THEFT AND THIEVES

Passages on this topic · 83

• Genesis 31:19

  Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.

• Genesis 31:34

  Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but didn’t find them.

• Genesis 31:35

  She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.

• Exodus 20:15

  “You shall not steal.

• Exodus 21:16

  “Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

• Exodus 22:1

  “If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

• Exodus 22:2

  If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.

• Exodus 22:3

  If the sun has risen on him, guilt of bloodshed shall be for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

• Exodus 22:4

  If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.

• Exodus 22:10

  “If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it;

• Exodus 22:11

  the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he hasn’t put his hand to his neighbor’s goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

• Exodus 22:12

  But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.

• Exodus 22:13

  If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn.

• Exodus 22:14

  “If a man borrows anything of his neighbor’s, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

• Exodus 22:15

  If its owner is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.

• Leviticus 6:2

  “If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,

• Leviticus 6:3

  or has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of these things that a man does, sinning therein;

• Leviticus 6:4

  then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,

• Leviticus 6:5

  or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day of his being found guilty.

• Leviticus 6:6

  He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest.

• Leviticus 6:7

  The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty.”

• Leviticus 19:11

  “‘You shall not steal. “‘You shall not lie. “‘You shall not deceive one another.

• Leviticus 19:13

  “‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

• Deuteronomy 5:19

  “You shall not steal.

• Deuteronomy 23:24

  When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your container.

• Deuteronomy 23:25

  When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor’s standing grain.

• Joshua 7:11

  Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken some of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.

• Judges 17:2

  He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me. I took it.” His mother said, “May Yahweh bless my son!”

• Judges 18:14

  Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do.”

• Judges 18:15

  They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young Levite man, even to the house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing.

• Judges 18:16

  The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.

• Judges 18:17

  The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

• Judges 18:18

  When these went into Micah’s house, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

• Judges 18:19

  They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”

• Judges 18:20

  The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went with the people.

• Judges 18:21

  So they turned and departed, and put the little ones, the livestock, and the goods before them.

• Judges 18:22

  When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house gathered together and overtook the children of Dan.

• Judges 18:23

  As they cried to the children of Dan, they turned their faces, and said to Micah, “What ails you, that you come with such a company?”

• Judges 18:24

  He said, “You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away! What more do I have? How can you ask me, ‘What ails you?’”

• Judges 18:25

  The children of Dan said to him, “Don’t let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall on you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household.”

• Judges 18:26

  The children of Dan went their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.

• Judges 18:27

  They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword; then they burned the city with fire.

• Psalms 50:18

  When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

• Psalms 62:10

  Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

• Psalms 119:61

  The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.

• Proverbs 6:30

  Men don’t despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

• Proverbs 6:31

  but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.

• Proverbs 21:7

  The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

• Isaiah 61:8

  “For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

• Jeremiah 2:26

  As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;

• Jeremiah 7:9

  Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

• Jeremiah 7:10

  and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered;’ that you may do all these abominations?

• Ezekiel 22:29

  The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

• Hosea 4:1

  Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

• Hosea 4:2

  There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

• Obadiah 1:5

  “If thieves came to you, if robbers by night — oh, what disaster awaits you — wouldn’t they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn’t they leave some gleaning grapes?

• Nahum 3:1

  Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.

• Zechariah 5:3

  Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.

• Matthew 6:19

  “Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

• Matthew 6:20

  but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;

• Matthew 15:19

  For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

• Matthew 19:18

  He said to him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’

• Matthew 21:13

  He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”

• Matthew 27:38

  Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left.

• Matthew 27:44

  The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.

• Mark 7:21

  For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

• Mark 7:22

  covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

• Mark 11:17

  He taught, saying to them, “Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?’ But you have made it a den of robbers!”

• Mark 15:27

  With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.

• Luke 18:20

  You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”

• Luke 19:45

  He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it,

• Luke 19:46

  saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!”

• John 10:1

  “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

• John 12:6

  Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

• Romans 2:21

  You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

• Romans 13:9

  For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

• 1 Corinthians 6:8

  No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.

• 1 Corinthians 6:10

  nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

• Ephesians 4:28

  Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

• Titus 2:10

  not stealing, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.

• 1 Peter 4:15

  For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.

• Revelation 3:3

  Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

• Revelation 9:21

  They didn’t repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their thefts.