Thematic Bible: Theft


Thematic Bible






Do not owe anyone anything except to love one another. For the one who loves another has fulfilled the Law. For the commandments, "You must not commit adultery; you must not murder; you must not steal; you must not covet," and every other commandment are summed up in this statement: "You must love your neighbor as yourself."






Then Jesus went into the Temple, threw out everyone who was selling and buying in the Temple, and overturned the moneychangers' tables and the chairs of those who sold doves. He told them, "It is written, "My house is to be called a house of prayer,' but you are turning it into a hideout for bandits!"

Then Jesus went into the Temple and began to throw out those who were selling things. He told them, "It is written, "My house is to be called a house of prayer,' but you have turned it into a hideout for bandits!"

When they came to Jerusalem, he went into the Temple and began to throw out those who were selling and those who were buying in the Temple. He overturned the moneychangers' tables and the chairs of those who sold doves. He wouldn't even let anyone carry a vessel through the Temple. Then he began to teach them: "It is written, is it not, "My house is to be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you've turned it into a hideout for bandits!"

The Jewish Passover was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, as well as moneychangers sitting at their tables. After making a whip out of cords, he drove all of them out of the Temple, including the sheep and the cattle. He scattered the coins of the moneychangers and knocked over their tables. read more.
Then he told those who were selling the doves, "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!"


All who came before me are thieves and bandits, but the sheep didn't listen to them. Verse ConceptsListeningStealingPeople Going Beforethieves

"Therefore, look, I'm against the prophets," declares the LORD, "who steal my words from each other. Verse ConceptsFalse Prophets DenouncedDo Not Stealplagiarism

"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the person who doesn't enter the sheepfold through the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a bandit. Verse ConceptsShepherds, As Church LeaderShepherds, As OccupationsStealingChrist, Names ForSheepfoldsChrist Telling The TruthTruly Trulythievesjumping

"I'll come near to you for judgment. I'll be a witness, quick to speak against sorcerers, against adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who defraud the laborer of his wage, against those who defraud the widow and the orphan, against those who deprive the alien of justice, and against those who don't fear me," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. Verse ConceptsAdultery, Consequences OfGod, Righteousness OfInjustice, Hated By GodMastersMoney, Stewardship OfOppression, Nature OfOrphansPerjuryPoverty, Attitudes TowardsRiches, Dangers OfServants, Working Conditions OfSexual Sin, Nature OfSuffering, Nature OfSuffering, Of The InnocentWagesWidowsAliens, God's AttitudeHirelingsDivinationStrangersEmployersThreateningsOppressing ForeignersSpeedThe Witness Of GodThose OppressedAdulteryNo Fear Of GodNot Helping WidowsSorceryImmigrantswitches



Whoever steals from his father or mother but claims, "It's no sin," is a companion to someone who demolishes. Verse ConceptsChildren, UngratefulNo SinmomsDadsMothers And SonsParents Being Wrongthievescheaters

My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. If they say, "Come with us! Let's lie in wait for blood; let's ambush some innocent person for no reason at all. Let's swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those who go down into the Pit. read more.
We'll find all kinds of valuable wealth, and we'll fill our houses with spoil. Throw your lot in with us, and all of us will have one purse." My son, do not go along with them, and keep your feet away from their paths! For they run toward evil; these enticers shed blood without hesitation. Look, it is useless to spread a net in full view of all the birds, but these people lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush only themselves. Such is the way of all those who seek illicit gain it takes away the lives of those who possess it.

"Whoever kidnaps a person, whether he has sold him or whether the victim is still in his possession, is certainly to be put to death. Verse ConceptsAfrican AmericansDeath penaltyKidnappingStealingDeath Penalty For ViolencePeople Possessing Other ThingsDeath Of A Family Member

For the commandments, "You must not commit adultery; you must not murder; you must not steal; you must not covet," and every other commandment are summed up in this statement: "You must love your neighbor as yourself." Verse ConceptsGreed, Believers' Response ToMurderSanctity Of LifeStealingCovetousness, Nature ofAcceptance, Of One AnotherConcisenessAvoid AdulteryDo Not MurderDo Not StealLove Your Neighbour!Eighth CommandmentLoving Yourself



A thief isn't despised if he steals to meet his needs when he is hungry, but when he is discovered, he must restore seven-fold, forfeiting the entire value of his house.

The LORD told Moses, "A person sins against the LORD by acting treacherously toward his neighbor regarding something entrusted to his care, regarding security for a loan, robbery, if he has oppressed his neighbor, if he has found something that had been lost and then lied about it, or if he makes a false oath about any of these things, thus committing a sin with respect to these things. read more.
If that person has sinned and has been found guilty, then he is to return the stolen thing that he took or obtained by oppression, or the security that had been entrusted to him, or the lost thing that he had found, or the thing about which he had given a false oath. He is to restore it in full, add a fifth to it, then give it to whom it belongs the very day he's found guilty.

Of course, none of you should suffer for being a murderer, thief, criminal, or troublemaker. Verse ConceptsFraudEvildoersBusybodiesMeddlingDo Not MurderMinding Your Own Businessthieves


The people of the land were vigorously oppressive and took possession of plunder by violence. They've afflicted the poor and the needy and unjustly treated the foreigner. Verse ConceptsAliens, God's AttitudeExtortion, Examples OfAbuse Of Authority, Warnings AgainstOppression, Nature OfOutsidersUnkindnessOppression, Examples OfPoor, The Wicked Response ToOppressing ForeignersOppressorsNot Helping The Poor

so I poured my indignation over them. With my fierce anger, I've consumed them. I brought the consequences of their behavior upon them,' declares the Lord GOD." Verse ConceptsMan's WaysFire Of God's AngerGod Makes Evil Rebound

When you see a thief, you befriend him, and you keep company with adulterers. Verse ConceptsParticipation, In SinConnivanceEvil AssociationsComplicityThose Who Committed Adulterythieves

These things you did, and I kept silent, because you assumed that I was like you. But now I am going to rebuke you, and I will set forth my case before your very own eyes." Verse ConceptsRebukeSilenceSecurity, FalseInfidelity To GodGod Being SilentThe Same As GodGod Requite Them!Thoughtsaccusations


But keep on storing up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where moths and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal, Verse ConceptsInsectsAffluenceSpiritual InvestmentRiches, SpiritualStoringTreasureSpiritual TreasuresMothsStoring Treasure On EarthBelonging To HeavenTreasure In Heaven


Swearing, lying, murder, theft, and adultery are rampant, and blood mingles with blood. Verse ConceptsAdulterersDebaucheryStealingCrude LanguageNot Swearing OathsThose Who Committed AdulterySwearingadultry

The murderer rises at dawn to kill the poor and needy; at night, he is like a thief. Verse ConceptsMurderNightRising EarlySecret SinsNot Helping The Poor

"If thieves came against you, if marauding gangs by night Oh, how you will be destroyed! Would they not steal only until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, would they not leave some grapes to be gleaned? Verse ConceptsPeople Destroying Foreign NationsLuciferthieves

to deprive the needy of justice and to rob the poor of my people of their rights, so that widows may become their spoil and so that they may plunder orphans! Verse ConceptsFraudThe NeedyPlunderingHuntingOppression, Nature OfPoverty, Attitudes TowardsPoor, Oppression OfExtortionNo JusticeNot Helping WidowsHelping The Pooroppression


thieves, greedy people, drunks, slanderers, and robbers will not inherit the kingdom of God. Verse ConceptsAlcoholAlcohol AbuseAddictionAlcoholicsCovetousnessDrunkennessInheritanceGreedthievescheatersdrunkards

They did not repent from their murders, their witchcraft, their sexual immorality, or their thefts. Verse ConceptsChastityImmorality, Nature Of SexualDebaucheryMagiciansThey Committed ImmoralitySorcerySexual ImmoralitySexual PurityDrugsmagicwitches

Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear by false gods, burn incense to Baal, follow other gods that you don't know, and then come to stand before me in this house that is called by my name and say, "We're delivered' so we can continue to do all these things that are repugnant to God?


Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear by false gods, burn incense to Baal, follow other gods that you don't know, and then come to stand before me in this house that is called by my name and say, "We're delivered' so we can continue to do all these things that are repugnant to God?

A thief's accomplice hates himself; though testifying under oath, he reveals nothing. Verse ConceptsStealingWitnesses, LegalComplicityNot Maintaining Lifethievespartnership

A thief's accomplice hates himself; though testifying under oath, he reveals nothing. Verse ConceptsStealingWitnesses, LegalComplicityNot Maintaining Lifethievespartnership

Meanwhile, Laban had been out shearing his sheep. While he was away, Rachel stole her father's personal idols. Verse ConceptsCriminalsHousehold GodsSheepStealingSuffering, Causes OfSheep ShearingRobbing Gods

Devastation caused by the wicked will drag them away because they refuse to do what is just. Verse ConceptsFreedom From Violence


"As a thief is disgraced when he's caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, Verse ConceptsBeing AshamedStealingthieves

"If a man steals an ox or sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he is to repay five oxen for the ox and four sheep for the sheep. "If a thief is found while breaking into a house, and is struck down and dies, it is not a capital crime in that case, but if the sun has risen on him, then it is a capital crime in that case. A thief shall certainly make restitution, but if he has nothing, he is to be sold for his theft. read more.
If what was stolen is actually found alive in his possession, whether an ox, a donkey or a sheep, he is to repay double. "When a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed over or releases his livestock so that they graze in another man's field, he is to make restitution from the best of his field or vineyard. "When a fire breaks out and spreads into thorn bushes and consumes stacked grain or standing grain or the field, the one who started the fire certainly is to make restitution. "When a man gives his neighbor money or goods for safekeeping and it's stolen from the neighbor's house, the thief, if found, is to repay double. If the thief is not found, the owner of the house is to appear before the judges to see whether or not the thief took his neighbor's property.


These are the things that make a person unclean. But eating with unwashed hands doesn't make a person unclean." Verse ConceptsSexual Sin, Nature OfPeople UnwashedDefilement

Though the ropes of the wicked have ensnared me, I have not forgotten your instruction. Verse ConceptsForgetting GodRopesCords



He told his mother, "Do you remember those 1,100 silver coins that were stolen from you and about which you uttered a curse when I could hear it? Well, I have the silver. I took it." So she replied, "May my son be blessed by the LORD." Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Examples OfUnder The BanMay God Bless!Money Blessingsmums

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. All of them are lovers of bribes and are runners after gifts. They don't bring justice to orphans, and the widow's case never comes up for review in their court." Verse ConceptsGiftsBribery, Results OfExploitationsWicked RulersOppression, Nature OfOrphansReward, HumanRiches, Dangers OfRulersStealingLeadershipRulers, WickedCovetousness, Example OfEvil AssociationsCompanionshipNot Helping Widows

When you see a thief, you befriend him, and you keep company with adulterers. Verse ConceptsParticipation, In SinConnivanceEvil AssociationsComplicityThose Who Committed Adulterythieves

"Hear this message from the LORD, people of Israel. Indeed, the LORD brings a charge against the people who live in the land for there is no truth and no gracious love or knowledge of God in the land. Swearing, lying, murder, theft, and adultery are rampant, and blood mingles with blood. Therefore the land will mourn, and all who live there will languish, along with the wild animals of the field and the birds of the air. Even the fish in the sea will disappear.

Swearing, lying, murder, theft, and adultery are rampant, and blood mingles with blood. Therefore the land will mourn, and all who live there will languish, along with the wild animals of the field and the birds of the air. Even the fish in the sea will disappear.

Because they do not know how to act right," declares the LORD, "they are filling their strongholds with treasures that they took from others by violence into their fortified citadels." Verse ConceptsHoardingSpiritual IgnoranceMisersPursuing ViolenceNo JusticeStoring Other ThingsDoing The Right Thing

Like a gang of thieves that stalk a man, priests commit murder along the road to Shechem, committing shameful crimes. Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesRoadsCorrupt PriestsLeaders Sinning

The tents of robbers are at rest, and those who provoke God are secure, that is, those who carry their god in their pocket. Verse ConceptsSecurityTentsApparent InjusticeThe Wicked Prosperthieves

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