Exodus 20:15

The eighth commandment forbids stealing. God upholds the right to property and honest dealing.

Cross-references · 24

• Rom 13:9For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
• Eph 4:28Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
• Lev 19:11Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
• Lev 19:13Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
• Matt 19:18He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
• 1 Cor 6:10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
• Lev 6:1–7And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
• Prov 1:13–15We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
• Prov 11:1A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
• Lev 19:35–37Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
• Amos 8:4–6Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
• Deut 24:7If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
• John 12:6This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
• Zech 5:3–4Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
• Deut 25:13–16Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
• 1 Th 4:6That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
• Matt 21:13And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
• Amos 3:10For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
• Mic 7:3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
• Luke 3:13–14And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
• Exod 21:16And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
• Job 20:19–22Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
• Mic 6:10–11Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?

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