39 Bible Verses about thieves
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All who came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep heard them not.
If in breaking in a thief shall be found, and he was smitten and died, no bloods for him.
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.
Then were crucified with him two robbers; one from the right hand, and the other from the left.
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.
But know this, that if the master of the house had known what watch the thief comes, he had watched, and would not have suffered his house to be undermined.
Nor thieves; nor covetous, nor intoxicated, nor railers, nor rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
The thief comes not, except that he steal, and sacrifice, and destroy: I came that they might have life, and have above measure.
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.
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.
And he said to Jesus, Remember me, Lord, when thou shouldest come into thy kingdom.
Saying to them, It has been written, My house is the house of prayer: and ye have made it a den of robbers.
And being found he shall recompense seven fold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
If thieves came to thee, if those laying waste by night, (how thou wert destroyed!) will not they steal their sufficiency? If the grape gatherers came to thee will they not leave gleanings?
He dividing with a thief, hates his soul: he shall hear cursing and shall not announce.
If thou sawest a thief, and thou wilt run with him, and thy portion with those committing adultery.
And he said to those selling doves, Take away these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.
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,
They will not despise a thief if he shall steal to fill up his soul; for he will be hungry.
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.
If the thief shall not be found, and the lord of the house being brought to God, if he put not forth his hand upon his friend's goods.
And Jesus said to him, Truly I say to you, This day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal:
The tents to those oppressing will be secure, and confidence to those provoking God to anger: whom God will bring into his hand
To break through houses in darkness in the day they shut up for themselves: they knew not light
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.
He stealing let him steal no more: and rather let him be wearied from fatigue, working good with the hands, that he have to impart to him having need.
(Behold, I come as a thief. Happy he watching, and keeping his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.)
And know this, that if the master of the house knew what hour the thief is coming, he had watched, and not have suffered his house to be undermined.
And if Israel was not a derision to thee? if he was found among thieves? for after thy speaking of him thou wilt move to and fro.
In the city they shall run up and down; on the wall shall they run, into the houses they shall come up, through the windows shall they come in as a thief.
For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so comes.
He stripping his father and his mother, and saying, No transgression; is companion to a man destroying.
For let not any of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or doing evil, or as an inspector, in what pertains to others.
Where they crucified him, and with him two others, hence and thence, and Jesus in the midst.
Which then of these three seems to thee to have been neighbor to him fallen among rubbers.?
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He stripping his father and his mother, and saying, No transgression; is companion to a man destroying.
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: For their feet will run to evil, and they will hasten to pour out blood: For gratuitously the net was spread in the eyes of all possessing a wing. And they will lie in wait for their blood; they will hide for their souls. So the ways of every one plundering plunder; he will take the soul of those possessing it.
And he stealing a man, and selling him, and being found in his hand, dying, he shall die.
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John 12:6And this he said, not that care was to him for the poor: but because he was a thief, and had the small coffer, and carried things deposited.