Ephesians 4:28

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Him that

Steal no more

Labour

2 Thessalonians 3:6

That he

General references

Exodus 20:15

Deuteronomy 5:19

Psalm 104:23

Bible References

Him that

Do not take the property of another.

Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.

For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.

Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;

There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment.

(He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.)

Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God.

Steal no more

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He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.

Make clear by your acts that your hearts have been changed; and do not say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children of Abraham.

And Zacchaeus, waiting before him, said to the Lord, See, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from anyone wrongly, I give him back four times as much.

Labour

Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.

In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.

You yourselves have seen that with these hands I got what was necessary for me and those who were with me.

And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders;

Now we give you orders, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from all those whose behaviour is not well ordered and in harmony with the teaching which they had from us.

That he

And he made answer and said to them, He who has two coats, let him give to him who has not even one; and he who has food, let him do the same.

And looking up, he saw the men of wealth putting their offerings in the money-box.

Some were of the opinion that because Judas kept the money-bag Jesus said to him, Get the things we have need of for the feast; or, that he was to give something to the poor.

How while they were undergoing every sort of trouble, and were in the greatest need, they took all the greater joy in being able to give freely to the needs of others.

General references

Do not take the property of another.

Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.