39 Bible Verses about thieves
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all, as many as came before me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them;
'If in the breaking through, the thief is found, and he hath been smitten, and hath died, there is no blood for him;
'Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;
and he saith to them, 'It hath been written, My house a house of prayer shall be called, but ye did make it a den of robbers.'
and this know, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief doth come, he had watched, and not suffered his house to be broken through;
nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.
The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
A den of burglars hath this house, On which My name is called, been in your eyes? Even I, lo, I have seen, an affirmation of Jehovah.
I have brought it out -- an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts -- and it hath come in unto the house of the thief, and unto the house of him who hath sworn in My name to a falsehood, and it hath remained in the midst of his house, and hath consumed it, both its wood and its stones.'
and he said to Jesus, 'Remember me, lord, when thou mayest come in thy reign;'
saying to them, 'It hath been written, My house is a house of prayer -- but ye made it a den of robbers.'
And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.
If thieves have come in to thee, If spoilers of the night, How hast thou been cut off! Do they not steal their sufficiency? If gatherers have come in to thee, Do they not leave gleanings?
Whoso is sharing with a thief is hating his own soul, Execration he heareth, and telleth not.
If thou hast seen a thief, Then thou art pleased with him, And with adulterers is thy portion.
and to those selling the doves he said, 'Take these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.'
As the shame of a thief when he is found, So put to shame have been the house of Israel, They, their kings, their heads, And their priests, and their prophets,
and Jesus having taken up the word, said, 'A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and having stripped him and inflicted blows, they went away, leaving him half dead.
'If the thief is not found, then the master of the house hath been brought near unto God, whether he hath not put forth his hand against the work of his neighbour;
and Jesus said to him, 'Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.'
'Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,
At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.
He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.
and he was teaching, saying to them, 'Hath it not been written -- My house a house of prayer shall be called for all the nations, and ye did make it a den of robbers?'
whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.
lo, I do come as a thief; happy is he who is watching, and keeping his garments, that he may not walk naked, and they may see his unseemliness,' --
'And this know, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief doth come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through;
And was not Israel the derision to thee? Among thieves was he found? For since thy words concerning him, Thou dost bemoan thyself.
In the city they run to and fro, On the wall they run, Into houses they go up by the windows, They go in as a thief.
for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,
Whoso is robbing his father, or his mother, And is saying, 'It is not transgression,' A companion he is to a destroyer.
for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters;
where they crucified him, and with him two others, on this side, and on that side, and Jesus in the midst.
'Who, then, of these three, seemeth to thee to have become neighbour of him who fell among the robbers?'
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Whoso is robbing his father, or his mother, And is saying, 'It is not transgression,' A companion he is to a destroyer.
My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing. If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause, We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down to the pit, read more.
Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses with spoil, Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is -- to all of us.' My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path, For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood. Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird. And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives. So are the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.
'And he who stealeth a man, and hath sold him, and he hath been found in his hand, is certainly put to death.
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John 12:6and he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things were put in he was carrying.