7 Bible Verses about Robbing People
Most Relevant Verses
"Do not store your valuables [here] on earth, where moths can eat them and where rust can corrode them, and where burglars can break in and steal [them].
But [instead], you yourselves do the wrong and cheat [others], and you do this to [Christian] brothers!
Indeed, the fact that you have lawsuits with one another is [evidence of] a complete failure among you. Why should you not rather take the wrong? Why should you not rather accept being cheated?
Give to everyone who asks you [for something] and do not demand that he bring back your possessions that he takes away.
And if anyone takes you to court in order to take your shirt away from you, let him have your coat also [i.e., if he insists on it].
Whoever hits you on one side of the face, allow him [to hit you on] the other side also; and when someone takes away your coat, do not stop him from also taking away your shirt [i.e., if he insists on it].
For you showed sympathy for those who were in prison and accepted it joyfully when your [own] possessions were taken away, [because] you knew that you yourselves had a better and more permanent possession [in heaven].
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