his neighbor's landmark.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • Job 24:2 : 2 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

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  • Prov 23:10
    85%

    10Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

  • Deut 19:14
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    14You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.

  • Prov 22:26-27
    2 verses
    78%

    26Don't you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.

    27If you don't have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

  • Deut 27:17
    78%

    17'Cursed is he who removes his neighbor's landmark.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Prov 22:29
    74%

    29Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won't serve obscure men.

  • Job 24:2
    73%

    2There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

  • Job 22:15
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    15Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,

  • Prov 5:7-10
    4 verses
    71%

    7Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth.

    8Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house,

    9lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

    10lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house.

  • Deut 22:30
    71%

    30A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

  • Prov 1:15
    71%

    15My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

  • Prov 4:25-27
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    71%

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

    26Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

    27Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

  • Prov 24:27-28
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    70%

    27Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

    28Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.

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

  • Job 8:8
    70%

    8"Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.

  • Deut 24:17
    70%

    17You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

  • Prov 25:6
    70%

    6Don't exalt yourself in the presence of the king, or claim a place among great men;

  • Prov 4:15
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    15Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

  • Prov 22:6
    69%

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

  • Deut 32:7
    69%

    7Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

  • Deut 28:30
    69%

    30You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit.

  • 2 Chr 30:7
    69%

    7Don't be like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.

  • Prov 1:8
    69%

    8My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

  • Jer 22:13
    69%

    13Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;

  • Josh 22:27-28
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    69%

    27but it will be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may perform the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings;' that your children may not tell our children in time to come, 'You have no portion in Yahweh.'

    28"Therefore we said, 'It shall be, when they tell us or our generations this in time to come, that we shall say, "Behold the pattern of the altar of Yahweh, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you."'

  • Prov 2:20
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    20that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

  • Prov 6:20
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    20My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.

  • Job 15:18
    69%

    18(Which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;

  • Deut 22:8
    69%

    8When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.

  • Prov 22:22
    69%

    22Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;

  • Exod 22:28
    69%

    28"You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

  • Prov 27:23
    68%

    23Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

  • Prov 17:6
    68%

    6Children's children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

  • Eccl 8:2
    68%

    2I say, "Keep the king's command!" because of the oath to God.

  • Prov 24:15
    68%

    15Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:

  • Job 22:8-9
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    68%

    8But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

    9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Deut 8:18
    68%

    18But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.

  • Deut 8:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day:

    12lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;

  • Prov 31:3
    68%

    3Don't give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

  • Prov 5:17
    68%

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

  • Prov 20:21
    68%

    21An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won't be blessed in the end.