25 Bible Verses about Stealing

Let the thief steal no more; rather let him work and put his hands to an honest task, so as to have something to contribute to the needy.

The thief only comes to steal, to slay, and to destroy: I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.

You know the commands: do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honour your father and mother."

You know the commands: do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honour your father and mother."

You must not commit adultery, you must not kill, you must not steal, you must not covet ??these and any other command are summed up in a single word, You must love your neighbour as yourself.

What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites nor thieves nor the lustful nor the drunken nor the abusive nor robbers will inherit the Realm of God.

Store up no treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust corrode, where thieves break in and steal:

For out of the heart come evil designs, murder, adultery, sexual vice, stealing, false witness, and slander.

Jesus rejoined, "A man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho fell among robbers who stripped and belaboured him and then went off leaving him half-dead.

I have been often on my travels, I have been in danger from rivers and robbers, in danger from Jews and Gentiles, through dangers of town and of desert, through dangers on the sea, through dangers among false brothers ??27 through labour and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, starving many a time, cold and ill-clad, and all the rest of it.

So Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, "I will give the half of all I have, Lord, to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody I will give him back four times as much."

Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all who were buying and selling inside the temple; he upset the tables of the money-changers and the stalls of those who sold doves, and told them, "It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it a den of robbers."

Then they came to Jerusalem, and entering the temple he proceeded to drive out those who were buying and selling inside the temple; he upset the tables of the money-changers and the stalls of those who sold doves, and would not allow anyone to carry a vessel through the temple; also he taught them. "Is it not written," he asked, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations? You have made it a den of robbers."

Then he went into the temple and proceeded to drive out those who were selling. "It is written," he told them, "my house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers."

Instead of that, you have brought these men here who are guilty neither of sacrilege nor of blasphemy against our goddess.

Two robbers were also crucified with him at that time, one on the right hand and one on the left.

They also crucified two robbers along with him, one at his right and one at his left.

The robbers who were crucified with him also denounced him in the same way.

Two criminals were also led out with him to be executed,

(Not that he cared for the poor; he said this because he was a thief, and because he carried the money-box and pilfered what was put in.)

You know perfectly well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night;

The day of the Lord will come like a thief, when the heavens will vanish with crackling roar, the stars will be set ablaze and melt, the earth and all its works will disappear.

Truly, truly I tell you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs up somewhere else, he is a thief and a robber;

all who ever came before me have been thieves and robbers ??but the sheep would not listen to them.

What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites nor thieves nor the lustful nor the drunken nor the abusive nor robbers will inherit the Realm of God. Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.