Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
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Bible References
Breaking
Matthew 6:19
Lay not up for your selves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
Matthew 24:43
but this you conceive, that if a man knew at what hour of the night the thief would come, he would set a watch, and not suffer his house to be broke open.
1 Thessalonians 5:2
for you very well know, that the day of the Lord steals on like a thief in the night.