13 Bible Verses about Robbing People
Most Relevant Verses
"Do not lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
And the lords of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them. And it was told to Abimelech.
Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to save you.
No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.
'House of David, thus says the LORD, "Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Thus says the LORD: "Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save you.
Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
Give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.
And if anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.
To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your coat also.
For you both had compassion on them that were in chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an enduring one.
Bible Theasaurus
- Robbing (8 instances)
