'Thief' in the Bible
If the thief be encountered breaking in, and be smitten so that he die, there shall be no blood-guiltiness for him.
If a man deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him restore double;
if the thief be not found, the master of the house shall be brought before the judges, to see if he has not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.
If a man be found who hath stolen one of his brethren of the children of Israel, and who hath treated him as a slave and sold him, that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst.
The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
They are driven forth from among men they cry after them as after a thief --
When thou sawest a thief, thou didst take pleasure in him, and thy portion was with adulterers;
They do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry:
Whoso shareth with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth the adjuration, and declareth not.
As a thief is ashamed when he is found, so shall the house of Israel be ashamed they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets --
When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they practise falsehood; and the thief entereth in, and the troop of robbers assaileth without.
They spread themselves over the city; they run upon the wall; they climb up into the houses; they enter in by the windows like a thief.
I will cause it to go forth, saith Jehovah of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name; and it shall lodge in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched and not have suffered his house to be dug through into.
Sell what ye possess and give alms; make to yourselves purses which do not grow old, a treasure which does not fail in the heavens, where thief does not draw near nor moth destroy.
But this know, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be dug through.
Verily, verily, I say to you, He that enters not in by the door to the fold of the sheep, but mounts up elsewhere, he is a thief and a robber;
The thief comes not but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I am come that they might have life, and might have it abundantly.
But he said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag, and carried what was put into it.
for ye know perfectly well yourselves, that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief by night.
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief:
Let none of you suffer indeed as murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or as overseer of other people's matters;
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements, burning with heat, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.
Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and keep it and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know at what hour I shall come upon thee.
(Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches and keeps his garments, that he may not walk naked, and that they may not see his shame.)
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