Proverbs 23:10
New Living Translation
10 Don’t cheat your neighbor by moving the ancient boundary markers;
don’t take the land of defenseless orphans.
Proverbs 22:28
New Living Translation
28 Don’t cheat your neighbor by moving the ancient boundary markers
set up by previous generations.
Zechariah 7:10
New Living Translation
10 Do not oppress widows, orphans, foreigners, and the poor. And do not scheme against each other.
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Deuteronomy 27:17
New Living Translation
17 ‘Cursed is anyone who steals property from a neighbor by moving a boundary marker.’
And all the people will reply, ‘Amen.’
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Jeremiah 22:3
New Living Translation
3 This is what the Lord says: Be fair-minded and just. Do what is right! Help those who have been robbed; rescue them from their oppressors. Quit your evil deeds! Do not mistreat foreigners, orphans, and widows. Stop murdering the innocent!
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Deuteronomy 19:14
New Living Translation
Concern for Justice
14 “When you arrive in the land the Lord your God is giving you as your special possession, you must never steal anyone’s land by moving the boundary markers your ancestors set up to mark their property.
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James 1:27
New Living Translation
27 Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.
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Malachi 3:5
New Living Translation
5 “At that time I will put you on trial. I am eager to witness against all sorcerers and adulterers and liars. I will speak against those who cheat employees of their wages, who oppress widows and orphans, or who deprive the foreigners living among you of justice, for these people do not fear me,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
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Jeremiah 7:5
New Living Translation
5 But I will be merciful only if you stop your evil thoughts and deeds and start treating each other with justice;
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Psalm 94:6
New Living Translation
6 They kill widows and foreigners
and murder orphans.
Job 31:21-23
New Living Translation
21 “If I raised my hand against an orphan,
knowing the judges would take my side,
22 then let my shoulder be wrenched out of place!
Let my arm be torn from its socket!
23 That would be better than facing God’s judgment.
For if the majesty of God opposes me, what hope is there?
Job 24:2-3
New Living Translation
2 Evil people steal land by moving the boundary markers.
They steal livestock and put them in their own pastures.
3 They take the orphan’s donkey
and demand the widow’s ox as security for a loan.
Job 22:9
New Living Translation
9 You must have sent widows away empty-handed
and crushed the hopes of orphans.
Job 6:27
New Living Translation
27 You would even send an orphan into slavery[a]
or sell a friend.
Footnotes
- 6:27 Hebrew even gamble over an orphan.
Job 24:9
New Living Translation
9 “The wicked snatch a widow’s child from her breast,
taking the baby as security for a loan.
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