"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves do not break in or steal.

And he said to them, "It is written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"

At that time Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you come out with swords and clubs, as against a robber, to arrest me? Every day in the temple [courts] I sat teaching, and you did not arrest me!

Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on [his] right and one on [his] left.

And in the same [way] even the robbers who were crucified with him were reviling him.

And he began to teach and was saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"

And Jesus answered [and] said to them, "Have you come out with swords and clubs, as against a robber, to arrest me?

And with him they crucified two robbers, one on [his] right and one on [his] left.

And Jesus replied [and] said, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who both stripped him and beat [him]. [After] inflicting blows on [him], they went away, leaving [him] half dead.

Which of these three do you suppose became a neighbor of the man who fell among the robbers?"

saying to them, "It is written, 'And my house will be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"

And Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders who had come out against him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs, as against a robber?

"Truly, truly I say to you, the one who does not enter through the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up at some other place--that one is a thief and a robber.

All those who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep do not listen to them.

(Now he said this not because {he was concerned} about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, he used to steal what was put into [it].)

[I have been] on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from [my own] people, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers because of false brothers,

for [you] yourselves well know that the day of the Lord is coming in the [same] way as a thief in the night.

But you, brothers, are not in the darkness, so that the day should catch you like a thief,

Therefore remember how you have received and heard, and observe [it], and repent. If therefore you are not on the alert, I will come like a thief, and you will never know [at] what hour I will come against you.

" 'If a man steals an ox or small livestock and slaughters it or sells it, he will make restitution with five cattle in place of the ox and with four sheep or goats in place of the small livestock. " 'If a thief is found in the act of breaking in and he is struck and he dies, there is not bloodguilt for him. read more. (If the sun has risen over him, [there is] bloodguilt for him. He will make full restitution. If {he does not have enough}, he will be sold for his theft. If indeed the stolen item is found {in his possession} alive, from ox to donkey to small livestock, he will make double restitution.

[People] do not despise a thief when he steals to fill himself when he is hungry. But [if] he is found, he will pay sevenfold, every possession of his house he shall give.