Bible Verses About Theft and Thieves

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.’”

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

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

“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.

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

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.”

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

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

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

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

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

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.

They didn’t repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.