39 Bible Verses about thieves

All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.

“If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.

At that time two robbers *were crucified with Him, one on the right and one on the left.

And He *said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it a robbers’ den.”

But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” declares the Lord.

I will make it go forth,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name; and it will spend the night within that house and consume it with its timber and stones.”

And he was saying, “Jesus, remember me when You come in Your kingdom!”

saying to them, “It is written, ‘And My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a robbers’ den.”

But when he is found, he must repay sevenfold;
He must give all the substance of his house.

“If thieves came to you,
If robbers by night—
O how you will be ruined!—
Would they not steal only until they had enough?
If grape gatherers came to you,
Would they not leave some gleanings?

He who is a partner with a thief hates his own life;
He hears the oath but tells nothing.

They *crucified two robbers with Him, one on His right and one on His left.

“When you see a thief, you are pleased with him,
And you associate with adulterers.

and to those who were selling the doves He said, “Take these things away; stop making My Father’s house a place of business.”

“As the thief is shamed when he is discovered,
So the house of Israel is shamed;
They, their kings, their princes
And their priests and their prophets,

Men do not despise a thief if he steals
To satisfy himself when he is hungry;

The robbers who had been crucified with Him were also insulting Him with the same words.

Jesus replied and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and they stripped him and beat him, and went away leaving him half dead.

If the thief is not caught, then the owner of the house shall appear before the judges, to determine whether he laid his hands on his neighbor’s property.

And He said to him, “Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise.”

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

“The tents of the destroyers prosper,
And those who provoke God are secure,
Whom God brings into their power.

“In the dark they dig into houses,
They shut themselves up by day;
They do not know the light.

And He began to teach and say to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a robbers’ den.”

He who steals must steal no longer; but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with one who has need.

(“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame.”)

“But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

Now was not Israel a laughingstock to you? Or was he caught among thieves? For each time you speak about him you shake your head in scorn.

They rush on the city,
They run on the wall;
They climb into the houses,
They enter through the windows like a thief.

For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.

He who robs his father or his mother
And says, “It is not a transgression,”
Is the companion of a man who destroys.

Make sure that none of you suffers as a murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or a troublesome meddler;

There they crucified Him, and with Him two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between.

Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers’ hands?”