Bible Verses About Theft and Thieves

Cords of the wicked have surrounded me, Thy law I have not forgotten.

They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,

And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.

The spoil of the wicked catcheth them, Because they have refused to do judgment.

For I am Jehovah, loving judgment, Hating plunder for a burnt-offering, And I have given their wage in truth, And a covenant age-during I make for them.

As the shame of a thief when he is found, So put to shame have been the house of Israel, They, their kings, their heads, And their priests, and their prophets,

Stealing, murdering, and committing adultery, And swearing to falsehood, and giving perfume to Baal, And going after other gods whom ye knew not.

And ye have come in and stood before Me, In this house on which My name is called, And have said, `We have been delivered,' In order to do all these abominations.

The people of the land have used oppression, And have taken plunder violently away, And humble and needy have oppressed, And the sojourner oppressed--without judgment.

`Hear a word of Jehovah, sons of Israel, For a strife is to Jehovah with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, Nor knowledge of God, in the land,

Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery--have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.

If thieves have come in to thee, If spoilers of the night, How hast thou been cut off! Do they not steal their sufficiency? If gatherers have come in to thee, Do they not leave gleanings?

Woe to the city of blood, She is all with lies--burglary--full, Prey doth not depart.

And he saith unto me, `This is the execration that is going forth over the face of all the land, for every one who is stealing, on the one side, according to it, hath been declared innocent, and every one who hath sworn, on the other side, according to it, hath been declared innocent.

`Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,

but treasure up to yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth disfigure, and where thieves do not break through nor steal,

for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

He saith to him, `What kind?' And Jesus said, `Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness,

and he saith to them, `It hath been written, My house a house of prayer shall be called, but ye did make it a den of robbers.'

Then crucified with him are two robbers, one on the right hand, and one on the left,

with the same also the robbers, who were crucified with him, were reproaching him.

for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,

thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness;

and he was teaching, saying to them, `Hath it not been written--My house a house of prayer shall be called for all the nations, and ye did make it a den of robbers?'

And with him they crucify two robbers, one on the right hand, and one on his left,