52 Bible Verses about Stealing

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Romans 13:9

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet; and if any other command in this word it is summed up, in it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10

Or know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be ye not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, Nor thieves; nor covetous, nor intoxicated, nor railers, nor rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Exodus 22:1-4

If a man shall steal an ox or a sheep, and slaughter it or sell it, he shall recompense five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. If in breaking in a thief shall be found, and he was smitten and died, no bloods for him. If the sun was risen upon him, bloods for him: recompensing, he shall recompense; if nothing to him, to be sold for his theft.read more.
If finding, the theft shall be found in his hand, from an ox to an ass, to a sheep; living, he shall recompense two.

Jeremiah 2:26

As the shame of the thief when he shall be found, so was the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their chiefs, and their priests, and their prophets,

Proverbs 29:24

He dividing with a thief, hates his soul: he shall hear cursing and shall not announce.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy chiefs turning away, and associates of thieves: every one loving a gift and following recompenses: the orphan they will not judge, and the cause of the widow will not come to them.

Genesis 44:8

Behold, the silver which we found in the mouth of our sacks, we turned back to thee from the land of Canaan: and how shall we steal from thy lord's house, silver or gold?

1 Samuel 12:3-5

Behold me: answer against me before Jehovah and before his Messiah, whose ox did I take? or whose ass did I take? and whom did I oppress? whom did I vex? and from whose hand did I take a ransom and hidden mine eyes with it? and I will turn back to you. And they will say, Thou didst not oppress us, and thou didst not vex us, and thou didst not take any thing from man's hand. And he will say to them, Jehovah the witness against you, and his Messiah the witness this day that ye found nothing in my hand. And he will say, A witness.

Proverbs 6:30-31

They will not despise a thief if he shall steal to fill up his soul; for he will be hungry. And being found he shall recompense seven fold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

Proverbs 30:7-9

Two things I asked from thee, thou wilt not withhold from me before I shall die: Vanity and the word of falsehood remove far from me; thou wilt not give to me poverty and riches; feed me with bread of my allowance: Lest I shall be filled and I spake lies, and said, Who is Jehovah? and lest I shall be dispossessed and I stole, and I laid hold upon the name of God.

Hosea 4:2

Swearing and lying, and breaking in pieces, and stealing and committing adultery, they broke forth; and bloods touched upon bloods.

Luke 10:30

And Jesus having replied said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers : and having stripped him, and laid on blows, they departed, leaving him half dead.

Proverbs 1:10-15

My son, if they sinning shall entice thee, thou shalt not go in. If they shall say, Go with us, we will lie in wait for blood, we will hide for the innocent gratuitously; We will swallow them down living, as hades, and whole, as they going down to the pit:read more.
We shall find precious riches, we will fill our houses with spoil: Wilt thou cast thy lot in the midst of us; one purse shall be to all: My son, thou shalt not go in the way with them; withhold thy foot from their beaten paths:

2 Corinthians 11:26

In journeys often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers of the family, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in solitude, in dangers in the sea, in dangers with false brethren;

Job 24:2

They will remove the bound; they will strip off the flock, and they will feed.

Amos 8:5

Saying, When will the month pass through, and we will sell grain? and the Sabbath, and we will open wheat to diminish the ephah, and to enlarge the shekel, and to make crooked the balance of deceit?

Matthew 21:12-13

And Jesus came into the temple of God, and cast out all those selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the money-changers' tables, and the seats of those selling doves, And he says to them, It was written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; and ye have made it a den of robbers.

Mark 11:15-17

And they come to Jerusalem : and Jesus having entered into the temple, began to cast out those selling and buying in the temple; and the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of those selling doves he overturned; And he permitted not that any should bring a vessel through the temple. And he taught, saying to them, Has it not been written, That my house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations and ye made it a den of robbers.

Luke 19:45-46

And having come into the temple, he began to cast out them selling and buying in it; Saying to them, It has been written, My house is the house of prayer: and ye have made it a den of robbers.

Jeremiah 7:11

Was this house which my name was called upon it a cave of those breaking down in your eyes? also I, behold, I saw, says Jehovah.

Genesis 31:19

And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel will steal the family gods which were to her father.

Judges 17:1-2

And there will be a man of mount Ephraim and his name Micah. And he will say to his mother, The thousand and one hundred of silver which was taken for thee, and thou cursedst me, and saidst also in mine ears, behold, the silver with me; I took it And his mother will say, Blessed my son to Jehovah.

2 Kings 11:2

And Jehosheba daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, will take Joash son of Ahaziah, and steal him from the midst of the king's sons being slain, him and his nurse in the bed-chamber, and they will hide him from the face of Athaliah, and he was not killed.

Acts 19:37

For ye brought these men not sacrilegious, nor blaspheming your goddess.

Joshua 7:11

Israel sinned and also passed by my covenant which I commanded them: and also they took from the devoted thing, and also stole, and also lied, and also put in their vessels.

Luke 23:32

And two others who were led, evil doers, to be lifted up with him.

Proverbs 9:17

Stolen waters will be sweet, and the bread of secrets shall be pleasant

Jeremiah 49:9-10

If the vintages came to thee will they not leave gleanings? if thieves by night, they destroyed their sufficiency. For I made Esau naked, I uncovered his secret places, he shall not be able to hide: his seed was laid waste, and his brethren and his neighbors, and he is not

Malachi 3:8-9

Will man defraud God? For ye defraud me. And ye said, In what did we defraud thee? The tenths and the offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: and ye defrauded me, the nation all of it

John 10:1

Truly, truly, I say to you, He not coming in through the door into the court-yard of the sheep, but coming up from another place, he is a thief and robber.

John 10:8

All who came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep heard them not.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Or know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be ye not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, Nor thieves; nor covetous, nor intoxicated, nor railers, nor rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And these were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were consecrated, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Ezekiel 33:15

The unjust shall turn back the pledge he shall restore the spoil, going in the laws of the living not to do evil; living, he shall live, he shall not die.

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Zechariah 5:3-4

And he will say to me, This the curse going forth upon the face of all the earth: for every one stealing from thence was empty like it; and every one swearing from this was empty like it I brought it forth, says Jehovah of armies, and it came into the house of the thief, and into the house of him swearing for falsehood in my name: and it lodged in the midst of his house, and it finished it and its wood and its stones.

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Titus 2:10

Not purloining, but showing all good faith; that they may adorn the doctrine of the Saviour our God in all things.

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Joshua 7:21

And I shall see in the plunder a wide cloak of Shinar, a good one, and two hundred shekels of silver and one tongue of gold of fifty shekels from its weight, and I shall desire them, and shall take them, and behold them hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

Genesis 31:19

And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel will steal the family gods which were to her father.

Genesis 31:30

And now going thou didst go, for desiring thou didst greatly desire after the house of thy father; for what didst thou steal my gods?

Hosea 4:2

Swearing and lying, and breaking in pieces, and stealing and committing adultery, they broke forth; and bloods touched upon bloods.

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